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00:00Drive about 8 miles due west of the Carlsbad Raceway and this is what you'll see, the Pacific Ocean.

00:07Next stop, maybe 3,000 miles to Hawaii.

00:10Not a whole lot left aside from some beautiful blue water, some great fishing and some great surfing.

00:16Beautiful, beautiful seacoast.

00:18But right now, it's back up to the racetrack where we see Billy Frank from up in Orange County getting ready to go.

00:25Frank currently rides in the 5th spot in the overall point standing team, the support rider from Yamaha.

00:31And currently 4th in those standings is Suzuki's George Hollins,

00:34who may be better known to motocross fans for his many successes on the smaller 125cc bikes.

00:403rd in the standings at the present time is Al Cajon's Brock Glover,

00:45the superstar on the Yamaha team who we saw ride into the 3rd spot in the first moto.

00:52And 2nd in points is Jeff Ward for Kawasaki,

00:54a young man who's never done anything for a living but ride motorcycles.

00:57The press used to call him the Flying Freckle, but he's finally having shed that kind of ridiculous nickname.

01:03Sitting in the number 1 spot, the crosstown rival from Al Cajon, Ricky Johnson,

01:08who you saw make that fantastic charge to win in the final lap from Jeff Ward.

01:14So this group and a whole bunch more are set for the start of Moto 2 at Carlsbad.

01:19Everybody's staring at their own individual gate, and they are away.

01:22The final moto, 250 pros, some of the best riders in the world,

01:25and it is Ricky Johnson that's going to lead it through that first left-hand turn.

01:30And that's bad news for the rest of the pack, Brock, it sure is.

01:34Johnson took a while to get to the front on the last moto,

01:37but right now he's saying, bye-bye, I'm going to get out here in front and stay there.

01:41Right behind him, though, is Scott Manning.

01:45And there's some riders who we didn't hear much from in the first moto,

01:47but got a good start.

01:48Behind Manning is Scott Tyler, number 53, Mark Banks in Ford 6X,

01:52and Brock Glover is in the 5th spot.

01:55It's he who now has to play catch-up.

01:57In the meantime, we've got Ward, George Holland, Billy Frank,

02:00and the rest of them kind of stuck back in the field,

02:02and they're going to have to work their way to the front.

02:05And that ain't easy with a whole bunch of good riders out here like this.

02:08Now a guy with the abilities of Ricky Johnson on his home turf,

02:11oh, man, he's going to be tough to catch.

02:14Well, right now he's moved out to a good, long lead on Scott Manning,

02:19almost riding alone in the picture.

02:21Here comes Manning and the rest of the guys,

02:23but you can be sure that the one man in that kind of front group

02:27that has a chance to reel him in is Brock Glover.

02:30And we don't even see Jeff Ward up among the front runners.

02:33It was he who told you, Brock, that this track is getting slippery

02:36and much harder to ride as it dries out.

02:38Well, Steve, as we expected, Glover is beginning to make his move on Mark Banks.

02:43Mark Banks, the Englishman from Suffolk, England.

02:45He rides for Team Honda of England, but right now he's got his hands full with Glover.

02:49Waisman is down. Waisman trying to muscle his way past Brock Glover,

02:53and he lost that one.

02:55Waisman a little shaken up, but he appears to be okay.

02:58Going to sit down and take a big, deep breath and think about that one for a while.

03:01Oh, boy, that's like falling down in front of a freight train.

03:04The first thing he did, no matter how much he hurt,

03:06was to get out of the way of everybody else.

03:08It looks like he's going to be all right, but here comes Glover.

03:12No question about it, Glover is on the move now,

03:15challenging Mark Banks for the third spot.

03:18Mark Banks comes over here like a lot of the Europeans

03:21to kind of do a refresher course,

03:23because they don't get any better than the guys that ride here in Carlsbad.

03:27So right now Glover pushes his way by,

03:30but I'll tell you what, Steve, Banks is giving him a good fight.

03:33Oh, you can bet he is.

03:34There's a lot of competition between especially the English and the American riders,

03:38and the quality of the American riders is so evident here.

03:41The French national champion, the Japanese national champion,

03:44they're not even factors.

03:45That's right.

03:46You talked to the French national champion earlier, and he admitted it.

03:49He said they're really good here, and you can see it right now

03:52as Brock Glover tries to break free of Banks

03:55and hopefully catch up on his rival, Ricky Johnson.

