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Dutchman R ~cing's Jeff Heino and Kevin Rentzell won a co nt roversial Daytona 3 -Hour Endurance race. Hyper Cycle's Domay (5) leads Kayo Racing (2) and Eatherly Road Rac ing (55); Hyper Cycle finished second after being docked a lap. AMA/EBC Brakes Endurance Challenge: Round 2 Dutchman Racing wins controversial Daytona 3-Hour By Randy Marrs D AYTONA BEACH , FL, FEB. 28 In what appeared to be the closest finish ever in AMA National Endu rance Series com p eti tion and ended up as one of the m ost .cc n tr oversia l , Dutchman Racing's J eff 12 H eino and Kevin Ren tzell won I tona In ternational Speedway. th e Daytona 3-Hour at DayAt the checkered flag , how- ever, it a p pea red that Hype r Cycle Racing had th e win aft er crossi ng the fini sh lin e less than 12-in ches in front o f Dutchman . It was a lso celebra ted in simila r fashi o n with H yper Cycle being awarded the win with Dutchman second. , T he order was la ter reversed by AMA officia ls, giving Dutchman their second win in as man y races in the young seaso n. The reaso n lor th e decision occurred on lap 74 of th e 86-lap race when , whi le leadirig, H yp er Cycle' s Carry Andrew fail ed to mak e the chica ne and rode straight through th e acce ss road instead. According to co r ne r wor kers , Andrew fai led to acknowled ge a wor ker's flag to hol d position until he was clear of o ther racers. The race finished and u po n report of the in cident, A MA ICCS director Roger Edmondso n deci ded to assess Andrew a $100 fine while allowing th e resu l ts to stand. " Andrew did not gai n any obvio us advantage by taking th e shortc ut that would affect the ou tcome of th e race," Edmondso n said. After the winner's circl e awards had taken p lace, Du tchman 's Kevin Ren tzell a nd Lockh art 's Dal e Quarterl ey and Doug Brauneck ga thered with AMA officials to report th at Andrew had rid de n erratica lly , wit h Quarter ley adding th a t Andrew had almo st center-punched him when he came back o n the track. Edm ondso n the n confe rred with road racing referee Darrel Dovel who in turn ta lked with corn er workers about th e incident. T hey reported that no t on ly had Andrew ign o red th e corner worker's flag, bu t o ne of them had almost been ru n o ver by And rew. Co upled wi th these reports plus th e co mp laints of Ren tzell , Brauneck a nd Q uarterley, H yper Cycle was do cked a lap , givi ng the win to Dutchman. T he results became officia l on Monday, February 29, wi th Andrew unavail abl e for com ment. Following Dutchman an d H yp er Cycle were So ut h Florida Racin g, a . lap down on H yper Cycle with 84 la ps, Hi gh T ech Racing and early leaders Lockhart Racin g rounding out the top five. H igh Voltage R acing ro de its Ho nda CB600 H urricarie to the GTU win and 13th overall, covering 79 laps. Second pl ace a nd l Sth overa ll was Autobahn Society with Moore Racing finishing third a nd 16th overall ; bo th were Honda CB600 Hu rri cane-mourned. T he race turned o ut to be no t on ly o ne of the closest a nd most co nt ro versial, but also the fastes t as Dut ch man averaged 100.98!! mph in th e th ree-hour event . Man y team changes have ta ken pl ace since 1987. Larry Shorts h as left Lockhart Racing a nd has jo in ed T eam Targa , a new team form ed by . engine builder Rob Muzzy, a long wit h Da n Chivin g ton; Dal e Quarterley stays with Lockhart wh ere he is joi ned by form er Du tchman ' pilot Doug Brau neck: Top Gun Racing's Bill Kell y has joined Rick Shaw on So ut h Florida Racin g 's Yamah a FZR I 00; Ka yo Racin g 's Do n n ie Ro we and T omm y Sloan , the current GTU cha m pio ns, are now on a semiworks Yamaha FZR IOOO and will go for th e GTO and overa ll tit le; the Kayo GTO team , which last year saw Kevin Rentzell a nd Dean Swims finish a disappointing season, has Swims retiri ng and Rcnt zell joini ng Dutchman Racing; Dr. Dave Keiffer wi ll field two teams for hi mself, J ohn Ashmea d a nd a n as yet un na med rider, and a tea m for Ri cky Orlando a nd Pete John so n to be ca lled T eam Wyomi ng and to even tua lly be on the new RC30 Honda . Maj or cha nges in the forma t of the AMA/EBC Series incl udes a restructuring of the po ints system which now awards poi nts for positio n fini sh o n ly a nd not on mileage cove red . T hi s grea tly si mp li fies th in gs p lus all 10 rounds of th e series will count towards the title. On th e pole for th e 2:30 p .rn. start was T ea m Lockh art wit h Dutchman Racing, Ka yo Racing, Targa Racing, a nd H igh T ech comp leting the fron t row . South Florida Racing occu p ied th e po le on th e second ro w with H yper Cycle a lso on the second row. T ea m Ha mmer was gridded in row n ine of t he GT O field w h i ch incl ud ed Yosh imura Suzu ki's Kevin Schwantz, Scott G ray a nd Do u g Pol en . Yoshimura pl anned o n usi ng th e endurance race to get thei r bikes d ialed in' for the following Sunday's Da ytona 200, causi ng a lot of com p lai nts from the series' regular co mpeti tors. At th e sta rt it was Shorts o n the Team Targa Kaw asak i ZXIOOOleading the 76 teams in to turn one and beginn in g to build a lead by the time the field hit turn five. T he first casualty was Rowe and th e Kayo Ra cing Yam aha FZRIOOO when Rowe cras hed in the International H orsesh oe on the first la p. " I just got caugh t up in th e pace too early, the tire wasn't scuffed in . yet and I just lost it," Rowe sa id la ter. " It was my faul t. " As th e field comp leted th e first lap, Quarterl ey had tak en the lead with Rentz ell on th e Du tchman Suzu ki seco nd a nd Shorts third o n th e big Kawasaki. J uerink held fourth for High Tech, an d South Florida was . fifth. T he GTU class was a scra mble between Roswell Racing H onda of Cam Roos a nd Mike Smi th, the Island Boys on a 750cc Du cati ridden by Bill Wiedner , Jimmy Adam o and J oe La m iroult, and th e T ea m Miller American Suzuki 600 Ka tana of Mike Mooras and Gerry O lson. By la p four, Andrew had worked the H yp er Cycle /E BC/ Kal- Gardl S h o e i I S ud c o lP M 1 0 ' N e a I I Cos wo rth -sponsored Su zu ki G SXR I IOO into third behind Lockhart a nd T arga. Lockhart and Targa was ted little time in turning q uick