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UMBRELLAS Keep cool at the track (and . .. saine top quality.8S. used . . new Cycle ~ umbrella.. ... cit racers it! the wOrld! torious on his Honda RS125 over Dr. Rob Tuluie on his home-built Tul-da 500. Former World Chemplon Jim Redmen pereded en exotic fectory Honde sixcylinder eround the MId-Ohlo cou..... Saturday's final race was the combined 350cc GP/Classic Sixties. Among the 350s, the race between Team 0bsolete's David Roper and Barber's Chuck Huneycutt carried the pair far from the rest of the field. On the fourth lap, however, Huneycutt's Honda let loose and brought out the red flag in a bit of confusion after comer workers spotted the broken bike but no rider nearby (he had hopped over the fence). After the restart, the race was between Roper and Honda-mounted Thomas Marquardt, with class champ Roper never relinquishing the top position. Jay Richardson battled Johnny Demoissey for third. The Classic '60s win went to GMA All American Racing's Rusty Lowry, who kept his H-D KR750 ahead of Dick Miles, who was on an Iron Oxide Engineering-built Norton Marnc Sunday got off to a misty start and a rash of lengthy red-flag incidents. The first stoppage occurred in the day's first race, Battle of Twins F-2/TwoStroke, as Pete Johnson's big Moto Guzzi was keeping a pair of Ducatis at bay - Michael Myers and Eric Wood. When racing resumed, Wood was out in front and opening a gap over Johnson and Jim Lester. That margin kept increasing until the ninth of 10 laps, when the Raceco Guzzi-mounted Johnson suddenly began to reel in Wood. With less than a half a lap to go, Johnson nabbed the lead and the win. In the same event, the race-long lead ba ttIe among the two-strokes went to Rick Newman over Blaine Bahm. Both were aboard 70s-era Yamahas. DuHamel, on an ex-works '73 Ducati, was locked in a furious F-750 battle with Big D's Chris Stobaugh, with the pair chased by Kurt Liebmann on his AMOL Honda CR750. Then an accident brought out the red flag for an extended period. On the restart the top three started up where they left off, this time with Stobaugh leading. That didn't last long, as DuHamel soon got past and held the lead to the win. Liebmann, meanwhile, found himself in a close race with the leader of the Formula 500 class, Honda-riding Dave Rosno, eventually conceding to him. The combined BOT F-1 /F-3 race saw MCC's Les White take away the lead from teammate Geoff Mellinger, Eric Wood and James Kusar, all aboard Ducatis. Kusar finished second to White, followed by Wood and Mellinger. In F-3 the win belonged to James Lickwar and his Honda Hawk. In a repeat of his 350cc race, James McGregor built a huge lead to the finish in the Sportsman 500cc feature. However, he failed to report to tech officials for a post-race check and was docked a lap. That dropped him to 24th place and gave the win to Honda S1.35O rider Harold Page Jr. The second Legends race was as close as the first. Aldana went out early with mechanical problems, and the leader board showed a new name a couple of times - Eddie Mulder - as the tight pack boomed around the twisting circ.uit. On the last lap, though, Emde held the edge over DuHamel and Nixon, with Mulder credited with fourth in the near-photo finish. AHRMA's most competitive class arguably is the Sportsman 750cc division, and Chris Stobaugh and Larry Kirby put on an excellent show as they rocketed far away from the pack in their fight for the lead. After taking over in the opening laps, Stobaugh never gave up the front spot. Behind the lead pair, Randy Bradesku put in a valiant ride on a very ordinary-Looking Yamaha XS750, getting past Ed Salley and Mike Eiland but failing to close much on the leaders before the red flag came out on the seventh of eight Laps due to a brief break in the comer workers' communications system. BOT Open was another convincing win for White on an MCC-backed Ducati 900, followed by a close pack made up of Mellinger, Liebmann and Dave Klassen. Bimota riders James Hanrahan and Gian Luca Galasso finished the SoS Formula One event· in first and second, respectively, but they too failed to make the required stop at tech and were docked a lap. The win thus went to Rotax-powered Jason Weir. The Premier 500cc fray was a runaway for the Barber Matchless-mounted Mathews, while GMA's Pat Conroy logged an excellent ride to second on his KR750 Harley. Third went to Lowry, who was pressured by Jerry