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ROAD RACE CCS RACE OF CHAMPIONS Daytona In atio alSpeedway tern n was ab le to keep the gap between us," Kahle said after beating Wood by 1.948 seco nds. . Th e second- place finish to Wood in Expe rt Middleweight Superbike put him jus t ah ead of Grig g Electr ic' s St eve Grigg . Gr igg, who cam p aign ed a Fast By Ferracci Ducati this season, broke ou t his yea r-old Mu zzy Rap tor 840 and rode it to a pair of very na rrow w ins , then ' (Left) Steve Grigg (27) leads John Schee hser (12) and David McGrath (66) en route to winning the Unlimited Grand Prix class during Championshi p Cup Series racing at Daytona International Speedway. (Below) Greg Kahle leads the way in the Expert Middleweight Sport Bike clas s, the final race on a dark Saturday afternoon in Daytona . By Henn y Ray Ab rams DAYTONA BEACH, FL, OCT. 31 f there was a them e to the Race of Champions, the annua l fall Cham pions hip Cup Series week end, it w as "spread the wealth." There were no tru e standou t perfo rma nces, 'no br eak out s ta rs (thou g h one amat eur bea rs watching ). But there were several riders who came close, scoring multiple wins and some near hits. Tops among them in the Expert class was Ch icago Performance's Greg Kah le. Starting on Thursday, the first day of the three-d a y CCS m eet, Kah le won th e Expert GT-2 class on his Kawasaki ZX-6. He took a second to Pengui n Raci n g School's Eric Wood in Frid ay's Expert Midd lew eigh t Su pe rbi ke con tes t, then rebou nded wit h a pair of wins on Saturda y. The first of those wins came in the Expe rt Middleweight Grand Prix , and the seco nd ca me via th e Expert Mid d leweight Spo rt Bike contest, which he won in a flag-to-flag romp. "I tho ught those guys we re going to be com in g after me, but fo rtu na tely I I A 8 ~ ,......, ,...... l-. Q) ,.Q 6 Q) > o z 6 (Left) Bart Shiflett follows Brandon Bashore before passing him' to win the Amateur Heavyweight Superbike race . sad d led u p his Kawasa ki ZX-7 for yet ano the r squeaker in the Expe rt Heav yweight Superbike class. The Raptor took him to the fron t of the Unlimi ted Grand Prix, by .274 of a second ove r New England Perfor mance's John Scheehser, and to the Un limited Superbi ke win - aga in over Schee hser and his Yamaha 1000 R1, this time by .034 of a seco nd after a gearbox failure . "The gea rbox went away abo ut the third lap, an d I lost second gear," -Grigg sa id . "Tha t really killed my drive on to the banking, so I ju st left it in third . That rea lly hurt us, bu t we were ab le to pull it ou t anyway." Grigg put the Kawasaki ZX-7 just in fron t of KWS M ot or spo rt s ' Dav id McGra th in Saturday's Expert Heavyweigh t Superbike co n test. Th e official ma rgin of victory was listed as 2.998 secon ds, but the d ifferen ce was ac tually half a wh eel. If there was a rider to wa tch in the fut ure, it was Bart Shiflett, ~he most pro-,