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(Left) Honde of Troy
offered hero Donny
Schmh e bike to ride at
his "home" Netlonel.
The two-time World
chemp responded with
en Impressive fourth
overall.
(BeloW) Jeremy
McGrath (3) extended
his points Ieed over
Jeff Emlg to 33 with
three rounds left In the
series.
Reynard, and with just three laps
remaining, Hughes realized he had to be
content with second place and backed
off his charge.
Lamson took the checkered flag all
by himself in third, while Brown took a
lonely fourth not too far ahead of Huffman, who started the moto about 10th
and took the checkered flag over a
.minute behind the winner, Reynard.
Honda of Troy's Mike Craig, who
nearly passed out after the race due to
heat exhaustion, crossed the finish line
in sixth, comfortably ahead of Team
SplitFire's David Pingree. Suzuki rider
Scott Shea!< took the checkers next, followed by Honda rider Buddy Antunez,
who came out on top of a late-race duel
with fellow Honda rider Chad Pederson. Antunez started the moto about
20th.
For Reynard, the second moto was a
near mirror image of the first. The only
difference was that Craig beat him to the
first turn, and that was the only time
anyone would lead ReYnard all day. .By
the time they reached the second turn,
Reynard had already ta,ken over the top
spot, while Lamson blew into second.
Once again, Hughes got off to a midpack start.
Reynard and Lamson quickly
detached themselves from the rest of the
field as they diced for the lead. For a
while, Reynard had his hands full with
the steady Lamson on his tail, but the
Kawasaki rider kept his cool, and just
like he had done in the first moto, eventually began pulling away from Lamson. By the halfway point, Reynard had
stretched out his lead to six seconds,
then eight seconds, then 10, then 12, 14,
17, 18 and final!y 22 seconds a t the
checkered flag.
"I just tried to be smooth, pull away
and not make any mistakes," said a
finally healthy Reynard who seemed
barely affected by the hot and humid
conditions. '1' ve been training in conditions like this at home - even worse. 1
must admit that I did get tired those
last few laps. 1 was ready to fall over.
But the main things is that I'm getting
to ride more these "days. With the
injuries, it seems 1 was riding only on
(Yam); 19. Shane Slother ('Yam); 20. Michael Brandes
(Kaw); 21. Josh Kellogg (Kaw); 22. Steven Herman
(Suz); 23. Blair Morgan (Kaw); 24. jason McCormick
(Hon); 25. Keith Troeeoli (Suz); 26. John Fesler (Yam);
27. Steve Andrich (Kaw); 28. Ryan Huffman Oion); 29.
Miclcael Pichon O