1.
GV RIDERS FROM GREAT BRITAIN HUNGARY, ITALY, SWEDEN, GERMANY AND HOLLAND IN PARADE
0.09

2.
GV CROWD
0.10

3.
LV PAN START OF RACE, RIDERS AWAY FROM CAMERA
0.15

4.
LV PAN RIDERS PAST, OFFICIALS SCRAMBLE TO GET OUT OF THE WAY
0.21

5.
SV NO. 12 V. EASTWOOD LEADS RIDERS AROUND BEND PAN ON No.46 (J.TEEUWISSEN, BELGIUM)
0.31

6.
TV NO. 10 (J. BANKS, GREAT BRITAIN) LEADS No. 48 (R DE COSTER, BELGIUM) AROUND BEND
0..35

7.
SV NO.2 (P. FRIEDRICHS, GERMANY) LEADS RIDERS OVER HILLOCK
0.45

8.
CU SPECTATORS
0.47

9.
LV & CU RIDERS OVER HUMP (3 SHOTS)
1.04

10.
SV CROWD
1.06

11.
SV JOHN BANKS LEADS P. DOBRY (CZECH) THROUGH WOODS
1.10

12.
GV CROWD
1.14

13.
LV PAN ABERG LEADING
1.21

14.
SV ABERG RECEIVES CHECUERED FLAG
1.26

15.
SV CROWD APPLAUD
1.30

16.
CU JOHN BANKS RECEIVES FLOWERS
1.44



Initials CS/VS/MR/OS



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Background: BRITAIN'S JOHN BANKS HAS TAKEN OVER THE LEAD IN THE 500 c.c. WORLD MOTORCROSS CHAMPIONSHIP BY TAKING SECOND PLACE IN THE BELGIAN GRAND PRIX AT NAMUR IN BELGIUM TODAY (SUNDAY).

BANKS NOW HAS 36 POINTS TO LEAD FROM SWEDEN'S AKKE JONSSON, WHO HAS 32. JONSSON WAS UNPLACED IN TODAY'S RACE. THE G.P. WAS WON BY ANOTHER SWEDE BENGT ABERG, ON A HUSQVARNA BANKS RODE A B.S.A. TO HIS SECOND PLACING.

THIRD WAS PAUL FRIEDRICHS OF EAST GERMANY, AND JOE TEUWISSEN OF BELGIUM WAS FOURTH ON ANOTHER HUSQVARNA. BRITAIN'S JEFF SMITH WAS FIFTH. OF TODAY'S PLACEGETTERS, TWO OTHERS ARE IN THE RACE FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP. FRIEDRICHS IS RUNNING THIRD WITH 28 POINTS AND ABERG IS FOURTH WITH 24.