AHRMA
Regional Flat Track
Lodi Cycle Bowl
August 6th,
2000
Lodi, CA
Dino: 1. Lafaye McCarver
(13t Ind); 2. Mark Milton (53t Ind).
Classic Open: 1. Tom
Horton
(55 Tri); 2. Chris Apple (2x Tri); 3. Stu Cardott (58u Tri).
Classic 500/750: 1.
Jeff Apple (27h Tri): 2. Larry Madrigal (7t BSA).
Classic 250: 1. Tom Horton
(55 Suz).
Seventies Singles: 1.
John
Lundgren (45 Hon); 2. Mike Gonzoles (32y Yam); 3. Tom Horton (55 Yam);
4. Cory Schmuck (21z Hon); 5.
Albert
Lunwigsen (2w Yam); 6. John Frank (119e Yam).
Sportsman 250: 1. Tom
Horton
(55 Suz): 2. Brad Holt (50s Bul).
Novice 250: 1. Mike
Riddell
(26z Yam); 2. John Frank (Yam 119e) 3. Clifford Nagatani (209 Bul).
Sportsman 600: 1. Dennis
Spence (15 Hon); 2. Rick Hocking (13 Bul); 3. Tom
Horton (55 Bul); 4. Brad Holt
(50s
Bul); 5. John Lundgren (45 Hon); 6. Doug Nation (91u Yam).
Sportsman 750: 1. Greg
Wilburn
(32a Tri); 2. Dennis Spence (15 Tri); 3. Tom Horton (55 Tri).
Novice 750: 1. David
Maxwell
(171m Tri); 2. David Nicholson (27z Tri). 3.Alan Shaw (97w); 4. (48).
Novice 600: 1. Mike
Riddell
(26z Yam).
Vet +35: 1. Rick
Hocking
(13 Bul); 2. Greg Wilburn (32a Tri).
Senior +50: 1. Steve Lacey
(27t Hon); 2. Warren Adams (58u Tri); 3. Alan Shaw (97w);
4. Richard Braquet (53 BSA).
Super Senior +60: 1. Duane
Spence (15 Tri); 2. Mickey Alzola (49 BSA); 3. Hank Cosio (50n BSA);
4. Larry Madrigal (7t BSA); 5.
(53).
Modern Support: 1. Mark Biscardi (74s Yam); 2.
Stewart Barber Jr. (388e Hon). 3. (8).
This is a photo of Dennis Spence beating Brad Lackey
at the AHRMA Nation MX at Tulare last fall.
Dennis won both motos in the plus 40 expert class on
a 4 stroke Honda, which he has since sold.
Do you think he should try road racing?
Lodi, CA August 6th, 2000
The sixth round of AHRMA's western
regional
flat track series was held at The Lodi Cycle Bowl, a fixture of
California
of dirt track heritage since the early 1950s. August can be mighty warm
in California and probably accounts for the lower then normal turnout,
but mother nature fooled us with a beautiful day. A combined Dino and
Classic
Open race started the days racing. Tom Horton lead Chris Apple and Stu
Cardott from the flag to flag in the Classic class, all rode 650
Triumphs.
Lafaye McCarver made his third trip this year to California from Tacoma
to race his V-twin Indians. McCarver held on for the Dino win over
Western
region points leader, Mark Milton, who rides a vertical twin Indian.
Tom
Horton aced another start on his Shell TT Yamaha in the Seventies
Single
class as John Lundgren moved into second over Mike Gonzales. Horton
lost
the brakes on lap five and Lundgren and Gonzales dropped him to third.
Gonzales applied heavy pressure all around the oval, but Lundgren was
first
to the stripe.
Jeff Apple’s Triumph 500
pulled
Tom Horton’s 250 Suzuki twin to the first turn in the combined Classic
250 and 500/750 main. Apple held the lead till the fifth lap, when the
screaming two stroke dove under Apple to grab the lead. Apples more
powerful
mount was able to ride outside of Horton in one and three, but the
veteran
would not relinquish the inside line. Larry Madrigal and Lafaye
McCarver
finished 2nd and 3rd in the 500/750 class. The Modern Open race was won
by Mark Biscardi on a 426 Yamaha, but Stewart Barber Jr. pressured the
whole way on a CR Honda. Tom Horton and Brad Holt had a ding-dong
battle
in the Sportsman 250 event. Again Horton holeshotted the start with
Hold
right there. Hold’s Bultaco appeared to have higher cornering speed,
but
Horton has finally gotten the X-6 Suzuki dialed in and could pull a
lead
on the straights. Horton again stayed on the inside line and had his
third
win of the day. The Novice 250’s ran with the Sportsman and Mike
Riddell
bested the field on his way to a sure advancement to the faster class.
Super Senior Duane Spence won
over Mickey Alzola and Hank Cosio in the plus 60 event. Steve Lacey
dominated
the Senior main after a low side get off in his plus 50 heat race.
Warren
Adams and Allen Shaw finished 2nd and 3rd in that Senior race.
A&A’s
Rick Hocking on a 360 Bultaco, defeated Greg Wilburn’s Triumph in the
Vet
class. Hocking’s Bultaco wasn’t quite the match for Dennis Spence and
his
SL Honda based motorcycle in the Sportsman 600 main event. Hocking
followed
from the green flag and rubbed the Hondas tire the full ten laps, but
was
never able to get a wheel ahead. The two racers have rode against each
other many times since their novice days in the early seventies in
District
36. Spence said that beating Brad Lackey two motos at the Tulare AHRMA
National MX last fall was more fun. Tom Horton and Brad Holt, both on
360
Buls, were third and forth off the line and finished the 600 race in
that
order.
David Maxwell mastered the
Novice
750 field, while David Nickolson and Alan Shaw followed in the
next
two positions. Novice 600 rider Mike Riddell, was the lone entry in
that
class and ran second in the combined race. Greg Wilburn conquered
Dennis
Spence in the Sportsman 750 main. Tom Horton had a rare DNF as his
clutch
failed in the all Triumph field of big bores.
AHRMA Western
Region
Flat Track Points