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(Above) liIft to right are Graham Noyce. Gaylon Mosier. Roger DeCoster .
and Pierre Karsmakers. (Below) Brad Lackey scored second overall.
down in m id -pack after the start and
would oniy recover his way back up to
ruth place .
.,.Instead . it would be Mikkola 's
shadow who' would haunt th e
Hurricane. Lackey snared the lead ,
this . tim e pursued by Staten, Swartz,
Shultz, Adams , then Hannah , an
a bo u r- ro -b e-d espo ked- ag ai n Chuck
Sun, Kessler and Weinert. Left at the
rear of the pack :were Sm ith, Howerton
and DeCoster who were victims of first
lap confrontations with other riders.
While Lackey . held the lead ,
keeping the fans bug-eyed , finger
pointing and hoarse with his crossups
off the fifth gear ski jump, Hannah
kep t his coals shoveled to the boiler
and closed the gap toward the front .
Even Rex Staten couldn 't hold
ba ck Hannah for long. Then before
the ha lfway point he was whisking his
way around Lackey for -t he lead .
Hannah would hardly pull out more
than a five -second lead over Lackey
for. the remainder of t he race , but Bob
was once aga in calcu la ti ng the
minimu m margin he needed to ho ld to
win safely. Already he had shown he
coul d pull th ree seco nds a la p on Brad
if nee ded.
The checkered flag' waved for the
second tim e and the result sheet once
again had Hannah on top , tailed by
Lackey and Staten. Darrell Shultz
m ight ha ve claimed fourth , but found
neutral in his Maico's gearbox wh ile
negotia ting the tricky sta irstep
downhill and bailed over the bars on
the next -to -last lap. Torao Suzuki on
the factory Montesa, after a good ride .
in moto one, performed even better in
round two to hold off Marty Tripes
and cla im fourth spot for his best
finish yet . .
With two races and four motos
already won in this year's seven-race
T rans -AMA Series , the question
remaining is no longer will an
American win the series, but will Bob
Hannah win every race?
2&Occ Support
The Team Honda duo of Steve Wise
and Warren Reid were obviously the
class act to follow again this week .
Moto one saw the rwo kick down the
sta rti ng ga te and disappear in freight
train style with the lead and the race.
Warren led the firs t rwo laps and Wise
led the rest .
. Ba ck in the . d ust, LOP's Marty
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lAbove) Steve WIse leads 260cc class winner Warren Reid. (Below) Torso
Suzuki (166) heads out of a turn first while 'Mickey Kessler gets hung up.
Moates held third spot for awhile
before falling. Greg Theiss moved his
privateer Honda into thi rd, holding
off National Champion Broc Glover
who couldn't seem to shake LOP's
other rider , Mark Gregson . The
Turner duo, Ron and Danny. looked
hot for awhile as they ran as high as
sixth before maladies like broken
spokes put them out.
Steve Wise wanted to go for his
second overall win in nIo weeks, but
the fa te which befell others befell him
as well. A broken rear wheel robbed
Wise of his lead midway through the
second moto after stealing it from
Many Moates in the opening laps.
Moates was suffering carburetion
problems with his Honda and dropped
back again as Reid went flying past for
the lead.
"After I got by Moates I put my
throttle to .the max for three laps.
Then I , saw Steve slow up with is
broken wheel, so I went just fast
enough to stay ahead of Broc," said
Warren.
Mechanic Merle Anderson kept
Reid in tu ne on how far behind Glover
was as he dialed his CR250 Honda the
remaining distance to the overall win .
Many Moates held onto third ahead of
Theiss, Kawasaki's Micir.ey Boone, Kip
Pierce, Luffs Ron Turner and MotoX Fox'sJim Turner.
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Results
!iOOcc INTBlNATIONAl.: I . Bob Hemoh I-I lVom);
2. End la:by 4-2 IHanl; 3. Mony Tripoo 2-6 IHanl; 4 .
Rex SINn ~ lVom); 5. e;,-., Noo,a U IHanl; e.
Toroo Suzuki I ~ (Man); 7. Tommy Croft &-7 Ilion); e.
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