Daytona 200 winner Giacomo Agostini was pictured on the cover of
Cycle News 50 years ago. Pat Hennen won the 50-mile Junior Race,
and Don Castro won the 250 Jr. Expert… Roger DeCoster won the
500cc class and Pierre Karsmakers the 250cc class in the Daytona
Invitational Motocross, the first of a two-round series that paid
$24,000 in prize money, the most ever in U.S. MX history… More than
1000 riders turned out for the Candy Ass Enduro in Barstow, California.
YEARS AGO
MARCH ,
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LOOKING BACK I
Kenny Roberts was pictured on the cover 40 years ago after winning
the Daytona 200. Roberts, Freddie Spencer and Ron Haslam went 1-2-
3; Wayne Rainey won the International Lightweight division… David
Bailey won the Daytona Supercross, with Rick Johnson taking second
just ahead of Johnny O'Mara… Ted Boody and Rodney Farris were
tops in dirt track action… In California, Marty Smith rose to the top at
D38's King of the Desert race, Dan Ashcraft finished second overall…
We tested the new water-cooled Husqvarna WR400.
YEARS AGO
MARCH ,
(Left) Russ Pearson
ironmanned the Laughlin Hare
Scrambles 20 years ago and
came in third.
Fifty years
ago, signs that
said "Do not
bother sheep"
were posted
on the Candy
Ass Enduro
racecourse.
