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By Lance Bryson
Searle, WA, FEB. 13-14
Some 35,000 fans witnessed the three-wheel
a n d Odysse y attacks of " Dy n o" Dean
Sundahl, Curtis Sparks, Eddie Brown, Paul
Breunig and Mike Hawkings a t the Seattle
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(Top to bottom) Curtis Sparks (43) took the gold while Mickey Dunlap (9 )
placed second in 200cc action. Hillside Honda's Eddie Brown topped
Super Modified. Allan Tad (1 3 8 ) takes it high. Jim Huff (23) leads Super
Stock.
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Kingdome Supercross.
Finally th e ATVs were no t
just a halftime show, b ut a fullblow n, get do wn , no holdsbarred show. The program went
something like this: The AMA
Wrangler® Supercross series race
Saturday at 8:00 p.m.• which attracted
30.974 peop le (some 20,000 stayed)
and ended by II p.m. Just before the
Main event got underway a nnou nce r
Larry H uffman in formed the crowd
not to leave their sea ts. three-whee lers
were com ing their way. To say th e
least n ob od y knew what to ex pect.
Whe n the 21 qualifiers for the 'Do m e
were brough t ou t, even the motocross
guys were awe-struck. By the end of
the main, the three-wheelers were
primed and ready. Huffman. the
number one announcer in the world.
kep t the crowd setting at the edge of
th eir seats wa iti ng for the start.
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Tonight, however, just the threewheelers were racing; the Odysseys
would run on Sunday.
The th ree-wh eelers lined u p in two
rows, 250s in the front. 200s in the
back. As the green flag was dropped,
Sundahl jumped out in front followed
by Mark "Wax" Weixeldorfer, Alan
Todd, Mike Chester an d Kell y
Jo h nso n. The crowd roared wit h
exci trnen t, th ey loved it. 30 Seconds
la ter th e 200s were let go. Spa rks took
th e lead at the dro p o f th e flag with
Sco tt Liurn, Micky Dunlap, Derek
Dahl an d Stephen Clevela nd follo wing in hot pursuit. Si nce th is event
was pa rt of the Yamaha Gold Cup
series, 3- B Light ning Yama ha mountd Steve Wright had the most
pressure on him to do wel l. He had
gotten a bad start. and began making
his move to the front of th e pack.
Su ndah l at this time was stretch ing
