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AMA Vintage Days West Sears Point Raceway (Above) Jim Neuenburg won both days' 250cc GPs. (Above) Bultaco-mounted Charles Sexton raced the 200cc and 250Cc GP classes, with his best finishes fourth place in both Saturday's 200Cc event and Sunday's 250cc race. (Right) Rick Brewer rode his 1971 &SA to fourth in Sunday's Sportsman 500cc race. tice time, so many great bikes, great people! I only hope to be doing this when I'm 80!" CN Sesn Point Racewsy Sonoms, Cslifomis Resahs:ApriIZ7-Z8,ZOOZ BMW beat the Yamaha. Elings came in second in his class (behind David BreetwoT, on a 1958 BSA) and fifth overall. Rodd Lighthouse came in third on a '58 Velocette. Nevadans Ken and Rodd Lighthouse are a father-and-son duo who have been racing .historic bikes since 1991. "Racers have come and gone over the years, but the competition is fiercer, there are more people, and there are certainly a lot more classes," Rodd Ughthouse said. "The racers and the bikes get faster every year." Filo returned for the last race of the day, Formula Vintage. Yamahamounted Mercury Morse, a front-of- This Rudge won every show award it qualified for, including Best In Show. Saturday PRE-1940: 1. Rolph Auer (BMW); 2. Will Harding (Ind); 3. Norbert Nickel (BMW); 4. Glenn Campbell (BMW); 5. Doc Batsleer (Ind). 200 GP: I. Paul Shoen (BSA); 2. Chris LaCruze the-pack runner at AFM events, took the early lead, with Honda rider Rich Levert, Filo, and Bernard Juchli, on a 1975 Honda, dogging him around the track. The four-rider fight became a three-rider fight when part of Morse's exhaust fell off. As he dropped back, Filo increased his slender lead over Juchli and Levert. The three front-runners pulled away from the rest of the pack, came around turn 11 for the last time and went for the checkered flag, with Levert and Juchli making a lastditch effort to catch Filo but not succeeding. Sue Urquhart just started racing in March, but she was there for Formula Three. "I usually ride the AFM 250cc production class," Urquhart said. "[This was] a great weekend - lots of prac- (Bul); 3. Craig Congleton (Ben); 4. Charles Sexton (Bul); 3. Jon Munns (Hon). 250 GP: 1. Jim Neuenburg (Bul); 2. Jeff Elings (Aer); 3. Shimpei YllmllZllki (Yam); 4. Lllrry Poons (Due); 5. Charles Sexton (Bul). 350 GP: 1. Jim Neuenburg (Bul); 2. Jeff Elings (Aer); 3. Shimpei YDmtJzaki (Yam); 4. Tomofumi Mizuno (Due); 5. Bruce Yoxsimer (Due). S/MONO: I. Benjamin Weich (Yom); 2. Russ Meagher (Yam); 3. Kevin Crowther (Yam); 4. AI Charles (Due); 5. Jim Hoogerhyde (Hon). SIMONO 2: 1. Steve Allen (Hon); 2. Richard Capps Jr. (Yam); 3. Christopher Himeise (Yern); 4. Daryl Foster (Hon); 5. Gabriel Ets-Hokln (Hon). PROD SGL: 1. Gory Davis (MuZ); 2. David Pierce (KTM); 3. Don Laury (MuZ) 50S 2-STRK: 1. Joshua Gustin (Hon); 2. Rodney Henninger (Hus); 3. Mark Wurtzel. BOrr 2-STRK:' I. Dante Dambrusco (Yom); 2. Jim Monaco (Yam). CL eFT-SHIFT: 1. Rolph Auer (BMW); 2. Norbert Nickel (BMW); 3. Fred Mork (Nor); 4. Glenn Campbell (BMW); 5. Kenneth Genecco (Vin). CL C HND-SHIFT: 1. Will Harding (Ind); 2. Doc Batsl..r (Ind). F-250: 1. Jeff £lings (Yem); 2. Jim Neuenburg (Bul); 3. Robert Bryson (Yom); 4. John Easton (C- Take a look at Doc Batsleer's Indian racer.