WERA series leader Team Hammer (108) won its first AMA/MotoWorld
series race. becoming the first team to win in both since 1984.
Taylor Racing (159). New Haven Suzuki (15) and Team Hammer (1 08) run
one-two-three through traffic early on. Taylor finished second.
AMA/MofoWorld U.S. Endurance Road
Race Series: Round 8
Team Hammer wins
close Mid-Ohio 500
By Randy Marrs
LEXINGTON, OH, AUG. 2
Team Hammer's Dave Sadowski and Doug
Toland topped a strong field of 66 endurance teams at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course
in what turned out to be the best endurance
Both Sadowski and Toland had
never seen the track before Friday
practice, limited to two 15-minute
endurance sessions, with another two
15-minute sessions Saturday mornabout four hours, with Johnson &:
ing. Team Hammer formulated a
Woods Racing's Nigel Gale and Scott
pre-race strategy of taking it easy in
Johnson third. Team Visa's Garry
the early stages o( each rider's first
Griffith and Steve Nardiello topped
stint and then picking up the pace as
the GTU class at sixth overall, with
the race progressed.
Paul Sf'Iritho