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ahead of Goodman, Lawrence and
Henry, and just as quickly proceeded to
pull away again.
At the finish, Gaddis enjoyed a fivesecond lead over Lawrence and Henry,
who displaced Goodman shortly after
Gaddis crashed.
"When [ fell I thought it was over, but
I was able to settle right back into my
pace," said Gaddis. "It's a feeling that I
can't describe."
'1 started to lose my head when I saw
Jimmy crash," said Lawrence. "When I
realized that I could win I started to
make a lot of mistakes."
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Jeremy McGrath (15) ran as high as second in the main event before fading to fifth behind Mike Kiedrowski (3).
Damon Bradshaw saluted his fans and threw his goggles to the crowd after the race.
about my leg at all. This race proves to
me that I can still go fast and I'm looking
forward to a lot more top three finishes."
Although not happy, Stanton didn't
seem all that disappointed with the
show position.
"Third isn't so bad, but I'm not happy
with it," said Stanton. "I just got smoked
in a sense. I just need to relax, I was
holding back a bit."
Kiedrowski overtook McGrath on the
15th lap and finished a lonely fourth, but
was satisfied with his performance.
"I got a horrible start and had to
come from a ways back," said
Kiedrowski. "I didn't want to overdo it,
this was only the second race."
McGrath held on to fifth, well ahead
of laRocco, who got past Swink on the
last lap after the two engaged in a Iaterace battle.
"I worked my way up pretty good,
then I crashed twice and dropped back,"
said laRocco. "I felt good tonight, [ just
had bad luck. I'm confident about the
rest of the season."
Swink, Matiasevich, Emig and Craig
rounded out the top 10.
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took a different line over the first jump
and was nearly kicked over the bars. In
typical Cooper-fashion, though, he held
the throttle wide open and saved it.
"He was scaring me," said Stanton. "I
thought he was going down on several
occasions."
Stanton seemed content to sit in third
and many expected him to mount a laterace charge, but he dropped two seconds
off Cooper's pace by the end of the race
and settled for a safe third.
Bradshaw slowed to a crawl a few
turns from the finish and thrust his fists
in the air before getting on the gas and
whipping his Yamaha sideways over the
finish jump. Cooper carne along a few
seconds later and, as usual, defied the
laws of gravity over the finish line, while
Stanton sailed past the checkered flag
without celebration.
"I got a little lazy last week and gave
up after leading the race for 12 laps,"
said Bradshaw. "I basically wanted to
get one race uncler my belt before I started to hang it oul. While I'd like to say
that this will start another win streak like
it did last year, (Bradshaw won the next
four races following Houston in 1992)
I'm just going to set out to be on the box
every week."
"That was a wild ride, all right," said
Cooper. "Everything just clicked and a
lot of wild stuff worked."
When questioned about the combination of the tabletop-single jump section
and the broken femur he suffered late in
1992, Cooper replied, "I didn't think
Heat race winners Henry and
Lawrence looked to be the odds-on
favorites entering the combined
Eastern/Western Regional125cc main, as
both riders had easily won their respective heats. After a terrible showing in his
heat, Gaddis transferred to the main by
winning the last chance qualifier.
At the start of the IS-lap final Gaddis
snatChed the holeshot aboard his Alley
Sernar-tuned Kawasaki and waved goodbye, not only to the competition, but also
to his Splitfire/Mattel/Pro Circuit
teammate Mike Chamberlain, who was
taken out in the first turn by North
County Yamaha's Tom Oowers.
Suzuki privateer Todd Bennick and
local Texan Grayson Goodman started
second and third, while Lawrence and
Henry were eighth and ninth, respectively. Goodman muscled past Bennick
to take over second on the first lap, and
maintained that position for most of the
race. Bennick drifted back to 19th at the
finish, and Lawrence and Henry quickly
motored through the pack and into third
and fourth.
Meanwhile, Gaddis established a
seven-second lead, but on lap 12 came
up short on a double and crashed.
Gaddis remounted quickly, just inches
250 HEAT t: 1. Guy Cooper (Suz); 2. Danun
Bradshaw (Yam); 3.MikelGedrowski (!