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CAbo".. T..-y Kizw WIIrmecI up his rubber and used It" to fuIIeat potential . . he set a record 8.1iO In the Pro Comp dlviaion. (Below. K., Blllckbum (near Ian•• couldn't keep with John Sanda in the first round of Super Elmlnnor battle. T..-y V_lINItChed up the Pro Stock win, which gives him a shot at again taking the ...mber one plata In the cIaaa. Trett, Vance top IDBA Summer Nationals; Pogue dips into eigbts By Henny Ray Abrams WASHINGTON, DC, AUG. 18-19 The International Drag Bike Association Summer Nationals saw record runs and repeat winners in several classes of the rain-delayed meet held at Capitol R~ceway near Washington. OC. The big news was in the Pro Stock class where Sid Pogue qualified with a new record of 14 8.98 seconds to become the first in that class in the eights. Unfonunately for Pogue, he came up against number one plate holder Terry Vance in the semi-finals and lost, although with a quicker time. Top Fueler Kenny Annesley, on a double-engine Kawasaki, lowered his own ET record when he ran a 7.66 in qualifying. He made the final, but had to shut off and give Elmer Tretl and his double-Harley the Top Fuel win. Terry Kizer picked up some points and a record in the Pro Comp division with an 8.50 clocking over Larry Musick. In the Ultra Stock class, current Hamp Osborn's points leader Kawasaki proved faster than the one Don Norris was riding as Osborn went 10.44/128.00 for the win. In Super Eliminator, Deb Devivi put yet another Kawasaki in the winner's circle with a win over Sam Wills. The afternoon's excitement staned when. for the first time ever, four Top Fuel billes qualified in the !leVen second bracket. Two Kawasakis, a Yamaha and a HarleyDavidson were represented. Tops on the list was the Motorcycles Unlimited Kawasaki double of Kenny Annesley. As Annesley went through the lights on his record run a rod in the rear l200cc engine let go tearing the cases apan. Tuner Carl Ahlfeldt quickly got to work and had the machine ready for a first-round showdown with the double-Harley of Marion Owens. Owens gave tbe fans a thrill by hanging off the right side of his bille to keep it in tbe lane, but Annesley was the winner. Annesfey then beat Danny Johnson. in the semis to bring up a showdown with Elmer Trett in the final. Jim Bernard, holed a valve on the RC Engineering/Magnuson Produeu Yamaha 1150. Bernard had qualified third fastest. but had seen a puff of white smoke at the end of the run. When tuner Ron Teson went to stan it for the quaner finals it expoded with two loud pops and the team was through for the day. Who did Bernard like in the finals? "You have to watch out for Elmer. He's always there," he said. Trett was there for the win piloting his double Harley through the Iipts in a quick 7.77 sec. 179.16 mph as Annesley finished a hectic day with a hardearned second. One of the busiest people there was Terry Kizer of Houston, Texas. Kizer raced Kawasakis in both Pro Comp and Super Eliminator and came c101e to pulltnl{ off a double. He was fast qualifier in Pro Comp and methodically advanced through the field for his meeting in the final with Larry Musik on the Commonwealth Kawasaki/Sun Welding/MTC Engineering mount. As the Christmas tree flashed green it was Kizer's Lemoyne Parsons Turbo Kawasaki which proved to have the edge over Musick's carbureted KZ. But it took a record run to do it. In the Pro Stock ranks the pits were buzzing after Sid Pogue had broken into the eights on his qualifying run. The number one plate holder for the last four yean, Terry Vance had qualified third behind Bob Carpenter. This put the two in the same half of the field and culminated in a 1eJDifinal showdown. It was a race to make the final and grab needed points for the championship. Pogue'. being currently in the lead gave Vance aome added incentive. Vance got the holeahot on the US Suzuki/RC Engineering GSlOOO and although Pogue put the Pogue Machine Co. Kawuaki ll-R through the traps at a faster time (9.06 . 9.19) Vance was in the final. His opponent in the fmal was Ed Davis who reached the final run by beating CM Performance Produeu Bob Carpenter in their semi. Although he felt a little down on power, Vance knew that in order to have any shot at retaining his tide he would have to win it all. He did it with a 9.24 second run to Davis's 9.46 in the all-Suzuki final. "I'm within striking distance now," Vance said in reference to the chase for the plate which Pogue still leads. "Whoever wins the next (and final) race wins the title." Vance would like to get the ET record back, but that was secondary. "At least now I'm back in the chase, that'uhe main thing_" •