Giovanni Sala, an Italian Trophy team rider, was the overall individual winner.
A little too much front brake resulted in many endoes on this steep downhill.
to third place in the 500cc class and to
eighth in the overall standings.
more seconds on Italy despite the Italians
topping two classes. Fast special test rides
by HedeJ1dahl and 125cc World Enduro
Champion Jeff Nilsson inade it possible
for the defending champs to pull further
away from the Italians, who fell 27.57
seconds behind, while Spain moved into
third when Czech rider Otakar Kotrba
dropped out with mechanical problems.
Czechoslovakian Club rider Jan Hrehor
was also forced to retire when his Suzuki
DR350's ignition gave out while he was
running 13th in the 350cc Four-Stroke
division. .
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Sweden maintained its stronghold in
the Junior World class, while Czechoslovakia and the U.S. were each alone in
second and third, respectively. Australia
was fourth, but 168.91 points behind the
Americans.
Day four provided the tightest check
of the week. The check - the fifth check
on the first loop and 10th on the second
loop - sawall of the Trophy team riders
clock in with no more than one or two
minutes to spare, while almost all of the
Club riders arrived at least one or two
minutes late. Jason Dahners was one of
the few U.S. Club riders to zero the check,
but later that day he crashed and tore
the waterpump housing off his Kawasaki, putting an end to his ride.
. This section got even tougher the
second time around when it began to
rain. "It started hailing and rivers of
water were coming down the hills," said
U.S. Trophy rider Jimmy Lewis.
U.S. Junior World team rider Danny
Hamel, the defending AMA National
Hare & Hound Champion, barely zeroed
the check. "I just don't know how to
ride in the mud; I don't see the wet stuff
very often in the California and Nevada
deserts," said Hamel.
Drew Smith, who was competing in
his 15th-eareer Six Days, said, "Now
that's what I like - mud It got exciting,
but I'm proud of myself. I sucked it up
Day three
Despite winning three classes for the
third day in a row, Thursday proved
nearly disasterous for the Italian World
Trophy team when Arnaldo Nicoli
crashed during a special test and lost
about 40 seconds to the £mnt-runners.
That 40 seconds loss was enough to allow
the Swedes to move ahead and take
control of the lead, but not by much.
Sweden led the Italians by just 7.6
seconds at the end of the
