Vernal Express | 1981-07-09 | Page 16 | Racing News |

Type	issue
Date	1981-07-09
Paper	Vernal Express
Language	eng
City	Vernal
County	Unitah
Rights	In Copyright (InC)
Rights Holder	Brehm Communications, San Diego, California
Publisher	Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title	Racing News
Type	article
Date	1981-07-09
Paper	Vernal Express
Language	eng
City	Vernal
County	Unitah
Page	16
OCR Text	Show RACING NEWS Alain Prost, France, nnbbed first place in the French Grand Prix, Sunday Sun-day at 1 hour, 35 minutes, 48 13 stTonds and averaged averag-ed 118.307 miles pr hour. John Watson, Britain, finished 2 29 seconds lx-hind Prost in second place and Nelson Piquet, Brazil, placed third. Gale Ynrborough garnered first place in the Firecracker 400, Saturday. Satur-day. Yarborough averaged averag-ed 1 12 588 miles per hour Harry Gant placed se cond and Richard Petty iinblx'd third place. Buddy Bud-dy Baker nnbU'd fourth place and Johnny Rutherford Ruther-ford placed fifth. There has been a startling startl-ing increase in deaths to motorcycle riders In slates where mandatory helmet laws have Ix-en repealed Nationwide statistics Indicate the Increase In-crease Is directly related to severe head Injuries In accidents
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