Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

HannasHowlatFa~banks .- Bob Brown fascinates the spect ators with his asto unding st y le. [Cont'd. from previous page) was n' t good en ough. OCA was b etter organ ized an d had more workers for th is race th an for an y race 'in th e p ast. Unfortunat ely th ere w ere so me problems wh ich hun what sho uld h ave been a great race. The number o f rid ers was no t anticipated , and th e track was too small to handle some o f th e larger classes. Ov erl appi ng handlebars present problems o n the start. Then, too, the tr ack was we t th e week b efore th e race. During th e morning's p ract ice the gro und wa s moist and great. By rac e ti me ho wever the to p lay er h ad turn ed to dry p owd er in several pl aces. In' th e larger class es it was a question of get t ing the lead o ff t he lin e o r h avin g yo ur radar sy stem in go od o rd er . One ride r found himself up a tr ee...literalIy ...when h e mi ssed th e first co rner o n a dusty star t. Unfo rt un ately your reporter w asn't close eno ugh to record th e h ereto fore unknown warblings of th e rare treed trac ker and science suffers as a res ult. It was a sh ame th at th ese flaws had to mar a good effort by th e OCA. T he y can be overco me however, and the nex t race should be a good o ne. (R esu lt s o n p age 56) By janet West HOU STON, TE X. , Mar ch 12, 19 72 with o ne lap to go , Fox go t around Gr ah am and was pulling him prett y Competitio n was extreme ly fierce in well, wh en Gr aham reg ain ed his senses tw o class es Sund ay - t he 125 Novi ce and started realizing th at now was th e and the Op en Expert . Ce cile Hanna (Pen) had th e cro wd lining the tr ac k t ime to go or lose th e race. Fox was maintaini ng a lead, but G raham was sho uting and cheering h er on , as she worki ng st ead ily up wh en his AjS fail ed battled with the gu ys . C ecile was firs t off the lin e, an d managed to hold her in th e bottom of a gu lly , p uttin g him way beh ind Fox. lead the whole race. But, th e second h eat wa s unfortu nat e for Cecil e ; she The o nly way to speak of Fr ed d y Hanna is in t he superlative. Hanna wo n d idn't get a very good start , and th e b o ys we re really after h er th is time ; no bo th th e 125 and th e 250 classes girl was goi ng to win. Even th o ugh she ha ndily . He rode his sister Cecil e's started out in 18th place, she managed to Pen to n in the 125 Experts an d mad e it work beautifully . T he re wa s no real wo rk h er way up to 9 th , for a 4th place competi tion fo r Fred, an d h e won up finish ove ra ll. Watch o u t next Sunday! and away . In th e 25 0 Ex pe rts , mounted In th e Open Expert class Bo b Grah am o n his trusty Husky, Fr eddy just b lew (Aj S) an d Brian Fox (CZ) w ere eve ryo ne off. Louis Dill (H us) go t cl ose d efini tely waging o pe n warfar e. A battle once in a w hile , but Freddy was takin g has been go ing on b etw een t hese two no chances, and w he n h e sensed Dill was for the p ast few we eks, with each taking turns winning first pl ace, but latel y up o n him, h e jus t turned on the t hrott le a bit more and bl asted off. Being super Brian h as b een getting more and more o f his sh are , and Graham j ust isn 't used fast , lo okin g so good , and playing fai r , has made Han na much ado red an d kee ps to th at. In th e first heat Graham came the cro wd tran sfixed w he n he is rid ing. o ut ahead , wi th Fox rig ht o n his ta il fo r second . He, alo ng with Fo x, h as become a sort Since a tie wo uld be broken b y th e o f id ol in th e eyes of th e fans . Gr eg Gr ah am co uld h ave done a win ner o f th e second h eat, Fox still had mu ch b et te r job h ad he watch ed the lin e a good ch ance an d k new it. All h e had to do to win first overall wa s win th e more closely . In the 250 Experts, seco nd he at , and he began preparing, several bik es wer e not only in ches, but men tall y as well as m echani cally. H e lengths, in fro nt of the guys who chose must h ave d one a super j ob o n hi s brain, t o play fair, and Grah am knew it. The b ecause off th e lin e in h eat two it was only th ing th at made the rac e worth nip an d tuck. Fox and Graham began wa tching after seeing the ridiculous start th e o ld switch aro und ro u tin e, first one was watching Freddy Hanna start fairly and then bl ow th e rest of the field into was ahead, then blink an ey e, and the o ther wa s o ut front, In t h e ninth lap th e weeds. Hendricks Top 125, yawn By jack Dillon and Ken Ni cholls PHOENIX, ARIZ., March 26 , 1972 Dens e clouds of blowing sand were the order of the d ay at Arizona Cycle Park Sunday . Even so, some 200 motocr oss riders and aro und 1000 spectators braved th e adverse weath er co nd it io ns, uncommon for th e area. A .C.P . is noted fa r and w ide for it s two sup er downhills. Picture in your mind coming around a righ t hander and looking ahead to see the co urse d isappear in to nothingness. As yo u co me to th e brink, yo u lo ok down 75 feet of nearly vertical course, in ter sp ers ed with freq uen t whoop-de-des. 125 Expert Ernie Hendricks and his trusty Bul a~in dominated h is class for the [ho-h um ] third rac e in a row. All of the racing was first rate as usual, esp ecialIy t he last moto of the Open Exp er t class when Byron Bo az and hi s big y ellow tractor, er , Maico parted comp any o n the infamous downhill. Byron remounted and p ro ceeded to regain the lead, h en ce first Open Expert. EVEL KNIEVEL presents MDUNTIIN LIDN MDTD CaDSS SIDDDll ruasl BOTH D~V5 EVEL WILL JUN\P c~. 100 RAm.E5NA~ES + MOUNTAIN LIONS- AT PLYMOUTH CA.,80MILK EA&T OF 5AeRAMENlO .pART OF THE NEW FULL LENGT~ EVEL ~ t co e, .: ~ w Z W ..J U > U

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