1.
SV FLAGS
0.03

2.
SV RIDERS NO. 1, 25, 26 WAIT
0.09

3.
SV CROWD
0.12

4.
GV RIDERS AT START
0.17

5.
GV START PAN WITH RIDERS
0.30

6.
SV PAN NO. 31 PAST (HUBLER) SWITZERLAND
0.38

7.
SV PEOPLE WATCH
0.41

8.
S TWO BIKES FLY BY
0.42

9.
SV PEOPLE WATCH
0.45

10.
LV PAN BIKES NO. 1 ROBERT OF BELGIUM (SECOND)
0.52

11.
LV BIKES THROUGH VALLEY
0.59

12.
GV BIKES ROUND BEND
1.03

13.
CU SPECTATORS BLOCK THEIR EARS
1.05

14.
SV BIKE NO. 6 PAST JONSSON, SWEDEN
1.09

15.
SV PAN NO. 1 PAST FOLLOWED BY NO. 3 (ARBEKOV OF U.S.S.R.)
1.16

16.
GV RUSSIAN AND BELGIUM FINISH
1.21

17.
SV BELGIUM CONGRATULATED
1.24

18.
CU RUSSIAN
1.29

19.
GV CROWD
1.33



Initials DS/V/RM/PN



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Background: VICTOR ARBEKOV, OF THE SOVIET UNION, TODAY (SUNDAY) WON THE FRENCH 250 C.C. MOTO-CROSS GRAND PRIX AT SAN QUENTIN. HE WON RIDING A C.Z., AND TOOK OVER AS LEADER FROM DAVE BICKERS IN THE 1965 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP CLASSIFICATION.

THIRTY-NINE RIDERS FROM 16 COUNTRIES TOOK PART IN TODAY'S EVENT, WITH BICKERS, ARBEKOV AND CURRENT WORLD CHAMPION, JOEL ROBERT, OF BELGIUM, SHARING ALMOST EQUAL FAVOURITISM. HOWEVER, BICKERS FAILED TO RETURN A REASONABLE PERFORMANCE BECAUSE OF TROUBLE TO HIS GREEVES MACHINE.

JOEL ROBERT WON THE FIRST HEAT FROM ARBEKOV AND THE POSITIONS WERE REVERSED IN THE SECOND. ROBERT WAS SECOND IN THE GENERAL CLASSIFICATION, WHILE ANOTHER RUSSIAN, GOUNAR DRAOUGS, ALSO ON A C.Z., WAS THIRD.

ARBEKOV'S EIGHTS POINTS GAVE HIM A TOTAL OF 19 POINTS SO FAR IN THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, BICKERS AND ROBERT SHARE SECOND PLACE WITH 12 POINTS.

IN THE FIRST HEAT THE PLACINGS WERE: JOEL ROBERT (BELGIUM) C.Z. FIRST; VICTOR ARBEKOV (SOVIET UNION) C.Z. SECOND; AND, ALAN CLOUGH (BRITAIN) GREEVES THIRD. IN THE SECOND HEAT ARBEKOV WAS FIRST, ROBERT SECOND AND GOUNAR DRAOUGS THIRD.