03:58Let's take another look at what caused Russ Wageman to go down.

04:02You can see here he got awful close to Glover.

04:04Glover was not about to give an inch,

04:06and Glover is just the stronger of the two.

04:09Wageman finally just goes right over the handlebars.

04:12That's about as hard as you can get off a motorcycle.

04:14Well, I think he just tried to run as hard as Glover was going through that corner,

04:18and you just don't do that unless you've got extraordinary talent,

04:22not to take anything away from Wageman at this particular time.

04:25Here are a couple of Yamaha riders fighting it out for second spot,

04:29Glover behind Scott Manning,

04:32and it's going to be Glover right there getting by.

04:35So he has moved into the second spot.

04:37Scott Manning simply can't stay up with him.

04:39But can Brock Glover make up the tremendous difference

04:42between himself and the leader, Ricky Johnson?

04:45Scott Manning is now pulling back to third,

04:47Billy Frank, a game-young kid at board,

04:49and Jeff Ward clear back in fifth.

04:51Right. That is Billy Frank and Jeff Ward fighting it out for the fourth spot.

04:55Remember now, Jeff Ward led the first moto for a long, long time,

05:00had kind of a bad start, though,

05:02and the second moto has been trying to work his way through the field.

05:05Jeff Ward, probably one of the quickest riders in the history of this sport, Steve.

05:10That says a lot for Billy Frank to be able to hold him off as well as he is doing.

05:14Billy Frank has had a very fine outing today

05:16against the best competition that you could possibly muster.

05:19And look at this. He puts a few bike lengths on Jeff Ward.

05:22Remember, Ward said he went to a new front tire

05:24because the track was drying out,

05:26felt that he couldn't take the chances in the final moto that he did in the first one.

05:30And now he's pulling up on Billy Frank, waiting for an opportunity to pass,

05:33and here it may come.

05:35No! Ward could not get around him on the inside.

05:38Now going to try him on the outside,

05:40and still couldn't get enough momentum even for the burn shot.

05:43Now it is Ward in front of Billy Frank, or is it?

05:46Oh, and they collide. They are both down and down hard.

05:50Some spectators get jostled around, but doesn't appear to be anybody down there.

05:54Billy Frank took the worst of this. He's in pain, Brian.

05:57He took a hard shot in his left leg.

05:59He's holding his left knee.

06:01Now Ward gets back on his bike and gets back underway,

06:04but not Billy Frank. He is down and he's hurting.

06:07A tough, tough shot Billy Frank took,

06:10and apparently it was that left leg that took the brunt of the collision.

06:14Let's take another look at it now.

06:16Both trying to get into the same spot on the racetrack.

06:19There they come together. Down they go.

06:21And notice Billy Frank's left leg hooked underneath him as he went down,

06:25and that is where the damage was obviously done.

06:28He is going to grab that left leg, and that's a tough, tough break.

06:32What a good ride he was having up to that point.

06:35Well, he was just so aggressive, and he lost it and ran right into Ward.

06:38But the benefactor, the Frenchman in the pink leather is Jackie Vimont.

06:41He is now up to fourth and trying to pass Scott Manning for the third spot.

06:45Notice that Vimont is carrying 70 on the back of his leather, Steve,

06:49but 7P is his number in the race.

06:5170 is his number in France,

06:53and he's carrying this number over here in the United States.

06:56But right now, he doesn't care what number he's got on his back or on his bike.

06:59His eyes are concentrating on Scott Manning immediately ahead of him.

07:04And right now, Manning is holding him off.

07:06Well, Vimont, though, is proving why.

07:08He has been several times the French national champion,

07:11and typical Frenchman, he likes to style it over the jumps,

07:14even though he's trying to pass for third spot.

07:16Well, he's going to try to dive underneath him into turn one.

07:19Can't make it work.

07:21And now, Manning takes that big, long jump,

07:24but he'll go up, huck a hard right, and come parallel,

07:27right back to the other jump and make another one right here.

07:30There's a point on the racetrack where everybody's flying in opposite directions.

07:33Pit signals are off.

07:35The crews are crowding more and more crowded on the racetrack.

07:38They're like bullfighters out there with a pit board.

07:40That's right. The yellow flag is out in that turn, of course,

07:43for Billy Franklin, who is still down there.

