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MOTOR SPORTSSpotlight on Ascot, RiversideBy JIM McCORMACKAscot Park and Riverside Internationa! Raceway are battling for the motorsports spotlight this weekend.Ascot and promoter J. C. Agajanian offer the “big five” of stock car racing in a USAC spectacular Saturday night, while Riversidepresents the American Road Race Championships today, Saturday and Sunday.Pameili Jones, Norm Nelson, Rodger Ward, A, J. Foyt and Joe Leonard make up the “big five. They have won 11 of the 14 United States Auto Club stock festivals this year,And, for the first time in several years, Agajaniunhas lured them to Ascot as a group. It will ba a 100-iapper over the half-mile dirt track.Jones, who will be driving in his own backyard, Is the current leader In the chase for the driver’s title. Nelson is his nearest contender, but Jones, who won the Riverside Grand Prix,THIRD RECORD YEARCongratulatory telegram from Honda Motors informs Charlie Schott (center), vice-president and general-manager of Long Beach Honda, that his dealership is the largest volume dealer in the U.S. for the third consecutive year. Don Shiek (left) and A1 Carmichael, executives from American Honda Motors, are here for dealer’s third anniversary party, this weekend.IMPORTEDAGAR NOTES’#Woman Tops Speed RecordBONNEVILLE SALT FLATS, Utah (UP1) • - Paula Murphy, a Los Angeles inis-hns already won six of the big ones.Riverside's rond race of champions Is quite a feature in Itself. For the first time the event will bring together class champions from all six Sports Car Club of America's racing divisions.ur'-ixrc.Obviously a heated duel should shape up between the geographical factions involved.Pacific Coast drivers have been given a slight edge because they’re the “home team •At least one “first is on the line. Pat Mernone, from Washington, D.C., will attempt' to become the first woman to win a -nationalclass title.She won the right tocompete at Riverside by finishing second, ahead of 18 males, in the Northeast division during regular season activities.The queen of the show is Scottish-hom Quinn O’Hara, * *' * *MOTORLOG: The “Frantic Four'* headlines the field at Lions Drag Strip, Out of Pomona and just back from a blistering six-month Eastern tour, the group of Fox-Holding-Weekly-Rivero always cause a great deal of excitement when they hit a strip.Just last week their machine, with Norman Weekly aboard, turned 202-miles per hour before 50,000 utIndianapolis.The word from the “Four is that its “wipe put for any of the local jockeys who try and top the highflyers.SUNDAY the atockers, hundreds of them, turn out inr the daylight show at Lions. Factory experiment tals, super 6tocks, everything will go, and after regular eliminations, handicap brackets are planned.Hot rods and jatopies dominate the field for the Sunday afternoon show at Ascot.Newly crowned Chuck Conrad, the l,ong Beach speed merchant, will head the field In the hot rods, and If things run true to form, look for him to be in tha winner's circle.Sunday night the fantastic Figure-8 machines take over at Ascot. Always chuck full of thrills, spills and laughs, drivers try and survive the race, rather than win it.Eileen Nobel of Wilmington will be after her third successive checkered flag in the powderpuff race.AUTHORIZED DEALERYAMAHAIMMEDIATE SERVICENOW ON DISPLAY’65 MODELWith 111* Revolntlonarr tl*w Oil In[*ct1e» Sytfw*We take your anything In trade on a new or usedYAMAHA Sports Cycle.EXPERT MECHANICSPETE WOODS1 Blk. N. Sam’s Sea FoodSURFSlDE 596-3924
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Fri, Nov 13, 1964
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