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(From left to right) Chad Bangertes, Jim Mihal, Dennis Ray Horton, Chris Watson and Vemon Davis leave the line at the start of the first Advanced
class Race of Champions heat. AI Salaverria (be hind Mihal) started from the last position on the grid and won all three heats.
Fun is what YSR50 racing is all about. Jacques Buteau (1) wears a
smile in the heat of battle with M ike Sokoloff in the Heavyweight Novice
class. Buteau didn 't smile when his gas was shut off on the ROC grid .
Bangertes (5 ), one of the riders Yamaha invited from Utah, leads a battle
between Texans Davis (1) and Watson during a ROC heat .
AI Salaverria takes t he checkered flag in the final ROC heat. He won
all three ROC races plus two heats in the Lightweight Advanced class. .
Salaverria tops YSRSO
Race of Champions
By Nate Rauba
ROSAMOND. CA. AUG . 30
Al Salaverria led all but two laps through
three l O-Iap heat races to win the Advanced
class a t the SMX/Yamaha YSR50 T rack
Challenge Race of Champions, held at
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Sou.thern California's Willo~
Spnngs -Raceway. Salaverna
also won both heats in the
L igh tweigh t Advanced class in
the regular SMX program held.p rior
to the feature event.
