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Club Bondido Grcn Prix
Los Adgetes County ndaewoy
Burnett Bags
Bandido
Gran
Prix
Win
BY
GREG RosERrsoN
PAI.i/IDAI.E,
CA,
iIAR.
12
Mark
Burnett
turned a
Sood
stan aborrd his Tru Tech/Sx
Six
! I OndDunlap-backed CR450F inEo
a convincrnS win
rn
rhe
Senior Amateur class at Los AnSeles County Raceway during
California Racing Club's annual Bandido
Gran
Prix.
When staner Don
Goss€tt
threw
his
green
llag to
get
the
45-minute race under way. it was Reggie Lamson
who
absconded with the holeshot
at the dead-€ntine start. Burn€tt
settled into
a close second. ahead of Martin
Schneider and
Sobby Hunt. A bobble on the opening
lap dropped Lamson
back to sixth, while allowing Sumett to run out front.
Eurnett
rook advantage of the situation,
and
he \eould
ourrun
the field for the remaining 40 minutes
to earily collect the wifl.
Dale Hooker came from out of the
pack
on the opening lap
to
overtake Schneider for
second
place
on lap three, where he
r/vould end up finishing. Lamson
spent his entire race
tryinE to
make up for his early mish+ and was rewarded with
a third-
place
finish,
over Schneider. Hunt rounded out the top five,
ahead ofJimmy Rivers and Greg lYcconnell.
l€II
Mackie wtss
quickest
off the line
when the
Vet
BeSinne6
were let loos6, but it was Dann White v,i ho emerFd with
the
lead
after a single
lap
on the
J.B.
l4emorial Track. White
appeared
to be
well
on his way to the win ar he
distanced
himself from the field.
lames
Gahret had other intentions:
He
put
in
a
relentless
charge from his back-of-the-pack start to
overtake White with
time runninS out for the well-deserved
win. Travis
JunSe
cross€d the lin€ in third, followed
by Mackie
and Rodney Hartgrove.
Carl White
jr.
shot
his way from
sixrh to Ilrst on the openiht
l+ of the Vet lntermediate race,
and he sta),/ed there
until the
checkers waved.
loe
l4asek battl€d with Drew Olivia
and
William Wel
