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J (Above) Ev~r w onder what othe r factory teams thin k of the Hurricane7 (Below) Two National champs bite the dust . DiStefano ani:! Howerton get a little tang led up in Georgia. . (Above) Tommy Croft combined a 10:3 score for third overall . (Below ) M ickey Boone leads Tony D and Danny laPorte. (Bottom) The Sm ithHannah duel was this close throughout the race . beat him . .. so I had to . Now I'm sure he knows I ca n ," said Ha nnah . After their five laps of dicing which never got below third gear , nor further apart than 20 feet , H annah pulled away from Marty to maintain a safe, but hardly comfortable 50 ·200 yard lead the final half of the moto towards the checkerss , Mickey Boo ne had tired out during the early goings of the mota , turning over third spot to Tony D whq held it most of the mota until Tommy Croft put on a strong late mota charge and got by. Tony picked up his pace then to hold off teammate Danny La Port e , Steve Stackable tagged along for sixth spot which was good enough . considering everyone's first moto crashes , to give him second overall . Finishing behind Stack were Semics , Bultaco's Rich Eierstedt, then Husky's duo of Howerton and Sun. Bob Hannah now leads Marty Sm ith by a slim t hree points in the championship sta n d ings, with the final race in the series to be run this . corning weekend in St.. ' Petersbu rg , Florida . O ne of the two will win the Cham p ionshi p and when they do, t. they'll be the first rider in AMA history ~ to win th e National Cha mpionship in mor e th an one class . Marty shou ld be fu lly hea led from his injuries , while n H a n na h does n 't know how to lose ~ without b reaking. Little sister Tammy n thinks her big bro ther Bob is pretty ~.nea t and is keeping , her fi ngers crossed. 125Support oj Yama ha p layed to a double head er J :') ; J ' 't J. •} 0 J ~ i !'f:1c ~ '! !-- ... ' ' this weekend as Mike Bell once agai n top ped t he ·125cc Support cl ass , pu lling off bot h m ota wins as David .held up the signboard which , by now , ' shou ld have the n umber " 1" painted on it . The factory Ya m aha rider followed FMF's Gary Ogd en much of the first mota before blasting by to take the win . leaving Mark Barnett on the Moto-X Fox /C&B Suzuki with third . Round two was a Bell ringer from start to finish , with Ogden and Barnett trailing again . Yawn! Time to move that kid to the Na tional c la ss , especially . after his fourth at San An1tonio. _ Mike onl y needed a third overall to lock upthe Support title and Yamaha gave Be ll the 125 National championship bike of Broc Glover to do battle on . Mike did the " num ber one" 125 cycle in the n ation j ustice by dominating the race. • Results 500cc NATIONAl: 1. Bob Hannah 1-1 (Vaml. 2. Steve Stackabl e 2-6 (Mai). 3. Tommy Croft 10-3 (Honl. 4. Gaylon Mosie.. 3-13 (Maj), 5. .M ickey Boone 4-14 (Suzl. 6. Gary Semics 11·7 (Kaw). 7. Warren Reid 7·'1 (Honl. B. Rex Staten 6-12 IH·DI. 9. Chuck Sun 8-10 (Husl. 10. M arty Smith 27-2 IHenl. 11. Bich Eierstedt 13-8_ IBun, 12. T any DiStefano J5..4 (5Ul): 13. Danny laPorte · ·5 (Suz). 14 . Billy Grossi 5-. (Suzt , 15. Furman Gray 12-15 {Mail. 16. Kent Howerton DNF-9 IHusl. 17. M;ckey Kessler 9-' {Monl. 18. Gary Jones 16-18 (Vaml. 19. Denny Sw artz 15-19 (Mail , 20. Koji M asuda 14-' ISuzl. 125cc SUPPORT: 1. M ike Bell 1-1 IVaml . 2. Gary Ogden 2·2 (Suzl. 3. Mark Barnen 3-3 (Suzl. 4. Tod Perkins 54 (Yam). 5. Albert Firestone 7-5 (Yam). 6. Mark Ashworth 6-7 (Yam). 7. Rick Andrson 4-9 (Suzl. 8. Cahrles Holcomb 10-6 IHusl. 9. Bob ColI;e 11-10. 10. Robert Pearson 15-8 (Yaml. 11. David Crain 12-15 (Yam). 12. Jay Duvon 14-14 lSuz). 13. John Reinholt 13-16 ($uzl . 14. Harry Evans 1 ~13 lYam). 15. John Grant 9-25.16. Tommy Camby 2o-17lYaml. 17. Barry Bell 21-18 (Vaml. 18. Dlln'e11 Soms 22-19. 19. Greg Bankst~n 19-22 (Suz). 20. Paul M;hal;k 25-21 ISuzl. Jf ~ t 'f " ' i ( . "~I:; .. .r e, ~ ... " .'11 "" ;'1" .' -, 7 r: •