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going by me running into turn eight down there. My rear was pretty loose going in there and I couldn't run it in as hard as they coulcj." Tommy Hayden's Yamaha was the complete opposite to Yates' Kawasaki it was on rails through eight and nine and the win was his. Hacking and Yates were left to fight for second, with Nicky Hayden holding on for fourth. "I thought I was going to be able to get Jamie (Hacking) at the end,''' Yates said. "He got to spinning real back out of turn nine and it kicked him up a bit, but I didt:\'t get on the gas as early as I wanted to there. I was running behind him and coming up on him and I didn't catch sixth gear. I figured I was going to get there and if I shifted; it was going to slow me down. Maybe if I'd got another gear, it would have inched me up there." eN Willow Springs International Raceway Rosamond, California . Results: April 18, 1999 (Round 3 of 13) 60pcc SUPERSPORT FINAL: 1. Tommy Hayden (Yam); 2. Jamie Hacking (Yam); '3. Aaron Yates (Kaw); 4. Nicky Hayden (Hon); 5. Joshua Hayes (Suz); 6:Rich Oliver (Yam); 7. Steve Crevier (Suz); 8. Kurtis Roberts (Han); 9. Jake Zemke (Suz); 10. Tom Kipp (5uz); 11. Sean Kowalski (Hon); 12. Brian Parriott (Hon); 13. Francis Martin (Kaw); 14. Eric Bostrom (Han); 15. Miguel DuHamel (Hon); 16. Anthony Doran (Hon); 17. Kevin Lacombe (Hon); 18. Michael Hannas (Yam); 19, Jeff Williams (Kaw); 20. Jeremy Toye (Suz); 21. Francisco Ramierez (Suz); 22. Jacob West (5uz); 23. Blake Lawson (Hon); 24. Sean Sweeney (Hon); 25. Samuel Camibucci (Hon); 26. Roman Frias (Suz): 27. Stuart Stratton (Suz); 28. Tim Ogles (Sui); 29. Steve Laszko (Hon): 30. Steve Rapp (Suz); 31. Bob Laszko (Hon): 32. Paul Harren (Yam): 33. Jason Pridmore (Suz); 34. Bryan Kovarick (Suz); 35. William Oarke (Han): 36. Takahito Man (Yam); 37. Richard Alexander Jr. (Suz); 38. Daniel Dietrich (Suz); 39. jeff Snyd (Hon); 40. Kevin President (yam): 41. Todd Harrington (Kaw): 42. Stoney Landers (Kaw); 43. Shawn Cash (Suz); 44. Kenneth Chase (SU2). Time: 21 min. 00.067 sec. Distance: 15 laps, 37.5 miles Average speed: 107.138 mph Margin of victory: 0.337 sec. AMA ·600cc SUPERSPORT SERIES POINT STAND1NGS (After 3 of 13 rounds): 1. Jamie Hacking (93); 2. Nicky Hayden (92/1 win); 3. Tommy Hayden (85/1): 4. Aaron Yates (81); 5. Kurtis Roberts (74): 6. Rich Oliver (73): 7. Joshua Hayes (71); 8. Miguel DuHamel (62/1); 9. Steve Crevier (58): 10. Tom Kipp (54); 11. (TIE) Paul Ha!,eU/Todd Harrington (43); 13. (TIE) Steve Rapp/Richard Alexander Jr.JIason Pridmore (41); 16. (TIE) Jake Zemke/Brian Parriott (38); 18. Sean Kowalski (33); 19. Anthony Doran (30); 20. Sean Sweeney (25). Upcoming Rounds: Round 4 - Sonoma, Califomia, April 25 Round 5 - Monterey, California, May 2 AMAILockhart Phillips 750cc Supersport Series, Round 3: Willow Springs Inl'l Raceway Tension By Mark Hoyer Photo by Henny Ray Abrams ROSAMOND, CA, APR. 17 ,hough lead changes were scarce in the 750cc Supersport final and the_ wimler identical to the prior round in Phoenix, it was nonetheless an intense race, filled with the tension of things to come. What came was an early red-flag stoppage (Vincent Haskovec crashed in turn three, his sca ttered GSX-R remaining on the racing line when it came to a stop) and then a tight race between two men, OUI parral Suzuki/Mazda Trucks-sponsored Tom Kipp and 1-SOO-CYCLE-GEAR's Jake Zemke. Kipp did most of the leading, but Zemke was never far from his rear wheel. Zemke was credited with leading the 12th and 13th lap and kept the pressure on right to the flag with a dramatic outside passing attempt through turns eight and nine on the final lap. Kipp said he didn't see Zemke on the outside but he knew he was there. "My tire went off pretty bad toward the end and I was a little conservative T going through eight on the last