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, ~ .0 Q CIJ u CIJ 00 ..... ~ CIJ e WHILE THIS LIMITED SUPPLY LASTS! WHEN YOU SEND FOR OUR LATEST CATALOG OF THE MOST COMPLETE UNE OF MOTO-X ACCESSORIES. r . I~\~ "TT'T-' SPEAKlNCOF SPEEDWAY License Troubles Shortly Australia after we and raced meetings, we the Secretary of Speedway Control Board that we needed International Speedway Licenses from the American Motorcycle Association, to com- pete in International events. Well, after the promoters found out _ BIKE-ET'I'E 5522 VImCE BLVD. LOS ANGELES, CALIF. 90019 OR VISIT YOUR LOCAL DEALER FOR THE FULL LINE OF BIKE-ETTE MOTO-X ACCESSORIES GUS 8OCYCl.ES 16719 Roscoe Blvd. Van Nuys, Cal. 9'400 THE IIICYcLE TREE 1320 Mary Ave. unn ale Cal. 94087 IIICYCLEYILLE 306 Pico Blvd. Santa Monica. Cal. 90400 SOUTH BAY CYCLERY , 402 Pacific Coast Hwy. Hermosa Beach, Cal. 90254 LEE'. CYCLERY 4006','2 W. Santa Barbara Avo. Los. Angeles, Cal. 90008 KIP'S CYCLEAY 350 E. Atosta (Hwy. 66) Glendora, Cal. 91740 ONLY25c FOR HANDLING AND POSTAGE. about this they were wary of letting us race without the licenses. If we were to go ahead and race without licenses, it would cost the promoters $80.00 per night for each of us for a one nigh t sanction, so th~ promoters weren't going to let us race until the problem was solved. This wasn't very pleasant with us after traveling 8,000 miles to race for our country, and something had to be done about it, so we arranged a meeting with the SCB to try and settle the problem. First we brought up that early this year we had raced in several _.AND II MOTORCYCLE e; AUTOMOTIVE .~...;,/«1~ . THOUSANDS Of USED & NEW ~PARTS& <'c::~ O"'~0.ftE! L-__~~~_.I International Speedway meetings in Daytona Beach, Florida, and in order to race in the meetings we needed valid International licenses. The reason was that there were three International riders: Ivan Mauger, Barry Briggs and Bert Harkins, otherwise we would have not needed the licenses. This would have solved the problem but we had only received National licenses and not International licenses, so it ended up that we left for Australia without the International licenses, not knowing that we needed them. Secondly we brought up that in the . FlM rule book it states that if less than three riders travel internationally you don't need an International license anyway, and the fact is that we were only traveling individually and not as a team. We also hold valid American Speedway licenses, and bought Australian licenses as well. So we called the AMA and told them our problem and kindly enough they are working on it for us, and everything now seems to be going well. U.sA. Wins Best Pairs Recently we raced in New South FRIDAY NIGHT DECE.ER 14, '73 6 pm to 11 pm GREAT WESTERN EXHIBIT CENTER Santa Ana Frwy. at Atlantic an Eastern Ave. LOS ANGELES For 24-Hour Information, Call: (213) 588-0558 14 Busqvarna Klocker's (213) 581-3983 SALES & SERVICE 6624 Atlantic, Bell. Ca. & NEW' DODGE' USED \l5J 'VAN - TRUCKS Lusing Available, Most Makes Call For APpointment & Ask for 4.4'. - CONVERSIONS Marv Bl9man 86R or John Knowles 0-37 Dependable Dodge 21514 RascoeSl, ~no9a Pk, Ca. 91304 213-883'-9060, (LA) 213-873-4095 ffi \l5J Wales, which is one of the six states in Australia. The best pairs match was held at Newcastle speedway, which is a \4 mile track and the cushion is very heavy. Most of the speedway tracks here are heavy, unlike the tracks in America, The meeting went very well for us, as we won the match 18 to 14. This was kind of a shock to the spectators as well as the .riders and promoter. Mainly because we had raced there two weeks before on borrowed bikes and dido't do so well. But this time we had our own bikes and a few meetings under our belts. So as it lurned out, Steve, after having bike troubles. still scored six points plus three bonus points, and I had scored a twelve point maximum. We were quite happy about this, not only because we had won the meeting but because it was the first time Americans had ever won any kind of a best pairs meeting in Australia. Liverpool May Reopen Because of an accident involving speedway star Gary Hay at Liverpool Speedway in N.S.W. a season al(o, arrived a couple In of were informe'd by the Australian promoter Frank Oliver was forced to shut down to bikes because of law suits. At the present time there are only two tracks running in N.S.W., the Sydney Showground on Saturday and Newcastle on Friday. With Liverpool Speedway possibly reopening it would give a great boost to speedway in Austtalia. With former World Champion Ole Oleson due to arrive in Australia in early December, along with a touring English West team there should be some great events scheduled for Liverpool and the Showgrounds speedway. Then in early January there is a scheduled five-nation best pairs match at the Sydney Showground. It will include Great Britain, Australia; Poland, Russia and U.S.A., with the Poland and Russian teams arrving late December. And to all of you wonderful Cycle News readers, I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. A CRCMX By The Shadow VALENCIA, CAL., NOV. 25 Toshiaki Hakamala, a factory engineer from Japan, who cannot speak a word of English, really pUl on a show Sunday in the CRC motocross at lndian Dunes. Hakamala opened his afternoon with a victory in the 125 Experl class grand-slam win on his Suzuki. He is only ranked as UNovice" in Japan, but today Hakamata chose the Expert field to compete against. Second place rider in 125 Expert was Rocky Morrison (Suz) with a third place going to Bryan Dodge (Hon). Hakamata mounted a 250 Suzuki in the 250' Expert class, where he won once again. After a tough place finish, he closed with two straight second places to win the 969 points. Second place was taken by Ernie Hendricks (Mai) with third place going to Russell McAfee (BuI). Closing out the Expert race, Gary Benze (CZ), won at Open Expert with ease. Intermediate victories went as follows: Chris Johnson and Garen Phillips, both mounted on CZs, tied for first overall honors at Open Intermediate; Mike Quisenberry (CZ), grand·slammed the field at 250 Intermediate, dumping second place finisher Dave Krikac (Bul); and finally, John Caper (Hon), swept to victory at 125 Intermediate. It was all grand slam victories at Powder Puff and Minibike classes. Juana Madrid (Suz), won the Powder Puff; Glen Licon (Mon), took the 60cc Minibike category; Jerry Little (Hon), was a winner in 80cc Minibike (12 years and under); and Brian Myerscough via a Mike Bast