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Cycle News 1992 02 05

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GSUPERCROSS AMAICame1 Sup_ercr_os_sS_eri_es:_Ro_un_d3 _ with him for a little whi le until a slow er rid er messed me up befor e th e triple. My legs came off and, after that , I just lost my dri ve." After a poor start, Italy 's Mich elle Mon ti ended up eig h th, ahead of T ommy Clowers and Ra y Crumb. a e Resu lts jeremy McGrath repeated last year's 125cc win, his first of the new season . ahea d of Coo per, Kiedrow ski, La rry Ward , j eff Ward, jeff Matiasevich , Stefan Everts and early leader Kehoe. 125cc A fourth place finish moved Guy Cooper up to fifth in the series point standings. 8 As Bradsh aw tried to pu t distance between himself and the pa ck during lap three, Stanton, Bayle, and Cooper wo rk ed th eir way a rou nd Keh oe. Kiedrowski foll owed suit on lap fou r. Stanton soon started to have prob lems of hi s own and was forced back to th ird by Bayle. " I go t off to a good sta rt, but go t passed by a coup le guys on th e first few laps and lost all my momentum," said Stanton. " I tried to pick it back up, but Dam on was on the ga s. I'm not going to make any excuses, they were just riding a little better." Stanton 's problems began to escalate as Cooper zeroed in on the multi-time champ ion. " Cooper was riding reall y good and made me protect my lines," said Stanton. " I caught Stanton, but couldn't do anything, " said fourth place Cooper. " Most of the lines on the track intersect one another and that makes passing tough. Thinking back, I wish I would have tried a few things, but it's too late now. " Kehoe, meanwhile, ran in sixth ahead of Matiasevich , Dymond, Larry Ward and Everts. Kawasaki teammates Jeff Ward and LaRocco battled in tensely for 11th. The order quickly changed as Larry Ward and Dymond tangled, sending them both to the ground. " I go t cross-rutted in a berm, and tangled with Larry Ward , " said Dymond. " I had a feeling that he was going to pas s me anyway, bu t this (the crash) didn't help me." " Neit her one of us did any thi ng funny," said Ward of the incident. "He ma de a mis tak e, and I was too close behi nd him to change lines." Ward remounted in sixth wi tho ut losi ng a posi tio n , but Dymond wasn ' t so lucky, restarting his charge from 11 th. LaRocco also went down late in the race, injuring h is wrist in the process. " I endoed into a tabletop and it pitched me onto the fiat o n the other side," said LaRocco, while holding an ice pack on his left wrist. " I'm not worried - I don 't think it is serio us - but I probably won' t be too happy tomorrow. " Up front, Bradshaw allo wed his sixsecond lead to shri nk as he slo wed down to rid e th e fi na l fe w la p s cautio usly. "I heard him (the anno uncer) say that it was the last la p and it screwed me up, " said Bradshaw, who whipped hi s bik e sideways o n the whi te flag lap in anticipation of the ch eckers. " It kinda surprised me when I saw that I still had one lap to go, but it was no prob lem ." Bradshaw circulated the course one more ti me before p erf orming hi s acrobatics ahead of Bayle. "Things cou ldn 't have work ed ou t much bette r," said Bradshaw. " I did what I needed to do tonig ht, and that was win ." " My start wasn't too bad , but it took too much time to work my way up," said Bayle. " I tried to catch up, but there 's no way on this fast track." Stanton crossed the finish line third, Much like Bradshaw had don e in the 250cc final, McG rath contro lled the tempo of the I25cc main event. Damon Huffman gave chase to the fast-starting McG rath until McGrath 's T eam Peak /Pro Circuit H onda teamma te Buddy Antunez moved into the runner-u p slot, That left Huffman to conte nd with Tyson Vohland, Kyle Lewis , and j immy Gaddis, th e winner of the second heat race. The pos itio ns remai ned the same unti l the eigh th lap when Huffman pu lled off the course with a seized engi ne. " My bike started slo wing down after the first lap," said Huffman . " The rod went o ut on th e face of the triple and I barely made the seco nd jump. It was scary." Suzu ki support rid er Phil Lawrence ca used som e exci te me n t midway th rough the race as he charged from 10th. By the fifth lap he had worked his way up to sevent h and then to fourt h o n lap nine. . H e then dogged Voh land for several laps before making hi s move two laps from th e finish . Voh land tried to count er, but Lawrence maintained his positi on and finished third. " I had a really tough time trying to pass Gaddis and Vo h land," said La wrence, 20, of Ch erry Valley, California. " I started catching Antunez, but I was getting tired - I think it's because of the flu." McGrath and his Skip Norfolktuned Honda CRl25 co llected the checkers 15 secon ds ahead of Antunez. Vohl and finished fourth behind Lawrence and in fron t of Gaddis, Dana Wiggins and La nce Smail. " It was pretty easy," said McG rath , who also won the first heat race. " I felt real comfortable out there." " It didn 't go how I wanted - I wanted to win ," said Antunez. " Bu t seco nd was good. I'm still hea ling from a broken leg and I was j ust trying to stay with jeremy. I was able to hang 25GHEAT t:: I. Jelf Sta nton (Hon); 2. Larry Ward (Sw); 3. Stefan Evens (Sw); 4. Mike LaRlXXO (Ka w]; 5. Shaun Kales (Kaw}; 6. Doug Dubach (Ya m ); 7. Micky Dymon d (H o n); B Bader Mannch (H o n); 9. Mik e Chamberlain (Yam ); 10. J ell Emig (Yam) ; 1L Max Gazzarsta (Suz); 12. T odd D

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