AMC-MX at O.C.I.R.
AMC
at
Orange County International Raceway
Friday February 28, 1975
By: Tom Corley
Every once in a while the weather presents a few problems. Whether it's the mud the wind or whatever, it seems like it usually bothers me more than it does anyone else and occasionally I add a little too much sensationalizm by exaggerating the natural phenomonons. So in the case of tonight's AMC Motocross race, I'll just say that there was a light fog that hovered over the track.
I saw him munching over at the Jack In the Truck concession stand with friend racer Bill Jewitt, who was the night's star of the Mini Expert class. Bill was really hauling and he won his class pretty easily over other competitor Kurt Sofka, of Harry's Cycle Sales. Those two were rapidly being chased after by a pack of Intermaniacs who were led by Bryan Jordan, Bryon Antonacci and John Ruby while Dan Trant won the Junior class. I can still recall how Dan would do those wild front wheel dives while flying over the Moby Dick jump.
Now the 100 class was really packed with fast competitors. They seemed all evenly powered however there was a conflict in the 100 Expert class that I was told about Bill Taylor just got off of his ole Yarnmie 100 MX and got a new Elsinore and apparently the talk was that it wasn't sleeved down to a 100 yet Now, first of all I should say that I don't really know if it was a 100 or still just a 125 so I'm not going to take sides. The only sure way to tell is when the top end is taken off once the protest fee is posted, so I don't know and I'm just telling you what the gab was. Anyway, it came to an exciting final moto showdown between the two big guns of the race who were Pete Hillebrecht of Harry's Cycle Sales in Orange and Bill Taylor. Both riders were tied with one win and a second place. And then the gate dropped in the third moto, Pete got the best start and was really in command of the money while Taylor suffered from a not so super of a start. Taylor was really making a sensational effort to catch up when Bill "Willy" McCandless and him bashed it out before the finish line and Taylor hit the ground. So overall in the 100 Expert class it was Pete Hillebrecht, Bill Taylor and Chris Cayo.
Bill McCandless won the Intermediates while Tim Murphy and Ron Flores matched it off in the Juniors. The guys who filled into the first six slots of the 100 Beginner class were Joe Polizzi, Mark Golden, Steve Santoz, Mark Hobkins, Dale Himmerlrelich and Larry Morton.
Leo Saul is unstoppable in the 125 Junior class and not just in AMC racing because he beats everyone whenever he races in High School Motocross. He has two fine sponsors now who are Southland Cycle and DG Motorcycle Specialists and he smoked 17 other guys in tonights contest, Mark Wilson and Donald Bridgewater took second and third.
