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(Left) The top
three celebrate.
From left to right,
Keith Pinkstaff,
. Tripp Nobles and
former Daytona
200 winner John
Ashmead.
bit us. Fortunately, for this race, it didn't
hurt us too bad. In the past it did and
maybe that's what cost us this championship. Hey, we're happy to be up front,
anyway."
Again it was a battle for second:
Pinkstaff, Turpin, and Ashmead, with
Graves coming up late in the game to
join them.
By then there were less than five laps
to go and Graves, who'd dropped to a
distant seventh after overshooting turn
one, was now part of the action. Then he
put himself into orbit, it was down to
three, and soon two riders.
Turpin's mechanicaL problems
weren't over. As the trio made the run.
off the banking on the penultimate lap,
the engine in Turpin's Ducati expired,
right in front of Pinkstaff. Turpin pulled
down onto pit lane, Pinkstaff shut the
throttle and moved to avoid him, and
Ashmead was home free.
"Turpin's bike quit right on the banking in NA5CAR turn four and, unfortunately, John (Ashmead) was in front of
him andI was drafting behind him,"
Pinkstaff said. "And when his bike quit
I had to get out of the gas and swerve to
miss him and I lost John's draft. Then I
was pretty sure that fourth would give
me the championship. 50 the last two
laps were very long laps that I ran conversatively. I think my lap times will
bear that out."
Pittman, who'd run near Pinkstaff
un til the last four laps, was by himself in
fourth; Munroe fifth with Real, Weber,
an d Deatherage closing in.
Munroe said that he'd hoped to stay
with the leaders, but had hit a false neutral in turn one early one, running wide
and losing about four seconds.
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Daytona International Speedway
Daytona Beach, Florida
Results: October 22, 1995
RACE ONE (Round 9 of 10), I. Tripp Nobles (Kaw);
2. Shane Turpin (Due); 3. Keith Pinkstaff (KawJ; 4. John
Ashmead (Kaw); S. Charles Graves (Suz); 6. Don Munroe
(Kaw); 7. Andrew J. Deatherage (Kaw); 8. Pablo Real
(Due); 9. Joe Pittman (Kaw); 10. Damian Weber (Kaw);
1]. Michael Fitzpatrick (Yam); 12. Sean Sweeney (Due);
13. Eric R. Moe (Kaw); 14. Shane Prieto (Kaw); 15. Brett
Ray (Kaw); 16. James Milroy Jr. (Kaw); 17. Eddie
DiMeglio (Yam); 18. Paul Schwemmer (Hon); 19. Ron
Howard (Suz); 20. Seth Hahn (Suz); 21. Steve Cooke
(Due); 22. Leslie Home (Han); 23. j;rn Dkkenson (Suz);
24. Jim Le5ter (Yam); 25. Jared Parliament (Kaw); 26.
Mike Walsh (Yam); V. Brett Metzger (Han); 28. John R.
Spitulski (Kaw); 29. Ed Borowy (Due); 30. Noel Brown
(Suz); 31. Paul Netterstrom (Kaw); 32. Rick Beggs (Kaw);
33. Kelly La Coun' (Yam); 34. Kyle Zazzi (Yam); 35. Olris
Steele (Kaw); 36. Eugene Ashowrth (K"w); 37. Leon
Eddins (Kaw); 38. Patrick Weekley (Yam); 39. Thomas
Fournier (Due); 40. William Lee (Suz); 41. Pete Buller
(Kaw); 42. Stephen Vlasblom (Yam); 43. Donald Smith
(5uz); 44. John Madden (5=); 45. Thomas Porter (5uz);
46. John Aksel (Due); 47. John Blessed (5uz); 45. Quenni
King (Hon); 49. Michael Barnes (Kaw); SO. Stephen
Decamp (Kaw); 51. Jeffrey Carr (Yam); S2. Craig Dandel1
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