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(Above) Califo!'l1ia's Troy Blake (211) leads local, eventual winner Drey Dircks (4) in ·the 125cc Pro race. (Above) Gary Dircks (644) won the talent-laden 250cc Pro class at the Bosch Classic in a "hometown boy makes good" scenario. Dircks', Griewe take Arizona's fifth annual Bosch Classic tight jumps, but Parker's gusty style grabbed him the lead when he closed the door on Moran for the win. In the I05's first moto Kalos shot to the front of the pack. After a lap Parker had snaked by Moran to set his sights on the Suzuki in the lead. Parker seemed to have perfected the "pass on the downhill" after grabbing the lead in the previous motos. He did it one more time, and Kalos couldn't hold him off any longer. "We were side by side on the last whoop and I tried to take the inside with Dennis on the outside. I was going to cut him off on the bottom berm but Ijustdidn't made it," Kalos said. Kalos took the reflex award once again when he grabbed the lead, if only for a few turns. He and Parker swapped it, but Kalos regained his composure enough to hold him back for a couple of laps. Parker literally flew by him off of "Suicide" and ran away to his fourth moto win of the day. 125 Pro Once the gate dropped for 125cc Pros' first moto, Yamaha Corporation rider Trby Blake wasted little time getting up front. 111 close tow were Drey Dircks (Suz) and Mark Flesia (Yam). By the third lap Blake and Dircks had nearly 10 seconds on the rest. A couple of laps later, Dircks had had enough of being behind and jetted to the inside of the whoops to take the lead from Blake. Flesia held off Tamm Racing's Chris Howard while Bill Dalton went bar to bar with Taylor Marcell. Working up from his grim start, Chappy Blose pushed Dalton out of the way but a lost swingarm bolt had h~d him watching the last half of the race from the sidelines. Howard didn't waste his time and displaced Flesia to start reeling in Dircks and Blake. He ate up 10 seconds in a short two laps. Blake appeared to be floundering with Howard looking willing and able to use more energy to pass him. After motoring past on the uphill, Howard lurked only five secoods behind ~ trpl,ll;l\edJ)ircks in 'the lead: . , - • - - . - - - - - - - - - . - . By Pam 'Hardin PHOENIX, AZ, NOV. 27-28 With nearly 350 riders from five states descending upon Canyon Raceway for the fifth annual Bosch Classic, it was proved that Arizona can draw riders and sponsors like Answer Products, Cycle-Am, PJ 1 and the main sponsor: Bosch Spark Plugs. Local sponsors like Young Cycle Supply and RN Piscount Cycle Supply helped donate $6,000 in prizes for the sportsmen and $4,000 in monies for the Pros. With a lot of Yammie power behind him, Dennis Parker finished I-I in both the 80cc Experts and the I05s at the sportsman day race of the two day event. He had plenty of competition from newly advanced Shaun Kalos and john Moran. Team Green's Bryan Bruner took an unfortunate spill in practice, putting him out for a few weeks with a broken collarbone. Arizona's Dircks brothers, Drey and Gary, dominated the Pros with I-I finishes in both the 125 and 250cc classes. Drey came out ahead of '30 other riders in the 125s and Gary manhandled a pack of 34 250cc Pros. Don Griewe, the only out of state rider to' win a Pro class, took his 30second lead into the pits with the Open Pro class win. Minis Moran took the early lead in the Expert's first moto with O'Neal rider Brian Binkle and j.T.-sponsored Shawn Hilton close behind. Parker saw his chance when Binkley and Hilton tangled on the sand whoops, but so did Kalos. Coming around the long, sweeper start, Kalos out-powered both the leader, Moran and Parker. Parker wasn't about to be left behind and slid by Moran on the next turn. The downhill turned out to be the perfect passing place for Parker and the downfall for Kalos. The R&D rider hit the whoops a little too hard, sending him sideways. Parker served him a T-bone and left him to crawl the track in first.gear. When the gate dropped for the second moto, Moran got there again, with some serious elbow-knocking from Kalos and Parker. In the third turn Kalos caught the worst of the start swapping and ended up with his Suzuki's handlebars a little out of whack. "I pulled over, but when we tried to fix them, it only made it worse," he said after having to take a DNF. Moran cashed in on the confusion and ran away from Parker, but not for long. The Yammie rider used the power down the straight and around the sweeper; Moran kept .his lead . thrbugh'the long serieS bf tttrh~ 'anti With less than three minutes remaining, Dircks' front brake lever was dangling aorund his number plate. He finally reached down to retrieve it and held on the rest of the race. Rounding out the top 10 were Mike Shoemaker of Tamm Racing in fourth, Gary Bowman, Mark Flesia, j,T. Factory's jonnie Deremo, Bill Dalton, Taylor Marcell and Mike Goodrich. A lot of concentration and a wrist of steel had "The Bullet" Dalton shooting into the lead in the second moto. Right behind were Blose and Dircks. In a few laps Dalton looked tough in the lead and Blose had more to think about than catching him; Dircks was hot on his rear fender. Blake was nowhere to be found, it seems someone jammed the gate leaving eight riders several turns behind. Dalton dumped it in the berm before the tower and restarted in time to see Blose and Dircks' rear fenders up close. With more than half the race gone, Dircks finally made his move and stole the lead in the same place he passed Blake in the first moto. Howard slipped by Dalton, as did Gary Bowman. Bowman worked feverishly, and in no time had snaked past Howard to start gaining ground on Blose in second. The O'Neal rider whipped the crowd into a frenzy with his one footers and horrendous tank slappers over the whoops. He ate up 15 seconds in less than three laps and put away Blose; he still had 10 seconds to wrench the lead from Dircks' confident hands. Dircks seemed to sense that his lead was being shaved down to nothing and began to get on the gas. He held Bowman a bikelength back, taking the checkered in first. 250 Pro On the start of the 250's first moto, everyone was expecting a hairy first turn with 34 Pros vying for room. The second turn was a real problem for almost half the pack, but Scott Stallard came out on top with Gary Dircks and Bryan Hayes lurking close behind. It took Dircks a short while to establish the lead; Hayes jumped into