50
Years Ago
OCTOBER 26, 1971
40
Years Ago
OCTOBER 21, 1981
P130
LOOKING BACK
American speedway superstar Bruce Penhall slid across the
cover of Cycle News 40 years ago on his way to the U.S. National
Speedway Championship to add to his California and World Speedway
Championships… We interviewed Mike Kidd about his Grand National
Championship… Broc Glover moved closer to his second MX title of the
year with a pair of moto wins at the penultimate round of the AMA Trans-
USA MX series held at Rio Bravo Motocross Park.
A full-color photo of Dick Mann was on the cover 50 years ago after he
clinched the Grand National Championship at California's Ontario Motor
Speedway... Boise's Bill Uhl returned from England's Six Day Trials in time
to win the 250cc Idaho State Motocross Championship… Finland's Heikki
Mikkola led a European sweep of the podium at the Copetown, Ontario,
Canada round of the Trans-USA series... J.N. Roberts won again in the
desert at Soggy Dry Lake in Lucerne Valley, California.
Five-time MX World
Champion Roger
DeCoster shakes Jean-
Michel Bayle's hand,
moments after the
Frenchman clinched
the 500cc National
Championship title in
1991.
(Below) Fifty years ago, Englishman John Cooper became the
second-ever foreigner to win an AMA Road Race in Ontario, while
the first, Kel Carruthers, finished in second place.
