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the course and had not re-entered
where he exited and was docked a lap
because of iL. This dropped him to
fifth place. The second moto. however, was all Smail. Pittman worked
his way up from a bad start to take
second.
In Open Expert action Pittman
took the overall via his I-I tally with
David Rhoades' 2-2 taking second.
The first 125cc ovice qualifier
one wa won by Ale Liptack followed
by Mark Kasting, Kelsey Morse, Terry
Bland and Keith Knight. Qualifier
two was won by Mike McMillan,
with Jay Marcell second. Kawasakimounted Doug Leach, Cory Klasen
and Brian Kibby following. Theconsolation was won by Joey Belshaw
and Suzuki-mounted John Bieger took
the consolation trophy.
In the first moto Marcell led startto-finish with Liptack taking second
followed by Morse, Klasen, Knight,
McMillan, and Sean Finney. In the
second moto Marcell again led wireto-wire followed by McMillan, Belshaw, Klasen and Knight.
- Moto one of the 125cc Intermediates was led by Billy Radcliffe until
the last lap when Jeff Jacobson passed
and took the win. Jim COllet finished
third ahead of Jason Crandell and
Gary Wilson. In the second moto
Radcliffe led wire-to-wire followed
by Jacobson, Cottet, Wilson and Ron
Wallace.
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Race Fans-
We welcome you to Los Angeles County Raceway for
the Carl's Speed Shop Thunder Nationals.
This will piove to be the largest and most e)tCiting
motorcycle drag racing event seen on the West Coast in
many years. Top name racers from throughout the
nation will be competing for the richest purse ever
offered. You will see the awesome display of horsepower from Elmer Trett with the world's fastest
Kawasaki and Larry McBride with the world's filstest
Suzuki. Both of these blown fuel motorcycles can
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We have assembled one of the largest fields offuel
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Results
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50: 1. Paul Connner; 2. Kris Conner; 3. Chase
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60 INT: 1. Aaron Schweiger; 2. Zack T8vlor.
BO BEG: 1. Bren Bierek (Kaw); 2. Mark Koehn
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BO NOV: ,. Joe Delvecchio (Suz): 2. Joel Howard:
3. Mike Koehn (Kaw).
60 tNT: 1. Rod Tapia; 2. Mike Hurt.
125 NOV: 1. Jay Marcell (Hon): 2. Mika McMillan
(Hon): 3. Joe Be.lshaw (Yam).
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Kelly takes
Moroso RR win
By Joe McKay
WEST PALM BEACH, FL, AUG. 24
Miami's "Champagne" Billy
Kelly took the overall win in the
gO-minute Endurance race a
Doug Chancey, rode his GSXR1100 to Production One honors and
Georgia's Mike Harth piloted his
GSXR750 to a win in Production
Two.
The 90-minute Endurance race
tarted with over 50 riders in the
usual LeMans-stvle start. Tom Stevens riding the Team Miami Vicel
Speed and portl Airbrite/Larry's
Auto Part -/G XR 1100 took the early
lead and managed to hold onto it for
the first seven laps. On lap eight,
Kelly, riding his FZ750 with Bryon
chwing also on an FZ right behind,
managed to slip by tevens to take
over the lead. Kevin Blais and Rick
Jackson both from Miami and riding
900 injas were running fourth and
fifth overall at the halfway mark.
With four laps to go Kelly went down
in turn two and lo,t a couple of laps
before he g t start d again. At the
flag it wa Kelly with the win. shifting his bike by hand. Team Miami
Vice finished second with team capt