lap because I didn't know what to expect (from the tire)," Kipp said. "I thought it had.chunked on me, which it didn't. But I thought it did, so I didn't want to get in there and have the thing pitch me to the moon... As it was, it worked out, but it sounds like it was pretty close." In the end, Kipp won the race by a narrow .098-of-a-second margin. "1 thought I had somethiilg for him around the outside," Zemke said. "I hadn't shown him that all race, you know, and I just didn't have quite enough." Third on the day was Jimmy Moore, the Ricci Motorsports rider taking over the spot from early leader'Jamie Bowman on the fifth lap (the second lap after the restart). Moore was about a second behind the battle for first seven laps in after the restart and closed the gap to a few lengths by the checkered flag, hoping he might get a draft pass in a t the line. "I was hoping I could come in there and be the spoiler, maybe with a nice draft at the finish, but (there was) not enough time and too much room," Moore said. Factory Yamaha rider Tommy Hayden worked his R6 up to fourth after a botched start that saw him around eighth in the early going. "I got a bad start," Hayden said. "It wasn't nothing but my fault. I was just trying to go too early and I had to like stop, and then the light turned green and I was ... I don't even know what place I was in, like eighth the first lap or something by the time I came around. From then on it was just working my way up. You've really got to be aggressive to get by these guys on the 600, so it took me a while to find a good place, you know, where you could kind of get a little aggressive and get by them." Kipp's teammate Rich Alexander finished fifth after suffering from a mechanical problem on the restart. Alexander said his bike lacked powe.r and didn't pull very well off the line, and that it took a lap or two for the problem to clear up. Once it did, he charged back up through the field. Along the way, he passed Valvoline EMGO Suzuki's Grant Lopez and Josh . Hayes, both riders struggling with tire trouble to finish sixth and seventh, respectively. Hooters Restaurants' Mario DuHamel was eighth, followed by Bowman in ninth and Curtis Adams in 10th. Kipp's consistent speed leaves him with two wins, a second place and the championship lead with 103 points. Moore is second with 88, followed by a tied Alexander and Hayes, both with 84 poin,ts. Hayden is fifth with 77. When the lights turned green for the 15-lap 750~c Supers port final, it was Alexander with the early jump, but Kipp was through to the front a few turns later. Moore,.meanwhile, ran wide in turn one. "I thought I had myself in a pretty good mindset, and I blew the first turn immediately," Moore said. "Things just kind of went downhill from there." . All wasn't lost for Moore, however, as on the fourth lap Haskovec tossed it away in turn three, bringing out the red flag. Kipp was leading, with Zemke and Alexander fighting for second just behind. On the restart, 'Bowman was away with the early lead, but by the end of the second lap Kipp was once again setting the pace as Bowman gradually dropped through the field. Zemke'was the first to go by, quickly pulling up on Kipp's rear wheel. Though they only really traded the lead spot one time over the course of the 12 laps following the restart, no one, not even Kipp, was sure of what was to come, esp'ecially after Zemke finally made a pass stick late in the race. "I didn't feel like I had one lap where I could rest," Kipp said. "Jake, you know, the last few laps he got by me and I wasn't sure what the outcome of the race was going to be at that point. I had it (the pass in three) coming to me. I wasn't surprised at all. It was everyHung I could do to fight these guys off going into turn three because my drive... I clearly wasn't getting the drive out of