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o.v Scott led the Topeka H8If Mle N8tlonIII wInt to wIre••nd then h8IpecI hlmeelfto. bit of the bubbly lInHtJ. AMA Grand National ChampionshiplWinston Pro Series: Round 15 Great Scott, Gary takes the point lead with Topeka Half Mile win By 081e Brown standings, where he now leads previous point leader Steve Eklund. 109-lOS. Joining Scott in the winner's circle were Mike Kidd and Ricky Graham, whose high finishes abo boosted their positiODl in the point ItaDdingi. Racing, scheduled for Saturday night, was bumped back to Sunday afternoon due to a week of heavy rain and a saturated clay track. ult rained all week," said AMA ProfaIional Competition Manager Bill Boyce. "Harold (Murren) got in here to work on Monday to start work on Tuesday, but the problem wu that it had rained 10 much that he couldn't prepare the track. AI it was, we were luckJ to get it ready today. AI late u eixht o'clock lut night we had a rototilJer turning over the traclr. to aereate it to get it dry enough to race today. So we almost lost the race COiDpletely... Warm temperatures dried out the track enough on Sunday to cause a narrow~, rough racing surface. With the narrow groove, there wu little pUling durin, the day and the start was ~hing. During' the National, there wu little advancement, except when the front runners had problema, ·u wu EIr.Iund', cue. Running third, he wu dropped to the back of the pack by a crash and eventually finished ninth. TOPEKA, KS,JULY 5 . In the lead from green light to checkered flag, Gary Scott's ·vjctory in the V-I 00 IDa vis Cycle Topeka Gold Cup Half Mile also gave him a six10 point lead in ·the Winston Pro Series point nmetrlala Gary Scott', strong performance,tart· ed at the beginning 'of the day' when he wu the fint rider to pOIt fut time, pushing his KK Supply/Sisemore Traveland/Bell Helmets/Duckworth ChainlCarfel Imports Harley-Davidson put the timer', clock at 25.912. Scott Parker duplicated the 25.912, and Kidd was just a breath away at 25.914. Hank Scott rounded out the heat race poleaitterl with a 26.055. Ricky Graham', chances for the day looked bad after time trials. He waved off his ftrSt lap, and then slid out in tum two on his second try. With a time of 45.448, Graham was listed u second alternate. The cutoff lap for the 48-rider field was 28.704. HMta With track p~tiOD occupying of the day, the fint heat, originally scheduled for 2 p.m., got started a little over three hours late. When it did ~ started, Gary Scott and Scott Peanco went few the lead, with Peanon taking it. At the end of a lap, Alex JOigenaen ran third ahead of Ronnie Jones and Randy GoIa. GoIa got put Jones and started to pralUre Jorgensen, but went down through the first two cornen, picking it up to run lut. The transfer to the National were set, although positions would change. Pearson, on the Beck-Lillie/Cutrol/ Arai/lnterpart XR, led through the end of the seventh lap before Scottmoved into the lead. Jorgy, riding the Sal Acosta/Megacycle Cams/Hi· Point Harley, ran third throughout and made the National. Jones finished fourth. The second heat was red-flagged due to a ftrSt lap, fllSt tum crash.' When a rider was unable to restart, and with another entry already scratched, second alternate Ricky Graham found himself in the program. Scott Parker nailed the holeahot with his Klotz/WiReo/H·D/Diamond / S&:W/ (Contmrud to page 12) !DOlt