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IAbovel Deve Aldene 11091 leeds Mere Fontan 13991 beneath the Ieederboerd. Fontan finished fifth, Aldene with sixth
end e protest.IBelowl Gene Romero 131 end Skip Akslend dueleheed of Boet Ven Dulmen (327) before the rein.
(Top to bottoml PIIt Pons with
trophy, Ron PIerce with Roxy, ~
SIngleton with Ted Otto.
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two hours and S5 minutes after the
stop - with lap 10.
On this stan Spencer didn't wait for
anybody as he roared into the lead
past Pons on the banking and immediately began to open up space at one
second or better per lap. Pons. Single·
ton, AbIand. Van Dulmen, Romero.
Crosby. Ted Boody. Marc Fornan and
the rest followed.
Pons quickly moved to secure
second place and leave the fighting for
third behind.
A swapfest began in earnest as
Romero was banging on Van Dulrnan,
who in tum was challenging Singleton
and AbIand. Then John Long began
to move in. Ted Boody was showing
fire as were Pierce and Eddie Lawson
while Bettencoun was sneaking past
them.
By lap 14 Spencer was up eight seconds and turning consistent l!.05's on
every lap to open an ever increasing
margin between himself and Pons.
However. Pons also had an advantage
and he was slowly creeping out away
from any threat.
Romero pushed his Busch Special
onto Aksland's rear wheel and remained
there probing for an opening. Single·
ton was also challenging until he got
loose in the horseshoe and lost about
SO lengths on tbe duel for third.
Lap 15 saw Romero get by Abland
in the chicane with Aksland returning
the favor on the banking. 8ettencoun,
seeking to move up two positions from
ninth, took an outside line into tum
one and ended up tumbling in the
grasa for his efforts.
On lap 18 Romero tried an outside
move on Aksland in the same spot and
ended up with the Ame results. In two
more laps it was Eddie Lawson's tum
to become the third victim of tum one.
All three were taken to the uack halpital
for observation.
Two more laps and the top 10
consisted of Spencer with a 16 second
lead over Pons, ;who held about five
seconds over the freight uain of Ab·
land, Van Dulmen. Long, Crosby.
Fontan, Singleton. David Aldana and
Boody. Pierce. Cooley and Jones were
filling the next three positions.
Gas stops began on lap l!4 with POIII
