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The mechanic w ho had wren c hed CZ 't o six Wo rld Cham pionshi ps didn't like the trick shocks on the factory ra cers , and even Sen or Bu lt o hi msel f arrived with a bo x of shocks to repl ace the fadi ng pai r on ,li m Pom er o y ' s B u ltaco . Almost everyone clai me d t o h ave su sp en sion p rob le ms ex cept team Maico. T heir sec re t? S to ck fo rks on th e front an d off-the-shelf Kon is o n the rear. Maybe so me time s yo u c an ge t to o specialized. Team Bu ltaco d ecisively tr ounced Team Su zuki in miniature golf, th en eve ryone figured they' we re read y fo r th e Yugoslav 25 0cc Grand Prix in t he Adriatic A lps of Slove nia. It was h er e th at Hakan Andersson, afte r fini shi ng second for th e last two seasons, proceeded to d em onstra te why h e will b e Wo rld Champion th is year. MOTa ONE : P,O. BOX 45504 / TULSA, OIQ AlIOMA 74145 19191663,5151 · T,M. applied for Much to n ob od y's su rprise, Gunnad y Mo isseiev (KT M) pulled th e h ole shot and left th e second wave off the line to figh t the dust. (T he hot sun an d dusty, rutted t rack . alm o st re minded me of Southern Califo rn ia. ) Jim Pomeroy was lost in the pack from his second row start. Behind the R ussian jet were Adolp h wen (Mai) , Heik ki Mikkola (Hus], Torleif Hansen (Kaw) and Falta and Bab o ro vsk y , th e CZ whiz kids. A fter ten mi n utes on th e ro ug h, bu mpy, uphill- down hill circuit , Mosseiev had built up . a co m m and in g lead. Pome roy had worked his way fro m mid-pack to six th- w hen his air filter . elerne n t fell off and he had to stop to save his engine on the dusty course. Hakan Andersson ( Yam ) had also 'go tten a lo usy start, b ut was mo vin g u p steadily. Suddenly h e was in six th an d moving fast on the d istin cti ve, white Yamaha special . Gaston R ahie r pull ed off, wavin g his hands at the Suzuki mechanics and p o inting at the fron t forks. R ob ert didn ' t come aro und, h avin g also ret ired fo r the second week in a row. T he Suz uki-iris, re al or i mag i ned, is catching. Mea nwhile , M oisseiev aviated th e . KT M o ver the circuit, 3 0 seconds ah ead of Adolf Weil. T he 18·year-o ld Belgian Y am ah a pilo t, J ean-Claude Lagu e, dueled with CZ -mo un ted T chin kar en ko and passed hi m into fifth . Ande rsso n w as up t o fo urth with 15 minutes to go when he saile d over th e b ig uphill at th e finish lin e. When his Yamah a landed, the rear fra me section twe ake d against the rear wh eel, locked it u p an d the c hain hopped off the sprocket. It en ded h is ch an ces fo r ano ther overall win , as the Yamaha literally h ad a hinge in the middle . Andersson and his mechanic wr enched and hamme red at the wheel trying to free it. Moisseiev di dn't slow down. With only a few laps to go , the rap id R ussian w as lapping at a fast 2:30, with Baborovsky and Mikkola about 20