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EVENTS
(Left) George laMo nte won
the 125cc Intermediate class
et a CRC Saturday night MX
held in Pal mdale. Californ ia.
(Above) Billy Holmeister
(87K), Dan Zitur (48 K) and
To ny Ko hner (17K) fi ni shed ,2·3 at round fou r of the AMA
d ist rict 23 di rt track series in
New U1m, Mi nnes ota. on
June 22.
Gill grabs
Senior MXWin at CRC
By Greg Rob ert son
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PALMDALE, CA, JUNE21
Andy Gill fought back for the second -moto win
to claim th e California Racing C lu b' s Senior
Expert -class overall win during Satur day night
motocross at Los Ange les County Racew ay.
A!'t the pack fun neled through the first tum
in mote one, Rand y Anderson gra bbed the lead
ahead o f No nn Schie l, Gill and Steve Clark. Gill
wa sted litt le time makin g his way 'to the front of
th e field , pass in g bo th Schie l an d And erson
afte r just one lap on the jump-filled track. Gill
pu t a cou p le of seco nd s on An d er son by th e
m id w a y po in t, but A nderson tu rn ed up the
wic k and sta rted dosing back in.
Anderson mad e the pa ss on Gill for the lead,
bu t C ill didn ' t see m thrilled abo ut run ning sec- '
and after lead ing most of the race an d matched
Anderson's every move in a n attempt to regai n
the lead . Th e fina l lap beca me a ma d dash for
th{> che-c ke- r~ , wit h A n de- r~ n pre-vailing by a
bike length. Cla rk finis hed a little ways back in
third, over Schiel and Mike McCee.
Anderson gra bbt..'CI. his sec ond holcshot of
the ~v~ning an d imn1t~dia tely caDle under fue
from Gill a nd Cla rk. Anderson wa s d oin g an
ex~ll~nt job of hu lding off both riders until a
lappt"r blockPd hi$ line in a comer and Gill was
ab le to slip pa st on lap four. Gill p u t a little
room between himself and Anderson, w ho ~tiJl
ha d his hands full wi th Oark. In the same ror·
ner where he wa!t blocked earlier, another lapper ca me over on Anderson 's li ne, which
allowed Cark to rail around both of tbtm1 and
int o M."COnd pla ce. By this tim e, Gill had disappeared with a five-second lcad tha t he would
hol d until th e fmish. Anderson couldn't find a
way back around Oark , bu t still picked up the
second-place trophy with 1-3 finishes.
Results
r/w (406): I. & ....Jon DoD (Yam) ; 2. O\ris Mouffe (y,tm); J
R.1ul VIlLIJr (Y"m); 4. Tilnr.."f Nld... (Y .. m i.
.
r /w (7-9) : 1. I«on stolter (YAm); 2. A.C. JolllI:Y (Ya m) ; 3.
KAm~'rOn ROOt"""" (y lIm); 4. Sc.1 n Spnn~"f (Yam ).
SISTI( (4-6): I. Ja<:oO Buelna ( Lem).
S /STK (7-9) : 1. A.C . Jnllt-y (Yam ); 2. l.... '" ClXlry (KTMl ; 3.
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rn,.,l"n tunJill (KTM). 4. Anlhu<1y Munoz (KTMI.
60 BEG: 1. Kyle: J'-"l'lkin:o (l(aw); 2. !lobby Ho. (KlI t; 3. Jimmy
'ClC
w
W.Il.... '" l ~w); 4. M,tx S-ndo-r-lI (K,twl; 5. Tykr M~mb Rilling!<""
J..y (Hun).
JR ....ET NO V: t. WilliAm Wd chha ntt (H on l; 2. HrAJ Pie tro
(!:iuz); 3 . I:lob Go rma n (Ya m ,; 4 , Sto,t O' KlPl"ff' (Ho n ); 5. Denni~
n
UrbJo {Suz).
n
VET BEG: 1. Ma r" H.~.... (Hrm); 2. Ma r k Hu~llln (Hun); 3 .
Knry Ru......U(Suz) ; 4 . Cr aig Shiw ( I fon l; 5. Jerry Root (Kiwl.
VET NO V; 1. JACkMiIl,- f (Yam) ; 2 Brytt Johnr;on (YlIm); 3.
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[).;arTYl Wtlll el'id e (Ho n); 4. $W\'e Cluk (Su%); 5. [).;am:U Sftndert
(Yam) ,
VET 11\0"'; 1. Jo:rry Asho:r (J-Ion); 2. Edw lU"do Trippo (Honj.
VET PHO: 1. 1Udl Truduns.lu tl<.lw);2. Jim my Roberta (H t"I\l.
