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eENDURU I 65th International Six Day Enduro ISDE rookie Steve Hatch represented the u:.S. on the J r. World team and collected a silver medal in the competitive 250cc class. Fifteen-year-old Dana Va n Stee, fro m California , was th e you ngest rider eve r to com p ete on th e U .S. tea m a t th e ISDE. Van Stee earne d a bronze m eda l. For Krause the already demanding day was made even more difficul t after he had to re-assemble the clu tch in his A TK. By the time Krause got back on the trail , he was 30 minutes down. In the tight section between checks two and three, Krause lost ano ther 20 minutes, which made him 40 minutes late and 20 m inutes from houring out and he had to ride that tight section one more time. Loop two finally did Krause in. He was, again, a little over 20 minutes late to check three, causing him to hour out of the event by just a few minutes. Krause wasn't the only U.S. rider to card a DNF on day four. Senior riders J.D. Bently and Lyle Duronso houred out, as did Phil Douglas, who had already replaced an exhaust pipe and a broken rear shock spring on his ATK 406. A broken chain roller did Douglas in. Desert race Paul Ostbo also had to call it quits when he cooked the engine in his Kawasaki KX250. Ostbo lost the coolant in his radiator during the MX special test section and it eventually seized. U.S. Club rider Brian Walker came within IO miles of finishing day four when the lower-end in his KT M 125 locked up. "I was trying to make up some time on a road sectio n when it seized," said . Walker. . ยท I Randy Hawkins dropped out on the second day with mechanical problems. The Swedish Trophy and Junior World tearns (mi n us two riders here) began' celebrating their wins immediately following the final MX special test moto on day six. "The last two U.S. riders to hour out on the day where Brian Lohman and Tim Surdyke, "My bike didn't seize, I did ," said Surd yke. "I j ust cou ldn 't go any further." Riders still in action after day four included U.S.'s lone 80cc rider Taz Harvey, who was breaking trail on the first row, John Nielsen, Alan Randt, Brian Mull, Greg Surdyke, Bill Perkins, Barrett Brown , Drew Smith, Tom Webb, Gary Hazel and l5-year-Qld Dana Van Stee, the youngest rider ever to represent the U.S. at the Six Days. Also still running were all of the U.S. Trophy team riders (except for Hawkins) and the Junior World riders. Day four was the onl y day that the Swedish Trophy team failed to win any classes, but that didn't hurt their overall score. In fact, the Swede's lead still continued to grow to an overwhelm ing margin over Fin land, who had taken over second place .when Czech Trophy tea m rider Dusan Kotrla developed ign ition troubles in his 500 KTM and dropped over 2000 trail points, costing his team three positions in the standings. France moved into third an d West Germany fourth. Czechoslovakia fell back to fifth. Day 5 For the most part, the toughest part of the Six Days was now behi nd the competitors, although some riders felt that day five was as gnarly as days three and four, but rain through out the day had a lot to do with that. By rnidafternoon, the always threatening skies thro ughout the Six Days finally unloaded on the riders, making some of the .trails slick with mud The day featured mostly new trails but the same MX special test as the previous two days. The only U.S. rider to DNF on day five was Club ride r Tom Webb. Webb was halfway through the second loop when the chain on his Suzuki DR350 derailed and wadded up in the engine cases. This caused Webb to hour out just 10 miles from the fin ish of the day. The Swedes continued to roll on, capturing wins in four classes. They continued to pull away from Fin lan d. Fran ce and West Germany. Day 6 A 4O-mile trail led to the final MX special test on the last day of competition. There was no chance of Finland catching Sweden at this point, but the battle for top individual honors was far from over. Swedes Dick Wicksell and Peter Hans, . son, and Finland's Karl Tiainen all had a sho t at the overall title. Both Wicksell and Tiainen went hea d-to-head in the same 250cc moto, while Hansson was in the 500cc m oto. The first of three 250ccmotos featured all the class leaders, and Wicksell lined up on the far right-hand side of the starting line and Tiainen on the far left. Whe n the gate dropped, Great Britain's Carl Tiley jumped out int o the early lead ahead of Wicksell, while Tiainen fell in the first tum . Wickse1l, who was riding