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-; ~ MO TOCROSSERS ~ FIND GARDEN OF EDEN? By Buzz Baty CORONA, CAL., Feb . 12 , 1972 N" " Really great" - "outta sight man " N "heavy" - "I don't b elie ve it" t OD .g much'\ these were just a few o f th e u, ma ny wo rds of praise I h ear d as I en wandered thro ugh t he p its and aro und Th e course is well laid o ut . On the raceway p ortion, lots of turn s, lef t an d righ t, good st raights with and with out small j um ps, a bi g in field jump with a long gen tle landin g slo pe . The natural terrai n section up in th e hills is j u st b ea ut iful and will have t o b e see n to be app reciated. Now, get this, t he en ti re na tural terrain portion of the wer e muc h th e sam e. First of all, it was o ne of those 100% famo us Califo rn ia days, temp era t u re in the low 80's, clear b lu e skies that let you see all t he way to Shan gri-La and back, and a slight b ree ze . Th e day alo ne wo uld p ut anyo ne in a good mood . course h as its own spri nkler sy stem , no ~ Cl H ~ g'o~o~; R~~~~y~h~ty o.;:~een~~:s\o~~ w c3 1:; dus t, no t any, none, it 's great. The dirt in t his area is that good , sa ndy loam that give good traction but doesn 't st ick to an y thing lik e that clay stuff does. T he hill section has it all, up - down - up traverse - down traverse - off ~~~::r----:=----;:~~--::::=""'------" V ery nat ural: new course - new crossers. FIVE YEARS OF RACING AND THERE HAS STILL. .. NEVER BEEN AN ASTRODOME NATIONAL WITHOUT A BULTACO WINNER The Houst on Astrodom e Nati onal Short Track and T.T. has been in ex istence for five years. And during that t ime a Bultaco has featured in t he winner's circle of at least one of t he races each year. This year, Mike O'Brien led Gary Lozano and Jim Lee ho me in a Bultaco 1-2-3 swee p of the J unior Sho rt Track Nat iona l. Small won der that we chose the nam e " Astra" when we chri stened o ur new 250cc short -track racer! SULT~CO • •' . : .: • • ::::., ::.:.. .. > 0 ... . >. : .. 0 0 , : .. oro litH .t13 :~i1 , ir ado : CrltfU",{3"926; b" • 0 Co rona Raceway view : O ff the hill back to the inf cam ber up and down turns , a co uple o f hi gh speed whoop-dee-do sections and no dust . Puttin g t he wh ol e course toge ther, it m easu res o ne and three ten th s miles of pure MX p leas ure. Problems were encoun tered as wi th any first time eve nt. T he mosts were a little slow in getting o ff; they let th e mi ni riders go the whole course, and that's just too much for these yo ungsters and the m in i-bi kes. Dale Teubne r tried to wea r too many hats , starte r. score kee pe r, final results, and I thi nk he j ust go t snowed unde r , so , n o re sul ts fro m the first show . A ft er talking to Mr . & Mrs , Lap ar i, th e owners and operato rs of Coro na Raceway , and th eir P.R . man, Ron Russell, I came away with th e fee ling t ha t they will b en d every effort to mak e this trac k just what you MXers wan t. If you don 't rid e this groovy trac k, you' re the loser. Workman repair an errant ing the races. sprln¥:let wn ijeJvatth -