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clear sailing to the team's fourth win of the year. Pegram's second was less secure. Kling had taken over from Ienatsch at the 23-minute mark, the team then in fourth, but certain to take over third. That's because Shawn Higbee was running third on the Battley Cycles machine and second rider Devin Battley wouldn't be up to Higbee's or Kling's pace. After the Erion Racing rider change, Kling had better than 15 seconds to make up on Pegram and he was clearly out to catch him. With six minutes to go, Kling had closed to less than six seconds and the gap was down below four on the next lap, shrinking half a second on the next lap. But on the penultimate lap, Kling low-sided and Pegram could breathe easy. "1 felt I could run pretty easy and Fritz wouldn't catch me because I seen the times that he was turning when he first got on the bike and they weren't that good, but I knew that he was going to go kind of good:' Pegram said. "So I just got out there and kind of cruised and then I got behind four lapped guys on one lap and the next time I come around it was plus three. So then I thought, 'It's time to go.' And I went down and ran times better than I'd run the whole race and Fritz was catching me just a little bit." "I just started picking it up a little bit. And I was trying harder and hardet and harder:' Kling said. "1 went into four, the same place I crashed a little bit earlier in the 750 race and I felt the back end come around and I was on the gas and I tried to save it," Kling admitted thinking about the championship sliding away as he slid down the track, but there was minimal damage to the bike and he was able to ride the last two laps to the flag. The race for fourth pitted three teams against each other. Anaheim Yamaha, Action Speed Moriwaki, and Keystone/Northstar.. The rider changes for those three teams weren't complete until about the 38-minute mark, which is when the battle to the end began. Hikaru Miyagi had replaced Don Canet on the Action Speed Moriwaki Honda CBR900 and he was' well in front of Anaheim Yamaha's Brian Parriott with Anthony Lupo next on the Keystone/Northstar Yamaha FZRI000. On the 25th lap Parriott moved into fourth and on the 28th it was Lupo into fifth, dropping Miyagi to sixth. The battle went down to the last lap with race leader Mark McDaniel right in the middle of it after passing all three. Anaheim Yamaha's Parriott unlapp'ed himself just before the finish to take fourth, completing 34 laps, the same number as McDaniel. Then McDaniel crossed the line, the winner, followed by Miyagi, moving ,up to fifth just in front of Lupo. CN .sears Point International Raceway Sonoma, California Results: August 26, 1995 SUPERTEAMS, 1. Cycle Motion Racing (Suz); 2. Erion Racing (Hon); 3. Dutchm~n Racing (Yar;n); 4: Anaheim Yamaha (Yam); 5. Achon Speed Monwaki (Hon); 6. Keystone/Northstar Racing (Yam); 7. Team Big Stick (Yam); "8. Oats Racing (Suz); 9. Mark Miller Racing (Kaw); 10. Battley Cycles (Yam); 11. Keystone/Northstar ~I (Yam); 12. Anderson/Dynamic Racing (Yam); 1.3. Skeels Racing (Suz); 14. Team Attitude (Suz); 15. Big Valley Honda Motorsports (Han); 16. Team Under Funded (Hon); 17. Pines Resort Bass Lake (Suz); 18. Universal Capital (Suz); 19. Lee's Killer Bees (Suz); 20. Ebsco Med;a Suzuk; (Suz); 21. RCS Racing (Yam). Time: One hour, 40.293 minutes. Distance: 34 laps, 86.4 miles Av....., speed: 84.732 mph. MatKin ofvictory: 18.355 sees. SUPERTEAMS CSHIP POINT STANDINGS (After 9 of 10 .....1, 1. Dutelunan'Racing (TTT/4 wins); 2. Cycle (Lllft) T1le SuperTMms ..-getII 8lIIr1IlcI via a La ...... style lII8rt. Erfon RacIng stre8Ils Into the early 1elId. (Below) Mauhlro Ilzuka (8) left Randy Renfrow (96) and the rest of the 125cc GPpack behind. "1 had no idea Rodney was there," a disgusted Renfrow said later. There he was, taking not only third place but two more points over his chainpionship rival. 'Td forgotten him (Renfrow) and let him go:' Fee said. ''Then he relaxed on the last lap and I took advantage of it. I went around him in tum 11 and it was a drag race to the finish." Terranova didn't know what to expect at the start of the weekend: "1 just came out with an open mind to have some fun:' the San Jose resident said. ''Then I just went after them. This felt really good. I'll try and go to Phoenix and see what happens." As for the run-in with Renfrow: "1 felt his shadow and then I saw him recovering. Sorry, Randy. I just put my head down after that." For lizuka the victory .marked his first since the horrific accident in the Grand Prix at Loudon in which he was run over. For the first time, Iizuka went public with the fact that the crash nearly cost him his life. "I almost died:' he