THE WEEKLY FEED: CLASSIC CARLSBAD • GOODBYE TO A HERO • PHOTO OF THE WEEK-COOPER ABBOTT

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Tom Webb

by: Tom Webb

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BLAST FROM THE PAST In one of the biggest shockers in the motocross world, Team LOP’s Marty Moates blew away the field, an event that had never witnessed an American winner. In 1977 Jim Pomeroy became the first American to win a Moto at Carlsbad, a circuit dubbed ‘The Rock’. In June of 1980, two riders were in tightly contested battle to win the championship- Andre Malherbe and Brad Lackey. But it was a privateer rider on a Yamaha YZ465G who grabbed the holeshot and then fough ...

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