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ROW AT A HOT W ILLOW SPRINGS
Ikegami (Yam) and' David Racine (Hon)
h ad it o u t fo r 3 50 p oints . R acin e always
ge ts a b ad sta rt and b as to wo rk h is w ay
up . He did so a n d w as first 350 .
T he 250 Seni o r G I' was spiced u p by
Neal C oben wh o go t a b ad start b ut
w ai ted a la p a n d the n h u ng onto A CA
n umber one p la te h older. Pa t Evans.
Co ben was d o in g th e d eed in the turns,
b ut Evans had m ore steam and used it
to finally p u ll away. In th e m ean tim e ,
howeve r . Cob en wen t aro und h im
several times . Keepin g fast c o m p an y and
d icing for second were J un Y am ah a ,
SIeve Fo rsch auer, a nd Yo shih ik o Ozaki.
They finally fin ished in th a t o rd e r. A ll.
of co u rse . we re wai ling arou nd o n
Yam ah as.
T he 350 Producti on w as domina ted
by J o e l kegam i until h e b ro k e. Dic k
Full er inh erited the lead. T here was a
girl o u t th ere who w as lo okin g very
steady an d p re cise .
A s usu al. Bob En dico tt ripped o ff th e
Open Prod u ctio n race. Re g Pridm ore
( BMW) an d De nnis Pe gel ow ( Kaw)
fo ug h t it ou t fo r second pl ace some
dis ta n ce b ack . Denn is must have b een a
little stiff from his c ras h on th e s tree t
on T hu rsday . In the en d , th e 5 0 0 class ,
was won by J a y M oran w h o borrowed
D ic k Kilgroc' s 50 0 Kawasaki.
Stev e Mcl .au gh lin w as ridi ng a very '
n o n -st o ck Honda 50 0 under p rotes t. He
fid dled w ith En d icott for a b it until Bob
lo s t inte res t an d w en t away . It sure
w ould b e n ice if so me body co u ld give
En d icott an d his H onda so me co mp an y .
He mu st ge t lonely o ut th ere b y h imsel f
al l the lime . G eo rge Kerk er , w here a rc
you ?
Th e h ea t h ad ki n d of driven everyone
into th e rela tive cooln e ss o f their van s
b y th e beginning o f the Open Senior
eve n t. Jimmy Chen e xploded o ff th e
line to an incred ible lead in th e firs t lap ,
lie e xp lo de d agai n wh cn h e lo st it a t
ove r 100 mph in the sweeper. He
walked aw ay. Endicott, n ow o n a BSA
triple , to ok over the le ad an d pulled it
out. He is almost as fast o n th at BSA as
he is o n his p roduction Honda. Bob is
try in g to d o the National thing and is
ge tting some time in o n "re al" racers.
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