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ITop leftllt was no contest for Kawasaki's Eddie Lawson as he cruised to the Ughtweight Expert win.lTop rightl Rich Arnaiz had an easy, if somewhat sideways, Novice win.IAbovel The Sidecars get underway with the E~S8fl Harrold rig 1191 leading and winner. Und/Hart 1781 back a way• . Results SUPfRBIKE FINAl: 1. Freddie Spencer (Hon) : 2. Wes Cooley ISuzI: 3. David Aldana lKawl: 4. Roberto Pietn (Hon l: 5. Carry Andrew (Kaw): 6. M;ke Spencer IKawl : 7 . Chuck Parme (Kawl: 8 . Kerry Bryant lKawl: 9. roc ky Phoen;x (Kawl: 10 . Joe Patt on (S uzl. TIME:30:47.848 . AVERAGE SPEED: 96.242 mph. Lightweight Expert Lawson the Lightweight leader By Mark Kariya Photos by Charles Morey and Kariya MONTEREY. CA . AUG . 3 8 Barring any unforseen m ishaps , fac tory Kawasaki rider Eddie Lawson - on the only nonYamaha in the field - planned on walking awa y with the Lightw eight Expert race. Having beaten Dave busby by five seconds in Saturday's heat race , Lawson was by far the fastest qualifier. Glen Shopher, Busby and Lawson led the pack at the 'd rop of the gr een flag. Lawson out-braked Busby into turn nine at the end of the first lap for second. though. He waited until tu rn ei~ht the next time around before gomg by Shopher on the outside for the lead. Regarding Lawson's bike, Shopher later exclaimed, "T hat thing's on rails!" From that point. there was no cat ch ing Lawson , who won by some 30 + seconds. lapped up to six-place rider Craig Morris by la p 19 and said in victory circle. '" had a blast out th ere!" Busby got Shopher on lap four. bu t. Shopher ca me back three la ps la ter to pass him ba ck. Busb y again grabbed second place for himse lf on lap eight and held it th e rest of th e race, although S hopher ga ve him no pressure after going down on lap 14 in turn six when his front tire hit some oil. " I didn't even know , was down u nt il 1 hit my head on th e ground!" he said in the pits later. Rusty Sharp and Dan Chivington glued themselves together fighting for fifth and then fourt h after Shopher went down. Chivington held a slight advantage for the first eight laps before Sharp went by. Over the last half of the race, Sharp pulled out about a six-second margin over Chivington to finish third . Rounding out the top 10 were Bruce Maus (who was fourth for th e first seven laps), Morris. John Williams , Will iam Brinckerhoff, Fred Winters and Michael Summers, Results LIGHlWElGHT EX 1. Eddie Lawson (Kaw): 2. Dave : Busby(Yaml; 3. Rusty Sharp (Yaml; 4. Dan Chivington (Yam); 5. Bru Maus (Yaml; 6. Craig Morrrs (Yam): 7. ce John'Williams {Yaml; 8. William BrinckerhoH(Yaml; 9. Fr W inters (Yam); 10. M ichael Sum mers (Yam); 11. ed Leland Hancock (Yam); 12. W arren Fearon (Yaml; 13. Michael Landr (Yam); 14. W endy Epstein (Yaml; 15. um Kurt Brandon (Yam); 16. Craig Tarwarter (Yaml; 17. Glen Shoph er IYam): 18. Dan Gugl;elmo (Yam): 19 . C.J . Williams(Yaml; 20 . Dean Cleeton {Yaml . TIME : 31:49.427 AVERAGE SPEED: 93.236 mp h. Novice Arnaizaces the black plates By Charles Morey Photos by Mark Kariya and Morey MONTEREY, CA , AUG. 3 1 1 J ss "' a Polesitter Rich Arnaiz staged no-contest victory in Laguna~ Seca's Novice race, taking th(;, lead from Gary McDonald's K&N Cycles Yamaha on the second lap of the 21-lap, 40 mile event , and running unchallenged to the checkered flag. Amaiz rode ' t he Hexagon Housel Arnaiz Construction Yamaha as if . there were no tomorrow , getting crossed-up several times as he exited