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Mile, held at Allen County Fairgrou nds in Lima. Scott Parker (11 ), Chris Carr (2 0) and Doug Chandler (10) took first. second and third, respectively at Lim a. H-D Motor Co.lBeJl /Coors / Tsubaki-backed Parker led the main event wire-to-wire, but faced heavy competition from Carr and Chandler near the mid point of the race. Parker eventually pulled away to a comfortable margin at th e finish, leaving Carr and Chandler to shoot it out for second. "I thought I was out there a little farther than thai, " said Parker. "Then Chris cam e up behind me and I had to pick up the pace. Sometimes when you're out front you 're worse off than when you're running second. Because in second you know that you've goua go faster. When you 're in first you don't always know how fast to go, " Parker's win proved to be a special one since it gave long-time factory Harley-Davidson tuner Bill Werner his 50th Grand National win. Parker a lso netted himself $3945 of the $29,500 purse, plus he earned an addi tional $400 for leading all 20 lap s of the National. The Lima race wasn't part of th e nine dirt track events on this year's Camel Pro Series schedule, but it was part of the AMA Grand National Dirt Track Series. Last year's Grand National Champion, Bubba Shobert was absent from the race since he was off chasing Camel Pro points 'at th e Road America road race in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. Parker's win stretched his' point lead in the battle for the 1987 Grand National Championship. H e now leads Chandler 103-94. Carr moved into third in the standings by virtue of his second place finish and Shobert's no-show. Carr holds a slim 80-78 edge over Shobert. Two-time National Champion Ricky Graha m is fifth in the standings with ' 73 points. Time Trials Sammy Sweet (6 0) scored the win in the second heat, while Ricky Graham (3) edged out Carr (2 0 ) for second. Parker's w in gave his tuner Bill Werner his 50th National win . AMA G'rand National Championship Dirt Track Series: Round 8 Parker powers to Lima HM win By Mike Larson Photos by Bert Shepard LIMA , OH , JUNE 27 H arley-Davidson factory rider Scott P arker led his H arl ey teammate Chris Carr and Freddie Sp en cer/ Su p erT r a p p R a cing ' s Doug Chan dler to the victory circle at the fourth edition of th e Ohio I National Championship Half Local favorite Steve Morehead set fast time in qualifying, clicking of! a 25.666-second lap (70,132 mph), which was a little more than half a second off Parker's record time 01 24.994 set in 1984. Second fastest time went to Carr, pi lo ting his H -D M o tor Co .lLawwiJl /Shoei / RS Taich i. Hap ]ones/Hobie-sponsored XR 75C to a 25.778 time. Ro undi ng ou t tht top three qualifiers was Parker, whc stopped the clocks at 25.823. First Honda, fourth fastest, in thl top five qualifiers was Chandler who clicked off a 25.869, w hilt Harley-mounted Don Estep was fift! fastest with a time of 26.013. Filling out the top 10 were rookie Expert Brian -Bo n esteel , Texar Sammy Sweet, Martin Bu shma n Eric Ra usch and Mike Ashton. ThExpert field was narrowed dowr from 69 to 48, with Robert Nichol: turning in a time of 29.245 makin] him the 48th and last qualifier, Heats . Fast qualifier Morehead blasted tc th e win in the first 10-lap Expert hea race , leading from start-to-Iinisl aboard his KK/Laube's Cycle/F&:~ H-D /Storz /john Dragoo /].W Hunt-backed Harley. Oklahoma' Ronnie jones battled his way up t, third and then fought his way b Scott Pearso n with two laps to g' and to round out the direct transfer to the main. Sweet blew by Graham and too the lead on lap one of the secon heat, then never looked back , ro llin, on to take the victory on his PyramiBuilder s/K al-G ard/Bell /Tsubak XR750. Graham, on a Harley and bacl together with his former tuner Te: Peel for thi s race, ran third in tho early going, th en got past Ashtor