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Gary Scott. after a near miss win last week in Oklahoma , became the seventh different w inner in seven Grand Nationals. • • • Win By Gary Van Voo rh is Mert is still everybody's favorite rider . LOUISV ILLE, KY ., MAY 29 Make no mistake about it, Gary I Scott IS alive and well and has no intention of letting anybody Wrest the Grand National Championship from his grasp . Scott, declaring "I'll ride whatever line it take s to win ," j ust mom ents before the star t of th e 20 Lap Louisville AMA Gr and N at i o n a l Championship /Camel Pro Series half mile did exactly th at to wio th e ten th running of th e Louisville Do wns (Ky .) event. T he wio put Gary int o a solid third pl ace io th e poiot st an di ngs and , pending the awarding of p oints from th e decision in last week's Oklahoma National protest (whi ch apparen tl y was not cou nter p rotested) co uld move him to within only a co uple o f poiots of lea de rs Rick Hocking and Kenny Roberts. • (The results of the protest are listed in Upshot.) Ab out 15 m inutes lat er Scott, wi th a bottle of bubbly in one hand, was telling all th ose in the press ro om that the flowers in . th e winner's garlan d h is ne ck smell ed a ro un d " deeee-Iigh t fu l, " 6 Sco tt had his Carl Patrick tuned Harley -Davidson in the lead from the se cond lap o n, but behind him the act ion was hot an d he avy with seco nd/th ird pl aces being de cided at the fmish line io an alm os t de ad he at invo lving the Bill Werner tuned Harley of J ay Spriogsteen and the Shell Racing Sp ecialties Yamaha of Gary 's brother H~k. The second p lace nod went to . Springsteen. Harl ey-Davidson teamsters Rex Beauchamp and Greg Sassaman filled out fou rth and fifth places with Kenny Roberts puttiog his Bud Aksl and tuned Yamaha International Yamah a in sixth. Time Trials The ma gic 25 second brack et was by fo ur riders, all b r o ken Harley -Davidson m ounted. The qu artet was led by last year 's winner J ay Sp ringsteen with a clocking of 25. 764 with rookie St eve Eklund, Corky Keener, an d Jim Zeigler following. Gary Scott timed fi fth fast with Kenny Roberts, after so me ch assis adjustment, tak ing 13th faste st. Charlie Chapple was th e cu t o ff man at 26 .971. T he t ra ck , whi ch had been loo se in practice , be gan to groove up and get slower as time tr ials progress ed althou gh th ere remain ed more than just on e lin'; for the riders. Trophy Race Steve Freeman and Billy Sch aeffer found themselves on th e penalty line for th e st art of th e troph y race, but in Freeman 's case that only made him ride all the harder. Steve Eklund too k the victory , but it was Freeman's ride from