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It's schoolboy R obert's night By Lowell S t o lze EL TORO, CAL ., Feb. 2 5 , 197 2 Bruce McDougal of Orange, Morris Malone of Laguna Hills, and Mike Cram of La Mirada car ted off top honors Friday night in the USM R C promoted mo to cro ss card at EI T aro Sp eedwa y . McDougal (Pe n ) wo n th e first t wo 125 In t ermed iat e /E xp ert m o t o s easily and then "eased up " to le t Ron DiD o nat o (Pen) win the thi rd . Malone (AJ S ) had things pretty m uch h is way in the 250 class, winning th e first a nd third round s, and a bad " get awa y " after a dead engine start in mota nu mber two, preve nted a p os sible sweep. McDougal (Yam) fell in race number o ne a nd fin ished sixth, but wo n heat tw o a nd was second some t en feet b eh ind Mo rri s in the third . In th e 500 actio n , Cram (Mai ) co ntin ued h is dominan ce as h e won th e first tw o motos and wa s leading t h e third w hen he took a sp ill on the h illy port ion of the co u rse and came hom e fifth. Mike won th e seco nd on a fla t fro nt tire b y 50 yard s over Malo ne and left the field far b eh ind in h eat o ne as he waltzed to a 150-ya rd m argin . Malone (AJ S) was second overall by virtu e o f two seco nd s a nd third and McDo ugal, o n a Greeves instead o f th e usu al Yamaha, fin ish ed t hird b ehind Morris after getting things t o gether to cop race numbe r three. It wa s Brad R oberts ' " n i ht " in th e p opu l a r s ch o olboy class as the t en-year-ol d fro m Placenti a rode h is Ho nda to vic tories in all three m o t o s. Mik e Brown (Hod) and Brad Du to it (Yam) p ut on a great b attle fo r the top spot in the 10 0 J unio r, D ivision O ne class. Br ad won the first h eat , Mik e t he second, and t he fin al w asn't decided until th e final te n feet o f th e course. Br o wn held off Brad t o wi n th e cow n . In Division Two o f the 100 Juniors, Bill Hudson (Ho d ) di dn't wi n a m o ta, but he garnered enough points via two seconds and a third to nab top spot. Mark Balzer (Hod) w o n the first two races, b ut h ad mechanical p ro bl em s in the third and finished out of t he m oney . Paul Ny la nd (Pen ) sw ep t all three races in . the 125 J u nio r, Divisio n One cat ego ry , an d all three w ins w ere by 100 yards o r b etter. Divisio n Two ho nors were cap tu red by Don Smith (Yam ), wh o like Ny land , wo n all th ree heat s eas ily. Fo r t he fou rt h w eek in a row , R1 Richard Duncan (Mai) wo n a divisio n o f th e 250 J unio r class. Richard h ad problems in the first m o t a and cross ed the lin e seco nd t o Marv Brau n (AJ S ), b u t th e lik eable rider came b ack strongly to an ne x th e fro n t spot in the nex t two heat s. In the seco nd m oto , Mark Gaise r t o o k a hair-ra ising sp ill as h e lo st co nt ro l of his bike (C Z) just aft er vau lt in g the j u m p in front of the gra ndsta nd. The bike and Ma rk ro lled end over end severa l t imes a nd they must have covered fift y feet alo ng the g r o u n d . M a r k was s haken but ap paren tl y u n h u rt . Wa y ne Melan so n (AJ S) had a firs t , second, and a third in the 250 Ju nio r Divison Two even ts and edged Dan n y Shapard (H us) and Lowell Easle y (Yam ) for overa ll ho no rs. Eac h of the th ree riders wo n a mota. T he h igh light of the second race was th e ch arge o f Easley , wh o went d own o n th e start a nd came fro m 14th a nd last to gra b fo u rt h sp ot. ( Re su lts on p age 4 0) ~ :. ~ Ol ~ "- i ~ ~ w d >- U . Quintar.d Tops SlimField A Gr eeves! T his mach in e wa s r un b y R ob ert Cr ecili us, Br uce M cDougal and w ho k n ows who else. Ph oto ~ Y J,i n:'! Bro ok s. TORSTENH LLM N~ 14. I A A•• RACING INC. :::Y :.. . · By Lowell Stolze EL TORO , CAL., Feb. 26 , 1972 - A slim fie ld of 125 Se nio r TT riders at El Taro Speedwa y d idn ' t preven t a gre at duel for th e top spot as Ll o yd Quintard (Yam ) a nd Mark C os lee ( Ka w) b attled d o wn to the wir e with Quintard win ning b y te n feet o ver Goslee in the Mai n Even t. Ll o yd also won th e 12 5 S hort T ra ck fe ature , b u t th is tim e by a m o re co mfo rtab le m argin ove r M ark . Carroll Heil a nd (Yam) , who did n 't get a gr eat st art in the 250 Sen io r TT Main, m ad e a gr ea t m o ve com ing off th e back ch u t e to go u n d e r th e lead ers a nd he went o n to post a t en-yard win ov er Mark Revels (lIo n). Sa l Peluso (Y am) defeated Butt and Heila nd in th e Short T rac k Main. In the Op en Se ni or TT Main , T o m Worfolk (Yam ) led a ll th e wa y a nd fashioned a 25 -yard victory o ver Den Sowell (Tri) arid Ni ck Vo ge (T ri). Sowell go t reve n ge in th e Short T rac k fea t u re a nd edg e Vo ge and Worfo lk. Dav e Lujan (Ka w) d o minat ed the Junio r 100 Division as he p osted wins in b o th th e Sho rt Track and TT Main Eve nts. Ve rn Ma xw ell (B ul) go t t he j u mp in the 125 J u n ior TT Mai n a nd led every lap to register a 50-yard w in over Robert C r e c e l iu s (Ya m ). Wayne McI ntyre (S u z) came home third an d Creceli us ca p t u red th e sho rt track Mai n in a race m a rk ed b y two mis haps. Terry Griner (Yam ) o f El T'oro du mped o n t he sta rt a nd a restart was in o rd er , but on said restart , Gary Tam ie tt i was left a migh t unh app y rid er as h e was sitting at th e line w ith a dead Suzu ki a nd h and in th e air. Th e 250 Junior class was swept b y J e rry Greer (Yam). He j u m ped to an ea rly lead, held it and wo n b y 20 yards, In a grea t b attle for first in th e Sho rt T rac k Main, G reer no sed ou t Bill Wright (H-D) . 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