Sweden's Dick Wicksell was top individual on a 250cc Husky. Wicksell won his 'final motocross special test moto over Italy's Giorgio Grasso.
Husqvama's Fred Hoess was the top rider on th~ U.S. Jr. World team,
finishing 13th in the highly' competitive 250cc class.
62nd International Six-Days Enduro
East Germany
sweeps Poland
By Kit Palmer
JELENIA GORA, POLAND, SEPT. 21-26
East Germany swept this year's running of
the International Six-Days Enduro by
claiming both the Trophy and Jr. World
classes in the rugged mountains of northern
Poland. Led by Simson rider
Kladtke Reinhard East Ger, d '
many .capture the Trop~y
class vICtOry over the heavIly
8
favored Swedi;sh. 'team; then came
Italy, Great Bntam and Poland. The
USA Trophy team .hmshed seventh
for the second yea,r m ~ row.
.
. The Six-Days was Just about SiX
days too lo':!g .for the U.S. Trophy
team, consIstmg of Mark Hyde,
Larry Roeseler, Dave Bertram, Kevm
Hines, Drew Smith and Jeff Fredette.
Just after the start on day one, Hyde
fell and broke his wrist. His chase
rider then took over on Hyde's
motorcycle, agamst F~ rules. On
day four the Hyde imposter was
caught, but the FIM (for an unkown
reason) did not penalize the U:S. for
"cheating." Hyde's points stood.
In the Jr. World bout, once again,
East Germany soared to'the victory,
finishing ahead of Italy and the USA.
France and Czechoslovakia rounded
out the top five.
Nineteen countries competed in
Poland for the Trophy competition,
and the only team that had a chance
ofsnatching the Trophy team victory
away from East Germany was
Sweden. Sweden captu~ed ~oth the
250 and 500cc class victones wllh
Husqvarna riders Dick Wicltsell and
Svenerik Jonsson at the helm. But
transmission problems to Mikael
Nilsson's Husqvarna on day one
kept Sweden from the winner's
circle. Wicksell captured the overall
individual victory.
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The USA's Junior World team,
however, pulled through with a respectab1e' third. Fred Hoess Aaron
and Kurt Hough and Randy Hawkins made up the American Junior
World team with Hoess and rookie
Aaron Hough: claiming two of only
six gold medals U.S. riders were to
earn. Bertram, Hines, Smith and
club rider Fritz Kadlec were the other
four. This year's top American in
evaluation points was Bertram with
a ninth in the 500cc class, riding a
430cc Automatic Husqvarna, while
top class finisher was Honda XR2S0mounted Smith, who finished third
in the relatively small 350cc FourStroke class.. Silver meda1s went to
}iawkins, Ron Ribolzi, Fredette,
Kurt Hough, William Burgener and
Jeff Irwin. A total of 25 Americans
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