ROAD RACE
: Road America
S NOCO RACE FUELS
U
FORM U ASERIES
ULA S
(Left)Dave
Sadowski (25)
came from the
back row 01 the
grid to beat
Jason Fraser (8)
in the EBC
Brakes Sport
Bike Ilna!.
(Left) Eric
Bostrom raises
his fist in
v ictory after a
commanding
....In In the
HarleyDav idson Twin
Sports race. It
was hi s th ird
win in tour tries.
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RACE ONE: I. Tray Batey
(Suz ); 2. Frih'. Kling {ya m}; 3. Dave
Sadow sk i (Ho n) ; 4. Jason Fra se r
(Hon); 5. IA"e Sh.it. (Sut); 6. Gra nt
'f'ts
lopez (Suz) ; 7. A ndy Deatherage
(Ka w); 8. Eric Wood (Ka w ); 9.
Mi cha el Fit zpa trick (K aw): 10 .
Steve G rig ~ (Ka w) ; 11. Jeff vos
(Kaw): 12. Ro ger Bell (S uz) ; 13.
Mik Wclbh (Yam) ; 14. G n-g Fr yl;'f"
(Vitm); 15. ).Hlll-OS Milroy Jr. (KclW);
16. St-th Hah n (SU7); 17. St>an Goff
(Su z); 1R. Rog..r Hendricks (Sur);
19. Chris Bli~s (Ho n); 20. Michael
Kb-sh baum (Ya m) ; 21. Devi n
Ba tt tcy (Ya m); 22 . Ja ck Pinene
(5u7.); 2. . Cu rti", Ada m~ (Ho n); 2"'.
1
Sloan Ni nne m an (SU7 ; 25. Joe r ittman (Kaw).
)
Timl": 20 min., 22522 M"C.
Oi",l.ln«: 9 laps. 36 miles.
Average ape'l"d: 10&.010mph .
Margin of victory: 2.273.!ICC.
RA CE TWO: 1. Dave Sadowski (H o n); 2. Ste ve
on); 4. C ra nt Lopez
G rigg (K.1w) ; 3. j a son Fra se r CH
(Su z); 5. LeC' Shlc rt s (Suz): b. Eri C Wood ( Ka w ); 7.
Mich.:ael Fitzp.Jtric" (K.1w); 8. Jeff Vas (K.1w ); 9. Mike
Wabh (Yam); 10. Reger Bdl (Suz); 11. St-th H.1hn (Suz);
12. Tray Ba t~ (Suz); 13. Chris Bliss (Ho n); 14. Rog er
H endricks (Su z ); 15. Mic ha el Kirshbaum (Ya m); 16.
Devi n Battler (Ya m); 17. G"'-"K Fryer (Ya m); 18. Andy
Deatherage (KJiw ); 19. Fr it z KUn K (Y3m); 20. Ja mes
Milroy Jr. (Kaw) .
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Time: 20 min., 33.663!>t"C.
DisLIn ~ 9 lapi, 36 miles .
Anuge apnod: 105.053 m ph .
Mugin o ( v ictory: 0.456 sec.
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SUNDCO RACE FUEL S F· USA C' SH IP POINT
STANDINGS (Aftt!'!'10 of 16 r.Kl'S); I. rMwSad owski
(294 /2 wins ); 2. T,..y Batt")' (2bO/4); 3. F"ritz Kling (251);
4. ja son Frd~ (228) ; 5. Andy Dealht.'Ti'lg'" (214); 6. SII::"Vt"
Grigg (209); 7 . Eric W uud (2 00) ; 8 . (T IE) Lee
Sllit!'l'b/ Michad Filzpa tri ck. (1 91) ; 10. Grant Lopez (164);
11. Curtis Ada ms (155 /2); 12. Chuck G raves (05); 13.
Set h Hahn (91); 14. Devi n Battk'Y (90); 15. Joe Pittman
(83); 16. RoK Bell (15) ; 17. Doug Chandler (70/2); 18.
er
Do ug Polen (65); 19. (TI E) Jason Pridmore/Chris Ca rr
(64 ).
Upcoming Rounds:
Round 6 - Long Pond. Pennsylvania. August31
Round 7 • Loudon , New Hampsh ire, October 5
NASBJEBC Brakes Sport B
ike
Round 4
:Road America
Ski fro.
the back
By Henny Ray Abrams
ELKHART LAKE, WI AUG 3
,
the morning of the EBC Brakes
port Bike final. Tea m LaBelle's
Dave Sadowski d idn't mu ch feel
like racing . After qua li fying secondfastest o n his Suz uki GSXR600, it was
found to make too mu ch horse power 104.5 to th e legally manda ted 102 - so
Q
he 'd been disqualified , wh ich m eant
that he cou ld s ta rt, but from the very
ba ck o f th e 43-rider field, by far the
largest of the day. So he said he wasn't
going to bother . The n he had a cha nge
of heart and decided to go for it.
