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The final hour was the humdinger
of the race. At the beginnin g of th e
ho ur, as mentioned , For ce was sligh tly
ah ead of H all T oo , Mot ion System s
and Arclight crossed th e sta rt/finis h
line dead even . The Middleweigh t
P roduction dice would rema in tight
do wn to the wire, when Tony Rauseo
bided his ti me beh in d Arcligh t, an d
made a last corner pass o n the fin al
lap to take the checkered. However, it
was no t to be, as th e scori ng was
reverted to th e previous lap, wh en th e
six-ho ur time had actu ally pa ssed. On
that lap, Rauseo was still pat iently
waiting beh ind Arclight, leavi ng h im
second in class.
As for the Hall ' N Sti ll Too/ Force
ra cing battle, things look ed grueso me
for th e Hall team, as they trail ed by
over 20 seco nds wh en th eir final pi t
sto p was completed, barely a half hour
remaining. Mi ke Reed was given the
ri di ng chores for Hall 'N Still sponsored by Widman Suzuki, SBS,
Dun lop, Zero Gr avity, Bieffe, and RES
- and he immedi ately began clicking
off o ne-m inu te, 20-second lap tim es,
brutall y fast for after five a nd a half
hours of raci ng . Reed would event ually get his sigh ts on For ce raci ng , and
- to Force's disma y - a pa ss wa s made
i nside of th e last five laps. Reed
fini shed eig ht seconds ahead of Fo rce.
Ru sh 'N Racing mad e a valiant last
ho ur dash, closing with in a lap of
Eh lerding, wh o took the class win .
In th e L igh tweight class, F&S Racing's Chris Sweeney, Matt Nowasiadl y
and Dean Hayes do minated th e en tire
day, runnin g as high as 12th overall,
and finish in g 14th o vera ll. The 129
Race Team's Matt Lakey, Russ Town send and Pat McGovern took second
Li ghtweight ho no rs, a feat hampered
by a slo w pit stops, the resu lt of vapor
lock when ever the bike dropped to low
rpms . Peren n ia l fast li gh tw eight
ru nners Deal Gap Racin g bo wed o u t
in the third hour wi th a crippled
motor.
After th e ra ce, T eam Suzuki Enduran ce ca p ta in J o hn U lrich was qu ite
ecstatic. La ter - in a mor e serious
state - he wo u ld a ttr ibu te the Suz u k i
End urance successes of lat e to th eir
crew chie f: " It took us eigh t years to
win o ur fir st 40 races," h e sai d. "In
less th an three years we won a no ther
30. The diff eren ce is Kei th Perr y." A
sent ime nt echoed by lead rider H all,
who ded icat ed the race - and season
- to th e cre w " the crew o f Scotty
Beach , Keith Perry, Phil Sco tt, and
alt ho ugh he wasn' t here this weekend,
T om H ouseworth. Those g uys put
together th e whole season 'b y doing
all th e wo rk o n th e mach ines. They
na ve to do all the work, we get a ll
the pl ay.
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Resul ts
OVERALL: I. T eam Suz uk i Endu rance (Suz); 2.
Hall 'S St ill Ra cin g (S UI ); 3. DAK Racing (S uz);
4. Hall ' N Sull Too (SU1): 5. Force Racing (Yam):
6. Tram Mach in e (SUI ): 7. Ehl erding Racin g (Yam);
8. T eam R ush'N Ra cinK (Yam ); 9. T eam Pasta Marin
( Ya m); 10. Ardi g ht Raci ng (H o n ); II. Mot ion
System s Rac ing (Ho n ); 12. Red HOI Racing (Ya m):
13. Cycle Nu ts 8<1101 ts (SU1): 14. KIi