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at leading the trio while Rothman
seemed content to sit and watch the proceedings from behind. On the 10th lap,
though, Rothman led the group and he
would hold that lead until the 13th lap,
when Sohwa would move past. Half a
lap later, Sadowski dropped out when
he lost the front end in the comer leading onto the banking.
"He (Sadowski) was chasing Tiger
(Sohwa) down," Rothman explained.
"He was pretty· close and I think he tried
to get a good drive out and the front just
went out from underneath him. After 1
saw him fall, I slowed down the last
couple of laps through there."
Sadowski may have been the victim
of a gusting wind: "It was more surprising than painful," he explained. "I was
just setting a nice comfortable pace, but
a gust of wind got me. A comerworker
said he thought the wind hit me, but 1
told him I thought 1 was just going too
fast. After riding the endurance race and
seeing a dust cloud, 1 think maybe he
was right. 1 never thought the wind
would get me, but it did."
Sohwa was able to hold off Rothman
as the two drafted their way to the
checkered flag. Behind them, Pridmore
had a rather lonely ride to fourth after
getting clear of an earlie~ battle with
WERA regular Kurt Hall and the
Valvofine Suzuki. Hall fell back into the
clutches of his teammate Chuck Graves
and the Team Suzuki Sport GSXR750 of
Robert Wright, but Wright crashed on
the last lap. Hall then managed to hold
off Graves for fifth place.
"I got a bad start," Pridmore said.
"And then the bike started to blow up
on about the seventh lap. There was oil
on the tire and 1 started looking at the
two on the 11th lap to see how many
were left - I just had to nurse it horne. I
got lucky when Sadowski crashed
because that moved me up a place."
Turkington said he felt a little more
pressure than usual because he'd earned
his first-ever pole position in the 750cc
Supersport class, a feat he duplicated for
Sunday's AMA/CCS 600cc Supersport
race.
"It's never easy," Turkington said.
"Even if you have a half lap lead there's
plenty of work. There was quite a bit
more pressure for this one because I was
fast qualifier, but 1 wish it could happen
every race."
The top finishing 600cc motorcycle in
the 750cc class was Randy Renfrow's
Camel-backed Commonwealth Honda
CBR600 in 12th place. Canadian Steve
Crevier had his new and untested
Kawasaki ZX6 in a battle for ninth until
he crashed on the ninth lap.
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Results
150(( S5 FINAL: 1. Britt Turkington (5uz); 2.
Takahiro Sohwa (Kaw); 3. Gerald Rothman Jr. (Suz); 4.
Jason Pridmore (Kaw); 5. Kurt Hall (5uz); 6. Chuck
Graves (5uz); 7. James Randolph (5uz); 8. Steve
Patterson (502); 9. Marc Smith (Kaw); 10. James Lussier
(Kaw); 11. Dean Mizdal (Kaw); 12. Randy Renfrow
(Hon); 13. Mark McDaniel (5uz); 14. Michael Martin
(5uz); 15. Brian Gibbs (Kaw); 16. Ernie Kicklighter
(Kaw); 17. Tim Blasquez (5uz); 18. Hugo Guendte
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