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ing zero points in his first two rac-
es giving up his slim title hopes.
Top scorers on the night be-
sides the perfect 21 points by
Janniro included superb perfor-
mances by Charlie Venegas (17
points), Bart Bast (16 points) and
Austin Novratil (12 points).
After the final race, Bart Bast
and Max Ruml were tied for sec-
ond place with 51 championship
points each. A four-lap runoff saw
Bast prevail on his home track for
the runner up spot with Ruml tak-
ing third in the National Champi-
onship.
Michael Kirby
AUSTRALIA DAY AT GOODWOOD
I
t was Australia Day week-
end at the world's most
prestigious historic bike
race, Lord March's annu-
al Goodwood Festival of
Speed that took place in
Britain on September 12-
14, run in even-numbered
years for motorcycles of a
type that competed in the
one and only Goodwood
motorcycle race ever held
in 1951.
Melbourne's Irving Vin-
cent team brought a high-
ly-tuned but otherwise
original 1000cc V-twin,
a genuine 1950 Rapide
model, from Australia to
score victory in both legs
of the two-part race, with
riders Beau Beaton and
Craig McMartin wrapping
up an emphatic overall win
for team owners Ken and Barry
Horner and also setting a new
lap record for the 2.4-mile circuit
at 96.53 mph. On combined
times they were 50.84 seconds
ahead of second-placed Isle of
Man TT-winner Steve Plater and
Glen English on a replica 500cc
longstroke Manx Norton, with
Adelaide's Glen Richards third
on a similar bike, shared with
Scott Smart.
Another Aussie, former World
Superbike Champion Troy Cors-
er, qualified in third place for the
Le Mans-type start on the BMW
factory's 1937 R5SS, but was
forced to retire from both races
with oil leaks caused by deck-
ing the Boxer twin's cylinders too
hard on the tarmac.
Former 500cc World cham-
pion Kevin Schwantz,
making his Goodwood
debut on New Zealand-
er Ken McIntosh's 1950
ex-works prototype
twin-cam Norton single,
crashed at the chicane
in practice while com-
ing to terms with racing
in 19-inch tires for the
first time, but recovered
to finish fifth overall. He
was teamed with Kiwi
Rodney O'Connor.
Schwantz' crash had
deprived O'Connor of
any practice on a bike
he'd never ridden be-
fore, so he had to learn
the circuit and how to ride the
bike by qualifying behind the
pace car for car events run
earlier that day. Journalist Alan
Cathcart finished seventh over-
all on the first girder-forked bike,
his teammate Tim Jackson's
1946 Gilera Saturno; with last
year's winner and former TT star
Mick Grant ninth on a BSA Gold
Star, and fellow Isle of Man ace
Kevin Schwantz went
back in time for the Good-
wood Festival of Speed in
England.
PHOTOGRAPHY
BY
MIKE
TOZER
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