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eSUPERCROSS e AMA Camel Su ercross Series: Round 15 Challenge feature and went on to score yet another wire-to-wire victory, his record 10th of the season. "To be honest, I wasn't thinking about the record," said McGrath. "1 just want to win races, and championships and records will come with them. The most important thing is to just to win each race." The only rider who managed to keep McGrath in sight throughout the 2o-lap feature was his teammate Jeff Stanton. Defending champ Stanton, who hasn't won a feature this season, never let McGrath get more than a few seconds ahead of him from the drop of the gate to the checkered flag. At one point, late in the race, Stanton looked as though he might challenge the new champ for the lead, but McGrath just turned up the boost a little bit and opened up his lead agajn. "It was a good race for me," said Stanton, who currently sits third in the series point standings. "1 felt good out there, which boosts my confidence a little bit, and that is something 1 need right now." Jeremy McGrath became the first rider to win 10 supercross events in one season. He broke Damon Bradshaw's record of nine. McGrath scores record 10th win at San Jose By Kit Palmer Photos by Kinney Jones SAN JOSE, CA, JUNE 5 fler clinching the 1993 Camel Supercross Series title at the previous round three weeks earlier, Team Honda's Jeremy McGrath had only one question left to answer going into the San Jose Supercross - with just two rounds remaining in the series, A 6 could he break Damon Bradshaw's single-seaSOn win record of nine, that the Team Yamaha rider set just last year? McGrath, the 21-year-old phenom who tied Bradshaw's record when he clinched the title at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, quickly answered that ques- tion in front of a near sell-out crowd of 29,663 at San Jose's Spartan Stadium and the answer was yes! As he has done so many times this season, McGrath roosted his Skippy Norfolk-tuned Honda CR250 into the lead at the start of the Coors Light Bradshaw made it onto the victory rostrum for the first time since March 6 at Daytona. Showing signs of the "Bradshaw of old," he came from nearly dead last off the start-line to finish in the show position. "Yeah, 1 rode pretty good tonight - a lot more aggressively than I've been riding," said Bradshaw, who won at San Jose last year. "But you can't win when you give that much away by starting so far behind." Rounding out the top five were Kawasaki's Mike LaRocco and Team Suzuki's Brian Swink. With just one round left in the series, both McGrath and Kawasaki's Mike Kiedrowski, who finished sixth on the night after crashing on the last lap while running fourth, have secured their positions in the point standings, with Kiedrowski the runner-up to the champ McGrath. McGrath currently has 346 points and Kiedrowski 281. Third place is still up in the air between Stanton and Bradshaw, but Stanton holds a comfortable 13-point cushion over Bradshaw, 253-240, while Steve Lamson, who finished eighth in San Jose, has a lock on fifth. By scoring the win, McGrath took home $5000 from the $35,000 250ce class purse, Stanton walked away with $3500 for placing second. The only real question that will be answered at the final round in Las Vegas next week is who will take home the Western Regional 12See Supercross Championship crown? Only five points separated series points leader Jimmy Gaddis and Phil Lawrence going into the San Jose round, but Gaddis left with plenty of breathing room, despite finishing second to winner Damon Huffman. While Huffman led from start to finish on his Team Suzuki RMl25, Gaddis played it safe and circulated the track for the most part - all alone in second place, knowing that Lawrence had crashed on the second lap and was running back in the pack. When it was all over, Huffman had taken his third win of the season, far ahead of runner-up Gaddis. Earning a spot on the victory r.ostrum for the first time was thirdplace finisher Pedro Gonzalez of Mexico. Lawrence fought back up to seventh but now trails Gaddis by 13 points, 151138. Huffman is third with 122. Huffman earned $2000 from the 12Sec class purse, and runner-up Gaddis took home $1000. The rider who perhaps provided most of the entertainment in the 12Sec feature was Kawasaki Team Green's Robbie Reynard, the 16-year-old from