Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

McDougal Only Doubles This Week N i AMA Road Races .... -- Wi!, Carry flM 0.. N 0> ~ Sanc iion~in -19']2 Q> t -, -- The expanding scope of the American ~ Motorcycle Association's operation has w been ap tly demonstrated by the 1971 Z AMA Competition Congress which ~ adop ted Formula 750 rules for 1972. o Following passa ge of th e legisl ation, all road race National ch am p io nsh ip s will be run under this formula during the coming season. . Formula 750, a class of racing for which AMA road racing machines qualify, was devised jointly by the AMA and England's Auto Cycle Union, and was recognized recently by the Federation .I nternationale Motocycliste, the world governing body of mo torcycling. Not to be confused with Grand Prix motorcycle racing where special machines are used, Formula 750 competition, as fans th ro ughout the United States will view it . will be run under its own set of rules. • \-VI1H c.lol. 'I;;'-.u~ f"" rmu!a will not a u t om a tica lly guarantee the appearan ce, of foreign riders, they will be elig ib le to compete at anyroad ra ce ch am p io nsh ip . AMA Expert road racers, in turn, will be required to hold FIM licenses. Novice and Junior riders will not be a ffect ed by th e new ruling. u. By Lowell Stolze EL TORO, CAL ., Feb. II, 1972 When you mention USMRC and the EI Toro motocross course, the names of Bruce ~IcDougal, Morris Malone, Chuck Bower; and David Boydstun nearly always pop into m indc-They were there Friday night but so were Bruce Baron, Mike Cram, a nd Glen Lund. McDougal did win overall honors in the 125 and 250 classes, but the Orange Expert ran into mechanical problems in the 500 field and yielded the top spot to Cram and his Maico, Cram rode well all night and won the 111"st two motos and ran second to Lund (Hus) in the finale. Riverside's Scott Smith was in the field fo r the fi rst 500 mo to , but he had troubles and parked the bike for the night. Bruce Torbett and Malone tangled o n the firs t la p of the second HOT BI KE NATI ONA LS SET On Ma rch 4-5, t he National Hot Rod Association, Hot Bike Magazine and Lions Drag Strip will stage t he premie re mo torcycle drag championship at L ions Drag Strip. The first annual Hot Bike Nationals will he a n e v en t of n ational sc ope, co m p let e with Officiai NHRA !':stio na l Records in all classes. Lions Drag Strip has posted a guaranteed purse o f 54 ,75 0 for a weekend of strictly champ ionship mo torcycle com p etit io n . • • • • • 4 . ' iF , 18 . i t • • • II I" I e • • I I II' II heat and both we nt down just before hitting the ramp heading uphill. It was a hard earned win for Cram as his victories were by only a few feet and the third was a great duel with Lund, who took over from Mike on lap three to record a 10-yard victory. McDougal won the first 125 moto by 20 yards over Rueben Benites after the improving Davey Carlson led the first four circuits and Bower took the second heat by 10 yards from McDougal. The third was a thriller and saw the lead change hands three times between Baron and Bower, with Baron coming on at the checker to nip Chuck by a foot. All were Pento n mounted except Carlson, who rode a Yamaha. In th e first 250 Ex/Int, go, McDougal was off the line first on his Yamaha but he re linquis he d the lead on la p three to the flying Dave Boydstun, who went on to a 20-yard win as the fir st seven finis hers were tig htly bunched. Malone got a great jump in the seco nd moto and led all the way on his AJS to hold off a closing McDo ugal an d win by 10 feet. After several prema t u re starts, t he final heat was a dead e ngine start and McDougal got off first and beat Boydstun by several yards . The _IOO Juniors we re out in full force and C1<,y Muoolf (Yam ) had a great night by sweeping three wins In division one. Division two winner was Mark Balzer I i • , i , . i • • 81 I I , ' I I h . , • • , H . Viewfinders M.C. Presents • • • , . , . , • • • • , • • • • • • • 11 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • _ _ . ' , • • • • • • • • " " , r , CRAND ~PRII MARCH 4&5,1972- IND IAN D U NES MOTORCYC LE PARK Valencia, Calif. EntriesOpen NOW, Close Feb. 20 Li mit ed Entry Mai l Entry $10.00 Post Entry $25.00 No Ref unds RAIN OR SHINE Powder Puff - Side Hacks - Old T im ers 0-250 Saturday 25 1-0 pen Sunday Equal starts for every one Tw ice th e distance, t wi ce the fun as last year Far out fi nisher pi ns .. •.........•••.•••................•... ....... .................... ... •... ......... .. .•... •............ ..... FOR GRAND PRIX ENTRIES ONLY l • \ V.al! o rcL The crowd was up i h La. .. Qsk as was the turnout of bikes and action continues at thi: challenging El Toro course every Friday night. Someone who doesn't have the facts is ciruclating rumors that the El Toro races are being run without insurance. Nothing could be further from the truth . The competitors and stands a re insured with Bob Williams of Insurance Buyers in Sacramento. If such persons, who apparently do not have the best interests of bike racing in mind, would take the time to check out the information before starting unfounde d stories, motorcycle racing in general and USM R C in particular would benefit . (Results on page 40) Hutchins Pressures Mason at Perris By Ela ine J ones PERRIS , CAL., Feb. 29, 19 72 - Rick H utchins put mu ch o p ressure o n Doug Mason in th e 2 50cc AlE class t o night at Perris Ra cewa y. For a change th e cro wd was h olding its b reat h to se e if Do ug A .C .E . PENTATHA LO N could pull it off o r if there would be a new heir ap parent. Even th o ugh R ick Hillcl imb di d n 't wi n a heat it wasn't for lack of $ 5 0 0 Mo tocross trying and was only 1/ 10 of a second Class C Speedwa y beh in d Dou g w hich puts hi m in Do ug' s T rials back pocket. Randy S mit h was third. Min ibike races T he "EI Crasho" of the evening goes to the Expert class. In the first moto All events will be run on March 4 & 5 an d will n o t conflict with each other . Penta thai on Medals will be John Sperry got out of shape co ming awarded to riders competing in at least 3 events. In cluding Viewfinders Grand Prix. an d winning p o i n t s In each . down the back side and before it was all over Bob Greenstreet , Vince Graves and George Gillespie were testing the softness of the turf. Steve Waller M ail Entries To: managed to wade through the mess a nd 25 1cc an d over 250cc and und er O~~N\ comple te the first heat and hang in Tony Mistretta Sc ott Per ri n \.. there in _spite of a super drive fro m 903 E. 6 5th 51. S s\ \\.. 1901 E. Merce d G raves for the win. Vince was second West Covina , Cal if. Inglewo od , Ca . 90302 C\..p..SS€ and Sperry third. (213) 677-528 8 p..\..\.. (213) 33% 13 7 John Sandona and Jack McCafferty played the swapping game in the AMA CARDS AND SILENCERS REQUIRED Amateur moto and John came out on r-------------------~---------------------------------~ top in that one with Jack second and VI EWFI ND ERS MOTORCY CLE CL UB, IN C. Bruce Yoakam third. T he Hortons, Danny and Mike, both (A NON -P RO FIT CO R PO RATION) we nt home with trophies. Danny picked MOTORCYCL E RACE ENT RY his up in the Novice moto to pp ing Tom Heard, who was plagued w ith problem s NAM E AGE -'-_ PHO N E _ all evening lo n g, and S hawn Huffman , aboard dad's b ik e. Shawn did a n ADD R ESS _ excep tionally good job for h is first tim e with the b ig boys a nd will b e wo rt h I am a bonafid e me m be r of th e Clu b. watching. Mike got h is win in t he 175-2 00cc A .M.A. Nu mber Expires Dist rict R id ing No. class. Wo uld you believe he also to p pe d Tom H eard who probab ly could care Mak e Motor -,- Engine Number Cu . In . _ less if he ever saw a Horton again. Lee Lutrull was third. Rex Hail ey ran his win streak to two I will e n t er in th e _ _ Class. Novice n Expert 0 Amateur 0 taking the 125cc Novice III over Dave Rid ing or Sid ecar Part ne r _ Reese andJohn Shipley. Pryor Campbell also repeated in the win column and beat James G. Smith ASSUMPTI ON OF T H E R ISK AJIID WAIV ER OF PER SO NAL INJ UR Y C LA IM I and Steve Pergin in the process. Pryor is I Und er the rules an d sanction of t he Amer ica n Motorcy cle Asso c ia t io n , I hereby agree to co nfo rm to and comply the only one that makes a Suzuki go I with t he rules govern ing this c ontest in connect ion w it h the C o m petition R u les of th e A m e rican Moto rcycle A sagainst the mighty Kawasakis. I scciation and the Distric t Co m m ittee and I fu rt he r ag ree to h old blameless th e A m erica n Motorcycle Asso ciat io n, Jeff Coleman did his thing in the the V iew f in d ers Mo t o rcycle Club . Inc . an d any p ro pe r ty owne r or o w ners and agree to assume any an d all risks I 100-125cc AlE duel. Rob Morrison was I _ fo r any loss o r inj ury to myself o r property in which I may become involved by reason of participation in thrs trying to do something, too, but what it c ontest. I do also a gree to assume re spons ib ilit y fo r any p rop ert v d a m ag e which I knowingly initiate. I was wasn't quite clear. He was either Yes 0 NoD I have read th is e n try bla nk . somewhere in the back of the pack o r going like heck but could only take I S· . d second. Date __ L ...!.gna~!! req uire ============ ..J (Res ults on page 40) ... .........................•• ••••.••••••••...••.•.•.•.....•... ..... ..... .......... ......•................. .. (Hod) with easy wins in moto's one and three and he made a great effort - to catch Mirl Brown (Hod) in the second, but fell short by a couple lengths. _ Brown was second overall. Zack Lindberg was the winner in last week's 125 Junior (Divisio n two) class and he repeated again tonight with three wins and Steve Eredia (Ya m ) edged Paul Nyland (Pen) in Division one. Steve won the first and third races and Nyland took the second. Richard Duncan (Mai) continued his great riding and duplicated his overall win of last week as he won all three heats hand ily in Division one of the 250 Junior class and Bob Perlof ca ptured Division two on his CZ by winning heats o ne a nd two. Brad Sa lata (Hus) made good his p ro mise to beat Joe Dyer and he did it with a photo-finish win in the third 500 J unio r moto a nd it enabled Brad to take overall h o n or s. Monte Mahan, who was leading on po ints goi ng into th e final, had m ec hanical problems wi th hi s CZ a nd he had to settle for second. El Taro's own Brad Dutoit (Yam) won t he sc hoolboy class over Kev in Harlow (Yam) a nd Brad Roberts (Han) and seven Hondas turned out for tbe special Yl\1CA "mini race" session, which went to Gil Martinez over Kent === , ,

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