1961 Dick Dorresteyn Ascot Race Gardena CA - 1-Page Vintage Motorcycle Article

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1961 Dick Dorresteyn Ascot Race Gardena CA  - 1-Page Vintage Motorcycle Article
Original, vintage magazine article
Page Size: Approx. 8" x 11" (21 cm x 28 cm)
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DORRESTEYN BREAKS
THREE TRACK RECORDS
Dal Baker Sweeps Novice Class
GARDENA, Calif.—The 1960 “Class C”
cycle racing season got of! to a flying start
at Ascot Stadium when five TT track records
were broken in the Novice and Expert class-
es. Dick Dorresteyn, who won the California
state championship last November, was the
pace setter in the expert class as he broke
the track records in the heat, trophy dash
and main event on his low flying forty-inch
Triumph. Dal Baker was the kingpin in the
novice class as he also won the heat, dash
and final, breaking Skip Van Leeuwen’s ’60
records in the dash and main event. Baker
was BSA mounted.
Sixty riders were on hand for the Sunday
afternoon season opener and were greeted
by a crowd of 5,000 fans under sunny skies
and summer-type weather. All of the top
riders from 1960 were on hand and Skip
Van Leeuwen, boasting a 24 straight win
streak victory siring, took his first ride
against the experts.
Skip, the nation’s high point TT novice
last year, was paired with Dorresteyn in the
heat race and it was a ding dong battle
all the way with Van Leeuwen getting by
the ’58 national TT champion twice in the
first four laps. On the final round Van
Leeuwen hit the ten-foot jump full bore on
the Norm Lee-tuned Triumph and lost con-
trol as the front wheel gave out and spilled
him onto the track. He was hospitalized
but was released the next morning. Dor-
resteyn went on to set a new five-lap record.
Don Hawley (H-D) and Jack Simmons
(BSA) won the other two heat races.
It was all Dorresteyn in the trophy dash
as he again broke the old track record with
room to spare. Clark White (Tri.) was
second, Simmons third and Don Hawley,
fourth. Hawley ran into trouble coming off
the line and did not return for the final.
Johnny Muckenjthaler (Tri.) took an early
lead in the 15-Iap feature but was passed
by Clark White on the second lap. White
held on until the fourth lap when Dorresteyn
moved in from fifth place. Jack Simmons
also moved up to take second spot and
chased Dorresteyn the remaining 16 laps.
White and Dick Hammer (BSA) battled all
the way for third position with White moving
in on the final round. Muckenthaler finished
in filth with new amateur, Jim Plain (Tri.)
taking sixth spot on the last lap.
Dal Baker, in his second year of compe-
tition, won with ease in all three of the
novice races. Newcomers Bob Bailey and
Jell Sperry from Bakersfield won the other
two heats. Bailey was second on his Tri-
umph in the dash and Sperry on an Enfield
twin was third. Jim Poteet (Tri.) took
fourth.
It was Baker from the start in the 10-
lap final with Sperry moving up for second.
Bill Riley (BSA) was third, Duane Shod-
ley (H-D) from Iowa, fourth, Hank Fish-
burn (BSA), fifth and Poteet, sixth.
The biggest TT in the Southland will be
run at Ascot on Sunday, March 26th in the
form of a 100-lap feature. All of the riders
will time trial in the morning and then they
will take the 33 fastest riders, regardless of
whether they are novice, amateur or expert
and put them on the track all at once for
100 rounds over the jump and through the
eight right and left hand turns.
The half-mile season will open on Friday
night. April 7th and will run every week un-
til November. Managing director, J. C. Aga-
janian, has also sanctioned two one-mile
races for the month of April. On Sunday,
April 9th, the riders will run on the mile
at Phoenix, Ariz. and the following Sunday
it will be at the state fairgrounds in Sacra-
mento. The one-mile races will be open to
novices also, giving them their first chance
on the long track in many a year. The race
on the Sacramento mile will be the high-
light of the spring fair that will be held at
that time. This is the same track the riders
will return to in July for the running of
the 25-mile national championship.
—Roxy Rockwood
Also on page:
► MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA—Only ten
out of the original 51 entries were still run-
ning at the end of the Confederate 24-Hour
Motorcycle Marathon, among whom was 53-
year-old Matchless/Zundapp dealer Bob
Moore of Rome, Georgia, who took second
place in Class 4.
An interesting sidelight is the fact that
the Zundapp Super Sabre ridden to victor}'
in the 250cc class by Randy Smith was used
Friday to carry a paper route, then taken
to Montgomery where it outlasted a stellar
field to win Class 4 before a ground wire
came off the battery. The machine was taken
back to Rome, ground wire connected, and
the papers were delivered Monday with
absolutely no work having been done on
the machine.
Other results:
Overall winner—Paul Maddox; Class 1—
C. Gray; Class 2—Randy Smith; Class 3—
A. Tomblin; Class 4—J. Smith: Class 5—
T. D. Howton; Ladies’ Class—Nan Henson.
Randy Smith displays trophy ho won in 24-
hour Confederate Marathon 25Occ Class
aboard Zundapp Super Sabre which carried a
paper route on Friday, competed in the mara-
thon, and again delivered papers on Monday.
YOKOSUKA KNIGHTS PLAN RALLY
The Yokosuka Knights Motorcycle Club
of Yokosuka, Japan, has scheduled a two-
day Rally for April 1-2, at Yokosuka.
In addition to real international compe-
tition, in which Japanese and American
motorcycle . clubs will take place, movies
and a beach party are also on the agenda,
for the night of the 1st.
Harley-Davidson SCORES IN FRANCE
Heading for the finish line, French rider Andre
Nebout pilots his Aermacchi Harley-Davidson
Sprint to victory on the two-mile track at
Monthlery, France. Nebout lapped the second
place rider in the feature event.
Surrounded by admirers, Andre Nebout, at
right, proudly accepts the victor's bouquet for
his win at the Monthlery track, in. France.
Mounted on an Aermacchi Harley-Davidson
Sprint, he was awarded the trophy in the 250cc
Sports class.
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