SR AM : I. Re. Berwon(Hon); 2. Michael Bumert (Suz).
SR f'X ~ 1 Andy Com (Ya m) ; 2 . RoOnd y A nJ ....".l n (YoO m) ; 3 .
St"="e Clar k (Su.z.); 4. J\,lLk M.:Geoe (1<.Iw); S. Norm Schiel (Hon).
Hofmeister nabs New Ulm S1
By TIm McBride
down to fourth p lace- wh ile e-xiting tum two . a
tum where most of the passing took place. The
twoso me then began to close the gap on the race
lead er, Hofm eist er.
On lap 13, Ken to n Lo ngcor cra shed hard
between turns one a nd tw o w hile running in
seventh, and the race was stopped. Longcor walo
shaken and e lected to sit out the restart, which
turned out to be a seven-lap dash to the checkers. Hofmeister quickly regained the point poaition and wa s followed b)' Kohner, w ho had
:.lippt.'J by Zi tur on the single-file restart . Zitur,
however, answered back in tum two of the next
circuit, as did Kurt Boehl ke, who benefited the
most from the red flag .
As the laps ticked away, a sma ll gap formed
be tween the veterans of the group, Hofmeist er
an d Zitur. Hofmeister' s 28 yrors of professional
backgrou nd a d d ed to Zit ur'!t 22 equa led 50
yea rs of Minnesot a dirt track racin g expe rie nce;
they raced to the checkered flag in first a nd seca n d pl ace, res pecti vel y . Kohner e ven tu a lly
squeez ed by Boehlke on the ba ck chute to retain
h is thi rd -pla ce status. Th e battle for fourth
through sixth wa sn't decided until the waning
laps , when Lang land bounced by Brouhard and
later Bouhlke, who had slid wid e in tu m two .
Verlon Lang land sped to a comma nding victory in the Novice class , a head of Pa trick Pearce
and a s tead ily maturing Ada m Henrichs , who
ba ttled all the way from ninth into thi rd place by
race' s end . Du an e Swe nson and Will ie Bre ton
fin ished fourth an d fifth if' th~ 14-rider field .
Results
toO: I. Shawn BUff; 2. Joo.h Koc h ; 3 C hris Lal'1lOn; 4 JII... in
t
Lun d; 5. J;I1on
VL'IJT SGL: 1. Randy ~ 2. raul Koch; 3 Rob Ht'IlTtan; "
LJ
llyJ Tum...-; 5. Malt M"t t...l.
\IN'T lW: 1. 8t.lzzArnd t; 2. Ron&Id 1.ftman.
30. : 1. MoIrty Miltedson at the- Brown Count y Fairgro unds.
H~a t winners Hofmeister and Tony Kohner
picked the first two starting positions for the 2G-lap mai n event. As th~ pack rumbled intu th e
firllt turn , it wa ~ Ho fmei st e r in control, with
Kohner, Verd~ n Lang land, Eric Brouhard , Dan
Zi tu r and the rest of the IG--ridcr pa ck in tow.
The ma n on the move, ho wever, was Zitur, who
had raced ln to thi rd place by lap two . L.ingland
overcookl'd tum th~ and ran off the track. On
la p 'Iix, Zitu r a nd Brouha rd bu m p ed Kohner
flnb H""'IW 1l.
5G+: I. Buu: Arndt; 2. QIarlje LanglAnd; 3. JohnSuttM:rbn,; 4 .
Dick Vt'CI'lkcr;5. .... u1fl,om1.'5.
STK FRM: I. Bob I-lo."ftrwn; 2. John Sutherlin; 3. Adam Henridts; 4. Uoyd Tutnt'r; 5 Ridr w~...m...-;" .
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JR. I. Jnnny .........kn.o.llI. 2. Cok Fll:aly; 3. No ~laya;
4. N.IA:IN W.aachcck.
"'1:-.l1~R:l .l; 5. Wad.: )ohnI;on (Ka wl.
;
2SOA; 1. eng BrAet (YAm); 2. Bt-UidOfl Bartz (YlUII); 3. TOIII
Dtrldw C rd ; S. Carl Wou l lCTM).
Ho
WMN · I . An g..1lI Kf'u nljt'!l (y.;a
m); 2- J-o BIL (1(IIw); 3.
..m
Amy W..lk.. w~1rJ (J Ion ); 4. Drou k A uger CSu.cl; 5. l"icok ~MId
run
t'S1il~k> (Kaw); 5 Troy Van~lll Y" (Y,' m )
OrfN : 1. T im B,r""" (lI " n), 2. Eri ~.. E7
.ni"" (lInn). 3. Chock
KinKl'l~ (K,i w); 4. Robm Edlcr (Hon); 5. David Deringer IATKl.
