By Buzz Baty
CARLSBAD, CAL., April 9 , 1972 J o n Derhammer rode two 20 mi nute
mo to s today , w ithou t fuss o r .muss, and
without mak in g an y m ent al b o o-boos.
J on got a second in the first round a nd a
first in the seco nd mota. That second
25 0 Expert m o ta see med more like a
destructio n derby than m o t o cro ss
ra cing; before they got thro ugh the first
tum, riders w er e down, in back of Jon,
in fro nt of h im. For a m omen t, it
seemed like J on was the only u p righ t
rider.
G reg Parker did manage to push h is
Husk y
through
th e
first
tum,
we-all-fall-down-funsies ahead of J o n 's
CZ , b u t so mewhere after th at las t lap
flag an d b efore th e che cker Greg got off
and J on took the ch ecker and fir st
o vera ll,
Meanwhil e, bac k in the pack, it was
st ill fa ll-down t ime ! Gaylon Mosier went
d own, got up a nd rode lik e the d evil was
o n h is tail , earning enough poin ts fo r
second overall,
David Pess y an d Frank Mu noz
tangled in the 180 d egr ee tum o pp os it e
the scorin g st and. Bo th ended up on the
ground, and before either o n e of them
co uld ge t up, somebody , I still don 't
know who, used both David's Ossa and
Frank 's Montesa fo r a highway. H<:
di dn't even say "May I?". David p icked
up h is Os sa and got going again, b ut
when Fran k p ick ed up his Mo ntesa, gas
poured out of a hole about the size of a
half d o llar in t he left side of the
fib erg lass tank. Finis for Frank.
Greg Park er, after falling on that last
lap, managed to' finish and fill the show
spot overall.
T h e v<:ry warm day brought the birds
o ut in flocks, and some weren't wearing
ma n y fea th ers. Ah t h e j o ys of summer.
Mark Dobbs is all the way back Calks.
After last week at Saddleback, where he
go t a second overall in th e 125 Expert
class, Mark pushed his DKW in to first
sp ot t oday. Marty Smith got his first
ride as an Expert today and b e m ade it a
good o ne, second o verall wit h h is 12 5
Penton.
I wasn 't in a posi tio n to see it . but
the people who were near the action,
an d d id see it, say th at Ma rk Dobbs did
a fa n tas t ic job o f layin g h is scooter
d own to avo id hitting Leonard Mellgren
when he dropped his CZ in front of
Dob bs. Maybe though ts o f his own
accident so me months ago w h en h e go t
h it a ft er falling t riggered th e quick
actions.
(R es ults o n p age 3 9 )
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Greg Parker managed to fill the spot right behind Jon Derhamm er mostly wi th airt.
Derhammer Stays up
for CMC South Win
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