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ly. We put on a little bit bigger oil cooler
and added some air scoops that came
off a 650L to our tank to ram air down
onto the motor. We lost a little top speed
because of it, but it proved good for our
reliability."
Campbell and Capt took runner-up,
some 13 minutes behind the winning
Kawasaki.
"I've been second overall three
times," Campbell said. "I want to win!"
Class 21 (250s) turned out to be a battle between John Flores/Tim Morton/
Ronnie Wilson and Steve Hengeveld/
Jason Kawell/Oakley Lehman. Flores/Morton/Wilson chose a rear start to
more easily keep track of the competition, and they caught physical class
leaders Hengeveld/Kawell/Lehman on
corrected time some 160 miles into the
race. The race stayed dose, though. In
fact, at 502 miles, Morton and
Hengeveld left a pit together, but
Hengeveld inched ahead.
"By San Vicente, I had a minute
lead," Hengeveld said. "At Santo
Tomas, I had about a five-minute lead.
Once we hit Ojos Negros, I was ahead
seven minutes. Morton just couldn't
believe it."
But that didn't mean Hengeveld's
ride was trouble-free. Everyone says
that the end of a race is when you'hear
strange sounds from your machine. Sure
enough, 50 miles from the finish,
Hengeveld thought disaster was imminent.
"Our tranny broke:' Hengeveld said.
"Actually, it never broke, but it started
howling real bad. I was getting real
scared. About 10 miles from the finish
the tranny started to shift into neutral
and get real bad, so I just putted back in.
From there on to the finish, I just stayed
in fourth gear because that was the only
gear that wouldn't make noise."
Noisy gearbox and all, the winning
250cc ended up third overall behind the
Davis/Krause/Zitterkopf KX500 and
the Johnny Campbell/Jeff Capt/Tim
Staab/Fred Willert XR628R. The 250cc
runner-up team came in just 13 minutes
behind at fourth overall.
And that's part of what makes longdistance races like the Baja 1000 so
appealing to the faster teams: the sense
of competition. And, as Krause put it,
the feeling you get upon finishing.
"The best part of my ride was coming to the finish line," he admitted. "To
know that at that moment we did it, we
finished, we won just like we had
planned and worked for all year. It was
just a bitchin' feeling. I wish everyone
could have that feeling, crossing the finish line. It's just cool to get there. You
can say, 'I've completed this thing' in
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whatever time span you did it."
Just when you thought you were the fastest
AMA
some young gun rolls into town.
Mike Young Gun' Young and his Husaberg rode herd aver all comers to rake the
4-Stroke Motocross East Championship. Md, for bragging-rights, rode off with the
AMA 4-Stroke EastlWest
Shoot~ut Championship.
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