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Cycle News 1994 06 01

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(Left) Mike Smith (68) passed early leader Jam ie James (11) early in the 600cc Supersport race and ran away with an easy win. (Below) James (11) leads Randy Renfrow (3), Steve Crevier (4) Smith (68) and Mike Hale (23) at the sta rt of the 600cc Supersport race. (Bottom) Yoshimura Suzuki teamsters Tom Kipp (16) and Britt Turkington (1) battled ea rly in the 750cc Supersport race. Klpp won, Turkington dropped to third. · AMAlCCS 750cc Supersport Series Round4:Laguna 5eca Kippback on track By Paul Carruthers Pho to by Henny Ray Abrams MONTEREY, CA, MAY 21 ineteen months of not winning a race was long enough, so • Yoshimura Suzuki's Tom Kipp decided to go out and do something aboutit, The Yoshimura Suzuki rider, who hadn't won a race since October of 1992 at Texas World Speedway, ended the drought with an impressive victory at Lagu na Seca Raceway. The 25-yearold Ohioan battled early wit h his teamm at e Britt Turkington before ho ld ing off a lat e- r a ce charge fro m M uzzy Kawasaki's Fred Merkel to take the win - his firs t eve r in the 750cc Supersport class . A hurting Merkel b r a vel y battled back from a qualifying-lap crash - in which he broke two toes an d injured an ank le - to finish seco nd, jus t 2.368 seconds behind Kipp. Ear ly leader Turkington backed off after encountering some slides mid race to finish a comfortable third. . The battle for fourth went the distance with Team Suzuki Sport's James Randolph just getting the better of Kinko's Yamaha's Jason Pridmore after a· race-long battle. Valvoline Suzuki's Chuck Graves, Yoshimura Suzuki's Donald Jacks, Kinko's Thomas Wilson, Sport Cycle Products' Jim Leslie and Team Suzuki Sport's Aaron Yates rounded out the top 10 finishers. Turkington's third-place finish further increased his championship points lead as his nearest rival in the title chase . going into the Laguna Seea round, Gerald Rothman [r ., crashed out of the race on the fourth lap and slipped back to fifth in the standings. Turkington now leads Pridmore by 16 points, 132-116, after four rou nds, with Kipp moving up to third with 110. Rando lph's 107 points p uts him in fourth and Rothm an slips to fifth wi th 73. The race go t underway wi th Turkington getting his usua l holeshot to lead the pack over the hill and into tum two for the firs t time. Pridmore was hot on his heels after flying off the line from the second row of the grid. By the time they circulated the 2.214-mile tra ck in the 11

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