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Hamel. " It turned ou t to be th e glass
inspection wi ndow on th e side case. It
was barely wee p ing, which was no big
deal , so we duct taped th e leak and
chan g ed th e ins p ec tio n w in dow 37
mile s fur ther on when (Roeseler ) got on
the bike." .
When Roeseler took over for the dash
to the fin ish he had a co mfo rtable 20minute lead . The only riva ls he was rea lly racin g were darkness and rain, and
the two had much more impact on racers further back in the pack - like Over30 class le a d e r s Vic tor Lujan, Dav e
Donatoni and Mike McDonald, who
rode an XR600R. The ir team had lost an
ho ur early in the race whe n Lujan got a
rear na t and had to ride 50 miles on the
rim to reach the tea m's first pit.
"How mu ch rai n di d we see? How
abo u t how much snow and ice?" said
The
race
co u rse jo ine d
H ighw a y 5 for a
sprint up the pavem ent sho rtly after the
rain began, and sho rt sectio ns of road
cons truc tion for ced the northbound riders to go head -to -head with oncoming
traffic in a single lan e. "I go t stuck with
th at sec tion and , w he n I go t on to the
pavemen t, I jus t took it easy ," said Morris, who took over from LaP orte at the
end of th e beach whoops. "The people
tha t were swerving aro und the bits they
were fixing were wo rrying me, and they
weren' t directing traffic at all on tha t
section."
Ha mel completed the "playi ng chicken" section without incident but he had
some worrying mo ments when he h it
Kawasaki's next pit . "At Kilometer 70
we no ticed we had an oi l lea k," sa id
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