Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

\ RING MAKES 'IT TWO By Tom Blattler SAN DIEGO, CAL. , April 16, 1972 Ward Ring, riding a po werfu l Triumph, won his second straigh t Open clas s IT Main Event this season at the super-quick South Bay Speedway. Ring ju m p ed to th e lead from the st art and never lo oked back as he ran away fr om the field . Norton-mounted Rich Ribley captured second in the eight-lap feature with Earl Roloff on a Yamaha grabbing a th ird place. . Ring, wh o is from National City, t h en came back in the Open class half-mile Main to take another first as h e again took the lead from the starting line and continually stretched his margin th ro ugh out the Ifl- lap race. Randy ElIis , co ming down from Santa Ana also on a Triumph, was second in the race with Roloff, who is only 15- years-old, again . nailin g d o wn third position. San Diego 's Sal Peluso, runn in g a Don Vesco Ya maha, fo ug ht off a stiff challenge from Larry Co llie o n a Kawasak i to w in the l Ovlap 250 fla t track Main in an excellen t time of a half-mile 4 :5 7.5 . Co llie t ook the lead early in the race before Peluso p assed him in the second t um. Co lIie th en tried to ret ain h is lead b u t Sal held him off b eau t ifull y t o no t ch the victory. Once again, young Ea rl R ol off cap t ured third. In other 250 eve nts , Co llie took the lQ·lap 250 IT Main as Larry led fro m the start and never gave up th e lead although he was tested heavily by Peluso. The third spot was taken by Bultaco-rnounted John Swinko of Ch ula Vista. Young Rolo ff fin ally won a race in th e fo ur-lap 125 Sporting Rider IT Main as Earl riding a Yamaha jumped to the lead quickly and was long gone for any oth er co m p et it o rs to cat ch him. One o f the best fights of the day was h etween second and third pos ition as D ebbie Re on o f Anaheim and Scott Duncan o f Chula Vista , b o th on Yamahas, battled fo r the sec o nd spot. At some p oints of th e race, D ebbie and Sc o tt were side by side and then Deb b ie would pull ah ead j ust slightly but agai n Scott w ould co m e up righ t b eside h er wit h R eo n finally grabbi ng second and Duncan taking third. went round a nd round in t h e first Division 100 Novices and Keith turned the tables from las t week by making Derek ride the second spot. Jim Wood was third. G . SainIow and Mark Reichert went t he fastest in the two divisions of 250 Novices with Mike Hansen and N orm Blake was second fastest. Scott Scoots at Boise By J ay K . Lacey BOISE, IDA., April 9, 1972 - First year Expert Gary Scott, th e Baldwin Park flash , fresh from his Asco t opening night win , came here and copped the fifty dollar cash prize in both the fast-time and t ro ph y dash, and ra n off with the Expert Main Event. Transferring the first three rid ers straight to the twelve man Expert Main, the heat races determined only one thing; Scott and Triumph were the combination to beat. He won the first one han d ily , the o nl y excitement coming when Mert Lawwill (H ·D) grabbed the last transfer p osit io n at the flag. Portland 's Sonny Burres, astride his usual pote nt Triumph, won the second by a wheel length over fellow Oregonian Mark Williams (Tri). Fate dealt crowd favorite little Gar y Kap us (Yam) a cruel b lo w. His engine b lew on the front straight after b u t one la p , gri nding him t o a h alt in a clo ud of smoke, leaving spectato rs to gape at the h ole in his case. M. 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MII II READING , PENN ., April 23, 1972 The Bill Huber Memorial Half Mile w as won by Bart Markel ab oard a Harley-Davidson, i ,- " i .i:..=: . :.----~ ' . ~.., r~~ '~~iJ . . . - -- ~. .... .. ~ 1'-"_ • ., HASCOTT J..I _ • JOE SMITH RACES '10 WIN I ThaI's why NHRA Indy Nationals champ J oe Smith insists on Venofia Forged Pistons lor all his rac ing bik es. For other selec tive buyers like Joe we make bike pistons for STREET . ..TRAIL . .. DIRT and MOTORCROS S. ALL SIZES - BO FROM 2%" UP RES Featuring exclusive Venolia design and all the basic pe rformance charac teristics we build into our bigger a utomotive pistons. ~ ~ KI NGSPORT , TENN ., Ap ril 23 , 1972 ~ Gary Sc o tt was never ch allenged as he Z ch arged to victory over a st ar -stu d ded ~ field h er e at Appalachian Speedway. §: Sco tt, aboar d the Skip Clark tuned o T riumph, fin ished handily ahead of Dick Mann (BSA ), Don Castro (T ri ), Charlie Seale (BSA). an d Dave Aldana (Tri). Mert LawwiIl finished ninth aboard his Harley. The Junior final saw James Rawls ab oard another Triumph charge ahead to take the checkeres ahead of Billy Field (BSA) and Kenny Martin (T ri). T h e Friday Novice feature was won by Roger Crump aboard a Bultaco, Action on th e fast banked track saw several serious injuries. Expert Larry Stone of Atlanta was reported in critic al con d ition with head in ju ries, and Florida Junior Li st on Chap pl e suffered possible spinal damage. Seven or eight o ther rid ers suffered broken ankles, legs, etc. DIIIB,,"" C,b le AMERICAN 1~6 Press tiIrie Bulletins : . ~.