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Rick y G ra ha m (Hun); 7. St:'Ott Parker (H· D); 8. Stev e
MOn."ht:"itd (H· 0 ); q J")' Springsteen (H -O) ; to . Willie
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McCo y (l1·m; 11. Milo Ha cker OJ-D); 12. Stt'vt" Bo:-ittt1e
(l-l - D); 13. Kenny Coolbe th ell-D); 14. Dan St,m )('y (H.
0); 15. Dan Bu tler (H·D); 16. Pa u l MOTg.Jn III (H. D); 17.
I.R. Schna be l UHJ); 1M. Ceo Reed .. t II (H ·D).
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Time: None . du e to red tla~.
AMA G RA N D NATIONAL C H A M P IO NS H IP
S ERI ES P OINT S STA!'iDINC5 (A ft t r 13 of 23
round sl : 1. W ill Dav is (222 / 5 w in s ); 2. Scott Parh>r
(197 /2): 3 . K"'\li n Ath erto n (185/2 ); 4 . Ric h Kin g
(166 / 1); 5. Davey Camlln (131); 6. Jay Srri nK~t"""n (114);
7. Rick y Graham (1 10); 8. JUl" Kopp OOS/1); 9 . Dan
Butler (103); 10. 5h-"\'t" \ torehe"J (94); 11. Mile Hacker
NO); 12. K",nny Cootbe t h ('77); 13. Kev in V"mt:'!!- (72); 14.
G t"u Roeder II (t. 4); 15 . S te ve Rt ' dlt it"" (Sh ); 16 . 1.R.
Schn abel (5J); 17. 0 .10 Slant...y (47); 18. \-\'iIli t" McCoy
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19, Terry Poo vey [¥Ill ); 20, Brett
l.arld~
W illie McCoy
(59) and Ste ve
Morehead (42)
battle it out in
the m iddle of
th e pack.
(38),
Upcoming Round s:
Round 14 - East Moline , Illinois, August 9
Roun d 15 - Indiana polis, Indiana , Augu st 16
lnstead 'of joi~in9 Ja~ Springsteen et the Quebec C ity , Canada,
A nd anoth er o ne' a qone: Team C orbin' s Chance D arling
brought .out a bra nd~new Harley-Davidson XR750 at Rapid
dirt ,track , as .mo st thought he w ould, Ste ve Morehe ad elected
to stay' home altogether; thus misSing Qu ebe c City and the Peo ria
City, ele ctmq to relega te his Honda RS7 50 t o backup -only' status,
"t he' main reason is thatthe Hondo port s are so expe nsive , - the
IT .. "wt eri you figur e that it was 17 houra.toqet there (to Cana longtime series campaigner from Oh io said, " Rich King bought the , da) and 17 hours bock , and then . ~ hours to get to Rapid 'C tty . it
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Ri~h King receiveda hera's we lcome be fore 'more- than 200
last c rank a cou ple weeks aqc . There are no more availab le', ' , was n't w orth it wh en we've been fumbling aro und the" way we
mem bers o f thepress end the cu st om -motorcycle industry
Be sides ' that, I haven 't felt comfo rt able on the Honda alf yea r, I
have been lately - and ( take a.lot of the blam e for that. .. ' M orew hen 'he atte nde d .the fo urt h annua l C orbin press party at the
don 't know if last year was b'eginner 's. luckwith it or what. but I · , head said, ~We just stayed Rome,_ But t he ~ Findlay Flye r - added
Best W est ern motel in Sturgis on tbe day after the Rapid Ci ty
thot his 'tim e' off .was no vacatio n: : W e .go t a lot of stu ff done."
can't hit my butt on a Honda now , I'm lookin g forward to this
Half M iltt. King and th e entire C orbi n team were on hand , and
M orehead said, ~ I wo rked all day at the shop w ith Gory (StolzenKi ng 's race -wi nning Honda' RS 7 50 was put on display for the . cheoqe.:l think I'll do better, I can't do much wo rse than I've been
doing , Somebody over at Corbin. said that l've b~~n hav ing a
burgl.arid Frank (Nagy), regrou pi ng and gett ing better organi zed,"
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'M urphy' s Law' year , tbelieve thet . Almo st anything that .can go ' M orehea d also said that. con trary to popular be lief , he .-did no t
w rong has, but we're gonna get out of thet. " Ironically, Darling
miss the Peoria IT becau se he does not enjoy the ·event. ~ Every-.
Incidentally, it wa s on Thursday morning that Rich Kin g and the
body says that I do n' t uke Pecna. but'lolways make the National
· rest of the G rand National crowd learned 'of, Andy Tresser's tate, , qualified his Hond a for the race and once again failed to make the
main after carding a ni nth in the third semi.
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and have a 'good time running .there. " M orehead said, M orehead
~ I want to dedcetemy race win to An.dy's .me~ry: ~ King sefd.
ap peared to get back on track at R apid CitY, scoring an eighth in
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Moto~Cycling royalty invaded the pits at Rapid CItY once aqain in ' Appeamnc es can be deceivi ng .'Although it looked as though Ken : the main eve nt "
Yoder rode the. Rapid City" Half M ile on his own ex-Bo b Norfl eet
1997 as two-time AMA G rand National Cha mpion and three-time
Racing ?