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Editor: ANDY FRASER

September 7, 1980 Tel. 985-2131

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SHOWING THE STYLE thac won bim first place in the Freestyle Canadian National Skateboard champlonship.
Rick Teu of North Vancouver performs hts own penonal acrial copter’ for the camera, Rick abso placed third In the
Onsks International Freestyle world competition held last weck in San Diego while competing against 80 skater with
a broken wrist, Rick ts pant owner of a pair of skateboard shops in North Vancouver (Terry Peter photo)

Mahood grabs
driving title

Sets new record

North Vancouver’s
Andy Mahood has set a
new points record in

the International
Conference of Sports
Car Clubs (ICSCC)

racing series. Driving a
Lola T-440 in the very
competitive Formula
Ford class, Mahood
scored his sixth victory
in ten starts last
weekend at Spokane,
Washington.

With 201 points he has
broken the old 1976 record
by 20 points, and leads the
second place car of Ed-
monds (Wa.) dmnver Ed
Freutel by 74 points. Two
races still remain in the
series, but he has amassed
enough points to wrap up the
overall senes championship.

Mahood has opted to miss
these two races in order to

contest the Canadian
National Championships at
Mosport, Ontario on Sep-
tember 14 and to run in a
support race at the Canadian
Grand Prix at He Notre
Dame (Montreal) on Sep
tember 28.

The win at Spokane was
hard fought as Mahood held
off a number of challenges
from the other 18 cars in the
field who were scrambling to
keep up the pace. He was
particularly effective in
darting past some of the
lapped cars late in the race
and maintaining his small
lead. His margin of victory
was about 10 seconds at the
finish.

At age 24 Mahood appears
to be a prime candidate for
the professional Formula
Atlantic senes which visits
Westwood every year. He'll
be spending the next couple
of months looking for the

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