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loc8l rider Cain Roos (16) beat Jeff Fanner (52) to win the Yokohama ~OOce Supersport race at Road Atlanta. into turn one but running wide, allowing Farmer to lead up the hill. His advantage would not last long, however, as Roos, riding a Rob Muzzy-built, Yamaha-backed, Dunlop-shod machine, moved to tlIe head of tlIe field before the end of lap one, a position he would never relinquish. Farmer closed near the end of tlIe race, but slowed to remove a loose sidecover and lost too much time. After tlIe race, Michelin made Farmer a Michelin support rider. "Jeff passed me on the first lap on the long straightaway, but I got him right back," said Roos. "It was real dose; real good racing." "It was tlIe longest 12 laps of my life," admitted Cam's dad, Buddy. Behind the lead duo came tlIe fourway battle witlI Mark Chin origi- . naUy leading tlIe group but suddenly falling back to the rear of tlIe group on lap seven. The four riders seesawed back and fortlI throughout tlIe race - Zampach, Chin, John Eidenberger and Tom Kipp - running nose-to-tail and eventually finishing in tlIat order. "We were really going for it," said Zampach, who does his own tuning with tlIe help of his girlfriend, Nancy Anderson. "I wasn't at Daytona and I've only been racing in the snow up north, so I. haven't really had any practice on tlIe Yamaha." Fabian Cortez finished a lonely seventlI, neitlIer gaining nor losing ground, witlI Deiter Lane eighth, John Ashmead ninth and Mike HartlI 10th, aU on Yamaha FZR600s. The first non-Yamaha was tlIe II tlI place Honda CBR600 of Floridian Glerm Barry, witlI 14th place Mike Barnes and 16tlI place David Clyde the only others to sneak Hondas into the top 20. Suzuki was not represented in the final. Results Yoshimura Suzuki' 5 Jamie James (1 0) won his second straight Yokohama 750ee Supersport race. this time tasting victory at Road Atlanta. AMA Yokohama 600cc Supersport Series: Round 2 oosleads Yamaha sweep By Brian Catterson Photos by Greg Mitchell BRASELTO ,GA,MAY7 Woodstock, Georgia's Cam Roos continued his domination of small-bore racing at his home track, Road Atlanta, leading a Yamaha FZR600 sweep of the top 10 positions in Yokohama 600cc Supersport action. .. Roos d e feated Flondian Jeff Farmer by 2.56 seconds at an average speed of 97.569 mph, while 10 Scott Zampach led a four-~ay b~ttle to tlIe ?tec~ered flag t? claim third: Iromcally, tlIe Yoshimura Suzukis of Jamie James and Scott Russell turned up missing for tlIe 12-lap 600cc Supersport final, botlI riders deciding t~ conce.ntrate on SunttaY afternoon s NatIOnal Superblke event. Roos and Farmer split heat race wins earlier, Farmer winning the first over Cortez, Ashm~ad, Kipp and Barnes, and Roos toppmg the second over Eidenberger, Zampach, Suzukimounted James and Harth. Russell had finished sixth in the first heat race on his Katana. A fully-packed grid lined up for the final, witlI Roos heading tlIe field 600 S/SPRT: 1. cam Roos (Vam); 2. Jeff Farmer (Yam); 3. Scott 2ampach (Vam); 4. Mark Chin (Vam); 5. John Eidenberger (Vam); 6. Tom Kipp (Vam); 7. Fabian Cortez (Vam); 8. Dei.... Lane (Yam); 9. Jo!ln Ashmead (Vam); 10. Mika Harth (Vam~ 11. Glenn 8arry (Han); 12. Gary O'Aluisio (Yam); 13. Larry Schwarzbach (Han); 14. Mike Barnes (Han); 15. John Jacob (Vam). AMA/CCS Yokohama 750cc Supersport Series: Round 2 James wins, Russell crashes By Brian Catterson Photos by Greg Mitchell BRASELTON, GA, MAY 6 Jamie James continued his winning ways by scoring his second consecutive Yokohama 750cc Supersport Series victory of the season after taking command of the lead after an early-race dice at Road Atlanta, The 27-year-old Baton Rouge, Louisiana, rider battled with Yoshimura Suzuki teammate and 1988 Road Atlanta winner Scott Russell early in the l2-lap sprint race, with the sure-footed, James taking advantage of Russell's