Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

M Adent Overall Winner -- " .'" T e, M .... '" .... N . :;: ~ w Z W ...J U >- U John Mc Gowan and Cookie we re first to the railroa d tracks? Above : Mark Adent made his less·than-250cc DKW com e across the f inish line before anybody else did (with the right num ber of checks on his tank card ) for his first overall w in . Right: John and Kook ie go across the famed railro ad track j um p. fro m th e lar ger b ore Novices, b ut they all hit th e smo kebo m b in o ne big p ack an d w e had to run fo r o ur lives . The lead ers got throu gh Check On e and b ombed o ver th e railroad trac k jump. Adent was seen heading o u t with th at little DKW full o n and him st anding up all th e way . He w as giving it hi s all. Kirk looked real good until he got a rear flat tire. th en second . S alt zm an moved into There was a little con fusio n at th e fini sh lin e as about eigh t riders cam e in afte r o n ly 3 0 minutes o n th e second lo op , hut it lo o ked lik e they all had missed a ch ec k , as they had o n ly on e black mark . When Aden t pulled in about fifteen mi nutes lat er with all the chec ks , we had a win ner. He sa id he didn 't hav e too mu ch tr oubl e with th e lime. " I go t lost a co u ple o f times on eac h loop but 1 was ab le to find the co urse each time . One tim e some guys o n th e hill poin ted o u t th e way. " Bill Sal tzman too k fir st Open Exper t o.n his Husky , yo ung Chuck Cartledge mo ved up o n his 100cc Hodak a. He mu st h ave rid de n th e h eck ou t of th at little b omb . He was pu shing hard by Larry R oesle r on a 100 H-D taki ng fo urth o vera ll. T h ese two kids really had AMA NATIONAL MOTOCROSS, DAYTONA BEACH , FLORIDA a race. J eff Win kel pi cked u p firsst 25 0 Am ate ur and fift h ove rall o n his CZ, l\lar ty Delquist pulled in sixth o n his 5 0 0 Hu sky ; picked up second 5 00 Expert . Second 2 50 Expert went t o J erry Kinsvog el (Yam ) , foll owed b y Chuck Ca rr wh o t ook fir st 5 0 0 Amateur o n a Husk y. Jim Fr eeman was next 25 0 Am ateur. Ther e was a little mixed feeli n g about the markings on the co urse . As an example, Dick ,Harris fini shing ten th on his 400 Husky said, "The lim in g wa s bad" and the n ex t man in Leon Graves, also on a 400 Husky , said " I liked it." Old "Smokebo mb J ohn" Gue tz was next in and he said, HI nrushed good so everything is good. " Ron Ha ll p icked up first 17 5 Expert on his Pu ch . First 175 Amateur we nt to Don Jackson on a Pen ton. T he Novices h ad their regular har d , to ugh go as most of them stayed in PIERRE KA RSMA KER S , on a Yamaha , fla shed to the Winn er 's Circle in t he 500cc class at Dayt o na . T he w inn ing oil. .... PEN NZOI L. Pierr e knows what it takes to win , th at 's w hy he asks for Pennzoi l 2 Stro ke 'Mo t o rcy cle Oil. BOB G ROSS I, on a Husky , outdistanced the fie ld for the 25 0 cc Title . Bob , like Pierre , knows yo u need th e best of eve ryth ing to be a wi n ne r , t hat 's w hy he asks for and re lies on Pe n n zo il 2 Stro ke Motorcycle Oil. Askabout Pennzoil's comp lete line of motorcycle o ils: town , in other words, there were a lot of th em . Nineteen year-o ld Bob Ornelas pu t it t oo them on his Open class Yamah a. He rode a clean , fast ra ce . He said he "wat ched the lime real close and pi cked up the turn s go o d, an d the co urse was bit ch en . H He said he Hate it " o nce, and won this o ne for Mar ci a, Second Novice in w as Jerry Garland on a 4 00 Hu sk y fo llo we d by th e ear ly leader Dennis Myrick o n hi s 250 Yamah a. First 12 5 Novi ce wen t to Ken Cam er o n (Hus). Casey Perkin s wa s ou r 100 No vice cham p . He beat a large group of eager tigers. Ne xt in was Ric k Morrow o n a Hod ak a , fo llo we d by Lee Caldwell on a Bultaco. Pennzou 2 SI,oke and 4 SI,oke MOlorcycle011, lor cycles usmg ga, on track. Ir. ,1or street Pennzorl R ing 0,110' 4·slroke aC , cycles usmg gas or exotic fuels PENNZOIL COMPANY Oil City, Pe nnsylvani a Weste rn H eadqu arter s: Los Anqeles. Cal if,

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