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Jun 6 | Circuit des Frontières |
Circuit des Frontières,
Chimay,
Belgium
9.500 km road course |
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Preview
As usual, the classic Belgian road race had one of the best fields of any of this year's International races : Agostini, Read, Sheene, Cecotto, Länsivuori, Nixon, Rougerie, Schwärzel and Steinhausen headed the entry list on the ultra-fast Chimay circuit.
Four solo classes and a sidecar race where scheduled, and although the race distances were decent, the nature of the Chimay circuit meant that this amounted to 20 minute sprints ! Cecotto set a new track record during the F750 race, with a lap at a stunning 214.8 km/h average speed. Helped by a glorous weather, the event was a total success, with a reported 60,000 spectators attending on race day.
Race
Herbert Rittberger with the works Kreidler Van Veen easily won the 50cc race, with Stefan Dörflinger a distant second. Local rider Pierre Dumont held 3rd place for most of the race, only to be pipped by Pierre Audry's ABF in the last lap. Audry had a bad start and did well to recover from the 8th place he was in at the end of the first lap.
Results
| P | Rider | # | Bike | Entrant | Tires | Race Result | Grid | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Herbert Rittberger
|
6 | 50 Kreidler | Kreidler Van Veen | 5 | 19:09.70 | 1 | 3:48.10 | |
| 2 |
Stefan Dörflinger
|
10 | 50 Kreidler | Stefan Dörflinger | 5 | +23.40 | |||
| 3 |
Pierre Audry
|
68 | 50 ABF-Kreidler 635A | ABF | Michelin | 5 | +32.90 | ||
| 4 |
Pierre Dumont
|
40 | 50 Kreidler | 5 | +33.20 | ||||
| 5 |
Bruno Stopp
|
24 | 50 Kreidler | MSC Stuttgart | 5 | +49.10 | |||
| 6 |
Rudi Kunz
|
4 | 50 Kreidler | 5 | |||||
| 7 |
Günter Schirnhofer
|
14 | 50 Kreidler | 5 | |||||
| 8 |
Wolfgang Müller
|
18 | 50 Kreidler | 5 | |||||
| 9 |
Arthur Benitah
|
20 | 50 Kreidler | 5 | |||||
| 10 |
Jacky Hutteau
|
80 | 50 Scrab-Kreidler | 5 | |||||
| 11 |
Wolfgang Golembeck
|
12 | 50 Kreidler | 5 | |||||
| 12 |
Chris Baert
|
38 | 50 Kreidler | 5 | |||||
| 13 |
Karl-Peter Witsemann
|
56 | 50 Kreidler | 5 | |||||
| 14 |
Georges Fissette
|
86 | 50 Derbi | 5 | |||||
| 15 |
R. Vincke
|
50 | 50 Kreidler | 5 | |||||
| 16 |
Philippe Tondeur
|
58 | 50 Kreidler | 5 | |||||
| 17 |
Guy Muyters
|
34 | 50 Kreidler | 5 | |||||
| 18 |
A. de Weirdt
|
42 | 50 Kreidler | 4 | |||||
| 19 |
D. Broekaert
|
64 | 50 Kreidler | 4 | |||||
| Distance 5 laps = 47.5 km Speed 148.7 km/h |
| PP Herbert Rittberger 3:48.10 - 149.9 km/h FL Stefan Dörflinger 3:47.50 - 150.3 km/h |
| Sources Vincent Glon, Guy Thonus, Moto-Revue #2272, Moto-Journal #271 |
