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Starr MEDOR D, O RE ., Dec. 17, 19 72 - First it snowed , th en it snowe d again , th en the m ercury plumme ted to minus six degrees fo r a fe w days, then it raine d! T hese were the weath er condi tio ns p recedi ng th e th ird in th e series of motocrosses at Medford Mo toc ross Par k. Some di scussion was held ab o ut ca n celling the event , but clearer t hi n ki ng prevailed when so meone reasoned that mo t o cross is a te st of rider an d mach ine against the elemen ts. Is it p ossib le t ha t some d evio us Mo torcy cle Rid ers Association officials had a t alk wi th Mother Nature t o arrange thi s ulti mate tes t ? A fo ur -wh eel drive .rig was p ressed in to service t o break up th e ice in th e "water " crossin gs. Un fort un at ely it wa s soon dis cover ed that slabs o f ice were breaking an d settlin g un de r th e surface of the water. If an ything is worse than riding on sh eets of ice, i t' s ridi ng on she ets o f ice y o u can ' t see be cause they' re under five in ch es o f muddy wate! . Final ly the track was chan ged to Ton y Lucches i sta ys clean and dry . began , Steve Rosecrans (Y am) was first to show h is sk ills by winning all th ree mo tos or heats in the 100 kids class. His ' examp le carried through to the 125 J unior , 200, 25 0 Junior, Open Senior, an d the Old Man's class. In each instance th e class winner won all three mo t os his class ran. Without q uesti o n, the ride o f the day honors went to All en Brenton (Mai). The start of his third mota found Brenton with a d ead engine at the starting gate. To ad d insu lt to injury Allen had to kick, kick, kick in front of nearly 500 spectators to get h is bike going. On ce under way, All en n ew th rough the air as a resul t of hitting bumps o ther riders weren't going fast enough t o even feel. It was apparent that his go al was firs t place. On one oc casion Brenton rounded a co m er by bouncing o ff a berm and passed two slower riders while still in mid air! The fin al co mp ila ti o n o f points put All en in second place b ut an y wh o saw his third mo t a charge wouldn't d ispute his claim to b est of the d ay . MAVRICK DOES IT AGAIN Take advantage of the best buy of the year. SPOOL HUBS , 40 hole with SIS" bearings Included. Best alloy wit h chrome Ii ke Ii ni sh, on this intr oductory oller, Larry Hackwor th chases Tom Robinson . SRA MX Dealer Inquiri es Invit ed MAVRICK NORTH A IiERICAN IMPO RTS 2125 c.ro Glrllll, P.O BIIX N . Mojave, Calif. 93501 by Re ese Ult z DIXON, CAL., Dec, 3 , 1972 - . T he Sa cra me nt o Ra cing A s s o ci ation launched it s two-even t Christmas Series her e to day . Getting off to a big start , Wayne Seeburg and Rem Regan ro de consist ent see -saw m o tos with Seeburg grabbing th e top 10 0 Novice honors and Regan finishing sec o nd in the final tally. Although Peter Crowell sco red back-to-ha ck wins in Division I of the 125 . Novice, Chris Heimburg and Larry Rippenkroeger can tinued their du el and finished sec o nd and third resp ectively . _ R ip penkroe ger wo n t he last SRA Novice Series ove r Heimburg, in a three-lap ma tch race th a t saw Larry fa lling off three times an d wi nning a t th e finis h line by less than fo ur in ch es. Second Divis ion 125 h o n or s wen t to Da niel Faucett also with back-to-back wins. Daniel Stu rgeon and Jack Simmon s wrap pe d-up First and Se cond Divis ion 250 Novice wi th big pushes in the second mota . 250 A mateur brass went h ome with Jon Boyette, while Martin T owne swep t first pl ace in both the 250 an d Open Expert clas ses. Ken Gerrard, the o nly 125 Ex pe rt rider in a ttendance, pushed his 125 Rickman through a fiel d of 250 Experts to cop second p lace. O pen Novice b rass we nt to J oe Paz and Eben Stevens, Jr., with thei r respective First and Se cond Division wins. In one of th e be st dices of the da y, Donald Ch ase and Leslie Wh iteh ead sco re d first and second in the O pen Amateur eve n t. Junior Mini h o n ors went to Mark V aughan with Senior Min i brass going t o Art Wh iting in the Up per Division an d Jeff Wells in the Lower Division. Sprockets TT ~ .» - -. ~ '''''. . <)Jj~ ~ID :.