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(Top) Smith (':ion 9) caught and passed Pomeroy on Sunday. (Abovel Kent Howerton fimshed fourth Saturday, fifth Sunday . (Below) Steve Stackable rode to 13th Saturday, DNF'd Sunday. " I just didn't go fa st enoug h , " J immy Ellis said . ohviously far from sa tisfied with his weekend 's work . . DiStefano. on the other hand had run into a couple of performancehind ering physical problems . Still un comfortab le from a chest injury incurred last week at Da llas - he was sick immediately following Saturday night's second place ride - DiStefano was hardly at his best. Earlier that e"e~ing he a nd Hann ah had tangled durin g a heal race. DrStcfano's foot had raken a beat ing in Hannah's rea r wheel : th e bOOI was destroved a nd his heel badly bruised . . " 1 was a ba sket case! BUll wanted to ge t Hannah ." Di.Stcfano sa id lat er. voicin g the ft'd ings of ma ny 'r iders. Jim Pom eroy. seco n d in th e Su percross Series point st andi ngs . ro u nded out. th e top three o n Sarurdav night , but co u ld onl y ma naged a 12th on Sunda y. " It was just one of th ose rhings." Honda 's Team man ager Te r ry Milligan said . making no exc uses . " I'm still second in the standings ," Pomeroy added , "the third pla ce man (Steve Stackab le) was about 35 po int s down ." Unofficially, Hannah 's series poi nt s to tal reac hed 156 ; Pomeroy ma intai ned second wit h 132 ; Ellis moved in to third with .1 03 points ; Mosier (previously fifth) moved into a tie for fourth wit h DiStefano (p reviously n inth) at 87 points. Saturday night in the balloon Pont iac's flexible -cei linged stadium , pressurized at four psi ,. ca useda m inor stir among tuners that ranged from Hond a me c ha ni r Merle Anderson 's "We used the sa me jett ing as at th e Astrodome." to seizure problems with bot h factory Husqvarnas on Saturdav night. Most jetted a bit rich and ra n with no problem . Following the four qualifiers won by Bob Hannah . Jeff Jennings. Kent Howerton and Jimmy Ellis; the two semis topped by T onv DiSt efano a nd Don Kudalski: and . till' co nso la tion th at weni to Ga ry Sem ics, th e fin al m ot o gOI u nd erw a y. It wa s J im Pome ro y's Hond a leading th e way on the o pe ning lap . bUI o nly a n instant behind was a n el bow nudging trio of Bob Hann ah . Mart y Smi t h a nd T on y D . Kent Howerton . Ga ylon Mosier a nd Mickev Kessler filled th e nex t t hree slots . a ls;, in rhe hu nt. Supe rc ross Cha m p Jimm y Weinert had go tten off in l-lt h , J imm y Ellis had misjudged the ga te . hit it ;a rly . a nd was ridi ng I WO plan's back III 16th . Hannah wasted no tim e . sq ueez ing around Pom eroy on till' third t inuarou nd mu ch to the del i/-:h l of t h.. sp,·clatol s. At almost th .. sa mc lim c . Jimmy Weinert hit rhe ha yb ales, He laid t he blame on Kennv Zahrt . - " He'd been takin!( th;' insid e lim' on th a t tu rn , lap after la p . so I went around the outside. He saw me . a nd moved out ," the original ja mme r reported . Zahrt was also credi ted with Weinert's Kawa saki teammate Gary Sernics' cra sh in the semi . Zahrt seerne surprised at the accusation . {Continued on page 46) 9