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six. The cras h caused the Suzuki to burst into £lames and covered most of the turn with burning fuel. "The front end washed out and high side d m e," Ne ver Ready' s Keller said. " I was trying to pi ck up some speed and crashed, it just caught o n fire." • With th e race at a halt th e teams again went to work on th e bik es, " We changed th e front brakes and topped off tfie fuel after the first sto p and changed th e rear tire a n d we're hanging in th er e." sa id Bouga s Racing's Mark Bougas. Sou th Florida Racing's Rick Shaw com mented o n their sto ps du ring th e dela y. " We're running stoc k brakes and runn in g good co nsis tent la p tim es, we cou ld be right up there if it wasn 't fo r all these red £lags ." On the restart, Bougas con tin ued to lead with H yper-C ycle mov ing into second in th e sh uffle. T eam Elephant m oved in to thi rd a n d Dutchman dropped to fourth. Baldwin now o n for Dutchman work ed hi s way back to third o n la p 98 with Hyper-Cycle taking the lead 14 laps later (112) as Du tchman moved aro und Bougas for second. By lap 126 B ou ~a s moved a ro u n d Dutch ma n taking over second and trying to chase down H yper-Cycle. O n lap 140, with just 43 left , Bra uneck was back on and charging hard trying to get Dutchman back in the lead, moving around Bougas for second. On lap 146; Dutchman retook th e lead for good. The GTU battle was also close with Kayo continuing to lead . VIP a nd the Asph alt Avia tors. Bouga s Ra cin g ch a sed dow n Hyper-C ycle and moved into second on lap 170. With th e race now in its fin al stages, th e battle with th e front two GTU bikes had everyo ne's attention . VIP began to close on Ka yo a t th e rat e o f o n e-to- two seconds per lap. With Kayo running on slicks a nd VIP on street DOT's, the rear Yok oh am a slick o n the Kayo Honda started to ru n into th e cord, yet Rentzell still ma naged to ru n in the one minute-14 seco nd brac ket. On lap 180, Kayo 's lead was just seven seconds o n VIP , on 181 it was cut to five seconds and o n 182 it was just three seconds. At th e checker it was Dutchman taking th e win with Kayo takin g the GTU portion onl y two seco nds in front of th e hard cha rg ing VIP Racing H onda. Dut chman wo n with a 40-second mar gin o n Bougas as Dave Sch losser co mme nte d o n th eir win. "It was a shame Lockh art a nd Kayo went o ut, it would have been a good race a t the end. We had th e field covered toda y. I wa nt to th ank my crew, J erry Pels, Tony Deitzel , a nd Stu Thorn ." " Ba uneck deserves all th e cred it toda y," sa id Dutchman 's Baldwin. " H e rode half the race and kept us up th ere all day. This is my first endurance race ever, Da ve has been after me to do one and I just never got aro u nd to it, I'll be doing some more now. " " You co u ld hardly see coming through tu rns six a nd 10 with th e sun in your eyes at th e end, " said Brauneck. "It started to set and rea lly was a problem at the end of th e race. " YOSHIMURA/SUZUKI SETS THE RECORDS AGAIN Schwantz Showed there's More to Racing than just aGreat Pipe S u zu k ilYosh im u r a / M o t u l's KEVIN SCHWANTZ showed the r ight to use YO SHIMURA' S products at the 64th Annua l Loudon Classic . A fter setting TWO track records on the same day and w innin g the main event by OVER 10 seconds, Kevin had the SWEET FEEL· ING O F DOM INATIO N. If you want the SWE ET-FEELING OF DOMINATION tune your bike w ith YOSHIMURA H igh Performance products, the SAME products wav a 8 .~ used on ou r race bikes. 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