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Round 1
0:Hagerstown Half Mile
(Above left) Steve M
orehead parted
comany with his Harley during scratch
heat action. The veleran raced his back-up
machine to second In the National.
(Above) R.G. phone home. (Left)Scott
Stump topped the 883 Nalional with
relalive ease.
ton, Pa rker, Hill, Stu mp, Camlin an d
Graham in tow. As the black and flourescent orange-clad Harley ride r completed
the first lap, many spectators sighed and
expected Morehead to run away with his
fourth Na tional win of the year.
By the fourth lap, Morehead h ad
already stretched his lea d to 10 bike
lengths ov er Carr, but a sharp-eyed
spectator would ha ve picked out the
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runner-up finish in his heat race, Team Undo'S ' 'giriia. 1hwn speedw~~ I~c.~ ' "throttles started to stick; said a disappointed' , gled, but we passed when Davis Volunteered to his days on Team Honda. ' "
promoted 'event, 'Rk:ky Graham pocketed , Landes. "I had torealiy chop them shut in. 'the , 's how us his gashed knuckle.,The North Car:
$4500'ot the $31,000'purse. Runner~up Steve corners , and on atrack like' this, you really olinian finishedseventh In the main.
In winning: Ricky,Graham tiecame the sixth
Morehead won $2850, ,while 't hird-place d have to be able to roll it on." Still, Landes sits in ,
rider to' notch a victory in 1994. Oddly;' series
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a three-way tie for ninth in the 'series point ' Without a doubt, Rodney' Farris earned the , point leader Chris Carr has only won· one
siandiilgs with his part-time·undc teammate . Heartbreak Award at Hagerstown. .The likable " event, while Sco tt Parker and SIeve More. Maryland native turned, inthe fastest scratch . . head have each won three.. Davey Camlln and
"I really have to thank all of.my sponsors, and Larry Pegram and George,ROeder II. - ",
all of the peopte.wno stuck behind me'during
. heat qualifying iime: then ~ent on to. run away Larry Pegram are the other two winners. ,With
· my Cown time; said a tearful Ricky Graham in" Rusty Rogers was on hand at Hagerstown: with the win in the fastest heat race as well. "\ ' less than half of the '94 se ries in the' record.
the winner's circle. Graham's 'tiiner, Johnny .but as a spectator, not a compeutor, "\ bent her .' can't remembe r the last time ,Rodney .fast-. books, it looks as n this 'will be the most com· Goad: and his close friend;' Da nny Malfattl , up pretty gOod when I crashed at Uma; said " timed a .ra ce;" said Farrtsv tuner. 'Ed die , petitive season iri years.
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were.amo,nn~t those he credited with his "sec- ',ROgers, .in reference to his.missing machine. Adklns. ."Hell, maybe he never even has! Now
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ond ~meback ... ,The Team UndolAud'ov~~ out, 'and we don't rilally know when we'll have , win one of these things." sadly, Farris' evening For the second 'year in a row, Ricky Graham
Galleries/Quaker St~te/Fronll~~ Ford/LIU,e .. it back together. ltrled like heck to ge t a came tca halt"or rather _ never even got . came 'a way the winner ottne Hagerstown ,
R&D/Motion Pro/Aral/FoxIY.et'/Joe Shmo~ 'machine to race , this is like my hometown ' rolling -as his clutch wentout at the start of the' . ,Half Mile. last yea r, Graham's Hagerstowir
Grap~lcslD .l.plZoom CyC!elL,ndemann Engl-, . race; even though I live in Virginia." ", ," . " , National and he completedonlyone lap:
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secut ive w,ns.·Graham's most recent victory
Plates/Johnny DuponUEd ,Fisher.-sponsore'd ' Alier a 'seemingly harmless crash,'during'883 Steve Moreh.;aci Slid' do":n in his sc~tch' hilal .', :-vas ~is .~ Olh on half mile ovals, a~d the 39th
rider then added that,he ,w ln ~efi"'tely conte;" . · p ractice, 'J ay · S p~ ngsteen ' o pted to park his wliile running near the back of thepack.vand , ' n hts lis] of career' acco~plishments .
, the .rest ?f the 19~4 sen.es., Now maybe ,IU Bartels' Harley-Davidson-backed 883 and con. the veteran found himself relegated to the back ' Tho~gh Scott Parker,,hOldS a f,rm gnp .0 0. the
starttralnln~ again,. he
'centrate on the Grand National. "The.shiftshaft " ,row in his heat "Well, n looks like we're gonna, . all-time Win recor~ With 55, Graham IS only,
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, ,got bent when I laid her down; sa id Spnng- : rac:e th!l back-up bike," said Morehead. "This ' one .win shy of ,tY J ay S pringste e n for .
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Texan T~rry P~vey competed at Hage~town . steen, whowas unhurt in the spill "The guys ' ,one has alawill frame -,I think we 'might have', sec~>n d With 40.
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he announced earlier In the year that he would . were'all tweaked and I told them not to bother. ' putting the Carrera car shocks on it,and we'll " Food .for thought:.Had Steve More head not,
, compete at the hallmile'Nationals alloarda law: " Oh well.".Tne glimmer in Springer's eye 'hinted ' see how it goes." Obviously,' Morehead had lit- 'suffered 'a DNF althe Pomona Half Mile earlier '
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, ill-framed Harl~-Davidso n : "Man,.I just can't do ' " that tlie three-time Grand National Champion ' tie troub'e adapting. ,
· no bus iness ' on 'a Harley," said Poovey. ,"I' ', wasn't too heartbroken.;
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' , ' leading the series poinl sta'ndings. At that race,
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,: " . " " , , ' At Hagerstown;.Jooking' at three-time Grand' Morehead had reeled in early leader Scott
chassis, butl just can't seem to adapt." Poovey -ln the pits, Will'Davis.didn't appear to be his National Champion',Rlcky Graham was like ' Parker and was quickly pulling away when his
finished 13th aboard his USC RacinWSaJ
