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·. trails Graham by five points. 182 to 177 with SP.rinRS~ at 174. The Hawthorne Ilace Course, exclusively a hone race ttaeIt until this event, is new to the Camel Pro Series schedule this year. The track, two very long straights joined by basically half mile turns, grooved up immediately. Track preparation and dust control problems held up the program a full two boon and then stretched it out even longer. However. by the time the National took the green starting light at 6:50 p.m., the track was in good shape. QuaHfying Harley-Davidson's Gass proved to be thequidest around the Hawthorne track with a 57.652-serond lap standing as top time. The track, with 100foot wide straights, produced slower lap times than normally are seen on a mile. Shobert, Filice. aboard the BlueArc Welding/Shoei/Baylands Ilacingsponsored, Eddie Adkins-tuned Har· ley, Jorgensen and Hank Scott rounded out the top five. Scon's Honda teammates Terry Poovey and Mike Kidd were also in the program I as was Steve Morehead, who is ho ing to make his Honda ride a per. manent thing for the rest of season. Tim Johnson, at 40.079, was the 48th and last qualifier for the program. ~ HNb (Above) Jimmy Filice wu a hard charaeterto catch a. he took hi. first mile win. (Inset) Filice, Ted Boody (1 2) and Randy Go.. (6) battled through much of the National. AMA Grand National Champlonship/ Camel Pro Series: Round 24 Filice the fleetest at Hawthorne Mile Fourth went to DuQuoin winner Hank Scon, the first of three Honda RS750 riders in a sea of otherwise Harley-Davidson XR750s. A lonely fifth place went to Alex Jorgensen, who was neither challenging nor being challenged at the finish. Lady Luck continues to frown on defending Grand National Chatnpion Ricky Graham. He was running sixth on lap 22 when his Harley's crankshaft broke, ending Graham's ride and dropping him to a non-points paying 15th-place finish. Coupled with Goss' third-place finish, Graham now slips to 55 points behind the 1980 Grand' National Champion, 215-182. Bubba Shobert didn't make the National after crashing out of action in his heat while Jay SPJ:ings~ collected an eighth to tighten up 1M I«DfICtopIacr bulle. Sbobert ~ Goss and Hank Scon wasted lit • time in heat one before starting a haJi: tie. Goss led every lap wher counted - at the start/finish line iTo although Scon was never more ~ three bikelengths behind at the line.., On the final lap, Scon took over ~ lead going into turn three with Go coming back off tum four for win. The battle for third went right to the finish with Harley's Scott ~ topping hard-charging Eric IUusdr: by a half a bikelength to take third transfer to the National. "Fhc top three in each heat went directl the National. Graham grabbed his spot in.the National with a winning ride in haa:. two over an ever·challenging l.andt . Jones. Jones, now riding a selfsponsored Harley, was probing bert for second on lap two when SIuI> ben slid down between turns 5-4 and: became an instant spectator. OnebP later, Poovey gave up third place:; he coasted to a stop on the ba straight with undisclosed e ~ problems. Jones hooked onto GiIaham's rear wheel and the rwo mained tied together for theremaincW of the event. Third went to Stea: Mon~r, who moved his Bill Dr Keener H-D/SimpsoniChampiop"C sponsored XIl from ninth on the 5latt to a two-foot margin over Mike KicW; at the checkered flag. Filice showed what a II~lOI!M rider can do if he's got some horsepower by leading all the way to win the third heat. Filice was shadowid by rookie Pete Hatnes in a good ba for the lead in the opening five laps t£ the IO-lapevent. Filicebrokeawayod lap six to put some breathing roo between himself and Hatnes. Mea while, Ted Boody, on the South Em Harley-Davidsonl Arai-sponsor~ Harley, and Morehead were going it for third. Hames closed on Fili on the final lap, but slid out betwedt turns 5-4,losing a sure second. Morthead then nipped Boody at the lint' by a slim margin for second with 311' three National bound. The heat w;B the fastest, giving Filice the pole for the National. By lap five in the fourth heat. there was a four-rider duel for the lead among Garth Brow. Jorgen5ell, Springs~and Gary Scott. The four swapped poaitions at will with the bigaa swap droppinc Brow from