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TE YEA s AG Mert Lawwill· (H-D) waited until three laps from the fin ish of the Charity Newsies Half Mile Nationa l to take the lead, but tak e it he did, passing Rookie Gary Scott (T ri). Chuck Palmgren was third ahead of Don Castro (Tri) and Dick Mann (BSA). Jim Rawls (BSA) led Steve Droste (Yam ) home in th e J u nior feature. Gary Jones (Yam) won all three motos of the opening round of the 1972 Int er-AMA Motocross Seri es at Boise, ID. Left in Jones ' wak e were Yam aha tea m m a te and four- time World Cham p Torsten Hallman (2-8-5) and CZ-mounted Englishman Dave Bickers (9-6-2). Montesa 's Peter Lamppu finished fourth overa ll. In the Open Sup port class, U tah 's Bob Brown top ped Barry Higgins in a battle of CZs. T he annual Mammo th Mountain Motocrossdassic saw Harley-Davidsonmounted T erry Clark pull in th e 125cc Senior win over Bultaco riders Ken Zahrt and Dave Rodgers. Greg Rober tso n (CZ) took th e 250cc Senior win with Gabe Dick (CZ ) and Chris O rtega (Mai) following. In the 500cc Senior class, it was Bob Hershey (CZ) and Bryar Holcom b (Suz) finishing 1-2. A mandatory helmet law bill was defeated in the Californ ia State Senate when no senator on the Transportation Committee made a motion to carry it on to th e fu ll senate. S RBIKE CHAMPS, LOUDO , N.H. The Rocky Mountain T ria ls Association hosted its ann ua l Expert Cup Trial near Denver, CO. Bill Brokaw (Mo n ) was the winner in the Masters class , defeating Wiltz Wagner (Bu l) and former Ascot ha lf mile sta ndou t Elliott Schultz (Mon ). California State Sena tor Ralph C. Dills introduced SB790. That measure, if passed, wou ld allow motorcycle racing on the one-m ile oval a t the Cal-Expo Fairgrounds, which had replaced the old Sta te Fai rgro unds. K E R K E R 7 9 0 0 D E ERIN G A VENUE, CANOG A PARK, C A L IFO R N IA 9 1304 , INS IDE CALIFORNI A [213l 999 - 30 6 0 I (800l 3 8 2 -3689, OU T SID E CALIFORNIA (80 0 l 423- 5246, T E L EX : 662 622 K E RKE R C NPK , Mike Bast turned in a double win at the weekly Bakersfield speedway races. Mike won the Handicap main in front of brother Steve as well as the Scratch main over Bill Cody. ' Doug Grant (AJS ) easily won all three 250cc Expert rn o tos at Spillway Park in San ta Maria , CA. However, he ran into bike problems in the Open Expert class, where J oe Cushaway (CZ) recorded the win. Roy Kessler was named Director of Legislative Acti vities for the Motorcycle Industry Co uncil. In a District 37 scrambles at Adelanto, John Sandona tu rned in his last ride as a No vice, smo kin g the Heavvweight class before being tra nsferred to Junior. IRS . .."..-:.. -: .~ . < .. " T.: ~~"\·:r··:::t::~.::·' :~-: :. ~.:":.:.:::~-~ " ,~::5·;~'-: /:·.~; ::o.:~·.~:~~::{;-~~::5~ ~·r·~:,; ':~:':: , . :: , y .. ," : Nurb urgring, Germany " ', ' " , NURBURGRING 8 HOUR ROUND II WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP ENDURANC E ROAD RACE JEAN-CLAUDE CHEMAR IAN JACQUES CORNU Kawasaki on DUNLOP 3rd Rott Rubato The rumor m ill had it tha t KTM was interested in sign ing two R ussian motocrossers to ri de its new 250 on the World Ch am p io nship MX circuit. The rumored Russians were Vladi m ir Kavin o v a nd G uennady ,Moissiev. • Rau Kawasaki on DUNLOP You may not be racing in 8 hours of co ld . wind and wet weather but isn't it nice to know yo u ca n co unt on DUNLOP if you did , . . .. . ~ !!x~!Y~!!~ • .: I c . . . .. 27