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R RACE WERA Power-Mist! Performance Machine National Endurance Series: Round 4
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HNS Racing (5) tries to hold off Team Suzuki Endurance (1) at Putnam Park.
Team Suzuki Endurance (1) tooK the victory, their fourth in as many starts in 1993.
Force Racing (12) won the Heavyweight Production class in the WERA Six-Hour.
Arclight Racing II (10) leads Royale Racing (6) and Roswell Racing (8) at Putnam.
Team Suzuki owers to Putnam Park win
By Larry Lawrence
Mr. MERIDIAN, IN, MAY 22
eam Suzuki Endurance remained
undefeated in WERA National
Endurance competition with its
fourth straight victory of the season.
Chuck Graves, substituting for injured
riders Michael Martin and Steve
Patterson, rode with Team Suzuki standout Kurt Hall on the powerful Suzuki
GSXRllOO. Tray Batey and Fritz Kling
guided the HNS Racing Yamaha FZR1lXXl
to a close second, finishing a mere 52 seconds behind the leaders after six hours of
racing at Putnam Park.
Force Racing, meanwhile, made it on
the rostrum for the first time in over a
year, finishing a distant third. Dean
Hayes, Chris Hughes and Ron Crum handled the riding on the Ed Huffman-tuned
Force Yamaha FZR1lXXl.
The race was marred by an accident in
which Jay Bartlow of Virginia Breeze
Racing suffered a broken neck in a singlebike accident four laps into the race. Initial
reports indicate that Bartlow suffered
paralysis in the accident
Putnam Park's 1.B-mile course is one of
the tighter circuits the WERA endurance
series visits. With 43 teams taking the
green flag, heavy traffic was the order of
the day_
Hall put the red, white and blue
Valvoline/ Dunlop/Kerker/Emgo/
SBS/Arai/PM/Sunslar /Tsubaki/Dynojet
/Power-Mist/Helimot-sponsored Suzuki
into the lead from the start. Batey gave
chase on the HNS Yamaha, followed by
Virginia Breeze Yamaha's Bartlow. Local
favorite Lanny Allen moved up from the
T
18
rnidqIe of the grid to put the Indy CycleN-Ski Honda CBR600 in fourth, just in
front of Arclight Racing and Team 20/20
Racing.
Bartlow crashed on the fastest portion
of Putnam Park, a 100 mph left-hand
sweeper. Riders behind Bartlow said he
lost both ends of the Virginia Breeze
Yamaha at the same time and low-sided.
1bere is ample run-df area in that section
of the track, raising speculation tha t
BartlOw may have been struck by his tumbling motorcycle.
Since the EMfs working on Bartlow
were in a vulnerable run-
