Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

CRC MX at Carlsbad Raceway by The Shadow . CA RLS BAD, CAL . , Jan. 28, 197 3 :The b es t was reserved fo r las t Sunday, th e b est b ein g races 10 and II, the 25 0 and Open Novice di visions, First of all there was a Malc o-rid in g tornad o called J ~ff Borden. Young J -rr saw fit to co mp e te in both the 250 Novice. Division One and Open Novice ra ce s . a real te st of man and machine. C ompetin g agains t 15 riders in the 250 Novice, Divisi on One class, Borden looked magnificen t, grand slamming the en tire fi eld with ease. Then, facin g ano the r field of 15 riders in th e Open Novic e even t , Je ff again won via the gran d slam ro u te, Back-t o-hack races, and ba ck -to-hack victories. That's six m otos and 2 4 lap s around the rugged Carlsbad Raceway cou rse. Quite a day 's . work for an yone. Ni n e riders re presenting Co le Brothers of North Hollywood wer e on ha nd S unday , with the m aj ority co m pe tin g in the 250 or O pen Novice races, The greatest tu rnout fro m Co le an d Com pany was in the Open Novice divi sion , where the likes o f Ll o yd J oines, Gary Col e , Mik e Mck.night , Ronnie a nd R an d y Cole showe d th eir ta le nts. All but R andy were m ounted on Maico s (su rp rise), an d Randy was try in g o ut a Suzuki. J oin es fini shed second to Borden, with Gary Col e a fo u r th pl ace finish er and McKn ight a six th p lacer. All three gra b bed tr ophies, S till another m ember of th e C ol e clan, J oh n Lew is , m oun ted on a CZ, romped to victory in the Open No vice, under 16 race, agai n by way of the gran d slam rou te. T he Team Cole also p o sted qu i te a showing in the 250 Novice, Division T wo ra ce, with Mike Ho gan , pilo ting a Mai co , an d Llo yd J oines , m oun te d on a S uz u ki fin ishi ng o ne-two. Hogan was firs t in th e even t, o penin g with a fo urth pl ace ride , th en coming on st rong to win th e last tw o m oto s. . Dave Fo lt z (CZ), swe pt th e flel d at 250 N ovice , under 16, an d Patrick Hubbs (Suz), d id likewise at 100 Novice, Bu t there was plenty o f actio n at 125 Novice, with on ly 17 5 p oi nts separating the to p three p o sit ion s. Rich ard Bacon (B us), too k fir st , J on Downs (H us) , second , an d LeRo y Larson (D KW), was a third pl ace fin ishe r, At 125 No vice, under 16, o n ly a scan t 100 poin ts se para te d firs t pl acer Mike Pe rry (Yam), from secon d pl ace fini sh er Mar c J on es (Yam). Th e bi g bo ys, the Se n io rs and Intermediates, put on quite a show . Mik e Tod d (Ma i), zap pe d the Open Seniors with a gra nd slam performan ce, as did st ill ano the r member of th e Co le Br othe rs T eam, Von Peter son (Mai ), in th e 250 Seni o rs, Ga ry Hick er son (Puc) , h ad m ore com pe tit io n , but still won at 0- 175 Se n io rs. 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T e rry Krug (Pen ), was de clared th e victor over second pl ace fini sh er David Hi ght (Bod). by virtue o f a better sho wing on hi s fin al m oto, a fir st pla ce to Hi ght's th ird. On e hund red p oin ts . was th e di ff eren ce a t I 00 Beginners, under 16 , with Mike Lask er (Pen). aci ng o u t La rry Wilk ~rs on (Hod). Terry L. R au h (Yam ) , and Ralph G ar cia (CZ), we re grand slam win ners a t 125 Beginners an d 125 Beginner s, under 16 re pectively . An other tight r ace a t 250 Beginners, Division One, wi th 100 p oin ts the story between Clifford Odom (CZ), first pl ace finis he r, an d Mark PittiIlo (Oss), wh o grab be d sec ond. R ob ert McBroom (CZ), ex perienced little d ifficulty , gran d slammi ng th e 250 Be gin n e rs, Division T wo class. A bitter b attle at Open Beginners en de d with a tie bein g d eclar ed between Fr ed Clin (C Z) , an d Martin Tajra (Mai) . 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The mini-cycles were o u t in full fo rce , with H o nda rid er s Brad D utoit an d J eff Wilson le adin g th e parad e. T hese two youn g racers dueled all d ay lo ng, but it en d ed up that th ey both won , Wilson th e Ex per t class and Du to it th e Intermediate , DIRT BIKE WESf C OM PE T IT IO N MOTORCYCLE WHEE LS DES IGNED. BUILT AND RE PAIRED ~l NU !5t fO R <- .\1 "' l O t . ~ ~ WOTORC¥C LES S.I.. " T HE s.rYoCe ACe-or... ME X ICA~ (2131 ~1 CONQUERO R'· "38 ~ Aooenue Canoe_ P•• III c.llt IU 303 , - - - - H uT IJOG! AMRA Min is at Indian Dunes b y Joni Hopkins VALENCIA , CAL., Jan . 28, 197 3 Event number 1 w as a com b ine d class of P~~ Wees and 1-3.9 HP minis. Our overall wins of th e day went to Warr~n Lowe and Ron Caldwell. T he 0-60 , Stock class had some problems get ting sta rte d today with a co up le of wrecks and restarts, but when th~y, finally go t it all tog~ther, Glenn McC arrol real ly clean~d h ous~ with thr~ e st ra igh t wins. What a way to go! 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