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o C'l .ci " u. ~ w Z W ..J o >o Part of the rearson was the presence of Mark Blackwell (Hus) who won , if not do minated, the Open Expert class. Dou g Weiss (Mail shows the ty pe o f day it was In the Open Expert class at AME/S piliway. Spillway Park Motocross Hi! I'm Brad Lackey. Thank you for helping me with my moto-cross racing career . . . by using Torco oil. The people at Torco are sponsoring me during 1973. Ifyou ride a 2-cycle machine y ou should try Torco racing oils in your engine, transmission and forks . . . and Torco's Po wer Slide® Chain Spray on your chain. "Our Kawasaki racing team uses Torco. jim, Pete, John and I invite you to try it . . . we know you'll lik e it. " Thank you, BRAD LACKEY JIMMY WEINERT JOHN DeSOTO PETER L AMPPU T·2RACING RACING FORK OIL POWER S LIDE RAC ING GEAR OIL ASK YO UR NEAREST MOTORCYCL E DEALER ·FOR TORCO OVER 3000 2-CYCLE AND 4-CYCLE SHOPS THROUGHOUT THE WESTERN STATES STOCK TORCO RACING OILS. THEY ARE AVAILABLE NATION WIDE IN 1973, SO T RY TORCO TODAY . ATTENTION DEALERS: ASK YOUR NEA REST ACCESSORY OR OIL DISTRIBUTOR FOR TORCO . IT'S NOW AVAILABL E COAST TO COAST. - MANUFACTURER TORCO OIL COMPANY 12247 LAK ELAND ROAD SANT A FE SPRINGS, CALIF. 90670 . by Mike Anders on SANTA MARIA . CAL. , Feb. 4, 1973 The A.l\1.E. held their first money race at Spillway Park. Although the turnout was small there was still plenty of excitement. A.M.E . fast cats showed up to try their lu ck against the Spillway locals and one wound up winning the Open Expert class in all three motos. Mark Blackwell (Hus) fell in th e first moto and was a hundred yards short of being lapped before restarting his bike. Joe Cushaway (Cl) had taken the lead in this molo before his bike ran sour, then Doug Wies (Mai) took over first place and did a job of holding off David Harrell (Cl). Wit h four laps to go, Harrell passed the h igh flying Wies but Ma rk Black well , who had been forgotten , passed Wies and Harrell two feet before the flag . Blackwe ll won the second mo to also and , while winning the thi rd m o to , he broke leavin g- the win to Greg Higgins (Bul) . Blackwell still won overall and last moto winner Higgins took second. Ron Bass rode his brothers's Suzuki 250 when his Maic o broke. He would have gotten thi rd but was disqualified. The 250 Experts reall y had a surprise winner. Martin Towne (Cl ) took th e overall win with a 2-2-3. Rick Long (Yam ) had taken a huge lead over th e rest of the field in the first moto only to have to -d ro p out with mechanical difficulties. John Grossini (Cl), who wasn't even going to race, won the first moto with Towne second and John Caldwell (Cl). third. Grossini and Caldwell were really going at it in the second moto until Grossini threw a chain. Then, with a huge lead , Caldwell broke a lap later. Stan Clay (Mai) won that moto with Martin Towne again second and new Senior Mike Martin (Mai), third. Grossini took the lead in the last moto an d hel d it the whole race until the last lap when Sherman Sc hneller, who had borrowed a new m odel Cl after his bro ke, p assed Grossini. T he , whole track was glad to see Larry Greer (Yam) smoke the 125 Experts. When Larry's bike holds together, he u su ally wins and th at's wh at he did today. Pre-race favorite Tom Brooks h ad problems, fa lling in the first two motes b ut took the lead in the third m o to and stretched it to the limits, winning by nearly ha lf a lap. The AM .E. will be holding money races at Spillway the first Sunday of every month, so if you don't want the locals to clean up on th e cas h , be there. REGISTERED ~ ~ MEMBER 73.3% of you Cycle News readers save your copies C. N. Survey '73