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By St eve Young
R ENO, NE V., March 26, 197 2 - T he
Re no Moto sports h eld t h eir firs t
motocross in the Reno Fairgrounds this
weekend. To set the sce ne, it should be
mentioned that it was held on basically
the same track that the TT Scrambles
and Speedway races are held.
The track definitely seemed agreeable
to Sam Lohr as he rode three really
outstanding motos to capture the A
Division of the 125 Novice class. It's
unusual to see such fine riding in that
class. Usually crossing up in the air is
reserved for the Experts.
Lonnie Murphy rode an outstanding
third mo to to capture the 125 Jr/Ex.
first under considerable pressu re. At th e
end of t he second moto, t hree riders
we re tied fo r first . perh aps p oin ting o ut
a disad vantage of th e new scoring
system, but after two seco nd pl ac es •
Lo nnie got on the stick and coolly won
the last one fo r the t rop hy. Allen
Han so n , also rid ing fo r Motosport Inc .
came in sec o nd wit h h is Penton not far
b ehind the win ners,
Both d ivisions o f the 250 Nov ice class
contai ned easy wi nners . Graig. Fed de r
and Alan Han so n each won th eir
d ivisio ns with three first p lace fin ish es.
A lan, wh o h as quite a string o f vict o ries,
go t o ut of shape at least several times.
b u t n ever let up or slowed d own.
Fedder just ro de cool and fast, m ostly
fast.
T he 250 Jr/Ex. event was ver y
exc iti ng for t h e spectators. Ste ve
T h o mson won th e event very sm oothly ,
but the seco nd place fin ish er delighted
th e cro wd. Am iable Keith Honay
push ed h ard o n Sp eed y T ho mson, and
while doing so display ed h is beautiful
st yle all the wa y. His incredible b alance
wa s o bvious everywhere . w ith h is front
wh eel seemingly rar ely on th e gro und.
Jeff Loff, who too k a bad endo in th e
b ack section, received th e third p lace
tr o ph y.
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Joel Kyn e wo n t h e Open Jr/Ex. even t
with pl ain ol d su per fast rid ing. In th e
th ird moto he wa s far enough in fro nt
to thro w a ch ain an d still take a cl ose
third.
Bob
Ha rshbarger
garnered
su ffi cient p oints for a second pl ace , and
prob ably wo u ld h ave do ne much b etter
if the race had been rougher .
T he co mp lai nts wi th th e p romo ter
were man y , but co mp laints w ith th e
rac e were few. T his report er's m ain
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Water Trucks Fail to Finish
By R. Miller
LAS V EGAS, NE V., Ap ril 2 , 1972 Every th ing looked bad early in th e d ay ,
Bobby
William s,
th e
motocros s
promoter at the Las V egas Speedway,
told everyone at the riders' meeting. It
seems that even wi th the sp eedway
owning two water true ks th at the ra ce
track would be very d ry due to both of
them deciding to break down on the
same day. In fact, o ne o f th em was still
parked on th e co urse.
Williams th en offered to refund
an y one's entry fee if th e rider d ecided it
was to o dusty.
Well, to mak e a little h appier endi ng
to race day, we d id finally get wa te r o n
the track. A nd to m ak e it even better,
about th e sam e t im e th e water truck got
back (o n e minute b efo re the first race
was to b e started) that lo vely Las Vegas
win d just up an d q uit for th e wh o le
b itchen day.
Ra cing today was highlighted several
t imes b y the man y new riders bein g in
th e winner 's circle fo r the first time, like
Randy
Dalton
(Y am)
in
th e
Min i-Enduro class. Randy had a go od
race but was pressured b y Eli zondo
(Hon) an d Gioeli (Steen 's).
In th e 100 N o vice class , Stadtlander
(Yam), after month s of almost do ing
the trick, really put it togeth er win over
ten other racers.
In the Amateur and Expert ra ces, 125
Rickman rider Randy Cannon had to
co me from b ad st arts each heat to win.
In fact, in the last race he d id it twice,
he mis took th e last lap flag for the
ch eckered and slo we d down. He got
passed b y two but th en turned it on to
fin ish second and firs t overal l.
Mar k Mason , olde r b ro ther o f Daryl,
rode a Ossa to victory ov er F red
Kimmel and G eo rge An th ill in the 250
Exp ert class, and afte r each h eat jumped
back o n a Maico 50 I to d o b at tle w ith
the Open Experts. Due to me chan ical
difficulties he didn 't wi n but J ohn
Harber d id kno w he was th ere. Harber is
super fas t on his new 5 speed Hu sk y.
T im All en had b ad starts so he wasted
too much ti me p assing th e p ack to
really b o ther J ohn.
(R esults on Page 40)
