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It may look that way . but it was also difficult ridings.
bi zarre resul t. Under IS DT rul es, wh en
all m embers of a te am win G old medals
as di d b oth the Penton and Ossa teams ,
th e winner is d etermined by ad d ing the
di fferen ces bet ween ea ch man's special
test scores and the special te s t score of
th e fas te st m an in th e class,
T hus, if the fastest man in the 250
class is J ohn Sm ith wi th 14 15 bonus
pain ts an d th e nex t fastes t is J oe Blow
w ith 1450 an d Jim J o nes w ith 14 i5 ,
th en Smith ge ts zero , Blo w ge ts 35, an d
J ones gets 6 0. If th ey w ere all on the
same team, their team, score woul d be
95 (ze ro plus 35 plus 6 0 ).
Under th is meth od of scoring, the
Yan ke e Te am h ad 144 points an d the
Penton East Team had 3 30. The fin al
result was rather bizarre since the
Penton team was actu ally q uite a b it
faste r in total time th ro ugh the special
tests ; tw o of their tea m members beat
tw o of the Oss a team; and Dick
Burleson (Pe n to n ) h ad the best sco re o f
th e en tire field. The Pen tons wer e all
sma lle r m ach ine s, to ho ot - 125 s versus
the 25 0s of the Os sa Team .
T he results ca me ou t like th ey d id
be ca use, unlik e the FIM which req u ire s
t eam members to ride differen t size
bikes , th e MAC required all team
members to he o n the same size
ma chine .
It
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be came
m ore
. import an t for th e teams to p ost scores
that were clo se to get h er rath er than
post the best times, assuming that one
team member se t the best t im e in a
p ar ticul ar class .
Str an ge or n ot , th at's the way the
rul es arc written , so Team Ossa got the
trop hy.
Doug Wilford rode his Penten to a gold .
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