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per lap after that, winning by a comfonable margin. johnny 0' got his bike going again in eighth and, hampered by a dangling left radiator scoop, could only get up to fifth at the finish. johnson got paued by Kehoe at the 15-minute mark and gathered himRlf up for a charge after that. just before the ·50-minute point, Burnworth held ·a slim lead over Kehoe and Johnson. AI Burnworth led the tIght trio through the left·bander at the signal area, he- went over the berm and got out of shape letting both Kehoe and johnlon get the jump on him to the next tum. When they came out of the back section of the track, though, it was johnson in front with a narrow margin over Kehoe and Burnworth. Kehoe fell off the pace afterwards and Burnworth, fellow Yamaha teamster Donnie Cantaloupi, then O'Mara paued him. Danny "Magoo" Chandler held a steady seventh on his Hi-Point Racing Suzuki followed by Kawasaki's Tom Benolkin, Honda's jim Gibson and jeff Ward on another works Kaw. In the second moto, Burnworth again led the charge away from the gate with O'Mara, Gibson and Barnett keepin~ him company. Barnett wasted little tune (about half a lap) before going into the lead. "Then I just pulled, two seconds, Ihen three, then by the end of the moto, I think I got about a 45-second lead. I had 45 seconds both motOll," he said. O'Mara and Gibson had a tight twothree race going for the first half of the moto. Just after the halfway point, though, O'Mara swung wide in a ·sweeper letting Gibson past. "I was doing good there, and then I got a sideache. I let 'Gib' get by me; I didn't want to knock him down," O'Mara explained later. Ward, plagued by bad starts both motOll, rode by Burnworth (whose silencer was apparently coming adrift and robbing ham of power) with about 20 minutes to go for fourth. Magoo also worked up and with 15 minutes left, was right behind johnson and Cantaloupi. AI Cantaloupi recalled later, though, 'Johnson was right ahead of me, and it looked like I could get by. I got right on top of him - I was almost bumping him - I mean it was real.c1ose. "Magoo was up high, it looked like there was no room. I was in the berm, and he just rode the high part of the berm. We were bumping; I couldn't believe it." The move put Chandler in fifth while Johnson finished sixth with a pair of bent forks ("We've been betiding a pair of forks every weekend"), and Cantaloupi rode in for a close seventh after falling four times during the race. Burnworth nursed his bike to eighth followed by Kehoe and Benolkin. 2&Occ Netionel Donnie Hansen, Spencer Morrison and Kent Howerton churned the Texas turf first through tum one. The Hurricane got off to a bad start, mired in 15th. Hansen rode a tremendous race for the first 20 minutes with Howerton putting the pl'CllUre on between the 10 and 20-minute marks. "Me and Donnie had a really good race," commented Howerton. "He just got a little bit tired. At first, he just wasn't making a mistake, riding really good." After Howerton went by, though, hepulled out some breathing room and held it with no problem. Hannaah gassed it from the first lap trying to clear a way through to the front. By the second lap, he had jumped up to eighth and steadily picked off a rider a lap for the next several lape. lt took a little while to catch up to Dave Hollis, and when Hannah got him for third, Howerton and Hansen were over 50 seconds away. Moto-X Fox rider David "Little Professer" Bailey ran steadily throughout the moto on his works Kawasaki despite a painfully twisted ankle incurred in practice when his right foot got caught underneath his rear wheel. He moved up to the top five be· fore 20 minutes were up and eventually went tn fourth ahead of Yamaha's Rick Burgett, Kawasaki's Warren Reid and Hollis. 