Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

Graham TT by Pennie Doutt CASTLE ROCK, WA. , J une 2 - There were tw o Expert h eats and one Semi with th e first fo ur out of eac h transferring to th e Main . . Mark Williams took the lead in the Exp ert Main with Eddie Herrmann sec o nd. Coming into th e first tum. both Hennann an d Mike Elder went down and a res tar t was called. On the res tart, Sonny Burres co u ld n ' t get off th e lin e and AI Brackenberry, slammed into him. Neither was badly hurt. j ust sh aken and an other restart is in order. On the th ird re start . everyone go t off to a fine st art with the excep tio n of Burres, wh o w as h aving clu tc h problems. Williams to ok the lead again on the restart with Re ed second, Gary Brown third and Dave Yost fourth . Dick Wascher moved up to take ove r fourth and began to put pressure on Brown for th ird , finally taking over. Mari nacci. , moving up from eleventh place, grabbed fou rth and made a mo ve on Wasch er to take ove r th ir d. S kiver mo ved up to fifth. All in all , there was a lo t of passin g go ing o n wi th Willia ms and Reed the on ly two riders to m ain tain their spots . Willia ms won the Expe rt Mai n , with Reed seco nd , Marin acci th ird, Wascher fourt h, S kiver fift h , Brown six t h , Yost seve nth, Brackenberry eighth, Ol son ninth and Burres tenth. Herrmann and Elder did no t fin ish. Herrm ann won th e Expert Trophy Dash, taking the lead fro m th e sta r t , with Williams pulling hard in second . Skive r th ird and Burres fourth . Thousand -Do llar Deductible El i minated f rom Ame rican Mot orcycle Association Member Insurance WESTERVILL E, 011I0 AMA m ember ins u ra nce has been d rastic ally imp ro ved by in creasing th e doll ar co verage o n all Class A members. T he changes were fin alized in an E xecutive Commi ttee me eti n g o n May 22 in San Fr an cisc o. The meeting was th e First a tte nde d by th e two ne w Class A co mmi ttee members , R on Sl oan and Dic k Ainsw orth , and a final de cisi on by th e body relied heavily upon th e advice of th ese tw o men who spoke of the view s and attit u des of the gene ral me mber. As th ey- reported. there has been within th e 20 0,UOO-m em ber AMA a growin g dis co ntent ove r the $1,0 00 deductib le p rogram and the o ptio nal insu rance. . Sloan and pro mo ter Ainswo rt h testified that most AMA m embers have felt that the S 1,000 deductible insurance is unrealistic sin ce man y injuries fall well under that figu re, and th at th e p roblem has been co m po unde d by the fact t h at prom oters and cl u bs h ave n ot responded t o th e low-deduc tible optional pl an wh ich was o riginally designed to fill the need. After d iscu ssin g th e problem and reviewing membe r com p lain ts , th e Execu tive Co m mi ttee stu d ied rese ar ch and s ta tis tic s co m p iled and developed ~ine. ... .-.. ~~: $1.00 • • 1973 Catalog & Decal Dealers writ e for free cat al og on yo ur lette't'ead T o rst e n Ha llman Racing In c. 534 5 T imken St reet Suit L, La Mesa, Cali fornia 92041 COO CZ • JAWA C YC L E & SPEEDWAY MA~ rid 5233 IffWIUT AV£, • SlCblmno. ClUfQRIII& -.C. .-, .. ' e (S16IJJ1-sm R ick y Graves took th e lead in th e Junio r Main with Do ug Lein se co nd and Seabo rn third. Brad Tibbetts mo ved p~t Seaborn to take over third, then b y Lem for second. Graves went off the track in th e dogleg. moving Tibbetts to first and Lein t o second, wi th Lein driving hard and taking over first. Tibbetts looked like he migh t just settle ba ck and take second. wh en all o f a sudden, he began moving up on Lein , driving harder and harder, until he jetted by Lein to grab first. Lein kept the pressure o n for a few laps . th en st arted to drop back . Dodge had m oved into third and wa s h o ld in g it with qu it e a margin over fourth place Seaborn. Tibbetts flew acr oss the finish lin e to take first, with Lein second. Don Dodge third and Seaborn fourth. On the first Ju nior Trophy Dash, the flagman didn't like the start and wa s holding th e red flag up for a restart . Comin g aro und the sweeper, Bo b Cooper's fro n t end broke and he wa s down . He was unhurt, but had to sit on th e side lines and watch the race. On the res ta rt, Mundt took the lead onl y to lose it to Lein. Tibbetts took over second, but we nt to o high in th e co m er and Mu nd t d o ve unde r to regain second. Lein t oo k th e tro phy ho me, with Mund t finis hi ng second and Tibbe tts, third. Bill Oliv e r swooped the Novice clas s ton ight by winn in g his heat, the Trophy Dash and then the Novice Main . Rand y S cism, wh o p laced second to Olive r in th e heat, placed second in th e Main. Ron Ch esn ey , win n er of his heat and second in th e T ro p hy Dash, fini sh ed third in the Main. b y K.K . In surance Administrar o rs, the agenc y servi ng the Asso ciation fo r makin g furth er co rr ec tio ns to ' the p re.sent pl an with C:-lA o r elec ting a new exp an ded pro gram with the Interstat e Natio nal Companies. T he Ex ecutive Committee vo ted unanim ously to adop t th e expan de d program which goe s in to e ffect June 5 , 19 73. Commentin g on the Execu tive Committee meetin g in wh ich the decisio n was made, A:\IA PresidentJ .R. Kelley s aid , " [ am very en couraged abo u t what has happ en ed h ere. N o t o n ly h ave we ach ieved a so lu tio n to a pressin g problem , but we hav e also esta b lish ed new lin es of co mm un ica tio n betwe en the Class A membership, th e age ncy and the carrier that will en ab le us to move forward to better member ben efi ts." Greg Mosh er of K.K. In suran ce Admi nistrators explained , "T he imp ort an t p oint that mus t be cle ar ly underst ood is that n o part o f the program h as been sacrificed for a lower deductib le. Th ere is s till a $3 ,00 0 death and dismembennen t c overage o n all members. The re is st ill a $ [0.000 limit o n member medical co verage. Yet th e deductib le has b een lowered fro m $ [ ,000 to $ [00 with no inc rease in p remium o r membe rsh ip fees. We h ave eli min ate d the u npopul ar o p tio nal promo ter insurance wh ich is n o longe r ne cessary with th e increased coverage ," .-..._._....._._...__.•...•..•. I ~n~ .n ~ i~ • D'6II' · : . • • • • ~ FOR " - !· l ll i ·_ W lt -. • •, YOUR • • • • +5!! +m .5 SPECIALLY DESIGNED FOR THOSE DO IT YOURSELFERS - .:; .~ · • • .~ .w :d .t • : • • • • • : • • • • • • i • --- ---- ---- ---------- ----- ---- -- · · · • + • 0 B. • • 0 0 • 0 0 o + A. C. D. E. F. 0 G. 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