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M OSS AMA National Championship 125/25Occ MXSeries: Rounds 7/Final
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o u t th e field for the 40-rider, two 30minute-pl us two lap ma ins. Riders in
th e top 10 in the points sta ndings
weren 't required to ride the qualifiers.
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Jean-Michel Bayle extended his l25cc
series points lead with a 1-3 showing.
Recentl y crowned Camel Supercross .Cham pion J eff Stanton secured his second
consecutive Natio nal Championship 250cc MX title with 1-3 moto finishes at Troy,
Ward wins, but Stanton
prevails at Troy
By Kit Palmer
Photos by Tom Strattman
TROY OH, JULY 29
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ess than five weeks after cli nching
back-to-b ack Cam el Su percross
Champion shi p ti tles, Team Honda 's J eff Sta nt on sewed up another
back-to-ba ck title at the final ro und of
the Nationa l Champ io nship 250cc MX
Series at Kenworthy's G P Club in
Troy.
Stanton came into the final round
with a slim , nine-point lead o ver
Kawasak i's Jeff Ward and left with the
series cha mpionsh ip in han d, seven'
points up o n Ward . Ward , however,
was the overa ll 250cc class win ner at
the Boyesen Racing/ Scott USA/Dunlo p/ WAZU Radio-sponsor ed Nationa l
with a 2-1 tally , while Stanton took
second via a 1-3 score.
" Fo ur championships in two years,
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that ain't so bad," said Sta nton. " We
p lanned to come and try to wi n th e
first mo to and take .it easy in th e
second , bu t I reall y want ed to go ou t
wi th a win . It jus t didn 't work o ut that
way. It feels great to win the championship. Now I have to keep working
hard - there's on e more to go."
T hat " o ne mor e" Stanton hopes
comes in the Nati on al Ch ampionship
500cc MX Seri es, whi ch gets underway
Aug ust 12 at Washougal , Wash ington,
With an estimated 11 ,000 spec ta tors
loo king o n (3000 more than last year),
on a hot, humid an d hazy central Oh io
day, Ward tame out of the sta rti ng
chute in the firs t moto with a vengean ce and took the lead away fro m
teammate Johnny O'Mara on the third
lap . But two cras hes, on e