~. ~ 36 ·61 4 4 W sell 6. Sltp~WA~[) MAltO\ete! e 10-9 Tues-Fr . ! k . co m p to n , ca . 9022 1 PENTO N co mi ng out on top was a transplanted . ~ Arkansas lad n ow making his home in " Oregon. Lynn Davis (Mai) co uld only manage a th ird in the Novice Dash but '" in the Main gr abbed th e lead o n lap [;; three and was never h eaded again. Stops you in half the distance th ink .. ..mettco MAICO 152 8 s. santa fe ave. TEN YEAR OLD WINS URA By J oe Striss FO UR CORNERS, CALI F ., April 9, 1972 - U R A's first event was he ld here today . The wind was fierce all d ay and all night Saturday which m ad e camping pretty m u ch an inside thing. But by Sunday morning, there was just a breeze to blow the dust away from the 20 I starters. The course was two seperate 25 mile lo op s. Both very well marked and covering a wide variety o f desert riding, sand, washes, rocks, and the usual up and down hills. . The event was ad vertised as easy, and it was. There were 181 finishers - and first overall was John R . Hughes age 10 with , get this, a score of 998 points. Some o f the riders commented th at the speeds were too slow, top speed average was 20 mph, but all o f them said it was a lot of fun , an d th ey want t o do it again. With 20 0 entries co vering 5 0 mi les each , n o t co un tin g mil eage in th e pit s th er e was 10,000 miles covered without a single inj ury, not o ne , the ambulance just sat t here and gathered dust . Everybody , broken b ik es, check ers, an d clean up cr ews, were back in the pits b y 2 :30. An it em that caught the riders ey e was the use o f signs w arning of danger and road cro ssings. T o further the kn owledge of n ew riders UR A is offering a free Enduro school and a six mile practice loop Saturday May 6 , out at Four Corners . It will b e fo llo wed by ano th er Eas y Enduro on Sunday .out with Steve R obb and Cas ey Callender taki ng th e two Novice mo tos and Wes McGee w in ning the 650 Novice moto . Mik e Drews t opped the 125 N ovic e go w it h Mike Zepeda h ot o n h im. This class wa s so close th at J immy Johnson and F rank Ridlon had to share th e third p lace sp o t . T o ry Irwin came up fr om the mi n i-cy cle ranks and m ade hi s deb ut in t he 100 Novi ce class b y wi nning t he third division over J ohn G uthrie, another mini-cycle rider, and R. Rice. Marc Jones is looking graduat io n to th e Amat eur/E xp ert class righ t in the eye as h e took Division II of th e 100 Novices ove r J im Karns, J r. a nd Ed into the h o rse-sh o e tum at th e end of the uphill straight, but he slid just a trifle wide letting Burres and Gary Scott underneath. By the end of lap one Scott had passed Burres and was mo ving aw ay. Dick Mann , (BSA) settled behind Williams. Just p ast the halfway p oin t Gary h ad a good 6 0 y ard lead o n Burres who n ow found the o th er Sco t t h ounding him fo r his p osi tion, and so on the yo ungste r got the better drive o ff t he. h alf-mile corner and sec ond pl ac e. But Sonny's troubles weren 't o ver yet as Mann quickly took up the chase and at lap 15 the order was G . Scott , R . Scott , Burres, Mann, and Williams. Time and again Mann co u ld pull even with Burres but Sonny would hold the tight lin e and his lead while Williams in pursuit watch ed and th e laps ran o u t, and so ended a much fought and thrill-packed race. Fast-time in the Junior division went to Washington's Jim Einarsson (H.D), who won his heat and had the trophy dash wo n too but crashed with but one lap to go. Bellingh an 's Steve Baker w ent on for that win but lat er in his own heat race was left on the line with a dead engine (Yam) . In t h e Main it was Boise's own Thomas Sawyer (Tri) , the youngs ter who looks like he's right o ut of Mark Twain's "Tales of Huckleberry Finn", who b rought the crowd u p roaring and ret urned the Junior trophy again to Idaho. Novice action saw many northwest riders pitted against one another but Trust a professional li ke Joe Smith to make the rig ht choice ! 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