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AMAICCS 600 and 750cc Su~rt National Championship: Round 3 ROADRACE 'D amlbeats Arnaiz at Loudon uH e By Paul Carruthers Photos by Henny Ray Abrams e e LOUDON, NH, JUNE 16 rying to make up for last week's disqualification in the second D round of the series at Brainerd, Commonwealth Honda 's Miguel DuHamel managed to hold off the nearrace long advances of his teammate Rich Amaiz to take the 600cc Superspons win at New Hampshire International Speedway. ; The victory was DuHamel's third straight on the race track, but last week .a t Brainerd he was stripped of his win when his bike was found to have an illegal exhaust header in post-race tech inspection. . ~ . But there was no denying DuHamel and his Dunlop-shod Honda CBR600 F2 in this one, a race which started in wet conditions and finished on a neardry race line. Second place went to DuHamel 's Californian. teammate Amaiz on an identical Honda while Tom Kipp put his Bridgestone-shod Atlantic Motorsports Group Honda CBR600 F2 into the winner's circl e for the second successive race. Kevin Rentzell finished fourth on his Yamaha of Jacksonville Yamaha FZR600 with Brockton, Massachussen's Robert Wright rounding out the top five finishers on his Quarterley Racing-backed Yamaha. , The championship point leader going into Loudon, Jamie James, had a miserable day on his Vance &: Hines Yamaha with th e steering damper failing. James could barely ride the machine in the miserable conditions, and he struggled to finish 22nd and out of the points. Thus the points lead goes to Kipp with 45 points over DuHamel's 40. James holds on to third with 32 points. The rain had stopped but the track was still very wet when the 22-lap final got underway on Sunday morning. The early leader was Two Brothers Racing's Jeff Farmer, but the Floridian would later fade before crashing out of the race on the fifth lap. . DuHamel quickly moved past Farmer by the time the pack arrived in turn 10 on the opening lap, with Michael Barnes and Amaiz wasting no time in sticking with the Canadian. Amaiz moved past Barnes on the second lap and trailed DuHamel by just over two seconds on the fourth goaround. Arnaiz quickly sliced into DuHamel's lead and by the sixth lap the duo were together. They stayed that way until the 16th lap when DuHamel got the better breaks in traffic and pulled clear from his teammate. Not wanting to risk a crash, Amaiz backed down and DuHamel led him across the line by 6.5 seconds. "I lost the front one time, and I didn't want to crash," Amaiz said The battle for third was led initially by Barnes but Kipp and Rentzell were on the move. Kipp, wh o com pleted the first lap in 10th place after getting " slammed from behind in turn one," sliced hi s way through the pack to fourth. By the time he did so, he was some 10 seconds beh ind Barnes, but he kept plugging away, and on the 18th lap he was with him as they approached turn three. In turn lOon the same lap, Barnes crashed on the wet Pavement, allowing Kipp, Rentzell and Wright, whoeamed the Top Expen honors, with his fifth place finish, to motor by. Barnes remounted to finish sixth. "The racing line was real small," DuHamel said "It was im po ssible to get .s [ by some of those gu ys. A couple of times things worked well for me in traffic and sometimes it didn't," O¥ Results HEAT t: I. Migud I>ulhI=1 (H on ); 2. Larry Schwanbach (Yam ); 3. Jamie Jarncs (Yam ); 4. Rich Amaiz (Hon) ; 5. T om Kipp (H on); Ii Talch (Hon ); 21. Hamid Winkl es (Yam) ; 22. Ro nald McGill (Hon) ; 23. David EldmIgc (H on ); 24. Even Scmoll (Hon ); 25. am. Guomo (H on); 2li J im Sabin (Hon ). rune: 6 nun.• 51.265 sec, DistaDoate (Yam) ; 25. Mike Himmelsbach (Hon); 2li John D1ich (H on); 27. Lee Pounders (H on); 28. Thomas Dinardo (Yam); 29. J oh n Belussi (Hon); 30. William Greenwood (Yam); ~1. Todd Saanton (Yam); 32. Donald IIcny (Yam); 33. David Barretto (Yam ); 34. Michael Mym (Hon); 35. Michad Saia (Yam) ; 36. Jdf Fanner (Hon); 37. Jim Shocmalte (Hon); 38. Takanobu Koyarno (Hon); 39. Gr

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