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with my setu p . Everything was work ing great. 1 d idn't rea lly put it over my head, bu t 1 put so me effort in to try and ge t awa y. We came u p on some guys a nd I lost everything. 1 ju st co u ld n' t ta ke the risks. A t one p oint, 1 almost put it off th e track and 1 thought, ' I 'can' t do that .' 1 looked ba ck a nd it was just Miguel and I didn't really see Mat so I thought, 'Well, I'm going to try to keep Miguel in between us to give me even more points: but Migu el put his head down for the last two laps." Yates arrived a t th e fini sh lin e 5.8 seconds after C ha nd ler, b ut a no the r co up le of seconds ahea d o f Ml ad in. Then cam e Picotte, jus t ahead of Kipp, "My start was half-and-half," Picotte sa id . "I wa s with the lead group . When they gave Ben (Bostro m) th e meatball fla g , he s tu ffe d me ri ght after that. Maybe he didn't see the flag, so that's o ka y . The bike w as workin g really good today, excep t we can't '!se the sa me tire as the lead ers . We can't get it. O n ly t h ree guys go t t he good tires (Cha ndler, Du H ame l a nd Yates used Wo rld Su per bike-s pec Dun lo ps ). 1 understand that they (Dun lop ) need to beat Michelin, so I ca n un d er stand gi ving them to Dou g and Miguel. Bu t the rest of us s hould be trea ted the sa me. Believe me, those tires make a huge difference." Wil so n p u t the H a r le y ac ross the line in sevent h place, lucky not to ha ve ' cras hed. "I wa s hanging on w it h my r ig h t leg," Wilson explained. "A nd d ragging my body on the other side. I wen t off the track and tha t was it." .~ Mid-O h io Sports Car Cou rse l eXingt o n, Oh io Res ul ts: July 20 , 1997 (Ro un d 7 01 10) SU PE RB IKE QUALIFY I NG : 1. Aa ro n Ya tes (1:28.610 / 97.506 mph); 2. Do ug Cha nd lt"r (1 :28.620); ~ . Migud DuHamel O :28 .7H7); 4. Mid fI,lI C1d ill (1 :28.AA4); 5. Tom Kipp 0 :28.913); 6. Pascal ricCltt~ 0 :29.0 11); 7. T ho mas Wilso n O :29.128 l; 8. T h o mas S tevens 0 :29211); 9. Steve Crevier 0:30.013); 10. larry I'egnm (1;30.116 ); 1 1. To m my Ha yd en 0 ;30.324 ); 12. Ben Bostro m 0 :30.4941 13. Chris Ca rr 0:30.735); 14. Ge ra ld ; Rothman Jr. (1:31.104); 15. Tripp Nobles (1:31.226); 16. Doug Polen 0 :31.501); 17. Michael Ta ylor (1:31.725); 18. Pa u l Harrell (1 :32.40 2) ; 19 . Ja s on Pr idm o re (1:33.073); 20. Daniel Baile y O :33.S23}; 21. Eric Moe 0 :33.566 ); 22. Micha el Barne s 0 :33.72 6); 23. Da le Kieffer (1:34.036); 24. Brian Gibbs (1:34.084); 25 . Dax Snuw (1:34.116); 26. Ma rk Miller 0 :34.443); 27. [ames RA ndo lph (1:34.697); 28. Ant hnny ~ Pll (1:34.779); 2Q. Brett Met zger (1:34.869); .30. Jame5 Milro y Jr. (1:34.998); 31. Richard Ale xand er Jr . (1:35.580); 32. Roger Bdlll (1:35.b1O) 33. Jam ie McNaughton 0 :35.tl33);..34. Joh n ; Jacobi 0 :35 .8 79) ; 35 . James Ko sar 0 :35.912) ; 36. CHris to p he r Rankin 0:35 .939 ); 37 . Shan e Cla rke (1:36.797); 38. Boyd Brunl;'r 0 :37.060); 39. Dean Mizd al 0 :37.275); 40. Jo h n Sp itu lsld 0:37.356) ; 41. Jimmy Moore 0 :37.359); 42. Jay Doyle (1:37.m ); 43. M ike Wal~h (1:37.786); 44. Anthu ny Fari a Jr. 0 :37.805). SU PERBI KE N ATIONAL: 1. Miguel DuHd mt"1 (I-Ion); 2. Dou g ChAnd lt"r (Ka w); 3. A"ron Ya ll"!' (5uz); 4. Mat Mladin (Dud; 5. Pa !'oCc1l Picotte (Suz) ; 6. Tom Kipp (Yam ); 7. Thom,u Wilson Jr . (H · Dl ; 8 . St eve Cre vie r (Ho n ); 9. Ben Bost rom (Ho n ); 10. Tommy Hayden (Ka W)i 11. Trip p Noblcs (H-D> 12. Chris Carr ; othm.m (H- D); 13. Michae l Tayl or (Ka w ); 14. C-Tilld R Jr . (Due) ; 15. Pa ul Ha rr ell (Yam) ; 16. La rry Pl-gram (Suz ); 17. Michael Bames (H-D); 18. Brian Gibbs (SuZ)i 19. Dale Kieffer (SU2); 20. Danit!'1 Bailey (Suz); 21. Dall Snow (Suz) ; 22. Brett M..