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One more time! Bob " Hurri cane" Hannah racked up his 22nd consecutiv e moto w in and his sixth straight Supercross victory. AMA/Toyota Supercross Series- Hannahja ..II 01 '1 By Jim Gianatsis NEW O RLEANS . LA . MAY 21 Yamaha's Bob "Hurricane" Hannah continued to be invincible as he scored his 22nd straight win Saturday night in the New Orleans Sup~~ dome. In winning the Popeye's Superdome Su percross, Hannah scored his sixth stra ight Supercross victory and too k command of the points lead from seco nd place fin isher . d M ar~y T npes 0 fT earn H on~ . (Above) Jimmy Ellis (18) temporarily leads the Hurricane. (Below) Marty Moates was top non-factory rider: ninth. J im Pomeroy {101took seventh. . Tn~es led a q.uartet of Honda nders with Jlm~y EII~s. Tommy Croft and Steve Wis e filling ou t the top five positi.o~s. . . . Elh s . third place fini sh, fo':'rth successive top three fini sh since returning to action aft er a sho u lder injury , would seem to signal that Ellis is 100 % ba ck in form ?'S • 0 . 6 ' Quahfyrng Rick Burgett put his Yamaha International mount into a short -lived lead in the first qual ifying moto as Honda 's Jim Pomeroy blitzed pa st to take the lead on lap two. T ripes qu ickl y closed on Burgert. dropping him to third place two laps lat er . Tri p~ th en set o,ut to reel in P0":le~oy a nd did so on l ~p five. T he re ma;mmg five laps saw Tnpe~ mov e on to VI Ctory a n~ t he n - amazmg ly - crash after takmg th e checkered flag . He was unhurt. The seco nd heat was a rep lay of the first for th e ope ni ng two laps . Suzuki mount ed Ma.rk Barnett held the I ~ad on lap one with Bob Ha nna h sto rm mg past on lap two for th e lead and then th e victory. Barnell con tinued in second pla ce until lap five when he ra n off th e tra ck and d ropped -to fourth beh ind Mickey Boone and Parry Klassen . Boon e held Klassen at ba y unt il lap seven whe n he moved by -?o finish second. Don " Killer". K:,da lski. . is ba ck. AI.though Ho.nda s J Im m y Ellis w.on th e th ird heat . It was Harley-Davidsoii' s Kuda lski who made the news by finish ing second and proving that th e orange a nd black Milwaukee marque is still in ac tion and out to win . Kent Howert on , on the factory Suzuki. held off Marty Moates' LOP.sponsorep Honda for third while Maico-rnounted Terry Clark coll ected fifth . d . W . . h littl e J im m y emert, Wit a help from Honda 's , Tommy Croft. scoo ped up th e win in th e fina l hea t. Kaw asak i-mounted W einert got off to a slow start with Croft taking th e lead foll owed by Chuck Sun a nd Frank Stacy. Wein ert moved into fift h place on lap two while Ga ry Semis was blitzing th e pack to move from 16th io sevent h in one lap . " On lap three Stacy d ropped Sun to third as Weinert began to set up teammate Ga ylon Mosier for a n ~xt la p pass th at would put him irito fourth . The fina l la p was the decid h as Wein ert got a rou nd Sta cy fh r seco nd and then took the win as Cr oft crashed befor e th e checkered fl;r . p Cr oft was up quick ly to finish t ni,~d with a Mosier /Sun battl e going to r~le flag as Mosier held off Sun for fourt h~ • . Semis 51 TIl<' first of two semis found Mike Bell corning from a m id -pack sta r « 0 take over the lead on lap fin' . B..II