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Baron Back to Winning Ways; Sportsmanship Stops Carlson The mighty mi te from Anahe im ; Davey Carlson is curren tly runn ing second in USMRC motocross points behind Bruce Baron. J/2-Mile Action in Adelanto Hy Steve Lamkin ADELAl\'TO, CAL., April 22, 197 2 Sa turday ni ght's lIalf ~ I i le motorcycle races at 3 9 5 Cycle Park in Adelanto were run o n a supe r smooth , fast track under ideal weather c o nd itio n s. Only a light but warm breeze w as b lowin g o u t of the west and the track held its moisture throughout th e entire racing program. The feature race o f the evening saw Lyle Mo o re from Po r terv ille ride off wi th th e S weepstakes Pri ze Pizza for winn ing the comb ined sweepstakes race af te r . the regula r program was com p le te d . Palm d ale 's lI od a ka m o u n ted Mike Lane y foll owed Moore o ve r the finis h line j u st se co nds behind for an o the r gian t Prize Pizza . Dave lIam p ton o f San Bern ardino. riding his first time o u t o n th e d esert trac k, took th e go ld in the 100 l\' ovice cla ss fe at ure p ow erin g hi s ho t Kawa saki ha n dily around th e big hal f m ile ov al. lIal f ~Ii le Poi nt Le ader J ack S mith of Las V cgus, Xcvada . o n a Bultac o to o k the ch e c ke red flag to win the corn h inc d 250 and Op e n Xovice a h ead of Tho mas Ho we o n a I lurlev Davidson. Yamaha mounted Dave Reese took o ve r in lap th ree of his ten lap Xlain to win the 125 X ovice cl ass Main Event. Sin City's Son Jac k Smith again took home the go ld as he placed sec o nd beh ind Reese. Xlikc Laney , the lIodaka mounted rider from th e d ese rt ci tv of Palmd ale, cop ped th e h on ors in the 12 5 Expert ra ce a fter the fla sh v T im ~1cC ool fro m S an ta A na b lew the en gine in the Yamaha he h ad n ea rlv broken the tra ck rec ord with in an ea·rlie r race. ~kC ool was clocke d un officiallv at 3 2 .5 secon ds o n o ne lap b f the he ats...th a t's h al f a se c ond faster than the ex ist ing track rec ord se t b v Dan \l'h ite ... b ut it ta ke s tw o tries to make it offic ial. \ f c'I1 wai t till you ge t ' er go in g aga in , Tim . Barstow 's T im Romero, Su zuki mo un te d . gave it a go od ride but was o u t-p o we red b y other b ike s an d finished fifth b e h ind a nyin gJoey H amilt on o n a H onda in the minibik e cl ass. Next S aturday n igh t 's ra ce p ro gram a t 395 CYcle ' Par k will fea ture b oth th e 'rr a n d ' lI al f ~\il e co urs es. Th is will con tin ue th rou gh the su mmer night s. Rac in g at HR .\ events on S a tu rdav nights begin promp tly at 7:3 0 with sign up closing a t i . Pr acti c e a t 6 ::l11. :\0 c harge for o vernigh t ca mping an d ca mpfire s arc perm i t ted, ( Res u lts on page 40) T HA N KS TO YOU SWA PPERS April 28's Cycle N ew C ycle Swap-O vk am a dre w a crowd of buy e rs and sell ers in excess of 3500 , rep orted c o-promoter Larry Huffman. "It was an ex cellent turn-out," said Huffman , "As far as we could tell, everybody including buyers and dealers - was happy. Look for another S wap-Ovk ama soon in San Bern ardino." By Lowell St ol z e E L Ta RO , CAL. , Ap ril 2 8 , 1972 - T he umpte enth chapte r of th e con ti n u ing Bru ce Bar on saga a t EI T oro un folded las t Friday ni ght a nd once agai n the Westmin ster ride r took home mo st of the U S ~ \ R C m oto cros s ca sh . Baron swept a ll three m otes in th e 12 5 Intermed ia te / Expert class on hi s Pen ton and hi s closest pursu er , Dav e C arlson (Ya m) el im ina te d himsel f fro m con ten tio n via a fine d ispl ay of sports ma n shi p . Davey an d j ohn Volkman ( Bu l) collid ed h ard and wen t down o n the star t of th e fin al h eat an d Carlson leaped from hi s b ike to aid the stric ke n Volkman, who was badly sh aken but o th erw ise OK. Th e 250 E xper t class was co ntes te d with t h e 500 Intermedia te /Expert events due to a sh ortage of Experts , mo st o f whom were Elsinore bo und . Three di fferent winners appeared in the three race s; Garv Co ch ell won the first on h is new AjS ', Greg Sm ith ( ~ \ ai) the secon d , and Bar on the fin al on his Yamaha. Baron go o fed in the first race as he fo rgo t to fill his fu el tan k, and pushed his bike ac ross for fift h . The sec on d he a t w as a thrille r as Baron , C och ell , an d Smi th b a ttled for th e le ad . Bar on made a ne at in side m ov e o n lap thre e to get b y C och ell, but a lap late:,r in the same sp ot fell tryin g to wr e st the lead from Smith with the same mov e . Baron finished third. Comp e tition was keen in divisi on one o f the 250 cl ass an d Don Eld er [Mai}, Pau l l\\ cG ill (I\\o n), a n d Ron Colling (Yam ) ea ch w on a hea t with overall h onors go in g to Eld er . " Fas t Ernie" Flovd lo oked lik e a ci nc h for division tw o' as he posted easy wins in the first two races, b ut fell in the last , damaged hi s b ike and was unable to co n tin u e. Th is ga ve the w in to Ric h ard Kastner ( Bu l) , w ho c a rd ed a se cond , th ird a n d a first. Flovd was an overall second ahe ad of Mark Rodman ( Ya m) . Pet Ke uerhagen (Ya m ) m ad e a shambles of the 500 Junio r class as h e w on all he ats by 10 0 yards or m o re to beat Cal Reiten (S uz) an d james Bixl er (Yam) . A ction contin ue d Friday nig ht a t the £1 T oro cou rse with over 30 ev ents sch e d u le d . First ra ce a t 7 p .m. " '" '" 0N r-Cl et>- > ::;: '" ~ w Z W ...J U > U