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By Mike Anderson
.Photos by Chuck Anderson
SANTA MARIA, CAL., March 5, 1972
- What started out to be a perfect day
of motocross at Spillway.Park ended in
a conflict of ill feelings between both
rider and management. It seems that the
AMA has put a new point system into
effect making it impossible for the
inconsistent rider to place in the final
results. Many riders had bad luck in one
mo to and bounced back to take strong
places in the other two, and' still went
home with nothing.
Open Expert rider Joe Cushaway
would have to fal1 into the above
category. Joe hit hard luck in the first
moto when he dropped the pipe from
his CZ. In order to conserve his motor
and retrieve his pipe Joe stopped and
settled for a finish . Joe made complete
wrecks of the next two motos, taking
firsts in -high style. But, Joe still went
home with nothing. __ _ ._ _ •• -The big - w i n w e nt to "Mi : '
Consistency" Ricky Long of San Luis
Obispo. Rick garnered enough points to
take the win without winning a single
moto.
Sherman (The " L il" Devil) Schnel1er
(CZ) jumped to an immediate lead in
the first moto of 250 Seniors. By lap 2
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Hollman Goes l o r C ara b ela
i n CMC Nor t h Points M e et
By Steve Castillo
LIVERMORE, CAL., March 5, 1972 Ron Huffman; riding a brand new Maico
400 out of Trophy Cycles put two wins
back to back to take top spot in the
Open Senior race afCMC North's First
Carabela Series Points race. Ron, an
ex-Husky rider, really shows gre at
potential on.his new machine.
The first 500 Senior race got
underway with Ron edging -out John
Franklin (Mai) at the start but Franklin
-r- right -o n his tail - sneaked passed
Huffman. The. two Maico riders were
really close now - they'd go into a tum
together and just as it looked like
Huffman would scoot ahead , Franklin
would dial in more power. As the two
made the long downhill as close as
Siamese twins, Franklin went down and
was up just as quickly, but it was too
late. Ron took the advantage. Huffman
went on to an easy win with Franklin
fun that this end of the sport supplies.
With the increasing number of
participants, it's not unlikely that the
c Iasses may h ave to b e b ro k en d own
even more than they are now. The
discussion will have to take place
trackside,
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coming in second and Russ Powel1 (Hus)
third.
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The last 500 Senior battle saw
Franklin and Huffman dicing for firs t
again but something happened to
Franklin, he started to slow and lose
some palces. Russ Powel1 moved in
second. Huffman took an easy first,
Powel1 second and Franklin took third
overall. Loose mounting bolts were
responsible for Franklin's place-loss he was conserving the motor.
Greg Hubbs (Bul) dominated the 250
Senior race by winninll both motos, and
Henry Hal1back (DKW) won both motos
in the 125 Senior race.
This was the first race of CMC
North's $12,000 Carabela Series and
was termed by many a great success,
Watch for information concerning their
upcoming point race - also to be held
at Carnegie Park.
(Results on page 36)
By Bill Spencer
FREMONT, CAL., Mar. 4,1972 - Over
160 motorcycles started the three
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two-h our events at to d ay 's thi d running
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of this cow-trailing-for-trophies, and it
was sheer madness for the scorers. At
day's end, only the 250 class had been
settled. With the magical success that
this type of racing is enjoying, the
system must be better organized so as to
facil itate the distribution of trophies to
winners on the same day. This is to be a
major consideration for the next
running on March 18th. The same
scoring system will be employed but
with added workers.
The 250 class was run first, and the
results were messy as the first three
riders finished on the same "lap. Because
of the way the finish was recorded, it is
possible that a pass was made on the last
lap to change the results. Nick Nazzisi
and Rick Hocking were the two
principles with Brian O'Hagan being the
third party. It seems amazing that after
two hours of hot and heavy racing three
bikes area all within thirty or forty feet
of each other.
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The Open onslaught was a runaway
for Greg Hodges on a 40-inch Triumph.
He finished three laps in the front over
the team of Sprague/Sprague on a
Husky.
In the 125 debacle, Wayne Morrell
just about ran with the whole race, with
only a slight charge from Pete Francini
and Rick Hocking. Just the mention of
these two names makes for
disqualification as an important rule in
this type of racing is that one rider must
be a Novice or be unrated. They really
didn't care and had to drop out towards
the end with the motor running sour.
Probably one . of the great things .
about this type of action is that one
never really knows if the guy you are
foll owing around the track is right in
front of you on the scoreboard or many
laps ahead or behind. The best bet is
still co nsistenc y and being able to keep
the motor running fo r th e entire two
hours.
This makes for the great amount o f
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Sherman had built up a 50 yard lead
over Gary Chaplin (Mai) and Jeff Little
(Yam). Later Sherman dropped out
with machine troubles leaving the way
for Chaplin and Little. The second moto
saw Dennis Law (CZ) andJerry Johnson
(Suz) battle for top position until both
dropped out. Gary Chaplin took
advantage of this and moved into first.
Meanwhile, Sherman Schnel1er, after a
bad start (last to be exact), had moved
his way right up on Chaplin's tail, and
went on to pass him and win by a wide
margin; but to no avail as Chaplin went
on to win the final leg and overal1.
The hard luck awards would have to
goto Leroy Cushaway and Larry Greer.
Leroy, after an operation and three
months of no riding, went against the
doctor's orders and rode his 380 CZ to
take two firsts in the first two Open
Junior motos, He would have won the
last but he fen and since his leg was still
,stiff he couldn't start the bike, so he
had to wait for someone to come to the
. rescue. Larry Greer rode his 125
Yam aha to three very creditable
first-half moto wins. Of course, the last
half somebody got b y because of either
breakdowns or endoes, Greg Higgins
(Bul) went on to win the 125 Seniors.
(Results on page 3 6)'
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