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Darrell Shultz ignored the pain of e broken finger to pull the second moto lead over Ivan Van Den Broeck (II. Marty-Moatell25l. Andre MlilhtlrtMt til. Marty Tripe11211. Chuck Sun 1201 and Georg Ralter 1441. Shultz later cralhed and gava the lead to Malherbe. kept things from becoming too taxing and the crowd, estimated at 25,000, soaked it aU in. . 260cc Support After a false start, the suppon class got underway with Honda's Johnny O'Mara, Kawasaki's Jeff Ward, Yamaha-mounted Tim Lunde and Hona's Jim Gibson in front. Gibson pulled by Lunde on the opening lap to form a tight trio at the head of the pack. O'Mara continued to lead lap after lap in the 20·minutes-plus moto, but teammate Donnie Hansen put on a strong charge, working his way out of the pack to get by Gibson four laps from the end and close on O'Mara at the checkers. • Ward went over the bars on the up'hill halfway through the moto and retired shonly afterward. Larry Wosick put his Suzuki into a solid founh place while Maico's Carlos Serrano held off Yamaha's Scott Bumwonh and Ron Turner on a Suzuki for fifth. In the second moto, Serrano's bike got to the staning line at the last minute, having switched his rear tire to an experimental Dunlop. The tire worked superbly as Serrano got a killer holeshol. However, the brake was not adjusted properly, and it locked up going into the tight fant turn. Bumwonh, Gibson and O'Mara flew out of the turn in front. At the end of a lap though, it was Gibson with a slight margin over Hansen with Bumwonh third followed by O'Mara and Turner. Hansen waited for a bit before he picked his spot and passed Gibson. O'Mara also went by and a lap later was in the lead. Hansen wasn't about to let Johnny 0' get away, though, and he clung to him doggedly. His persistent badgering paid off as he saw an opening late in the race, seized it immediately and held on for the win, in fact, leading a Honda sweep. 500cc International Hakan Carlqvist had the fastest qualifying time on his works Yamaha, but many were picking Glover as the man to beat (he was second fastest with Lackey third). After the gate dropped, it was indeed Glover in front of the pack followed by Andre Malherbe. (There was a bit of deja vu seein/{ Glover lead as he was issued number 25, the same number Many Moates had last year when he won in .fine style.) Glover and Malherbe completed the first lap in close order with Sun holding off Lackey. Noyce. Carlqvist. Suzuki's Many Smith and Honda of Holland rider Gerrit Wolsink followed. Glover seemed to stretch his lead ever so slightly while a Malherbe/Sun/ Lackey tussle heated up. Sun would get by the defending world champion on the infamous Carlsbad (uphill) Freeway, but Malherbe always ZIpped past on the downhill. Around the 10-minute mark, Lackey put a charge on that carried him by Sun in Rattlesnake Gulch. He swooped past Malherbe on the uphill and an to 'nd •