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Elbow.to-elbow action is the name of the game in SOOcc National competition, Team Suzuki"s Danny laPorte 151 and Team Yamaha"s Mike Bell have taken their tit
settled at the final race in Rorida next weekend,
AMA 12S/SOOcc National Championship MX Seri,s ~ Rounds 8
Glover grabs third 12Scc title,
LaPorte head for wire in SOOcc
By Tom Mueller
CHARLOTTE, NC, AUG. 19
"LaPorte has to get third next week, and I have
to win. I'm heading for Florida right away to
start 'practicing," said Team Yamaha's Mike
Bell after running away with the second 500cc
National Championship MX
Series event at Metrolina Speed.
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Barnett wrapped up the 125cc
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overall with 4-1 fmishes as Yamaha's
Broc Glover rode to a conservative
fourth overall with 5-5 placings,
taking. his. third National 125cc
ChampIonshIp.
Chuck Sun made an appearance 10
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Husqvarna. Sun seemed to regard the
track with a European outlook.
"The track's setting up a good selection of lines', but there is a problem of
mud making only one line in some
places. The off·cambers on the track
are necessary also. 1 see the heat and
humidity as being a big factor today,"
Sun said as he observed the track.
Team LOP again put in a strong
showing in the 500cc class with Marty
Moates taking third overall and Steve
Stackable fourth. Both riders are
Yamaha-mounted.
125cc National
When the entrants threaded out
down the tracky straight, it was
Honda's Warren Reid in front in moto
one. Tight behind him was Robert
Handy followed by Brian Myerscough.
Barnett was a bit ahead of Glover in
mid-pack. Before lap one was
completed Jeff Ward and his factory
Kawasaki had slid into fourth.
During lap three Glover moved
ahead of Barnett as both were
jamming through the pack, now in
eighth and ninth positions. Barnett
then emerged from the low woods
section of the track alone, with Glover
coming through again in mid-pack.
"I'd just gotten around Barnett, and
I got hit and went off the track and got
caught in some tires. AMA rules say
you have to re-enter the track where
you left it, so I had to untangle myself
'and go back. If I got disqualified, I'd
be screwed. I just need the points to
win the championship," Glover recalled after the molO.
Myerscough and Ward had moved