-tzge r (5UZ)i 23. Doug Polen (5u z); 24. Eric Moe (Kaw); 25. C hris Rilnkln (Suz) ; 26. Juhn Janlbi (5o z); 27. James Rand ulph (Suz); 28. JalJlt"!i Ku§,ar (Due) ; 29 . Ja y Do yle (Suz); 30 . JcJmie McNaught on (5u7.); 31. Rogt"T Bt-Il n (5u7.) 32, Boyd ; Brune r (Sw:); 33. Anthu ny Fa nia Jr. (Suz) ; 34. Jimmy Moore (5uz ); 35. John Spitul!lki (Ka w); 36. Shane Clak e <$uz ); 37. Dean Mizdal (Su z) ; 3t1 . Ja mes Mil roy Jr . (Ka w) ; 39. Thomas St even s (Due); 40 , Mike Wa lsh (ya.m). Timr. 38 min . 57.630 sec. Di5unee: 26 laps, 62.4 miles Ave rage , pt"ed: 96,098 mph M;argin of victory: 0.120 sec. AMA SUPERBIKE NATIO NAL CH AMPIONS H IP POINT STANDINGS (Afl~ 1 o( to rou nd , ): 1. Dou g C ha ndler (2 19 / 1 w in ); 2. Mat Mladin (199/3); 3 . . Miguel DuHamel (187 /2); • . (TI E) St eve Cre vier / Aaron Yate!l (185); 6. Pal'Ca1 Picot te (184); 7. Tom Kipp ( 33); 8: Lar ry Pegram (127); 9. To m my Hayden (22); 10. Paul Harrell (113); 11. Tripp Nobl~ (94); 12. Chns CarT (86); 13. Eric Moe (84); 14. Gt. rald Rothman Jr. (81)i 15. mE) Dale Kieffer/D.lx Snow (SO ); 17. Ben Bostrom (71); 18. Doug Polen (70); 19. Thomas Wilson J r . (68 ); 20 . (TI E) Jo hn Jac obi/James Randolph /Chris Rankin (61). Upco min g Ro un ds: Round 8 - Co lorado Sp rings, CO , A ugu st 17 Round 9 - Son oma, CA , Au gust 31 Th omas Stevens crashed his Van ce & Hine s Oucat i o ut 01 t h e race while ru nn in g fifth. The n he p roceeded to bea t his fist o n the l al rlng, cracking t he w indscreen. . '" ,. rle,, V B II ii' 'take a bunch , ~ guys in Sepertake and putihem anywhe re in the wan d, end they'd be right there in the heat of it ,: ' "'iI , . _ . . ' . . .. -: . '. Te~m YoshimurB' Suzuki's "Aar~~ Yates didn't ent~r the Elf Fuels/Lubri~ ·The talk of the Paddock ' early in the weekend was the ' near .squebbte cants 250cc GP class: it just looked ~t"~. Yates lcened a tattered set between Miguel DuHamel and priva teer Paul Harrell after the two ' ?f his leathers to Danny. Walke~, . the ~ormer' 259cc qP racer :-vh0 noW came toge ther d Uring quolifyii"lg on Friday. Naturally . each' hada diff er- . . ".lns: th~A:merican ,Supercamp dirt track schools. Yates used blue tape to ent version 'of what happened : " The: guy .. as way on the inside . doing w 'C?OVer ov~ his neme onthe front and backol the leathers. Gtven. the ·the ractog line. ". DuH amel explaine d: "I was going to by to pass him on . ' height differen ce between the two riders . .it appeared they wouldn't bea the inside. but he was already in there. I had already been be hind the .suitable' fit.bunhey .we re ..W alker was entered in his first AMA 250cc GP guy for. e ,lap, I 'pulled on t he' outside and this guy just kicks his' leg out race in two years .On a M ota Liberty Honda. He finished 10th in S unday's ' 25Occ GP final:: . and starts moving over. He hits my fairing wi th his foot and he over. ObviouslY, I'm nottoo pleased With the sitUation. He missed the ' pit exit, so 'he was pretty mad abo ut that. We get over he~e and !leis ... Whe n questioned abOut the rumors of two Suzuki" teems fur 1998 .-:. one kind of. loo k-ing at me .like. ·What's your. problem?' My problem. is, ' he ' ,using the .TL1000 ~.n and the ot her using G$XRs - Aaron Yates said': elrnos t mede ~e crash . So I give him the 'You 're number one in ~ W~II, tJ:'ey kinda think I wou ld do beuer .?nth~ four·cy.l i~der '. But Ltcld book.' . I. don't' like 'behevmqhke that.' beceu ee l like to behave .in' the . 