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second and a third and the ACE
acknowledges that sort of thing with
identical purses. They ought to de~se a
tie-breaking rule; "ties" and motorcycle
ra cing are the antithesis of one another.
Rodgers, who 'was "never supposed to
ride agai n " after a nasty crash som e
months ago, has come b ack stronger
than ever, save a bit a f en durance . He
won the first 250 Professional mota
aft er Tom R app pulIed ov er thinking his
frame had broken. Rex/ Staten pulled
st eadily fr om behind/ t o ta ke an
unno ticed second.
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People did start no ticing Staten when
-he Jed th e sec ond mota fr om the start
and wouldn't give .up . Tim Hart , wh o,
lik e most everyone else , was w ilting
under the unseasonal su n , t ri ed t o pl a y
catch-up but Staten was just t o o fas t. In
the meantime, Rodgers was in h is fo urth
mota o f th e d a y and was poooped, H e
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Rex Stat en , a Deadman's Point regular, came out to the Dunes and tip-toed of f with the 250 Prof essional class.
st ill h eld o n fo r a finish so mewhere in
the m iddle t o h an g o n to second o verall,
To start o ut the 5 00 Pro class, J im
Wilson and J o hn DeS o t o bel te d o ut
th re e la ps o f d ynamite (ho tdog!) abo ut
as close as yo u wa n t to get tw o p eople
t o geth er when they're rid ing a 400cc
som ethin g-or-oth er. Things were getting
h o t and mo st of the heat was in the
pro xim it y o f DeS oto 's cy linder. He
seized. Wilso n took t he w in.
J ohn cam e back in the final mo t a t o
knock everyone 's blo c k off. H e
expended eno ugh e nergy in t he final
m o t a to wi n b oth mo tos and st ill h ave
enough left ove r t o cart he and his two
Suzooks h ome .
Wilson hung in there t he second to
get th e o verall w in . He d eserved it ; it
was o bvious h e wa n ted to go h om e w ith
so mething. He b ro ke h is CZ in the 250
race - se nility - b u t h itch ed a rid e t o
t he pits ; b orro wed a 125 Pe n t o n, and
came b ac k to finish . He got the ol d CZ
perkin g again fo r the 'seco nd ro und b ut
it b ro ke again . Rats.