'Suzuki-mounted Gary Semics, Morrison and Andy Stacy followed them in. Hansen holesbot the second motn, too. with Howerton and Burgett hanging around to keep him on his tOCl. Howerton grabbed the lead before the lap was over, as Barnett did in his second moto, and proceeded to reel off the next 45 minutes out front. Hansen dialed it in for second as Hannah - who started around eighth this moto - moved up to do battle, with Burgett fint. He took the high, fast li~e past his teammate at about the 20-minute point for third. "I knew Bob was coming up." Hansen said. "I was just waiting for him to come up so I wouldn't waste my energy trying to pull away. "When he got behind me, he finally got around me and kind of berzerked it past me. Toward the end, I started to pull back up on him and made a couple mistakes. " Hansen kept third to the finish for that position overall. Burgett had fourth sewn up until one of the water hOlIes on his bike split causing steam to stream from the engine. "I was think· ing, too, cause he (mechanic Bill West) flashed me 'Hansen' on the board 10 I went, 'All right! Hansen, he must be having problems with his bike or something. ' "All of a sudden, my hose popped off and then I go, "Good karma, Rick!' So I ain't gonna be saying that too much any more." The leak forced Burgett to retire with less than 10 minutes to go. Reid used the opportunity to leapfrog into fourth, though, despite another bad start and gearbox problems. Steve Martin came up with fifth, a vast improvement over his lIth in the first moto when he was slowed with vision problems. "The fint one (tearoff) I grabbed, I got the bottom one and then I got wasted. I took my goggles down and I could barely see out of one eye." Bailey finished sixth followed by Sernics, Kris Bigelow, Suzuki test rider Ron Turner and Can-Am's jim Holley. • ~ 00 0') CN CN - ..... 1-0 ~ < MMt a.rnen c.bovel end How.lUi1 (beIow11horoughly domill8l*S 1he deY. I'lICing. IIIICh .corIng Impreulve v\c:tory nMIrgln. In 11II of their motoe. Results 125: 1. .... _ lSuzI 1-1; 2- Rid< Johr-. lYoml 24; 3. Johnny lHanI ~ 4. Jim ea-. lHanI ~2; 5. Scoa _ lY.... H; 8. Dannie lYlml4-7; 7. Donny a..klSuzl7-6; I. ..,,_ oc-t lG-4; 9. Erik !Cohoe lY.... 8-8; 10. Tom _ "-1"'0; 11. Phil L.-. lYomlI1-14; 12Gory o.-.lSuzIl4-12; 13. ChriI_lSuzI DNf. 11; 14. A.J. WIIiIing lYoml12-2II; 15. Todd II." $ lY.... , ..,5; 11. Doug . . - - . lY.... DNF-13; 17. .... _ lY.... 18-18; 11. IIobby Hondy lSuzI 1:HlNF; 1•. Krog IligoIow lYoml 17-19; 20. Jorry _ l Y.... ,~. 2l5O: 1. IConl _ lSuzI 1·1; 2. Bob Honnoh lY.... 3-2; 3. Dannie '-l~ 2.,1; 4. Worron IIoid oc-t ....; 5. DoIIid IIoiIo¥ oc-t ~ I. Gory Somic:o lSuzI "7; 7. S_ Mor1in fSw:I 11-6; I. Ron T..lSuzI 12-8; •. IJIt6y S*Y lKTMI1Q.14; 10. Sponca_ _ lYoml ~15; 11. eo.. _ lYoml 7-18; 12Rid< IIurIIOll lYomI 5-ONF; 13. Krio IIigoIow lYom) DNH; 14. _ . . - - . oc-t ,,,,,; 15. Jim HoIloy tc-Al DNF-10; 18. Dorok - . g lHull DNF-I2; 17. eo.. Coupo lMoo114-19; 18. Edwin _ lMoi) DNF13; 19. Jim Toronlino lHonll:HlNF; 20. t.ry Wooick a- c.-... 1 RIck Johnaon (belowl wee aecond ovwell121i With aecond end aIxth. fSw:Il!HlNF. 125a: POINT STANDINGS: ,. _ _ (1501; 2. .." Word (10li1; 3. Jim ~ _ ; 4. Rick Johr-. am; 5. me Scott _ J o h n n y 0 ' _ I98l; 7. Donny Chond_188); 8. Dannie Contolou;ii (78); 9. Tom (701; 10. Gory Doman l43l; 11. Donny IIon1toy 142); 12. Erik K__ 138I; 13. A.J. Whiting (38); 14. (TIE) Millo _IPhU L.-. 133); 11. Choppy B.... (27); 17. ~ Rico 1241; lB. Chrio _ 122); 19. Merit Murphy (17); 20. Rid< MoI