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run backwa rds to th e p revious three days. . Shortly before reaching the special test Halcom b got a front fla t causing h im to arrive at th e next check on his grace. In the test immediately following, ho wever , a bottle neck formed on a steep and muddy hill, an d riders with late numbers, including Halcomb, were forc ed to wait their turn up th e hill, costing them ti me. Because of this, Halcomb had a poor special test score of 827 seconds (compared to the best score o f 560 tu rned in by Cunningham ), which dro p ped H a lco m b back to six th in class. Zierman had a good 594 score in the fin a l test to secu re third 250 over Yamaha-mou nted Kadlec and Kawasaki rider J im Stanfield. In th e Open class, Cal iforn ia n R ick Da n iel , r id ing a Ya m ah a YZ490, too k over the class lead a fter Kawas aki -m ounted J oh n N iel sen developed brake problem s on da y two. Going into th e fin al specia l test, Daniel look ed to have the class win sewn u p , but he, like H alcomb, got caugh t in the bottlen eck in the .final special test and took a h igh 958 point score. H is high score cost him th e class win, drop p in g him to, fifth in cla ss. Daniel a nd ot hers protested the final special test in ho pe s of getting it th rown o ut, but Fleming made th e decision to let the fina l test scores stand. Nielsen wound up the class victor wi th 7171 points over H onda CR500mou nted J eff Irwin with 7358 poi nts. Irwin fin ish ed u p 187 points off Ni elsen's pace. Third went toScott Lathop (7463), while fourth went to Charlie Kouba (7486). . ' Dwigh t R udder held a scant one ,point lead over four-stroke ace Drew Sm ith a fte r the firs t day in th e L igh tweig h t Fo ur-Stroke class. Bu t af ter day two, Smith; wh o sai d he co uldn' t even pick up a paper clip the da y before th e event after having sp rained his thumb, powered his Al Baker's XR 's O nl y H onda XR250 to the victory with 158 points to spare over Rudder, 7399-7557. T hird in class went to Sco tt Dra fs followed by, Bri an Mull and Gary H azel. All were mou nted o n H onda XR250s. Husk y-m ounted Joh n Haa ker , once a!\,ain, claimed the overall victory In th e H eav yweight Fo urStroke cl ass over Was hi ngton 'S Davi d Rhodes, also riding a Husky. It was a close ba ttle do wn to th e fin ish, but it was Haaker edgi ng R hodes by just 65 seco nds. Third we nt to H onda ri der Mark Mangold, Da y one saw a number of nders drop out, pretty m uc h ending their hopes o f qual ifying for the ISDE. Billy Fulmer, Jr., had his H onda XR250's ignition go out just a few mil es into the event. " I bought a brand new XR just for this event, because I figured I needed something th a t wo uld last for the four da ys, oh well," said Fulmer. KTM rid er Bob Bean was another early victim. " I was on one of th e fire-road s right a t the start a nd I we nt to 'down shift and it went klunk," said Bea n. " It started ma king noises ana acted as if it was in two gears a t o nce. Eventually it locked u p ." Another KTM rider, Ed Marchini, packed it u p a fter hi s big-bore machine seized j ust a fter the first special test. Ninth overall fin isher in Mic higan , J i m m y L ewis , al so dropped ou t as did local favori te T om Mears after crash ing and break- ' ing his arm. Most of th e riders felt the first da y's time sched ule wa s a little too slow, ave raging about 10 minutes free time at every 'c heck. 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