ROAD RACE
InIemationaI Speedway
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
ROAD RACE SERIES
AMAIPro Honda Oils 600cc Su~_ort_Se_r_ies
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(Left) Aaron Yates
controlled the 600cc
Supersport final from the
front, though the official
results of the race won't
be known until later In the
week.
(Below) Miguel DuHamel
(1) and Larry Pegram (72)
battle over second place.
DuHamel ended up
second, keeping his
championship lead intact
- though Yates trails by
only a single point.
By Henny Ray Abrams
Photos by George Roberts
LOUDON, NH, JUNE 15
oshimura Suzuki's Aaron Yates
made it a Lucky Father's Day in
Loudon, winning his first-ever
Pro Honda Oils 600cc Supersport race as
his dad Lucky watched from trackside.
It was an atYpical 600cc race. Instead
of the usual bump-and-scrum, Yates
got the holeshot and set sail, while a
pack of six squabbled over second. By
the time that was sorted out, Yates had
been able to run at such a comfortable
pace that he had plenty of tires left at
the end.
But because there was passing on a
waving yellow, which.Yates admitted to
(though he wasn't the oitly offender),
the results were not made official and
probably won't be until the middle of
the week following the race. AMA Road
Race Manager Ron Barrick said that he
took corner worker's statements and
hoped, by Tuesday, to have log sheets
and videotape of the race to inspect.
''We hope that by Wednesday we'll
be able to make that (race) final, if all the
information which is. forthcoming
arrives as planned," Barrick said on
Sunday evening.
"They occupy the corner for the
whole damn race with the yellow flag,
and it's about the only place to pass,"
Yates said. "They need to do something.
I won the race, that's for sure. I didn't
do nothing stupid out there: I hope they
don't make no technicality bullshit out
of this."
As for the race, at one point Yates
had nearly a four-second gap, which
Smokin' Joe's Honda's Miguel
DuHamel whittled down to less than a
second in the closing stages. DuHamel
was helpe
