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larrY Ward (971) led the main until Ron Tichenor (11) passed him. while Johnson. behind Ron Lechien (4). came from mid-pack to w in . Jean-Michel Bay le came through the pack after starting near last to grab second behind Johnson at the end of the 20-lap ma in. AM8LCamel SUllercross Series: Round·5 Johnson remains perfect in Miami By Hanny Ray Abrams MIAMI , FL, FEB. 18 Honda's Rick Johnson became th e winningest rider in supercross history - and kept alive a perfect season - by winning the Coors Extra Gold Super Challenge a t Miami 's Joe Ro bbie Stadium. Johnson, who came into the fifth ro und o f the Ca m el Supercross Series tied wi th 6 . Suzuki's Bob H annah for lifetime wins with 27, go t a mid-pack start and slowly worked his way through the field before taking the lead on the seventh lap. O nce in the lead, the 24-year-old defending Superrross champ was never challenged and he led a H onda sweep of the top three places with 125cc Wor ld Champi on Jean-Michel Bayle of France second and Jeff Stanton th ird. Yamaha's Mike LaRocco took fourth, his best supercross finish ever, with Suzu ki teammates Johnny O ' Mar a and Ronnie Tichenor fifth and sixth, respectively. " It makes me feel unreal," J oh nson said after the winner's circle celebration. "My only goa l now is to make the number as h ig h as possible so the you ng guys coming up can't catch it." For his fifth straight '89 Ca mel Supercross Series win, Johnson earned $5000 in gold from the $35,000 purse with Bayle taking $3000 and Stanton $1850. After five of 15 events Johnson leads Stanton by 25 points, 125 to 100, with Honda's Guy Cooper, 11th tonight with gearbox problems, third at 82. Riding what can only be described as the race of -a lifetim e, Yamaha's Damon B~dsha~ won the 1~5cc race after cras hi ng t~Ice and fa~hng back as far as 17th m the 22-nder field. Brad shaw, who rode the 250cc class m. Western Re,gt on races, but who WIll. be contestmg the.l25cc Eastern Regional Supercross title, led off the start of the IS-lap ra~e, but fell on . the sec;?nd lap, h~ndmg the lead to en Suzuki s Ty Davis, Bradshaw th: worked h IS '!Nay back up to thi rd before . rashin g agam. o n th e 10th c lap~ this ume only losing one spot. QUl~kly re-moun~mg he went af!er DaV w~o I~ v!rtua~ly ~e enure IS, ~c~, pa~sm~ him m mld:aIr over. the finish h~e Jump to begtn. the final lap. DaVIS ended second WIth Kawa saki's Chris Coleman and Denny ~tep henson third a.nd Iourth, ~espectively, and MIke Kiedrowski fi fth, " O nce I got a bad start I told myself ~at I had .t~ win," Bradshaw said. Ty was r~din& real ly smooth an d I was making Iiule mistakes. ~hen we came up on some lapped nders I managed lo make some tim e on him and get by." Bradshaw pocketed $1000 from the $5000 125cc purse for his win.