07:45But the Frenchman is a delight to watch.

07:47He's a photographer's dream.

07:49Especially with those pink leathers on.

07:52Now you can see George Holland, number 65, on the Suzuki

07:55in the yellow riding suit, closing up on Jackie Vimal.

07:59Notice how George kind of hunches down over the handlebars.

08:02He's got kind of that bulldog driving style.

08:05The other guys kind of stand up on the bars.

08:07George has kind of hunched down over him, and he's a small, compact man anyway.

08:11He has not been running quite as well as we expected him to run in this race.

08:16You know, I thought maybe he'd be right there with a leader.

08:18Well, he's usually very, very competitive on 125s, as we said before,

08:21but certainly not a bad performance today.

08:24Here comes Jackie Vimal, moving up on Manning.

08:28No, don't get me wrong.

08:29Anybody can even stay right-side up on one of these things.

08:32He's doing a great job, much less ride them the way these guys do.

08:36Oh, yeah, and you figure there's over 7,000 riders in the ZMC

08:39and only a couple of hundred pros,

08:41and a half a dozen capable of winning a race like this.

08:43This is the elite.

08:45Okay, there goes Vimal training inside on Scott Manning.

08:48Still can't make it work.

08:49Dirt tracking through that corner, down over the big double drop jump,

08:53and Manning holds on.

08:54Holland right in back there,

08:56waiting for a little slip on the part of either Manning or Vimal.

08:59Holland tries the inside.

09:01Almost caught the rear wheel of Vimal.

09:03Vimal by him, Steve.

09:04Oh, boy.

09:05I'll tell you, this is a terrific three-way duel.

09:07Vimal, Manning, Holland.

09:09What a show.

09:10In the meantime, of course, way up front, Ricky Johnson and Brock Glover,

09:15but Vimal, Manning, and Holland can taste that third-spot money right now,

09:20and they're riding as hard as they can to get it.

09:23Well, viva la France.

09:25This boy is really cooking.

09:26He is indeed.

09:27Pulled out now to a point where, look at this,

09:30Holland trying Manning on the inside off that jump.

09:34Can't make it stick, but here he comes again.

09:37Scott Manning now is being challenged very hard by Jordan Holland.

09:41You described Holland earlier as a bulldog,

09:43and that's the kind of performance he's putting on now,

09:45just gritty, tenacious.

09:47He knows in his own mind he's going to get Manning,

09:49and it's sometimes that mental outlook that will get it done for you.

09:53Well, Manning certainly isn't giving up by any means.

09:55Right now, though, they've got that big jump,

09:58and George Holland carried his bike a little bit farther,

10:02far enough really to take over the number four spot from Scott Manning.

10:07What a race.

10:10Rick Johnson continues to lead it here in dominating style

10:13at the Golden State Nationals.

10:15Right now, he's gathering up a slower rider,

10:18but I'll tell you what, a formidable man indeed.

10:20That is Atsushi Okabe, the current national champion of Japan,

10:26and I'll tell you what, Ricky just blew right by him.

10:29Oh, indeed he did.

10:30The Japanese, in fact, there's a pair of them over here,

10:32hoping to run a number of races this year.

10:35A little stiffer competition might turn them into better riders.

10:37At least that's what the factories hope.

10:39Ricky Johnson, just a superbly turned out athlete,

10:42an excellent surfer, a snow skier, a water skier, he can do it all.

10:46For that matter, so can this man, Brock Glover,

10:48currently running in the second spot.

10:50Who would have thought in such a short time,

10:52considering that motocross only started in this country in 1968,

10:55that guys like Brock Glover would become such highly paid superstars,

10:59travel internationally,

11:00though of the caliber of his two-wheel sport,

11:02his Formula One drivers would be in automobile racing.

11:05Well, Billy Frank has been taken back to his truck in the pit area,

11:08and Brock Yates is over there to see how he's doing.

11:11Steve, I'm with Billy Frank,

11:12who was involved in that little deal with Jeff Ward,

11:14and looked pretty bad at the start,

11:16but it looks like maybe he walked away with just a wrenched knee, huh?

11:20Yeah, at the start, some guy crashed right in front of me,

11:22and I had to slow down, and I came out about last,

11:24but I passed a lot of people going on the outside,

11:27so we were good.

11:28Yeah, you were running real good.