"The green flag dropped and I started
making my way through the pack," Sadow ski said, offering "excuse me's" as he
rapid ly carved his way through tra ffic.
By the end of the second lap he was
fifth , third at the end of the fourth, and
into the lead ending the sixth, a spo t he
would hold to the end of the nine-lap,
36-mile race.
"I hope thi s thing rna kes 102 horsepower:' Sado ws ki said afte r doing w hat
no one before him had d one: wi nning
from the back row. "We detuned it two
mo re horsepower. We took it to the
dyn o and it was right at 102. That wa s
too close for comfort."
The sa me cou ld be said for the finish .
Sad ow ski had 1.179 seconds on Team
LaBelle teammate Jason Fraser, who was
ab oard a Mike Velasco Racing Honda
CBR600, after com pleti ng the race in 21
minutes, 33.680 mi nu tes, a t a n average
speed of 100.179 mph.
Luke's Kawasaki's Mike Ciccot to finished third, about 7.6 seconds back and
about 2.5 in fro n t of Peng u in Ra ci ng
School 's Eric Wood. Kawasa ki-mounted .
Wood was in the lead at one point, then
dropped to second before bei ng taken
o u t o f contention whe n leader Ke n
Krebs crashed in turn five. He reco vered
to take fourth and consolidate his commanding lead in the cham pionship.
After four of seven races, Wood has
127 points to th e 93 of Mark Reed , the
Triple R Racing- backed rid er who finished 10th today. Third in points with 81
is Team Suz uki Spo rt's David McGrath,
the po le-sitting Sou th Carolinian finish ing just behind Wood .
Off th e start, it w as a nyone' s race,
wi th abo u t six riders all tryi ng to lay
claim to the lead po sition as Sadowski
sliced through the meat of the field. By
the second lap it wa s obv ious that he
was go ing to be a playe r and the lead ers
had cause to look over their should ers .
Ending the thi rd lap , it was Krebs in
fro nt on his Suz u ki, with Wood on his
tail, then Fraser, Ciccotto and Sadowski.
Enter in g turn fi ve o n th e fo u r th lap,
Krebs got in too hot and cra shed, forcing Wood to take e vasi ve action and
allowi ng the three near est pursuers to
move int o the podium spo ts.
Fraser was in front at this point, leading Ciccotto and Sadowski, with Wood
recoveri ng to mov e back into fourth .
Sadowski was briefly in the lead: then
his tea mmat e took it back, a nd it went
• like that until th e sixth lap, when Sadowski made it permanent.
"I knew Dav e (Sadowski) was com ing," Frase r said . " I saw his pit board. I
put my head down and went. But he's
Dave Sadowski."
The re was no s topp ing him once he
made his move and Sado wski crossed the
line comforta bly in front of his teammate.
"We ·tried," Fraser sa id . "We gave it
everything we've got. nus is the first time
I've been to this place. I made a few key
mistakes that pu t me back a couple of bike
lengths and took me out of the draft."
Cico tto finished third , mostl y alone
and slowed slig htly by a problem with
fifth gear o n his Kawasa ki ZX6 . "I'd like
to ru n with them a little better, but, hey,
that's racing:' he said. "It was good to
be able to stay with th em for th e first
two or th ree lap s."
Wood had pulled out som e space on
McGrat h , but i t s h ru n k a t the end ,
tho ugh not enoug h for McGrath to take
over.
Behind them was Rick Kirk , a ll by
himself on his Suzuki, then another lone
rider, Honda-mou nted Jason Farrell of
nearby Oshkosh .
Iii-Per Sports' Steve Johnson made a
late move to take eig hth from Ra nd y
Mennegna, with Kris Clubb filling out
the top 10.
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Road America
Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin
Results: August 3. 1997 (Round 3 017)
EBC BRA KES SPO RT BIKE: 1. Da vid Sadows ki
. (Suz ); 2. Jason Fr.1Sl-'1' (Ho nj: 3. Mike Cicco ne (K.1w); 4.
Eric Wood (Kcw): S. Dav id McGrath (Suz ); 6. Rick Kirk
(Su z); 7. Jason Fa rrell (Hon); 8. Steve Johnson (Kaw) ; 9.