'em ~t I want to have the chance to .t y each bike and figu.re out Which is r prope r manner for-eveiybody around whowatches races . but I got mad . . going tobe the best. But there's a tot of stuff ha~ning right .now and I don't kno:wv what I'm going to be'doing next year. There are a lot pf people I went to my pit lane and he came over and start ed telling me it was my fault and stuff like that. I pushed him' off and ltbink he mus t have a ca t interested: Next to Migue.1 DuHa mel, Yates seem s to .be the hottest fet ish becau se he ' wa s trying to scratch me . I th ink I cou ld hear him property in.the series now, given that Doug Chendle r is expected to stay too . I got off the bike and (Plumb) and Arnold SchwarzcoeQ Put with Muzzy Kawasaki. In addition to S uzuki. Honda' is known to beve ger were holding .'me .dc wn ~ it would have been a bad deal if that expressed interest in Yates: . . . '. . wouldn 't have happened . It .was .just the situation. Like I've said, I've . . made rmstakes everybody makes mistekes., When lmeke.e mistake .The riders were pleased With. the cha~gesthat:Mid-OhiO made tothe and someone is giving me hell over It . I Jus t be quiet and take it , But.this . runoff 'a rea of the final comer; a fast left-bande r that used to be-lined guy was hell-bent on like..: it' s his track.pet out of theway. It' s forgotwith a, concre te ...:mll..The wall has been pushed back and a gravel Pit now ·ten . Some peop le say I hit him. but I didn't: If l'd hit him. he'd know the . separates the race track from the tire-covered wall . H·D 's Chris Carr was I mean, what are we the first to test out the extra .runoff when he cras hed there' on Thursday. difference from push. I'm laughing eboct it going to do. start a war h~re?- Harrell. thetop-ranked priv~~eer in the ' escaping without injury in acomer where it was almost impossible to do AMAIMBNA SuperblkeSenes. had a different version . " tt was a simple So before the ·changes. " Tve always been p retty' good through there: deal;" Harrell explained . " '. was coming off the track in tum 1.1 and had Miguel Dul-lamel Saki, "even when the wall was there . It's a good Safety my leg out. He came around ,the outsrde wtth three feet to spare . My • thing Yesterday. a guy or two· cras hed there: and 'there was just a big pile foo t chppedoff his fairin g. It 'was no.big deal. I just kept going anddidn't of dust and the guy walked away .'lfs a really 9ocX;f thlr19 ~ . . . . think .anyt hing. of it . He slowed ' down and I .couldn 't get off the tra ck. 'Then he give s me a dirty .lock. aM' I, gave 'the usual . 'Borry •. man : He ' Miguel ' Du~i:imel's toughness has never 'bee n questioned . and rietthe r turned around and .looked at me .and when he turned orouna the third ' . has.his sense of humor. After crashl.ng.end suffering, cracked rib. and a concussionin the W orld Superbike 'weekend at Lequna Sece last week. time : I. Hipped -him off. Into one, I broke hard . I wasn't bfake-checking -him, but I kind ot qoosed it. He started making ges tures and I just want . · . DuHamei retumed to Montre al tobe checked by his doc tor. ' "He said the ed. to pun off end tbenqo beck out. t-:fe was yelling and screaming at me ' . ribs so I didrl't even bave ~-rays :- DuHamel said. ,~ I'Ve had .and ~aving atf!le llke he. wants to .fighL Of course; he iq his pit . I so many X-rays-~ now ~t-I change tJ:le TV channels just by looking at it and blinking like-Jeannie. "· rode up andfett a tap on my faceshield. so I slugged him. Ever since this '. ,. . . . . whole ordeal, .1 can't even .tell you how many people ' have come uP' to tell .me that they ,Were glad l stood .up 'to him. .t:t-O·s Thomas Wilson Said the .team .~ fiMlly found the suspens.ion · problem ·that .had been plagUing ,the ;VR 1000 almost the whole season : , Instead of its .familiar black T~ain Olive.. y';'maha dualie and trailer. the '~We've had a sUspenSion 'problem since Laguna. ~ Wilso n said. "We were 2SOCC GP and 600cc Supersport team shoWed up'at Mid"Ohio in a yellow : ' looking'at . 