Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

.. . Penton Series-CMC Motocross 0> 0.. by Patrick Neil RANCHO CORDOVA , CAL., April 15, 1973 - Today wa s the first of four races to be held in the CMC Penton Series here a t McGill Cycle Park. Thom..s Walton (Bul), of Salinas fame in th e Aust ralian Pursuit Race held th ere recently, showed everyone that he can also rid e mot ocr oss. The Division I gro up streamed around th e turn-filled co urse f or twe n ty minutes with Mr . Walton taking th e win, Larry Liviera tri ed to challen ge the leader in th e second mota as did Scott R o gers (D KW) but neith er could overtake the fas t Bultaco. In the Division Il 125, Mark Schroeder l ook th e overall win over Steven Hickle on a Pen ton. Mark took the early lead and went on to win in the first mota. But in the second mota Holcomb (Puc) took the lead leaving Schroeder in second. The Pu ch left everyone literally in the d ust , but a first and second place finish gave the overall win to Schroeder. Because this was a Juniors only event, many riders di d get into so me spots th at were a bit over their he ads. As a result, there were three p ro bab le broken legs, and many dramatic crash es. However, the ambulances were in abundance with very c om pe ten t aids driving them. Someone once said, "You don 't know how fast you can go , until y o u crash !" (There's go t t a be a better wa y ...) The 250 class had a bunch of people riding. J ohn Putkey on a CZ took the lead on the fir st lap. But, this race paid off on co nsiste ncy with a fir st overall going to Bob Terwittinger (Yam). Second o verall was Rex McClellan ab oard h is Honda 2·stroke, and th ird spo t went to Purkey. The No . 62 plate was all that was ap p ar en t in th e third d ivis ion of 250's. Fred Young the p ilot o f that fast Su zuki took both wins for first o vera ll in that group of fasties. Gary Davis on a 5 00c c Yamaha sto rm ed t he Open class, and Dann Pennebaker o n a brand new green Kawasaki ch ased close behind for a total of 40 minutes of co mb in ed motos, T hese tw o guys flat left the rest of th e g r o u p and probably will be in con ten tio n for that Penton which Pen ton West is donating to the winner o f the seri e s. Ed Wagoner go t the h ol e sho t in the se cond mota, but the two tigers passed Ed in the first lap . Yamaha Gold Cup at Colorado Springs Worth $14.000 Purses totaling at least S 14,000 will be at stake during the Yamaha Gold Cup AMA National Mile , July 7·8 at Colorado Springs, Colorado. Featured will be the 25 -mile Yamaha Gold Cup race , matching the nation's finest motorcycle ra cers in an AMA National Championship held on th e Sunday date ,July 8 , beginning at 2 p.m, . ' G Mike Patrick's YAMAHA of CORONA 1101 E. 6th St. - Corona (714) 735-7721 M .... en It) . > :;; '" w i: z Daytona Winner Jarno Saarinen Gary Bailey . Cliff Carr . Gary Chaplin ...J U ~ U Jimmy Chen - Jon Eiener e Sonny Defeo Yvon DuHamel . Dave Evans . Jimmy Evans Pat Evans - Gary Fisher - Len Fitch - Ron Grant . Jerry Greene . Fred Gutt ner • Ray Hempstead - Ted Henter e Ban v Higgins Ake Jonnson • Gary Jones . Pierre Karsmakers Brad lackey . Peler Lamppu • Mike Lane Doug Uhb y • Kurl Liebman . Johnny Long Hans Maisch . Jeff March - Duane Mc- looki ng fo r a berm at Sunnyvale. Doug Grant Returns SANTA BARBARA, CAL., Apr. 29, 1973 - The Santa Barbara Starters Motorcycle Club held their first motocross of the season at their new track located on the west end of th e San ta Barbara Airport. The ra ce was highly successful with nearly a thousand specta to rs and almost .tw o hundred riders. When the rubber band rel eased th e minibike class Jon Adams and J .C. Lopez immediately jumped inio th e lead and put on a fantas ti c duel di cin g CMC North At Sunnyvale by Steve Cas till o SU NNYVALE, CAL., Ap ril 15, 197 3 Ron Self did his thing again today , winning both of his classes o n his new radial finned 250 Maic o. Self put th e new bike out in fro n t in most of th e motos and proceeded to tear up the rest o f the opposition with his explosive rid ing style. The real excitement, however, came in - the 500 Intermediate class. Jeff Mullins just received on e of the few Kawasaki 4 50. from Bike World in Sunnyvale and seemed righ t a t home on his new bike. Mark Peters, o ne of th e m an y talen ted Mai co riders from Trophy Cycles -in Mountain. View, was recen tly promoted to the In termed ia te class and started mixing ii up with Mullins. Mota two saw Peters get the start on Mullins, with Jeff pushing hard close behind. Jeff got his break on the bumpy straigh t and took the lead from the blonde hair ed Maico rider. With that Mullins got the 500 Intermediate win. In other action Scott McCleiand (Pen) put on an inspired ride in mota two of the 125 Juniors. Scott's biggest opposition came from Kelly Marchbank. back an d forth wi th Jon pullin g out th e win in the last mota to take the prize. The largest class of the day was th e Novice 250 class which was divided into three div isions of twenty riders . All three divisions had tremendous riding with leads ch an gin g every lap, even the la st place positions were hotly con tested. By the end of the day and th ree motos later Mike Fors eth had won th e fi rs t division, S cott Priest er the secon d, an d Bill Bledsoe th e third. One 'of the day's highlights was the return of Santa Barbara's hottest rider, Doug Gran t, to racin g with a ful l sp onsorship by Bul ta co motorcy cles and Goleta Val ley Cy cle . Doug easily won all three motos of b oth th e 250 and Op en Expert classes o n his 250cc Bultaco . R ES ULTS MINICYCL E: 1. Jon Adams IStel. 2. J.C. Lopez. tOO NOV DIV I: I . Greg Stewarl (Kawl. 2. John McRoberts. 3. Kail Wathne . tOO NOV DIV II : 1. Manny Angulo (suz) . 2. Larry Jones . 3 . SIeve Stewart . 4 . Gary Wilb erg er . 125 NOV DIV I: 1. Greg Lau x (Monl. 2 . Rob Rollins. 3 . Tim Curtis . 4 . Bob Wayne. 125 NOV DIV II : 1. Mark Johnsto n (Bull. 2. Alan Turton. 3 . Gary Williams. 4 . Jeff Gough 125 SR: 1. Vincent Clark ISuzl. 2. Dennis Briggs. 250 NOV DIV I: I . Mike Forseth (CZI. 2. Tony Machado . 3. C. Blanco. 4 . John Asbury. 250 NOV DIV II : 1. Scott Priester (Yaml. 2. Tom Stockton , 3. Mike Carter . 250 NOV DIV III : 1. Bill Bledsoe (HOnl. 2. Joe Shepp. 3. SIeve English. 4 . Gary Meyer. 250 EX: 1. Doug Grant (Bull. 2. Mike David. 3. Denn is Briggs . OPEN NOV : 1. Paul Napoleone (Bull. 2. David Harvey. 3. AI Crespo. OPEN EX: 1. Doug Grant (Bull. 2. Cliff Genty. 3 . Tom Hainley. G-EN"LIINE 1 t:tv1:C: PLASTIC MOTORCYCLE COMPONENTS SALE W BURBANK , CALIFORNIA 9 1504 Daniels «Steve McLaughlin . 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