11:30And were you trying to get by Jeff, or how did it actually set up?

11:34Well, he was right behind me for about three laps,

11:36and then he passed me going around this turn,

11:38and I thought I'd get him back on this double,

11:40and I passed him, but I landed in a hole,

11:42and my hand came off the bar, and I just slid over and hit him.

11:45So he kept going, but you were the loser, huh?

11:49Yeah, I think I smashed my knee.

11:50I hope I didn't twist it, though,

11:51because it'll take a long time if I twist it.

11:53Yeah, that hurts.

11:54Well, I'm real sorry that you're out.

11:55You were running real strong.

11:57Good to see you.

11:58A nice young kid is not seriously hurt, Brock.

12:00I'll tell you, we got a good race going on for eighth place.

12:02Scott Tyler, whose number is 53,

12:04his truth, he may say 903, but trust me, he's number 53.

12:08He has fallen from third to eighth,

12:09and Jeff Hicks is right on him, and so has Michael Larson.

12:12They want to push him back even further if they can,

12:14and they've only got about a lap and a half to do that,

12:17to get that job done,

12:18and Jeff Hicks, who has been steadily moving up,

12:20is now trying to overtake a rider who has steadily been moving back,

12:24so that could work out very well for him.

12:26In fact, here comes Hicks, number 21,

12:28onto Suzuki, tries him on the outside.

12:31No, it is not going to work.

12:33That is Scott Tyler, who may say 903 on the jersey,

12:36but he's really 53.

12:37Now it works.

12:38Jeff Hicks, number 21, has taken over the eighth spot,

12:41and that moves Tyler back to ninth,

12:44and Michael Larson, number 54, in that tenth position still.

12:47Well, Ricky Johnson may be a runaway leader,

12:50but we certainly have not had any problem

12:52finding a good race going on here,

12:53and Hicks suddenly gets off the course.

12:55He has stalled the motor, gets it restarted,

12:57so Jeff Hicks really bobbled badly there.

13:01That puts Scott Tyler, number 53, back into eighth

13:03and moves Michael Larson up to ninth.

13:05Well, that was really a tough break for Hicks.

13:07He had pretty well covered it, but look at this.

13:10There is your man heading for victory,

13:13or at least a presumed victory,

13:14Ricky Johnson riding just as hard on this,

13:17what probably is his last lap.

13:19Yes, it is the last lap,

13:21as he was really out of the starting gate, Steve.

13:24I think you're right, Brock.

13:25Until this lap, it looked like on that turn

13:27that Johnson just wasn't using that throttle grip as hard.

13:29And who can blame him?

13:30I'm sure the people he works for,

13:32the people from Honda are saying,

13:34just win the race.

13:35You can win it by 10 feet or 100 yards.

13:37Just win it.

13:38Well, right behind him, of course,

13:40is his arch rival, Brock Glover,

13:42his neighbor, as it were, from Costa Mesa,

13:44so you can be sure that one bobble

13:47is going to cost him the victory.

13:49So, right now, yeah, I think you're right.

13:51Rick Johnson is running considerably slower right now,

13:55and if he had a rear-view mirror on that thing,

13:57he could see that well behind him is Brock Glover.

14:00You know, you see these riders go,

14:02look at how easy.

14:03He's just stroking it now.

14:04Now, you see these riders...

14:05Oh, and there it is.

14:06He wins it with double Vs for victory.

14:09What a ride for Ricky Johnson.

14:11Now, little Whaley celebrating

14:13a well-deserved win here today.

14:15In fact, back-to-back motors.

14:17You can't do it any better.

14:18He's still out there playing and having some fun.

14:20Glover picks up the second.

14:21He deserved every inch of that.

14:23So, two guys from right here,

14:26locals, as it were,

14:27dominate this race from start to finish.

14:30But it was the man, Ricky Johnson,

14:32who did it all, winning them both.

14:34The first one, the first moto, the hard way.

14:36The second one, about as easy as you could hope for.

14:39Literally a flag-to-flag victory in the second moto.

14:42So, he takes that 41-point victory to carry on.

14:45The overall win, 82 points.

14:47Glover second, Jeff Ward third, despite the fall.

14:51George Holland fourth,

14:52George Holland fourth,

14:53and Jackie Beamon for a France fifth.

14:55Well, here they come into victory.

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