loosehandling Suzuki GSXR 750 to assume the lead. Russell bung lOugh, using all of tlIe race track before ending his race witlI a high-side crash in turn six on tlIe second-to-last lap. Perpetual privateer Mike Harth took second place on his Michelinshod Suzuki of Corpus Christi GSXR750, a whopping 16 seconds behind the winner, with the Dunlopshod Suzuki of Vance &: Hines' David Sadowski hot on Harth's heels. Suzuki-mounted privateer Scott Zampach and Kawasaki-backed Doug Chandler rounded out tlIe top five finishers. Friday's heat races were canceled due to rain, high winds, and a lOrnado which touched down less than three miles from tlIe facility, wreaking havoc on a number of neighboring homes, vehicles and a nearby forest. RatlIer than reschedule tlIe heat races into the already tight schedule, the riders were gridded by tlIeir potm standings (which at this early stage in the season also happen to be their Daytona finishing positions). Chandler put the Rob Muzzytuned Kawasaki ZX7 out front at tlIe start of the final, leading briefly until being passed by James. Russell gave' chase 10 second, with Harth third, Sadowski fourth and Chandler already back to fiftlI by the end of lap one. Russell, riding his own Vic Fasolaprepared Suzuki when his Yoshimura-prepared SuperspoTl bike wouldn't perform, got around James on lap two, but James returned the favor on lap six. Behind the Yoshimura duo came tlIree pairs of dogfi~hting riders HartlI vs. Sadowski, Zampach vs. Chandler and Cam Roos vs. John Eidenberger - contesting third through eighth places. Chin was also involved in tlIe tussle witlI Roos until he fell in turn six. The running order at the front stayed tlIe same until lap 11, when Russell fell in right-hand tum six, sliding into Chin's fallen Yamaha and bruising his right knee. Sadowski, victim of an incorrect choice of gearing, tried to draft past gritty veteran Harth on tlIe from straight for five consecutive laps before he finally made it work, going under Harth in tum one. Harth wouldn't let him have it tlIat easy, however, and when on the last lap Sadowski got stuck behind lapped traffic in fast turn 10, Harth used his top speed advantage lo repass him. "Traffic didn't work out in my favor," said Sadowski after the race. "And I didn't feel comfortable banging handlebars with Mike Harth (at that speed). We've got a big race we've ~ot to win tomorrow," he added confidently in reference lo tlIe Superbike National. "I had lo play tlIe last-lap deal and it just worked out," said Harth, who'd worn a hole in his Suzuki's exhaust from his a~gressive cornering. "We started losmg a little power in the end." Chandler had his hands full coping with the aggressive advances of Suzuki-mounted Zampach, with Zampach using the same move lo pass Chandler tlIat Sadowski used on HartlI, going under tlIe Kawasaki rider at the end of the front straight, never to be repassed. Roos was also involved in a tussle witlI Yamaha-mounted Eidenberger, until home boy Roos put the move on the Wisconsin resident in the latter stages of tlIe race. After Russell's crash, James cruised to the win uncontested. "We were running really hard, it was a good pace," he said after posting tlIe win. "My bike was a whole lot more stable (than Russdl's). I just concentrated on being smootlI." After the race, Chandler protested tlIe top tlIree Suzukis on behalf of his tuner Muzzy, and despite finding some rather large variances in cam , timing, AMA officials ruled that tlIe differences were "attributable to manufacturing tolerances." • Results 750 S/SPRT: 1. Jemie Jemes {Suz~ 2. Mib Harth (Suz~ 3. Oavid _ i (Suz); 4. Seem Zlompach (Suz~ 5. Doug Chandler (Kaw); 6. Cern Roos (Suz); 7. John Eidenberger (Yemt 8. Ricty Orlando (SuzI; 9. Gary O'A1uisio (Yam~ 10. Larty Schwe.- {Hont 11. Otis Lance {Suzl; 12. Tod H-.n (Suzl; 13. F _ ear- (Yemt 14. Michael IIerNS (Hon~ 15. Fritz Kling (Suz).