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(Above) Jeff Ward (4) and Broc Glover (31 were banging handlebars all
night long. (Below) Ward passed Glover three laps from the end in the main.
Team Tamm's Alan King had a fine ride finishing fifth overall. King is now
in eighth place in the points standings.
throughout the evening, on a course
many riders felt was too fastand easy.
Yamaha's Rick johnson, who was a
favorite to win the event, placed a
disappointing eighth. "The track was
awful!" said johnson. "It was too
smooth with no obstacles and no
place to pass."
"It may have been too easy for
many riders," said Ward regarding
the track. "But it wasn't bad. It definitely made for good racing."
Qualifiers
Insport/Wrangler Supercross Series:
Round 10
Ward wows 'em at
the Rose Bowl
By Kit Palmer
PASADENA, CA, JUNE 2
An estimated 70,000 spectators witnessed
Kawasaki's Jeff Ward score his third career
Supercross win after spending the first 17
laps of the main trailing last year's winner,
Broc Glover at the Miller High
Life Superbowl of Motocross.
"It got a little close at the end,
more than I wanted it to, and I
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started to panic a bit. Luckily, I made
a good move on Broc and got him,"
said a very happy Ward afterwards.
Supercross points leader johnny
O'Mara maintained his points lead
after placing a distant third. O'Mara
spent most of the race behind his factory Honda teammate David Bailey,
but O'Mara finally zapped Bailey
with only a few turns left.
Racing was very tight and exciting
.
The outcome of the first qualifier
surprised many people, especially
O'Mara. O'Mara led from thedropof
the gate with uzuki Support rider
George Holland, Kawasaki's Billy
Liles, Yamaha Support rider Danny
Storbeck and Honda's Ron Lechien
pursuing.
Holland stayed glued to O'Mara's
rear fender for the first twO laps
before Liles zapped the Suzuki pilot.
Liles' drive didn't end there. He set
his sights on O'Mara and started to
reel in tbe "0' how." With two laps
remaining; Liles dove underneath
O'Mara in a tight right turn, taking
over the lead. "There was a great line
that I found that hardly anyone was
using," said Liles. "I held the inside
line when I got around him, which
made it hard for him to get back
around me. After that, he started
making mistakes because I think I
caught him by surprise. With only
two laps left, it was easy to hold him
off. ..
Lechien managed to squeeze into
third ahead of Holland and Storbeck.
The second qualifier was all Team
Suzuki's Mark Barnell'S. Barnell
grabbed the holeshot ahead of Hondamounted jeff Frisz, Yamaha-mounted
Fred Andrews and johnson. By the
end of the first lap, johnson had control of second, while Barnell opened
up a few seconds on the pack. Barnett
didn't give johnson any slack. john-
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son's hopes for the win ended when
he tangled with a haybale, which
gave Barnell a IO-second lead. johnson finished second ahead of Kawasaki's Kent Howerton, Friszand Team
Tamm's john Whelchel.
Glover and Ward put on an exciting battle in the third qualifier. Ward
stole the holeshot, but Glover edged
his way into the lead by stuffing it by
Ward. Ward's teammate Coat Breker
followed in third aheam of Team
Tamm's A.]. Whiting and Yamaha
Support rider Pete Snorteland.
Glover could only gain a few bikelengths on Ward during the next two
laps. Meanwhile, a few seconds behind
the leaders, a duel started to take form
between Breker and Whiting. Up
front, the Glover/Ward dogfight remained in high gear, but when the
checkered flag flew, it was Glover
inches ahead of Ward. Breker kept
Whiting at bay to capture third.
Snorteland finished fifth.
The fourth qualifier saw holeshot
artist jeff Hicks jam to an early lead,
while Yamaha-mounted Rodney
Smith, Bailey and Hicks' Team Tamm
teammate, Alan King, pursued.
Hicks amazingly stretched his lead
to about three seconds over Bailey,
who had passed Smith during the
first lap. It took five laps before Bailey, the '83 Supercross Champion,
found away around Hicks. Once Bailey had the lead, Hicks began to fade
and let King and Yamaha's Keith
Bowen by. Bowen did so at the turn
before the finish.
Quarter finals
Fred Andrews took the win in the
first quarter final but not without
heavy pressures from Suzuki-mounted
Brent Blount and Yamaha S.upport
rider Mike Beier.
Honda-mounted Don Turk applied the pressure first but crashed
during the second lap. Blount took
that spot over until Beier motored by
