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In teres I is running · highest in the 35 0, 500, and sidecar classes. Everyone kn o ws Sa arin en will win the 250and Kent Andersen will wi n th e 50 and 125 if their machines wi ll " finish . The battle mo st ca me fo r : was th e o n e be tween G iacomo Agostin i an d Phil Re ad o n th eir MV's and Jamo Saarinen , Hideo K an aya o n th eir Ya m ahas in the 3 5 0 an d 5 00 classes plus Kl aus En ders (BMW) and J eff Gawley (Konig) in th e sidecar. Had MV fo u nd the b ugs th at had s to pped the mi gh ty red fo u rs th e las t t ime out? Co uId Gawley beat Enders on h orne ground ? It was all to co me o u t b y th e e nd of the day . First away were the 5 0 ' s and Kent A n de r se n had a big lead aft e r the first tum. T he n ex t time aroun d he had a hal f-mil e over seco n d place, b ut T heo T im m e r fro m Holl and o n a Jamathi had th e lead a t ' th e en d o f 12 lap s for .th e win as And er se n d idn 't finis h . A ngel Nie to's little Morbidelli didn ' t m ake it to th e end ei t her. In th e 125 race A nde r se n did j ust wh at eve ryone expected a nd wo n. Nieto was second on the Morbide lli an d thi rd was J oseph Schurgers fro m H oll and on , o f all things, a Bri d ges tone. T he 25 0 class saw Yamaha teammates Saarinen and Kan ay a c ome aroun d the first tum way back in th e pac k. A f ter t he firs t la p , it was Teuvo Lan sivuo ri , Saarin eri, a nd K an aya. O n lap three Dieter Braun is third and Kanay a is fo urth . T hen it's Saarine n , Kanaya , Lan sivu ori , Bra un . Lap five Kana ya passes Saarinen a nd Lan sivu o ri p asses Braun. S o il goes un til the sta rt line on Jap 12 wh en Lan sivu o ri passed bo th Kan ay a an d Saarin en . On lap 14 Saarinen is through pl ayin g games an d pulls away fro m Kanaya, who in tum pulls away fro m Lansivuori. On lap 19 Saarinen wins by nearly a m ile over Kan aya who had the same distance over Lansivuori. Of the 35 starters, 2 1 fin ish ed. Race speed is just a hai r u nde r 100 MPH . - T he 3 5 0 ' s lin e up, 3 2 strong, we ak really as only 10 a re t o finish . Away go the red MV's of Agost ini and Read. Read and Ag o lea d on lap one . Lap IWO Ago lakes it, Read is se cond and Lan sivu o ri is third. On lap fo u r Ago lea ds as Lansivuori d isplace s Read whose MV gels sick. Phil is OUI nexl time aro und. A few m o re laps and Lan sivu ori is first . Ago is OUI, MV is oUI, Yamaha is in , in the 10 and only p laces to fin ish . It's not going to be an all -Yamaha d ay, however. Phil R ead is go in g to do his thin g now. ·A t the sta rt o f th e 5 0 0 he takes it o n th e p ush o ff. It's j ust n o t Agostini's day. Ashe pushes and pushes and push es. Then it fire s. A go is one of the ' last to ge t a way. All is not lo st th ough , as Re ad has the lead, and th e re is nOI a m achin e on th e tr ack th at's faster than the red MV's. Lap Iw o starts with Read firs t, Saarinen second , and Kanaya is thi rd as Ago m ov es up to ni n th . T his tim e Saarinen has me t h is match . T he MV-4 is faste r out o f the tu rns an d smo other in the turns. Saarinen gets into a bi g tank slapper in the S t u m before the s ta rt-finish line b u t h an gs o n. O n lap three Ago is in fou rth . On the ne xt lap th e cro wd goes wil d as Saarinen gets Read as they lap slo we r rid e rs. T hen , on the nex t lap a t th e very same place, Read passes Saarine n to lake first plac e, never to lose again . Ago is now in a d istan t third pl ace. Wh at a race ! Saarinen is never m ore th an five bike le n gth s bac k, usuall y only a wheel length. Arou nd lap 13 Ago drops a valve, Saarine n an d Kan ay a b reak their ch ain s, an d Phil Read goes on to wi n o n th e wild so u nd ing MV-4 . So fast is Read a nd th e MY. th at second pl ace Werner G iger (Yam) is lapped. Read ' s speed is nearly 10 7 MPH for th e 2 1 la ps. T he 500 sidecars are th e lasl to run. Agai n th e q uest ion is : Can a two st roke ge t its first win or will it be a BMW? It 's a wa rm d ay , bad new s fo r th e tw o strokes. T he J eff G awley / Peter Sales Konig takes it fro m the start with Gerry Bo re t an d Nick Bo ret in second an d th e Kl aus Ende rs / R alf Engel hart BM th ird ; two Konigs a nd a BMW. By lap tw o Ende r's is secon d behind Bo ret b ut ahead of Gawle y . Hei n z Luth ri ng sha user is working up fro m a bad start an d now The old MV th ree is now obso lete. Read Wins One for MV in seven th oG awky puts it o n En ders for secon d. Ende rs p asse s Gawl e y an d the n Boret, an d th e Germans go wi ld as their bo y p asses the English rid ers. Thirteen ti mes around , a nd Ba re t 's flat4 Konig is o u t , Lut hri ngsha user and Hahn are fo urt h. G a wl e y's Konig retires. Sch warzel/Kleis Konig is second but wa y bac k. T he Belgian VanEste bro th ers p ass Luth rin gsh auser for third. So it en ds , Ende r's ma ke s it th ree in a row for BMW with 4 5 po ints . Schwar zel's Konig finishes two miles b ac k, foll owed b y VanEste BMW. Twen tv -five started, II fin ishe d. Ende rs' spe ed was abou t 93 MPH fo r 19 lap s GERMAN GRAND PRI X ROAD RAC ING Hoerenheim , Germa ny May 13 , 1973 by T o mie Lafo n 50 SOLO The e T i mme r .. Hen k van Kessel Wo l/g . Ged lic h Herb R it tberger J a ma th i K reidler Kreid ler RS K reid ler Jurgen Ro ller ' 125 SOLO Kent A ndersso n Roldan A . Nieto Jos. Schurgers Pen tt i Sa lonen Horst Seel 250 SO LO Jarno Saa rinen Hidao Ka naya Teuvo Lansivuo ri Dieter Braun Borje Jansson 350 SO LO Teuvo Lansivu or i V ieto r Palomo Pen tt i K orhonen Bil li e Nelson Gvula Ma rsovzky 500 SOLO Phil Read Werner Gi ger Ern st Hi ller Geo rg Pohlman n Billie Nelso n SIDE CAR S End ers/Engelhardt . Schwarzel/ Kl eis Vaneste/Vaneste Luthri ngshauserIHah n Mi ltoon/Sm it h K reidler V Z Vam MOrbi delli S ri Vam Mai V am Vam Vam Vam Vam Vam V am Vam Vam V am MV V am K on ig Vam TZ VamTZ BMW K o ni g BMW BM BMW This BMW held it s o w n until b eset by me chan icals. Hideo Kanaya gaw t he Champ io n Spar k Pl ug gi rl s each on e of the fl owers from his w reat h .