Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

Lucerne Valley - Red Mountain - Plaster City - Searchlight - Sidewinder Road - Superstition M~untaln - Jean - Rand Mountains - Lucerne Valley - Red Mounb Desert Hotline (Top) Dan Smith led the Dusters race until breaking a shock. (Above) The Randy Chambers/Crockett Wirthlin team swept the Nevada night series. Scheffers dusts Dusters HS · 32 RED MOUNTAIN, CA, AUG. 29 It looked like a gathering of Hondas with Lee Scheffers in charge of the Dusters annual Sissy Run. Scheffers took the overall win with fello Honda rider McCasland taking the win in the 250cc class. . It was an early start and at 8:30 a.m. the Experts and Amateurs were on their way with Dan Smith (Hus) pulling the lead. Chuck Miller (Yam) was holding second with Scheffers third. Taking the lead in the Novice/ Beginner race was 250cc rider Brett Shaner. Another top notch Novice, Dan Seagondol lar, was running second. As the riders came through homecheck after one loop, it was Scheffers who had the lead. Smith held the lead until a few miles out from the pits, where he broke a shock and dropped to second. Third was Miller, who was riding a 250cc today and as usual leading in his class. Fourth was hard charging McCasland. Fifth was Honda mounted Chuck Steams. Sixth was first Vet Open Richard Jackson. Running seven th and first C bike was Oren Beck III. Dave Wasden was in for eighth. Ninth was Tom Elias who was in hot pursuit of Beck. In the lead and never backing off, Scheffers could smell the victory that was in sight now. Taking the checkered first overall, Lee said he knew" Steams was back there somewhere and with guys like that you don't have much breathing room." Scheffers said his Honda ran great today and he like the course. Second overall was another Honda rider, Steams. Taking third and first 250cc was Howard McCasland. These three Honda riders had their day and were happy to finish 1-2-3. Dan Ashcroft, (Hus) after working his way up from 10th on the first loop, was now fourth overall. In fifth place it was Beck, taking first in the C bike class. Beck had to stay on the throttle right to the checkered as Tom Elias, another C rider, caught him just out from the finish. Elias took the sixth overall spot today. Jackson outdid all the Vets and came in for seventh and first Open. Smith after his long pit still managed an eighth. In for ninth was the phantom racer F. Boingo. Rounding out the top 10wasa super guy, Dave Wasden. In the Open Amateur class, it was Ron Shuler who was hungry for this one and he overtook Jeff Bennington a few miles into the second loop. Never backing off, Shuler took the first with Bennington taking second right behind Shuler. Art Knapp didn't let up either and took a well earned first in the Open Senior class. Second was another hard riding senior, Bruce Lewellyn. In the 250cc Amateur class Charlie Inman took the first with Byron Statham second. Senior C bike ace Dave Kersting took an easy first today. Dick Postma, even after a very long pit, rode a hard and fast second loop and took first in the 250cc Senior division. First Vet 250cc Amateur was Tom Phillips. In the Vet 250cc Expert class the winner was one of our finest, Monte Lee . John Braasch was the fastest in the C bike Amateur class and took first honors today. Tim Saueressig did some hard riding today and took first Vet Open Amateur. First Senior 250cc Amateur was Sid Ahuero with R . Stotts moving up to take first in the Senior Open Amateur class. First in the Women's class was Diane Holeman with Lori Farmer taking second. First in the Arnatuer class was Denise Engstrom. Pat Payne had a spectacular ride today. Pat was running 66th a t the bomb and moved up to take ninth overall at the Beginner finish a n d first Novice girl. N ice ride P at! Second was another hard charger, Sharon Dietz. First Overall Novice was none other than Dan Seagondollar on his 25Occ. Riding out of his shop, A.V. Cycle Alley, Dan once again proved his skill. Second was another 250ccrider, Robert Marshall. Hard riding J. Jesseph took the third overall. Taking first Open today was John Clarich. 'First Vet Open Novice was David Sweeney. First C bike Novice was Kent Worley. Ken Chamberlin took first Senior Open Novice honors. First Overall Beginner was Open rider Don Nuse who liked the course and had a grea t ride. Second was Erik Dougherty in his first race. Third was up and coming ace Lewis Wright. Once again taking first 250cc was Pat Fee. First C bike Beginner was Lee Scotts. All results herein are unofficial. WirthlinjChambers take Nevada night • race series By Don Akers 8t Pa~ Manuel .Photo by Wayne Gales HENDERSON, NV, AUG. 8 The team of Crockett Writhlin and Randy Chambers took overall honors in the second and final of the Nevada State Championship night races sponsored by the Chargers West and the Gamblers M.C. In the second of the two race series the course was 13 miles long and six laps were required. The format was again a hare scrambles. The flag dropped on the first two riders at 9:0 I p.m. and two more were flagged off every 15 seconds until all were underway. Wirth lin brought in the big Husky to partner Chambers just 25 minutes and 51 seconds after leaving the starting line. (Although we didn't know it at the time, this would also be the fastest lap of the evening!) Running in second place was Mike Cockrum with a 32 minute and eight second lap and Bill Quinn was in third at 36:33. . Lap two had Chambers still in the lead, but Rick Sherman, after taking over from .Q u in n , had moved their Ettie four-stroke Yamaha into second place with the Cockrum /Sterling entry dropping back to third. The third time around had the Wirthlin/Chambers bike stretching their lead on the field with Cockrum moving back to second. The Quinn/ Sherman Yamaha had broken a headlight mount and although they were still moving they surrendered third place to the Can-Am-mounted team of Al Southall/Tim Thompson. Laps four and five showed no major position changes but the hard charging Chambers/Wirthlin duo started lapping the rest of the field! Lap six was a solo performance as the leaders had passed all the other bikes in the race and were the only ones who went the full six laps. Cockrum/Sterling came in second with Southall / Thompson finishing third. ' The officials used motocross scoring to combine the two races of the series to arrive at the overall series placement. ' They were: Chambers/ \yirthlin first overall and first Open, Sterling/Cockrum second overall and first 250cc, Quinn/Sherman third overall and first four-stroke , and Southall/Thompson fourth overall and second 250cc. •

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