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Qualifying Hank Scott's track record of 56.645 seconds (98.227 mph), set last year, was broken by high school student Scott Parker. Parker, the first rider to take a qualifying lap, stopped the clocks at 56.620 seconds and was the only rider of the 55 who attempted to qualify for the 48-rider field to break into the 56-second bracket. Garth Brow, Steve Eklund, Jay Springsteen and Hank Scott were the next fastest qualifiers, all in the low 57's. Dave Bradley was the fmal qualifier, timing in 48th fastest with a 59.205 lap. Heats IAbovellndy Mile winner Mike Kldd 18k.. e drink the herd wey with e little help from third plecer Steve Moreheed. IBelow) 5eventeen-yur-old sensetlon Scott Perker 1401 leeds Kldd 1721 end Corky Keener 1821eerty In the meln. AMA Grand National Championship/Winston Pro Series - Round 22 Kidd wins Indy Mile thriller; Eklund stretches points lead By Jack Mangus Photos by Bert Shepard/Silver Shutter INDIANAPOLIS, IN. SEPT. 1 U.S. Army-sponsored Mike Kidd scored the second Indy Mile win of his career as he nipped Scott Parker and Steve Morehead at the line in yet another Indy thriller. 8 Rescheduled for Saturday night after a rainout the previous Sun- I day, the event offered competitors perhaps the best Indy oval sur- face ever. Seventeen-year-old Scott Parker established a new track record in qualifying, and multi-rider battles were the order of the night in almost every race. For Steve Eklund, a fifth place finish behind Kidd, Parker, Morehead and Randy Goss moved him to a position 44 points ahead of defending National Champion Jay Springsteen and Goss. Springsteen could manage only a 10th place finish. He and Goss now have 195 points while Eklund has 259 with only four Winston Pro Series rounds remaining on the schedule. The slim crowd on hand began to buzz as the first heat rolled to the line. Skip Aksland's Mert Lawwill XR750 failed to fire but finally did just at the end of Aksland's two-minute grace period after Aksland ripped the kill button off. Starter Phil Dyson clicked the grej:n light on and - as expected - it Yo as Scott Parker leading the pack around the Indy oval. Parker established a comfortable lead after only two circuits of the mile track, and Hank Scott settled into what appeared to be a comfonable runner-up spot. Behind the front running pair, thr first of many side-by-side battles shaped up between Arai Helmetssponsored Ted Boody and Ricky Graham. That dice came to an end when the Ban Markel prepared XR of Graham's rolled to a stop on thr hack straight on the founh lap. Madel, when asked if the fire had gone out, said, "I don't know. I haven't checked it yet. But I'd like to set it on fire." The field stretched out in the latter laps, and the only excitement was provided unintentionally by Hank Scott. His Carl Patrick-prepared XR began to sputter on thr white flag lap, and he was lucky to hold on to second place behind Parker. Boody took the third and final transfer to the National, while behind him came Aksland, Gene Romero and Terry Poovey. Heat number two was red-flagged at the end of the ninth lap and called a completed race. Klotz/Wiseco-spoosored Ganh Brow led every lap while behind him rookie Expert Tommy Duma and Indiana's Jackie Mitchell fought over second. When the red flag was displayed it was Mitchell edging Duma. Marty Bushman caused the stopping of the event. The Michigan rider had jumped off, hunling over the concrete retaining wall in tum one. He was reported up and walking and feeling, "OK." The third 10-lap heat had thr crowd screaming as a battle royale developed among early leader Steve Morehead, Corky "Mr. Din" Keener and eventual winner Steve Eklund. . Morehead led the first three laps, with thr third one seeing a three-way near-dead heat at the stan/finish line among him, Keener and Eklund. Eklund broke away from Morehead and Keener with a charge through turns 5-4 on the next lap. But Keener moved back up on the present points leader on the eighth lap, and the two crossed the finish line with Eklund just a precious few inches ahead. Morehead hung on to take third, while behind him came Lance Jones, Bubba Rush, Brad Hurst and Steve Freeman. The founh and final heat required three starts before it could be called a race. Des Moines National winner Randy Goss led every lap of the threestart affair which was first stopped after Dave Bradley unloaded hard in turn three on the third lap. The single-file restan had GoA, Kidd, Springsteen and Rickey