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(Kaw); 11. Kris Clubb (Kaw); 12. Timothy Stevens (Hon); 13. Chris BUss (Hon); 14. Shawn Conrad (Tri); 15. Stuart Nodell (Yam); 16. Anthony Fania (Hon); 17. john Schehser (Hon); 18. Marc Underberg (Hon); 19. Laurence Borst (Han); 20. Bob Lapusnak (Kaw); 21. o,ris Nealy (Hon); 22. Cesar Agusto Loaiza (Hon~ 23. Evan Semoff (Yam); 24. Thomas Fournier (Duc); 25. omstopher Markin (Han); 26. Pierce Wrubel (Han); 27. Harold Hillard (Yam); 28. Todd Evans (Bue); 29. Mike Rodriguez (Hon); 30. jeff Castell (Kaw). Time: 20 min., 15.380 sec. Distance: 11 laps, 27.5 miles. Average Speed: 81.456 mph. Margin of Victory: 9.670 sec. EBC BRAKES SPORTBIKE C'SHIP POINT STANDINCS (After 6 of 8 rounds): 1. Reuben Frankenfield (156/1 win); 2. Jim Lester (128); 3. Steve Johnson (121); 4. Shawn Conrad (98); 5. Matt Wait (97); 6. Bradley Zapc (96); 7. Rick Kirk (86); 8. john Scbeehser (82); 9. Brian Livengood (78); ]0. Charles Chouinard (67); n. David Sadowski (65/1); 12. Eric Wood (57); 13. (TIE) Dan Fischer/Matthew Winnacker (53); 15. o,ris BUss (51); 16. Kevin Rentzell (48); 17. jeff Wiliiams (47); 18. Eric Kropp (42); 19. Kris Oubb (41); 20. John staska (37). • Upcoming Rounds: Round 7 - Loudon, New Hampshire, OCtober 6 Round 8 - Daytona Beach, Florida, October 20 Lucky, maybe, but it was his fourth victory in seven tries and it gives him a very commanding lead in the inaugural Triumph champjonship. With Loudon and Daytona to be run, Zampach has a 39-point cushion, 227-188, over Point Cycle & Moto Point of Pittsburgh's James Hanrahan, 12th today after dropping out on the seventh lap. Zampach completed the the l1-lap, 27.5-mile race in 20 minutes, 49.100 seconds at an average speed of 79.257 mph. At the start of the race, Zampach and Nobles got away cleanest from the 14rider field with Zampach in front for the first lap, then Nobles out front after taking the lead down the back chute on the second lap and stretching his legs. Nobles had nearly two seconds in hand on the fourth lap before Zampach sucked it up and made a challenge on (Above) Ben Bostrom (8) leads his teammate Dave Estok (12) In the Harley final; Bostrom won. (Left) Scott Zampach (11) leeds Tripp Nobles (hidden) in the battle for victory in the Triumph race_ NASB Hartey-Davidson TwinSports Series Round 6: Pocono Irrternational Raceway m By Henny Ray Abrams Mobil 1Triumph Speed Triple Challenge Series Round7:Poconoln~ationaIRaceway By Henny Ray Abrams LONG POND, PA, SEPT. 1 sing a bold, and potentially djsastrous, last-comer move, HMC Hansen Racing's Scott Zampach won the Mobil 1 Triumph Speed Triple Challenge, edging out Butch Donahue's Tripp Nobles to take his fourth win of the year, "I thought I'd closed the door toward the end, but Scott opened it," Nobles said after finishing second to Zampach by 0.370 seconds. "I executed a perfect pass in the last tum and came out with the victory, but 1 almost went down doing it," Zampach sajd from the victory stand. "I slid in the middle of the apex and got up near the wall with aU that debris from the cars and 1 slid again and tagged the wall. I'm lucky to be standing here." the sixth lap, going out front with a turn-one pass that djdn't last all that long. Nobles motored by on the banking and held the spot again in tum one, this time moving down to protect the 'opening he'd given the lap before. Zampach would find another weakness and take the lead on the lOth lap with Nobles locked in and ready to make it a last-lap showdown. It came down to the final corner, with Zampach out in front just before the tight