11 the wrong places. but we finally found it. It' s'made a wand of difference, W e have. base line setting 'now. but w ould have been nice ' Ryder truck With Florida tags afte r the team's 1986 Foid blew up in' en rout e: Jeff Mayer; Oliver's crew chief , said the engine 'threw a rod in Dav· · . .to·ha~ fou.nd th8t'~.r1ier i!, the year. ~ . ' '. . . . .' en·port. lqwa. 'abOut 500 .miles,trom the Ohio circuit. on WednesdaY . · team spent .fou r hou rs tra nsfe~"g everYth ing from their' trailer ~o' the ' . YoShimura .Suzuki' s. Larry ~eg~m hod a.rather forgetta.ble· ~eek~nd" ~er truck , then set off for the race. arriving early on Thursday moming. . The Ohi~n was nint h in the 600ce Supersport fina l and 16th in t he ' instead of on Wednesday evening as 'planned. Rich Ol iv e r. 'who had ' Superbike Na tional after.nursing t:usG SXR750 to the Jinish line, "It was flown ,to 'Col umbus on Tuesday to acdimate .himseH to the time change, blowing up the whole race . ~ Pegram said. -It was running hot and spitting ·said 'he found out when he was paged at the track.. He wasn'" surprised . . . water up. I was tentative the who le race . Plus. I'm sick .and my butt' hurts . The motor had abou t 300:000 'mi les on It . Oliver said , and ,'wou ld be ' · It's just a bad weeltend ." Pegram 'was 'still suffe nng' the effects ' of his ·replaced by a new Ford motor by. the time they returned to lowa on Mon ~ ' l.8guna 'SeeS 'crash during .the World Superbike 'weekend: in wh;ch he suf· Because the old motor 'was so tired. it coUldn't 'pull the rig up the.h~ly. ferect seriou s bruisioQ to his pOsteriOr. . . . .. en~rane~ to Laguna Sees Racew~. · VVe had to have.sor:neOne ptJ6h us." . " ' . '. ' . . M~ Wait didn't compe't e in'either the 2SOcc' Grand PTix or the GOOGe ,.Oliver said; "Maybe now we can make it up the hill.. .. . . " . Supersport race at Mid-OhiO afte r suffering ll . tom .rotator cuff in his right ,The M id,Ohio Sports Ca r Course paid a $94.,500 purse ,for the HoOda . shoulder at Laguna Sees . Wa it. thoug h. was planning to fly to J apan 0Ii Super Cycle Weekend, with $60 ,000 of that going to the Superbike class . Moriday from Col umbus to compete in the Suzuka'8-Hour next wee kend , Miguel DuH amel poCketed $ 10,000 for winning the 26-lap; 62-m~e race. : Wait will ride. an HRC-backed Honda with two Japanese riders. .. . ' , ' ., . DOug O1andler took home $7000 for finishing second . while Aaron Yates ef!ded up With .$5ooo.for third plaCe. The win was DuHa~'s second at · . Ohr.n·s World . ujlerbike suspenSion spee'ial!st 'Jon' Cornwell w~~ ' on S , the M id"Ohio track and it also ,moved, him into a t;e for third'.with Freddie " ,hand' at Mid.()hio. but not to ,work his magic with other riders' suspensions , ' ' S P.€'nce~. on the AMA's an-time Superbike win list.. .~That ,feels good, it " Gomwel l was' ~ to race in. the 600ccS upersport 'class. The Canadian really .doe s.... D~~ ~~el s~icL ",It's niCe sometimes to' Jock at those 'statis~ was 'running wellwtten he crashed j~ ~fi~. - !·.m lus t here ·ridi~ , ~. Com· n tiCS and see that you are getting up t.here wit h .some pretty stout c;ompa- ' well said. "I wanted. to 'have' ~ .'fu on 8 weekend off (fr:om his 'w orld ny.' It mak~s . me feel good . like we proved Iast..week~d ln World Super. . : S~ke du.ties).. I found out I can still hang.". So. .was his suspension blk~, ~A raCi g ~ as .~ titive .a~ anywher:e in the ~d. You ci>ukf n tuned to perfectioi1? "."never touChed it all weekend . It Wll 'good.: S moves my " meow. R ay > a now. were cracked. rode ea." a The . . .daY . M ' " 9

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