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Michael Martin finished second overall in F-USA with a 4-2 tally. was riding really hard," said Martin, who was very pleased to escape the miserable conditions without further hampering his broken collarbone, and with 17 points to boot: "But Barnes, that dude's a fish. He's so fast in the tain, always has been, there was no catching him today." D'Aluisio came alive in the second, dry leg, taking third ahead of Graves, who had to start from the back of the grid since he, switched to his F-USAspec machine. Fifth and sixth went to Walker and Oliver, respectively, with both riding on badly worn front rain tires. Kurt Hall entered this leg only, placing seventh, ahead of Hall'N'Still's Tray Batey, Williams and Sadowski, the later of whom started in the back with Graves after dropping out of the first leg.. With Barnes the obvious overall winner, the final scores showed Martin in second overall, ahead of Walker, D'Aluisio, Graves, and Oliver. Formula II Held in between F-USA legs, the Air Tech Formula II event turned out to be the Michael Barnes Show, Part Deux. Barnes hopped on a Hall'N'Still prepped Yamaha TZ250, fought with Performance South's Rich Oliver for a few laps, and stormed off to another win, but just barely. "The bars on 'Fastline's Suzuki (GSXRllOO) are so wide," explained Barnes after this victory, while a friend applied ice to his busted collarbone, "that I can do all of my countersleering with my left arm, no problem. But the 250 is so narrow - it really wears me out." Consequently, Barnes slowed a tad at the end of the 14-lap race, and Oliver had one final shot at the win. "On the last lap," Oliver said. "I caught Barnes in the last tum, drafted him down the straight, but couldn't pass him through the kink right before the checkered flag -because I would have had to hit him - so I settled for second." Southwest's Walker, a bit down on speed due to a lack of development time after a pre-race practice seizure and crash, diced with Oliver for second until the 12th lap, when teammate D'Aluisio captured third, dropping Walker back to fourth, where both would slay until the end. Defending F-II Champion Kurt Hall was fifth on the Scott Hall Import's backed entry, ahead of Performance. South's Chuck Sorensen, and the third Southwest Motorsports entry of Chris Taylor. Eighth was earned by Michael Himmelsbach, while Greg Esser and Leon Cortez rounded out the top 10. By virtue of his first and third place finishes in the two rounds now complete, D' Aluisio leads the F-II point standings over Oliver (a pair of seconds), 35-34. Walker lies third with 26 points with Hall fourth on 22 points. F-III Rain pelted down during the F"III event, causing havoc for the riders who were all on tiny Honda RSl25s. Veteran John Long was out of the hunt for the win even before the race began: he was riding on slicks, a dangerous proposition which caused him to be lapped. The next claimed by horrid weather was the Hayden brothers, Tommy and Nicky, as both fouled spark plugs. Then Kevin Murray got off track while hunting for the lead, reentered, and was also lapped. What all of this left was winner Marcello del Guidice. Nearly a minute and a half behind, though still on the lead lap, was second place finisher Nancy Delgado. Murray still ended up third in the sparse field, Long fourth, with Tommy and Nicky Hayden fifth and sixth, respectively. Support races The opening Superstock race was the Vanson 750 Superstock class, most of which was an exciting, three-way battle between Valvoline Suzuki teammates Kurt Hall and Stevie Patterson and Hall'N'Still's Tray Batey. But with four laps remaining, Batey nearly highsided and dropped off the pace. Hall abruptly dropped nearly a second and a half off his lap times, and ran away to a clear victory over Patterson. Rounding out the top five was Batey, Aaron Yates and Ernie Kicklighter. The 1100cc class was entirely Tray Batey's show. Batey ran away and hid from the everyone, finishing nearly 21 seconds ahead of his closest competitor, Valvoline Suzuki support rider David Slanton. Danny Roberts captured third ahead of Patterson and Kevin Rentzell. The 600cc Superstock class saw Danny Roberts control most of the race, finishing with three seconds to spare over the . battle for second - which saw first year experts David Estok and Yates dice for the spot. Estok took over Yates with Valvoline's Stanton and Patterson rounding out the top five. Michael.Bames added to his big pay day with a win in Formula II over Rich Oliver. Marcello d~l Guidice cruised to victory in a rain sodden Formula III class. In the Yamaha Seca II Chcllenge Rod Burr, fresh off his win in the previous Road Atlanta round, proved that h~ is the best rain rider in the series. After the first lap' was completed, the ultrasmooth Burr was already four seconds ahead of the field. With five laps down, Burr held a whopping 20-second lead. Too bad Burr's motor was illegal in a post race teardown. With his cylinder head suspected as being illegal, it was confiscated and sent to Yamaha for a final judgment. The provisional results list Garry Hasher as the winner, followed by Kelly Drew, who had made a spirited, late charge into that second spot, and Steve Doolin. Todd Cleveland motocrossed his way to fourth, just ahead of David Olin. Metzeler Future Stars action saw Riva Yamaha's Marc Coop blitz the field, handily besting fellow Boca Raton, Florida, resident Marc Conti by over eight seconds. Eddie Dimeglio, Patrick Weekley and Chris Haldeman - the last rider on the lead lap in a sparse field of seven finishers - rounded out the top five. tIt Results F-USA.: 1. Michael Barnes (Suz) 2-1; 2. Michael Martin (Suz) 4-2; 3. Danny Walker (Yam) 2-5; 4. Chris D'Aluisio (Yam) 7-3; 5. Chuck Graves (Suz) 64; 6. Rich Oliver (Yam) 5-6; 7. Joe Brett Williams (Han) 1()'9; 8. Tray Batey (Yam) 12-11; 9. Chuck Sorensen (Yam) 11-9; 10. Chris Taylor (Yam) 11-12; 11. Craig GaVeT (Yam) 322; 12. Kevin Rentzell (Suz) 17-13; 13. Ernie Kicklighter (Kaw) 16-14; 14. John Ashmead (Kaw) 14-16; 15. Chip Terrell (Yam) 8-23; 16. David SadowslO (Suz) 22-10; 17. Jeff Hagan (Hon) 13-19; 18. Kurt Hall (Yam) 27-7; 19. Rid< Shaw (Yam) 19-15; 20. Thomas Barl>er (Hon) 18-18; 21. Michael Himmelsbach (Yam) 15-21; Leon Cortez: (Yam) 2().20; 23. Jimmy Shelton (Hon) 24-17; 24. Lee Shierts (Kaw) 21-24. F-I1: 1. Michael Barnes (Yam); 2. Ridl Oliver (Yam); 3. Chris D'Aluis;o (Yam); 4. Danny Wa1keT O:am); 5. Kurt Hall (Yarn); 6. Chuck Sorensen (Yam); 7. Chris Taylor (Yam); 8. Michael Himme1sbach (Yam); 9. Greg Esser (Yam); 10. Leon Cortez (yam); 11. John France (Han); 12. Charles Satchez (Yam); 13. Marcello del Guidke (Yam); 14. Peny Melneciuc (Hon). F-III: 1. Marcello del Guidice (Hon); 2. Nancy Delgado (Han); 3. Kevin Murray (Hon); 4. John Long (Han); 5. Tommy Hayden (Han); 6. Nicky Hayden (Hon). 1100 S1STK.: 1. Tray Batey (Yam); 2. David Stanton (Suz); 3. Danny Roberts (Hon); 4. Steve PatterllOn (Suz); 5. 1

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