said during the post-race press conference. "My breathing stopped .for seven minutes. I was 250cc Motion Racing (275/4); 3. Erion Racing (261/1); 4. Action Speed Moriwaki (206); S. Keystone/Northstar (198); 6. DATS Racing (191); 7. (TIE) Mark Miller Racing/Battley Cycles (177); 9. AnaheUn Yamaha (105); 10. Miller Genuine Draft (147); 11. Anderson Dynamic Racing (138); 12. EBSCO Media Suzuki (93); 13. Pastline Racing (83); 14. Team America (77); 15. Gr.and Prix Apparel Superteam (65); 16. Stanton Racing Industries (51); 17. Cheetah Racing (48); 18. Keystone/Northstar n (45); 19. Hmune1sbach Racing (38); 20. (TIE) B;g Valley Honda/Barnett Racing/lee'S Killer Bees (35). Upcom'ing rounds: Final (ound - Chandler, Arizona, september 24 125cc Grand Prix Series Round 8: Sears Point Raceway By Paul Carruthers Photo by Henny Ray Abrams SONOMA, CA, AUG. 26 oto Liberty's Masahiro lizuka made a mockery of the rest of the 125cc Grand Prix field as he stormed to an easy 1D-second victory in a race that featured 32 starters - the largest of the season for the first-year series. This one belonged to the Japanese import and his Hand,! RSI25. Iizuka led off the start and was never headed as he increased his lead by n'early a second per lap to eventually win by 10.827 seconds. lizuka averaged 82.928 mph in winning the lo-lap, 25.2-mile race in 18 minutes, 13.957 seconds. Second place went to local hero Geep Terranova, who was riding a Max McDonald-backed Honda RSI25 in only his second AMA National of the season. Championship leader Rodney Fee further extended his lead in the points chase by finishing third, barely edging Randy Renfrow at the line for third place. World Sports Imports' Bobby Keith and Frank Bratz's Billy Graef rounded out the top-five finishers. With one round remaining in the series, Elf's Fee leads Renfrow, 243-225, virtually assuring himself of ·becoming the first-ever AMA 125cc Grand Prix National Champion. Graef is third in the standings with 199 points, just seven clear of Iizuka. With eight rows of four 1255 hitting tum one at the start of the final, it was Iizuka taking the lead. At the !=ompletion of the first lap he led Renfrow and Terranova, with a gap back to Fee, Keith and Graef. Renfrow quickly showed that not only was he unable to match lizuka's pace, but he was also going to have his hands full with local track expert Terranova. The two diminutive riders went at it for three laps, and then Renfrow lost two spots in a near-erash in tum seven. "Geep (Terranova) went around me:' Renfrow explained. "I went up on the curb on the inside. I fell off and I was dragging alongside of it. He didn't want to lose the position and I didn't want to lose the position. I stayed up the inside of him but there was no room." That was all there was to the battle for second place. Terranova was able to pull clear, leaving Renfrow to have at it . with Fee. Just when it seemed as though the elder statesman of AMA racing was going to finish third, Fee shot past at the checkered flag. dizzy and had headaches for a long time. My body was no good, but now it's 100 percent. Here, every practice I try different suspension settings. But I make good suspension setting for race." CN sears Point Raceway Sonoma, california Results: August 26, 1995 125cc GRAND PRIX: ]. Masahiro lizuka (Han); 2. Geep Terranova (Hon); 3. Rodney Fee (Hon); 4. Randy Renfrow (Hon); 5. Bobby Keith (Hon); 6. Billy Graef (Hon); 7. Craig Avery (Hon); B. Patrick Klein (Hon); 9. Da'vid CoLbert (Hon); 10. Carlos Neves (Hon); 11. Christopher Waller (Hon); 12. Craig Rogers (Han); 1.3. Mike Mondo (Hon); 14. Francis Mazur·(Hon); 15. Peter Hofmann (Hon); 16. Peter Femenia (Han); 17. Maurice Daroy (Han); 18. Jeff Hoeppner (Han); 19. Todd Bowman (Hon); 20. Joseph Gaude (Hon); 21. Vicky Jackson-Bell (Hon); 22. Edward Mackey (Hon); 23. Joshua Frazzitta (Han); 24. Frederick Putt (Han); 25. Eric Child (Hon); 26. Rocky Wong (Han); 27. Nancy Delgardo (Hon); 28. Chris Lacruze (Han); 29. David Brown (Hon); 30. Steve Ziegl,er (Hon); 31. Chris Wallac:e (Han); 32. David Pare (Hon). Time: 18 min., 13.957 sec. Disl.,,,"" 10 laps, 22.5 miles. Avorag. SpeecJ, B2.92B mph. Margin of Victory: 10.827 sec. 125« GRAND PRIX C'SHI~ POINT STANDINGS (Aftu 8 of 9 rounds): 1. Rodney Fee (243/1 win); 2. Randy Renfrow (225/2 wins); 3. Billy Graef (99); 4. Masahiro lizuka (192/3 wins); 5. Mike Hondo (58); 6. Todd Bowman (154); 7. Kevin Murr.y (143); S. David Pare (140); 9. Nancy Delgardo (06); 10. Roland Sands (104); 11. Takahito Mati 002/1 win); 12. Andre Castanos (UIO); 13. Chris Roge... (90); 14. Craig Avery (74); 15. Bruce Lind (67). UpComing Rounds: Fmal round - Chandler, Arizona, september 23 15

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