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SUNOCO RACE FUELS
FORMULA USA SERIES
By Henny Ray Abrams
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ELKHART LAKE, WI,A UG.3
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veryone worked hard enough
for someth ing good to happen," Team Labelle's Dave
Sadowski said after expanding his Sunoco Race Fuels Formula USA ch ampionship points read wi th a third a nd a
win in the Road America Cycle Fest at
Elkha rt Lake, Wisconsin. "I'm glad to be
able to re p resent my sponsors with,
something good ."
Good ind ee ,
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After a first ra ce in whi ch he struggled to finish third on an agin g Honda
CBR900RR which had been a headache
all weekend, Sad ows ki got a littl e help
in the second one. Tray Batey, who comma ndingly won the fir st race o n his
Valvoline Suzuki, de veloped a misfire
which knocked him out of a comfortable
lead and dropped him to an eve ntual
12th. And Dutchman Yam aha' s Frit z
Kling, second in the first ra ce and vowing in the winner's circle to win the second one, overcooked tum 14 on the first
lap and went skittering into the grass.
That left Sadowski to fend off the
co ns tan t ad va nces of teammate Jason
Frase r - wh ich h e did , only to co me
under a last-lap a ttack by Grigg Electric's Steve Grigg. Grigg made a last-lap
pa ss of Fraser and came up about 10
bike lengths short of Sadowski at th e
end. The margin was 0.456 of a second
at the end of the nine-lap, 36-mile second leg. Fraser was abou t the same dis tance back in third .
Sadows ki averaged 105.053 mph in
winning the slower of the two legs in 20
minutes, 33.663 seconds . Batey took 20
(Top ) Lee Shierts (58) got the jump
on the field In the fi rst F-USA race ,
leadi ng Tray Batey (1), Jason
Fraser (26), Dave sadowski (25),
Frllz Kling (2) and Steve Grigg
(27).
(Above) Th is is the view the rest of
the field saw of Tray Batey in the
first race . wh ich he won with ease.
(Left ) This quartet ran most of the
first race together with Ja son
Fraser (26) finishing fourth in front
of Lee Shierts (58), Grand Lope z
(5) and Andy Deatherage (6).
