USC Racing's Poovey brought his
Harley home over Springsteen while
La)ldes led Bigelow and Morgan to the
semis.
The last heat was no exception to the
large-pack-racing rule. Morehead led
Dan Stanley, Dan Bu tler and Bret Beyer,
while Geo Roeder closed on the lead
group. Roeder had started on the penalty line aiter he wa forced to use his
backup bike.
'1 couldn't ride the bike I qualified
because the clutch went out of it, just as
I was going out for my heat race," Roeit
of tire for the end. Then we dropped the
hammer a little more, but it got tougher
and tougher to move to the front. I
thought, 'II I'm going to have a chance
to win this thing, I've got to get up further.' The right breaks came along, a
couple of guys got a little bit wide in the
corners and I was able to pick up some
positions. I started running it into the
corner a little bit deeper and making
guys check up a little bi t in order to
move to the front. I had to go off what
Scotty was doing. I got a better d rive off
four the last lap - he actually lit it up
and I got too good of a' drive. I got too
close to him, so I wasn't able to use a
slingshot. I iust got on his rear wheel
and cheeped along. Had I given him a
bit more room, I might have been able to
make a run at him."
Camlin wasn't satisfied with his fifthplace finish.
"We knew we'were going to have
trouble coming off turn four; we just
couldn't get the bike to work righ t," he
said. "With about five laps to go I
thought everything was good, then I just
couldn't get off four with those guys.
It's just one of those things. We tried to
get it figured out, but it's a new frame;
this is the first time we rode it - that
might have had something to do with
it."
Also running in the lead pack but not
totally happy was Davis.
"I was in the lead pack and as usual I
slid it off the groove once again; it ain't
the first time I've done that," Davis said.
"I went from second to seventh or
eighth - I worked my way back to sixth.
There's a whole lot happening in those
packs; people watching can't really see I mean there's a Lot to comprehend
there. I'm fairly happy; we learned a lot
today. I just rode the wrong lines, got up
high and thought there might be something, but it didn't work out. The draft
pulled me in and I just tried to run
around that top and pa somebody. I
got the rear wheel out on the edge of it;
once the rear wheel goes sideways it just
sucks you out there more:'
Seventh went to Mike Hacker as he
bounced around in the large pack.
"I checked my lap times and I tumed
some fast laps, bu t I was ju t tied up
back in the pack," Hacker said. "There
was no room to do anything. Everybody
was bunched up. After Kopp broke,
coming out of two, it kind of spread us
out and I got three more people there at
the end. I couldn't figure out how to
pass anybody in that train. We were
sure going back and forth. I wish I could
have made it out of my heat and started
a little farther up."
Kopp's problem was th.e loss of his
chain, while running in the top 10.
"We threw a chain," he said. "It just
flew off. I don't know if the frame flexed
a little or what. It was working really
good."
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