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.... .... 00 0') til. IClockwl.. from top left) Sun ecknowledgea cheers from the crowd following his HCOnd moto winning ride. Broc Glover sped to the first moto win with only l.IIckey giving him trouble at the end. Sun and Melherbe - America's best versus the world's best - kept cIoH on eech other early In the first motu. large l~ad. Malh~rbe f~ll to sixth aft~r 15 rninutn l~tting Noyc~and Carlqviat go aft~r Sun who was now third. However, Sun was experi~ncing suspension probl~ms and soon began 8 to drop back. "Yeah, 1 passed Chuck, and he was in a hell of a state," recalled Noyce later. "I was really riding hard, and som~hing didn't fed right," Sun said later. "It wasn't flowing right. Th~n 1 got some stomach cramps and so I said, 'I'm gonna have to regroup.' I just pulled back and 1 just let three or four guys pass me. I just rode consistent to th~ end. " . At the halfway mark, it was still Glover leading, though Lackey had whittled that lead down quite a bit. Carlqviat, Noyce, Malherbe and Sun were next. With about 10 minutn to go, Lackey pulled right up to Glover and began to pressure. He saw the way clear in Rattlesnake Gulch a short time later and went into the lead. Glover didn't just fall back, though: "I just got right behind him, and a few times 1 tried to pass him, but I didn't really go all out. I was trying 'to wait for th~ last coupl~ laps so he wouldn't have much time to try and get me back," Glover said after the moto. He managed to get by Lackey as they hurtled down the downhill with two laps to go, and Lackey gassed it right by. As they exited the sharp left at the boltom of the hill, though, Brad tumbled to the ground, and Glover shot past. "We came do~ t~e_d'?'rl]l}ill, .aJlp..I•••• had the drive on him," said Glover, "I was ahead of him and he just accelerated and h~ got th~ inside at th~ boltom in that ldt-hand turn. "When ~ got down there, I cut back underneath him and started to go out with him, you know, try to move him out a little bit so I could have the line. He just tried to ~ back on th~ gas, and I thinl< his handlebar might have hit a flag pole or something and threw him off." Lackey, who broke his foot earlier in the season and has ~n unable to train as he would lik~ to, cited fatigue as the cause of his mishap. (After th~ moto, he was reported suffering from heat exhaustion.) Wh~n he picked it back up, Glover was long gone and heading for the checkered with C.a.r!q~.t. ~opP••ap.d••~0'tc.e••third. Wolsinl< and Sun passed him on the final lap with Smith, Yamaha's Mie Bell, Honda's Danny LaPorte and Swede Conny Carlsson on a factory Husky trailing.' LaPon~'s ride was even more impressive considering the fact that ~ couldn't ~ his bie started at th~ line and missed the start entirely. Out of the 37 riders who started, 20 finished. Andre Malherbe fell whil~ running seventh, got back up and rode around another lap and seeing ~ was out of the points, retired to the pits a lap from the end. Husqvarna's Marty Tripes got the holnhot in the second moto. Unfortunately, only half of the gate fell so th~ stan was red-flagged. The second time around, Suzuki's Darrell Shultz blasted to the fore with