turn two, and there's a little bit of a straightaway there-and, you know, I was just trying to get in there." Kipp felt he had an advantage entering turn one, and that's where he was able to squeak by to retake the lead. From there, struggling with a blistered rear tire, the Ohioan did his best to pro-tect the lead. Zemke took notice and tried again to get Kipp where the move had worked before, but Kipp held him off. "Especially on the last lap, he was real inside going into turn three," said the Californian. "He was protecting it really good. And he made it stick, too. I thought he was going to run in .there and drift up. I set up wide to try to come back by him but he had it real good." Kipp admitted he was somewhat conservative through the final corners, but it was just enough. As for Zemke, he Tom Kipp (16) won his second straight AMA 750cc Supersport race, topping Jake Zemke (98) and Jimmy Moore (86). Jamie Bowman (21) started strong, but ended up ninth. was giving it a final shot in the run to the flag with a dramatic outside pass attempt through turns eight and nine. "It was pretty hairy," Zemke said. "You've really got to trust a guy to go around the outside in eight and nine. We were side by side through eight and nine. It's a pretty hairy corner as it is, and the tires were pretty used up by that point in the race. I gave it my best shot and I came out second this time." Moore, meanwhile, had done well to close up on the leading duo, thinking he mig-ht have a .chance to get by one or both riders, but he stayed just out of touch to finish a few lengths behind at the line, taking his second podium finish of the year. Hayden finished a lonely fourth, with Alexander in fifth (up from 11th) after both riders had made their way by Hayes, who had been as high as fifth, and his teammate Lopez. Lopez ultimately.took sixth, with Hayes seventh. eN Willow Springs International Raceway Rosamond, California Results: April 17, 1999 (Round 3 of 13) 7SO" SUPERSPORT FINAL, 1. Tom Kipp (Suz); 2. Jake Zemke (Suz); 3. Jimtny Moore (Suz); 4. Tommy Hayden (Yam); 5. Richard Alexander Jr. (Suz); 6. Grant Lopez (Suz); 7. Josh Hayes (Suz); 8. Mario DuHamel (Suz); 9. Jamie Bowman (Suz); 10. Curtis Adams (5uz); 11. Brian Parriott (Hon); 12. James Randolph (5uz); 13. Kenneth Chase (Suz); 14. Anthony Do"n (SU2); 15. Jeff Short (Suz); 16. Matt Cusumano (5uz); 17. John Jacobi (Suz); 18. Gabriel Henning (5uz); 19. Frank Aragaki (5uz); 20. Joseph Gill (5uz); 21. Erik Schnackenberg (Suz); 22. Kevin Lacombe (Han); 23. Bryan Kovarick (Suz); 24. Samuel Camibucci (Han); 25. Stuart Stratton (Yam): 26. Toby Jorgensen (Suz); 27. Jacob West (Suz); 28. Jeff Sneyd (Hon); 29. Kevin President (Yam); 30. TIm Ogles (Suz); 31. Steve Laszko (Han); 32. Shawn Cash (Suz); 33. Doug Pitcock (Suz); 34. Gregory White (8m); 35. Bob Laszko (Hon); 36. Daniel Fischer (Suz); 37. Daniel Dietrich (Suz); 38. Jeremy Toye (Suz); 39. Roman Frias (Suz); 40. Todd Harrington (Kaw); 41. Stoney Landers (Kaw); 42. Bryce Gross (Suz): 43. Vincent Haskovec (Suz). Time: n/a due to red flag Distance: 15 laps, 37.5 miles Average speed: n/a due to red flag Margin of victory: 0.098 sec. AMA 7SO" SUPERSPORT CHAMPIONSHIP POINT STANDINGS (After 3 of 13 rounds): 1. Tom Kipp (103/2 wins); 2. Jimmy Moore (88); 3. (TIE) josh Hayes (l)/Richard Alexander Jr. (84); 5. Tommy Hayden (77); 6. (TIE) Jamie BowmanIJames Randolph. (66); 8. Mario Duhamel (63); 9. Jake Zemke (60); 10. Gmn' Lopez (52); 11. John Jacobi (46); 12. Vincent Haskovec (44); 13. Todd Harrington (39); 14. Brian Parriott (37); 15. John Haner (36); 16. Anthony Doran (32); 17. Gabriel Henning (30); lB. (TIE) MiKe Ci"otto/joseph Gill (261; 20. Brian Gibbs (24). Upcoming Rounds: Round 4 - Sonoma, Califomia, April 24 Round 5 - Monterey, California, May 1 21

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