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Weinert: Living proof. if you loo k back. somebody m ight be gaining.
Photo sequence after DeCoster crash shows attendants picking up the champion in (luckily) one piece. hi s Suzuki in two pieces.
almost fo rgotten when Smith grabbed
'th e lead. Smith and the crowd suffered
big le t-downs when Marty tumbled off
th e steep V -turn to go from first to last
in an instant. J im West grabbed th e lead
with an eager Tony D. massaging his
rear fen der. The former pistol fro m
Bristol, Pennsylvan ia to o k the lead on
lap five as he h eld the gas on down one
of th e many bu mpy hills. Fro m that
p oi nt o n, the day was Tony D. 's as his
20 second margin over second was
monitored by mechanic Keith McCarty.
Jim West held second for five laps until
Te am Europe, DeCoster and Wolsink,
za pped him. Suzuki T eam Man ager
Yusaki Ishibashi hel d out DeCoster's pit
board as the rocket orbited over the big
jum p . Su ddenly Roger's sligh tly askew
fro nt wheel lan din g tu rn ed to disas ter as
his magnesium triple clamp snapped,
splaying t he RN370 into a "Y" with
Roger in the middle. In seco n ds
hundreds of people sandwiched the
tra ck to gape at the bleeding an d dazed
cham pio n.
DiStefano took the overall and his
second Trans-MIA only to return to a
sullen pit. Wolsink, Stackable, Weinert,
Semics,
Howerton,
Smith ,
West,
Thorwaldson and Mosier roun ded o ut
the top ten.
The su n se t swiftly behind the brown
gras s hill s and a chill se t tled over the
pi ts where Tony D. had j u st guaran teed
America a 5-5 sp lit o f this yea r 's
Trans-AMA series with the Eu ro peans.
Su zu ki is assured the to p three series
placings. DeCoster's injury and possible
retirement from the series will n o t
affect his series overall win .
•
Ellis: A return to winning ways on the Can-Am .
Results
5 0 0 ee INT ERN A T ION A L CLAS S , 1 . T on y
D ISt e fano (2 - 1) Su z. 2. Jim We in ert
(3~)
Yam . 3 . Ma rt y S m ith (1·8) Hon . 4 . Ga ry
se m tcs (5 -6 ) K aw . 5 . Gerr lt W ol slnk (10-2)
Suz. 6. Jim West (7 -5) M al. Ke nt Hower ton
( 9 -7 ) HU5 . Brad Lackey (4-12) H us. Gayl on
M osler ( 8-11 ) M ai. Ri ch T h orwal dson ( 1 3'9 )
Mal .
25 0 S U PPO RT C LASS : 1. J im E lli s (2-1)
C-A. 2 . Tommy Croft (1 -3) Hon. 3. Buc k
Murphy (6-4) C·A. 4. Oon Kudalsk l (5 -5 )
Hen, 5 . M ike Runya rd (4-7) C-A . 6 . Terry
Clark (7 -6 ) Hus. 7 _ Dan T urner (15-2) Yam. 8 .
M ik e Kessler (3 -16) Hu s. 9 . Ken Zahr t (10-11)
ass. 10. Gunnar L lnns trom (11 -14) Su z .
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