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Canada's Ross Pederson (1) tr ied to stop the. Americans in both nights
of competition, but was forced to settle for a pair of runner-up finishes .
Tea m Yamaha's Damon Bradshaw took advantage of a break in National
competition and scored the overall win at the Toronto Supercross .
Pederson, Bradshaw and laRocco (inset left to right) celebrate inside
the Skydome, which is at the base of the world's tallest building.
Yamaha 's Mike LaRocco took the main event victory the open ing night,
but could only work up to third after a bad start on day two.
Bradshaw,LaRoccotop
Skydome Supercross
By Mark Stallybrass
Photos by Bill Petro
TORONTO, CANA DA, J U N E 23-24
Yamaha teammates Damon Bradshaw and
Mike LaRocco split wins in the Molson
Export Supercross held inside Toronto 's
new Skydome sports complex, with Bradshaw coming ou t the overa ll
winner of th e two-d ay event for
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th~ sec<:m d ~on~ecu tIve year
w ith his wm m th e fmal
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night's main event.
Lalcocco was th e wi n ner o n th e
ope ni ng ni gh t of ac tio n with 1988
Ca nadia n Su pe rcross Cha mpio n
Ross Pederson tak in g second . Bradshaw finished third af ter h itti ng the
d irt, but bounced back to win Satur day 's mai n over Pederson. La Rocco
go.t a poor s.ta!t bu t cha rged up to
th ird at th e fini sh. .' .
. .
Brad sh a w began h IS wmrrmg
performa nce with Friday ni gh t's fir st
qualifier. Bradsh aw took the lead
from the start a nd kept it to th e
fin is h . La Rocco easi ly wo n th e
seco nd qualifier wh il e Ped erson
co uld on ly wor k his way to th ird
before tim e ran ou t and th e chec kered
flag appeared. Micky Dym ond, who
also made the tre k up north, sh owed
smooth form a nd wa lked-away with
