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The Zlock ' Rac ing locals f inished secon d in Heavywe ight Pro duction and seventh overall. Team America won the Mediumweight Superbike class and is now th ird in the point standings. EMGO, Du nlop , Arai, Mikuni, Fox , Sunoco and Tsubaki. Attrition pla yed its role, of course, but of 54 teams sta rting the race , 44 of them were 'still clicking off laps at the end of the grueling contest, a ttesting to the q ual ity of modem · motorcycles and the skills of the teams who prepared them. The d ubious distinc tio n of being first to quit was earned by Team No -· Cam, registered jus t nine laps before their usually dead-reliable RZ350 squeaked a new set of pistons. And although a successful scoring pro test by 3-D Racin g moved them up a no tch over Insu late Ind ustries/ Centralia Ford, there was li ttle else to complain about -by the 44 fin ishing teams. Evelyn Pr it z, h ead scorer and general factotum .fo r WERA, said, "We've been doi ng th is awhile, and we 've go t the scoring down very well. . Bu t another factor is the righ t attitude of the scoring people, and you 've just got to listen to racers whe n theyhave questions. First, they deserve your best efforts to explain what is going on, and second, they just might be right." Keith Pinkstaff's three-year-old track record of I:12 flat was clearly in dange r, with the Zoomi n' Humans and Suzuki both clicking off :14s and :13s in traffic, but an all-out assau lt on the record would h ave to wa it for the following day 's • WERA sp ri nt races. Results 0 / A: 1.Tea m Suzuki Endur ance (Suz); 2. Human . Race Team (Yam); 3. 3-D Racing (Suz); 4. Insu lat e Ind.lCentr alia Ford '(Suz); 5. Vision Quest (Suz); 6. Van Isle MC/lnsulate Ind (Kaw) ; 7. Zlock Racing (Suz); B. Centralia Ford/I nsulate Ind. (Yam); 9. Team Sledge (Suz); 10 . Team America (Yam). • HIW S/BK: 1. Team Suzuk i Endurance (Suz); . 2. Human Race Team (Yam); 3. 3· 0 Racing (Suz); . 4. Insulate Ind.lCentrali a Ford (Suz); 5. Vision Quest (Suz). MIW S/BK: 1. Team America (Yam); 2. Team Contact Racing (Suz); 3. Caz Racing (Yam); 4. Team Extreme (Hon); 5. B-Calll Racing (Suz). LIW: 1. Wanna -Be Racing (Yam); 2. Three Men & A Bike (Yam); 3. Vitess e Racing (Yam); 4. Team M&M (Kaw); 5. Tw ist & Shout Racing (Yam). HIW PROD: 1. Van Isle MC/l nsu late Ind. (Kaw); 2. Zlock Racing(Suz); 3 .Team Sledge (Suz); 4. Team Con ta ct Rac ing (S uz); 5. Wr ight Lin e /Team Ballistic (Suz). M /W PROD: 1. We're Hum an Too (Suz); 2. Sportbikes Only (Hon); 3. Pegasus Racing (Yam); 4 . Silv er Eagle Racing (Yam); 5. Ryan Racing (Hon). POINT STANDINGS a /A: 1. Human Race Team (405 .99); 2. Team Suzuki Endur anc e (3 18.0 1); 3. Team Am eric a (29 2.25): 4. Royale Racing (269.23 ); 5. Act ion Suzu ki Racing (240.12); 6. We're Human Too (221.60); 7. CIA Racing (2 19 .75); B. 3-D Racing (210.5B); 9. Royale Racing II (201.49); 10 . Caz Racing (175.52). M39/M40 Tire Combination Makes Molehills Out of Mountains at Rugged WestVirginia Event Citing the performance of his Bridgestone M39/M40 soft-terrain tires, off-road ace Scolt Summers simply "ourschussed" the competition at the 7th Round of the National Hare Scrambles a t W interplace ski resort in Beckley, West Virginia, to win l st Place Overall and 1st in Open-Expert Class. A staunch member of the four-stroke minor ity aboard his Honda XR600, Summers rode his Bridgestones to overcome the seem ing . advantages of the lighter, more powerful two-strokes in the Field. "On the slopes, the connecting paths, in the woods, over the rocks, in the off-camber turns-you name it, the tires hooked up unbelievably we ll," he poin ted out after the race. . With the Beckley event, Summers has 3 wins overall/4 wins in class in AMA National Hare Scramble rac ing this year, giving him a series lead of 29 points . W ith resu lts of this race a lso applying towa rd AMA National Cross Country competition, Summers rises to 2 wins overaJl/3 wins in class in tliat series. Congratulations , Scolt, from Bridgestone-where off-road performance is available right off the she lf! For complele informolion about the full line of Bridgestone tires, see your local authorizedBridgestone motorcycle tiredealer.