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Bubba Shobert (67) led privateer Dan Chivington (53) early in Superbike.
Gene Church (8) led Jimmy Adamo before a battery terminal broke.
When Church parked, Adamo went on to win with his Team Leoni Ducati.
A.A 8ldtIe of the Twins:
Round"
Church breaks,
Adamo wins
By John Ulrich
Photos by Jim Quinn
ELKHART LAKE, WI, JU E 8
Team Leoni's Jimmy Adamo
won the Battle of the Twins
final at Road America on a
750cc Ducali when early leader
Gene Church's 1000cc Harley-Davidson suffered a mechanical problem
and didn't finish the race. Church's
retirement moved up third-place Malcol me Tunstall and his immaculate
Syd's Cycles Bimota/Ducati into second place overall, with racing orthopedic surgeon Dr. Dave Kieffer third
on his Ducati.
Team Leoni tuner Reno Leoni's
latest version of his venerable Ducati
9O-based racer is faster than the team's
TTl 750cc Ducati on longer tracks,
and Adamo lapped faster in practice
on the larger, older machine. But the
bike broke, and Adamo went into the
JaCe down about 250cc on Church's
Don Tilley-tuned Harley.
Church motored into the lead on
me first lap, but Adamo used ground
