John Roberts with a big lead going into one of the checkpoints followed by Gary tons of M Canadian 곳enite вторOST seconds. A good pit stop. I think it took jam a little longer than 15 seconds. Jay and getting his tank marked before it goes out to the second loop. Only in a desert race can you get lost in the pits. Jay and can't quite pick up the line to know which way the second loop goes. Find somebody in the crowd points away to him. Gary Preston in the pits running in second. Whitey Martino getting a little wheel adjustment. Brenna McClellan our man in the pits. Jim how's it going so far? Okay, why are you going so far? Good luck. He hit a rock. Congratulations. That's rough. He said it's rough. He wants a cigarette. The gas is going standby for a fire. We're backing off now. He's getting a little request for a cigarette in there and goes number 36. How's it going Don? Fine, everything's wonderful. This is really a tremendous excitement. The pit stops are averaging about 10 seconds. Other motorcycles are roaring by as they go to their respective pits to be gasped up. How's it going I'm going to track? Not much more than one word or two from each of these drivers as they come into the pit stop. The engine's racing being gasped up. Making less minute adjustments as one half of the loop of the complete course is being made. Check this out pretty darn close. Running in second place was Gary Preston, followed by Bill Bryant on a 250 greaves. Gary's on a big fire breather, a 650 trial. In the Titan twisty stuff, the little 250 greaves had a big advantage. But in the sand wash, the big triumphs had the advantage. In fourth place was Larry Burke with us on a BSA. Unfortunately, Larry also passed away. Jan Roberts in one of the final checkpoints. Followed by Gary Preston, who obviously passed Bryant in the wash with more power. And here comes Bill Bryant. Larry Burke with us comes to the checkpoint in fourth. By this point, there were only 250 riders left out of the 801 that started. Jan was a carpenter, lived in Sun Valley, California and was 25 years old at the time. We talked to Jan about his training routine. To keep in shape for riding. I do a lot of riding. I can stand on the pegs the whole race. I feel that I have a great advantage over the competition. Due to the fact that your legs act as a second set of shock absorbers. You can always ride better the first part of the race. Due to the fact that if you aren't tired, when you do get tired, you start getting sloppy and you'll make a lot more mistakes. And if you can't read the train fast, you're just not going to go fast. You have to concentrate all the time. You drop your guard once. You're going to get off. When you get off going fast, you're going to get hurt. We did this stop motion thing with Jan, figuring we're really pretty brilliant to do it. Jan now in his six.