=:: 0 SALES SEPVICE Welding Porting Accessories ~~ BAYAREA BULTACO .Inc. -....:::" ~ - - * * 1:J~2 Cen nne ta, W. Lo s Ang ele s Co rnet o f Sant a Mon ica Blvd. & Cen tin eta O p en 9 a rn t o 6 pm Mon . thr u Sat . -: sa Santa :\1nni ca Blvd . ;,.. '- , -e c, , - ~- N - , "" " E .: W+ S xanta :\I nn j("" .."rwv. 213 826- 7856 c -e :r. by Ac cu Rep o rt BAKERSFIELD , CAL., Dec. 10, 1972 - T hrity d egree we atber and fro zen surroundings made going a little rough fo r racers at Sprockets Park this Sunday but 140 riders showed up to brave th e elements. Spectators , however, we re at a minimum. Severa l of th e riders were there to show off their new number plates for the firs t time. The only co m ment h eard on th e n ew numbers was made by R ich ard Horton, who showed so me co nce rn abo ut h avin g to wear th e number 13 pl at e in '73. After a w eek of snow , h ail and rai n, th e track hada permanent wet cushion th at was evid ently app reci ated by th e riders an d turned ou t lap t imes fro m 32 seco nds to 45 seconds . T here we re n o serious accidents for the d ay bu t th ere were plen ty of classic ge t-offs b ein g de m o nstrated. Rock y Mor a les b roke an ax le in the straightaway and new off into the righ t han der leavin g his Bul 250 be hind. J ay Glover and Bill Hartman got a lit tl e too close in th e 5 0 class. Glover fell o ff and rode on the side o f Hartman's b ike to the righ t-hande r were he again fell off. Maybe if he'd st ayed o n a little longer, they 'd h ave declared a tie. The 100 J unior class turn ed out to be the Special Main fo r the day and eve ry one th ought they were goi ng to see Ken Parker tak e it fro m start t o finish. G r e g Bookout thought differentl y th ough and p ick ed him o ff in th e last turn to take his Kawasaki in fo r th e win. _ Mike Delliplaine was still wearing his J un io r pl ates when he jumped in to the lead of the 100 Expert class aboard his Hodaka. The three more experienced experts in the class, all riding Suzukis, just h ad to follow his lead until Mike's bi ke blew o n the last lap . Lucky break for D avid Sh arp who we nt on to take the win followed b y Doug Garrison and Rod Sal mon. T he b o ys in the 2 50 Novice class were re ally mi xin g it up in the pack b ut wh ile th ey we re , Randy Lewis p ilo te d his Mo ntesa in to the w in ner's Circle. See ms its about time for a tr ansfe r for Mr . Lewi s. ' T o m my Fra ncisco , ne w Lightweight Ch ampion in District 35 w as th ere with his new pl ate s, n ew le ath ers and new Ya maha, ready to try to put th e o l'N umber One plate into first pl ace with the 25 0 Experts. T he order after th e start Was Ron Tobey , Francisco, an d Ric k Reed an d stayed that way to th e fmis h with all three not a bike's length apart. Bill Payne continued o n his wi nning way s as a 3 6 0 Expert, but has to t urn his Maico on a little h arder this time as he was pushed hard all th e way by Steve Gray and David J o nes. Bill might just be the Heavyweigh t Champion for ' 73 if he ean ke ep it up. Triumph made a showing in th e" Open Ex pert class at th e hands o f R ick Newby , Lyle Moore an d J im Lynch. Lyle is the new He avyweight Champion this yea r and was lead in g th e race for almost four laps but c o uld n ' t h old Newby back for the win . It's usually the Experts th at get the bulk of the publicity but the Novices present today put on a show as good as any Exp erts. Darren Pritchett ( 10 0 Nov). Danny J ohnson ( 125 Nov), and Dan n y Malon e (2 0 0 Nov) were just a few of the Novice winners wh o gave the Juniors and Experts so me ting to think abo ut for the future. ~I II.I DISPLAY ADVERTISING DEADLINE WEDNESDAY AT Sprn Jan. 31 for issue No.5 on sale Feb. 7 ,~E (213)427-7433