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was suc h a ni ce da y, that's why. In
Sweden we are allowed to race until
th e temperature is m in us 15 . .. Today
it is o nly 10 abo ve.
" This isn' t much like riding in
Sweden ," sai d Andersson. " Here th ere
are so many open fields and pastures
and it looks like you ca n go real fast
but yo u have to be ca refu l (beca use)
there are many things that can ge t yo u
in trouble. I too k a bad fall in an open
pasture when I didn ' t see a was houL
The arrowin g was good but if yo u
didn't pay attention, you could lose a
lot of ti me lookin g for th e next arro w."
Sixth place AA rider Fred Hoess ma y
hav e sha red a van and a motel room
with th e Swedish firebrand bu t he
didn 't shar e Andersson's fondness for
riding th e ro ad in cold temperatures.
Hoess said, " T he re rea lly was n 't a lot
of road, it just seemed like a lo t in th is
kind of weather. "
Allen Gravitt, tied a t 33 with Husky
riders Andersson a nd Hoess and fellow
KTM ri der J ack Lafferty, said, " I had
trouble with so me hill s - I couldn't
get up them, they were frozen. We had
brand-new tires and it still d idn 't help ,
what we needed were studs. I h it a
cou p le o f chec ks o n the second but they
wouldn't give them to me, a nd I lost
a tie break er."
Team G reen 's Ku rt Ho ugh said, " It
wa s p retty scary wit h the frozen
cornfields and the ruts. I just took it
easy and d idn 't do anything too stupid.
I m issed at least four checks, maybe
five, by j us t a seco nd or two and I ended
up with 33. That's how it goes, it looks
like m inutes but i t's a matter of
seconds. On a da y like today if yo
can co me home healthy you're doing
alright, I tossed my ch ain a bo ut four
tim es and it's nothing to put it back
on excep t that one tim e it was a cree k
crossing. I had to reach down in th e
wat er that tim e to put it back on and
I was a little co ld after that one.
Everytime I came to a creek crossing
I took my time and made sure I didn 't
get hung-up because I wou ld have been
fin ish ed right there."
T eam Suz uki' s fo rmer N ational
Ch ampion Kevin H in es had a frustrating day . " I pret ty m uch blew it wh en
I lost th e trail in the morning. It too k
m e about 15 m in utes to g e t
reestablished. "
Dave Edsal rod e a 250 Husky to
H igh-Point B and th e privilege o f
competin g as an A rider in '92.
In th e 200cc A class Kaw asaki rider
Brian T erry 's score of 64 was 30 points
better th an seco nd place Kawasaki
ridei Dan Buck.
Honda-mounted R o d Ben jam i n
held on for 69 points an d first place
over La rry Bergquist' s 70 in the 250cc
A class.
Sen ior A ri der Du ane Eller dropped
bu t 54 poi nts , 20 better than second
CI
p lace Dwa in Taylor.
Results
0 / A: I. Ja n Hrehor (Sur).
H1-PT A: I. Bill Andersson (H us).
H1-PT B: I. Dave Edsal (H us).
AA: I. Ja n Hrehor (Sur); 2. Randy Hawkins (Suz);
3. Jd l Russell (KTM); 1. K