right and Nobles trying to go underneath, bumping into Zampach and stalling his drive. After getting out of the marbles and scraping the hay bales up near the wall of the tri-oval, Zampach put the hammer down for the win, "1 ran second to Tripp the last two races," Zampach said. "1 planned my strategy on Thursday and executed it under pressure with the pass on the last turn. I slid and tagged the wall on the last turn." \ "It was a little close there toward the end," Nobles noted. Left berund in third place early on was Hansens Motorcycles' Shawn Conrad. He'd moved into the spot behind the leaders on the fourth of 11 laps and rode alone to the finish. "About midway through the races, 1 knew 1 wasn't going to be able to hang with them and I looked behind me and there was nothmg or nobody. So I decided to get up here on the podjum again," Conrad said after rus second consecutive third-place finish. The battle over fourth was decided less than three laps from the end when TBR Racing's Michael Fitzpatrick went 'by Michael Gage, then made enough room to prevent a counterattack. 0' PoconolntennationalRaceway Long Pond, Pennsylvania Results: september 1, 1996 (Round 7 of 9) MOBIL 1 TRIUMPH SPEED TRIPLE CHALLENGE, 1. Scott Zampach; 2. Tripp Nobles; 3. Shawn Conrad; 4. Michael Fitzpatrick; 5. Michael Gage; 6 Benjamin Welch; 7. Robert Wrublevski; 8. John Scheehser; 9. Thomas Fournier; 10. Blaine Paulus; 11. David McGrath; 12. James Hanrahan; 13. Michael Friberg; ]4. 11lomasMunay. 1 Time: 20 min., 49.100 sec. Distance: 11 laps, 275 miles. Average Speed: 79.257 mph. Margin of Vlet.'Y' 0.370 sec. MOBIL 1 TRIUMPH SPEED TRIPLE CHALLENGE C'SHIP SERIES POINT STANDINGS IAfter 7 of 9 round,): 1. Scott Zampach (227/4 wins); 2. James Hanrahan (188/1); 3. Michael Fitzpatrick (175); 4. Shawn Conrad (171); 5. John Scheehser (167); 6. Tripp Nobles (166/2); 7. David McGrath (165); 8. Benjamin Welch (152); 9. Michael Gage (122); 10. Rick Kirk (116); 11. Thomas Murray (103); 12. William Wh~te (84); 13. • Devin Battley (68); 14. Ty Howard (64); 15. Thomas Fou.rnier (59); 16. Blaine Paulus (54); 17. Robert Wrublevski (43); 18. Ray Hixon (39); 19. (TIE) David Hull/Rick Shaw. Upcoming Rounds: Round 8 - Loudon, New Hampshire, OCtober 6 Round 9 - Daytona Beach, Florida, OCtober 20 LONG POND, PA, SEPT. 1 ith class dominator Matt Wait sitting the race out with lingering arm and collarbone injuries, Bartels' H-D's Ben Bostrom took advantage of his abS\!nce to rack up his first win of the year in the HarleyDavidson TwinSports class at Pocono International Raceway. It was a decisive win, smooth and dominating, Bostrom easily pulling away from rus Bartels' H-D teammate Dave Estok, who spent the race trying not to fall off his H-D 883 after the seat/ tail section cipne loose early in the . nine-lap affair. "We had a real good setup going. We were fast in qualifying," Bostrom sajd after having set the pole position with exactly half a second in hand. "We knew we could go fast." Championship leader. Scott Zampach, of Hansen Motorcycles, finished third and majntajned rus grasp on the title. Heading into the final' round at Loudon, early in October, Zampach holds a 22-point cushion on Bostrom, 175-153. Fourteen points, a 17th-place finish, would give him the title, ev:en if Bostrom won. There were only 15 bikes in today's race. Estok sped into the lead from the end of the front of the five-row grid, Zampach and Bostrom chasing, Bostrom catcrung him on the second lap. He takes it from there. "Me and Dave (Estok) got hooked up 27

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