Randy Menn t'nga (Suz); 10. Kris G ubb (Kaw); 11. Brian
Liven go o d (Suz) ; 12 . Mar" Ree d (Kaw ): 13. S <'30
Kowa lski (Ho n); 14 . Rube n Fra nkl'n lield (Suz); 15.
Stoney Landers (Suz ); 16. Set h Hahn (Suz) ; 17. Jam",'
Pri nl",,'(Hun) ; ttl Glt"lln Cu rti~.. (Ka w) ; l Q, David }t.1'~·Jlh
Ro-e (Hon) ; 20. lA'S Wh it", (Dud; 21. David McPh.'r.lOn
(K.1W); 22. Tod d Evans (Bud; 23. Mar" Z l Ike (Kaw); 24.
.
Ma rk McCormick (Ho n); 25. Brad A. ...cgaa rd (Hon); 26.
Darrell Co llins (Suz); 27. Kurt M.irmur (Han); 28. Ryan
Meyer t K.1W); 29 . M ar c Sherwood (Su z) ; 30. G r~g
Hu tcheson (Kaw); 31. Ch ris Bhss (Hon); 32. Robert Debe
(lion); 33. Rod Borsc ht.' (Ho n): 34. Roger Bell (Suz); 35.
Shawn Higbee (Bud; 36. Ke n Kr ebs (Suz) ; 37 . Scott
Die rich (Suz ); 38. Kris August (K.1W); 39. M.lrty SaulI'
d
III (Suz); 40. Bria n G ibso n (Sw.) ; 41. Tripp Nobles (Bue);
42. W illiclm Tay lor (Suz); 43. Boyd Hed stro m (Hon ).
Time: 21 min .• 33.6XO !Ot.
"C.
D i!il.ln(:l": 9 1; p!i,36 milt.~ .
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AVfO g fO speeds 100.179 mph.
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Margin o f vict ory: 1.179 sec,
EBC BRAK ES S P O RT BIK E C'S H IP P OINT
ST AN D INGS (Aftrr 4 of 7 round &>; 1. Eric Wood
0 27/1 wi n) ; 2. Mark. Reed (93 ); 3. David McG rat h
(SI ll); 4. Da ve Sadowski (63/t); 5. Mike Cicrotto (58);
b. Rick Kirk (50); 7. Jaso n Fraser (44); 8. Steve Johnson
(42); 9. Les Whi te (40); 10. Jeris G ubb (30); t I. David
Rose (38); 12. Reuben Franlu.·nf.it.·ld (36); 13. David Cook
(35); 14. mE) And rew Stro u d / Tod d Evans (32); 16.
Tr ipp N o b les (3 1) ; 11. (TIE) Doug Tobnd /~on
Bt' ckli n /J im Le st er (3 0);
20 . (TI E) Dnan
LiVl'ngOl>d/Jamt."S Bronson (28).
Upcoming Rounds:
Round 5 - Long Pond. Pennsylvania, Augusl31
Round 6 • Loudon, New Hampshire, October 5
N S rle ·D
A BlHa y avidson TwinSports
Round 5: Road America
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stopping
Eric
By Henny Ray Abrams
ELKHART LAKE, WI, AUG. 3
f you wanted to quibble, you could say
th at Eric Bostrom ' s NASB / HarleyDavidson Twin Sports win wasn't as
fast as his victory in the summer's earlier
AMA Progressive Insurance Supertwins
event. But that would be about all you
could fault the Miller Electrical Construction pilot on. O therwise it was typical
Bostrom: ou t front early, blazing pace,
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competition disheartened.
"I couldn't ask for any better than this,"
Bostrom said after adding the Harley
even t to his earlier Buell victory. "It was
almost dull , the tires were that good."
It w a s cettai n ly dull to an yone
watchi ng, but only for the lead. Back in
th e field, the action wa s frantic.
T his w i n, Bos tr o m 's third of th e
se ries, ca me as no su rp rise after he ' d
qualified 1.8 seconds ahead of the rest of
th e spa rse 16-rider field. He d idn't get
the jump at the start, but he wa s nearb y,
and leading befor e long.
By the end of the first lap he had better than a tw o-second lead. He added
about a second per lap to win the sixlap, 24-mile race by 8.813 seconds in 15
minutes, 42.495 seco nds. Hi s average
speed wa s 91.672 mph, just down from
th e 91.942 mph that he'd avera ged in
wi nning th e se ven-lap June AMA race.
You could probably put the difference
down to track conditions.
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