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Round 15: RCA Dome TOYOTA TRUCKSITHORIPARTS UNLIMITED AMA SUPERCROSS SERIES (Left) FMFlHonda's Danny Smith took runner-up honors. (Below) DGY Racing's Tyler Evans grabbed third place in the 125cc main. top nine qualifiers were Team Motoworld of EI Cajon's Andy Harrington, icholson's Jimmy Wilson, Planet Honda/Pro Grip's Jason McCormick and Evans. "Jeff (Gibson) and I have been racing each other since we were little; he's an up-and-comer, and he's still coming," said winner Demuth following the race, adding, "It's tough out there. The track is really good and there're a lot of lines." Fonseca breezed to victory in the second heat after passing Suzuki rider Doug Parsons on the first lap. Both Fonseca and Parsons avoided a huge firstturn pileup that involved, among others, Dostal, KTM's Kelly Smith, Oehlhof, Thomas, Sellards and Kevin Crine. Parsons held on to second for a while until Davey Yezek moved up on his F&S Suzuki and slipped by Parsons on the third lap. By that time, Yezek had no chance of ca tching. Fonseca, and he settled for second. Despite getting caught up in the firstturn pileup, Dostal charged through the pack to finish third, followed by Parsons, Bromley Suzuki's Barry Carsten and ProteI Yamaha rider Jim Neese. Rounding out the top nine were Smith, Sellards and Oehlhof. In· the last-chance qualifier, in which the top four finishers transfer to -themain, Thomas came from behind to win, followed by Crine, Kawasaki of Missouri's Brian Stone and RRP's Ty Wallace. MAIN Dostal edged out Fonseca for the holeshot in the 125cc main, but his lead would be short-lived. Before the first lap was over, Dostal had given up the point . 8l CD .... .n i 32 money. Smith settled into third off the start and then passed Dostal for second place on the sixth lap, but by then the damage had already been done. Smith found there was an insurmountable eight-second gap between himself and the leader, Fonseca. The Honda rider, however, did manage to whittle away a few seconds off that gap, only to have Fonseca step it up at the end. Smith officially crossed the finish line some nine seconds behind Fonseca. "Danny was right there," Fonseca said. "He was coming on strong." But not strong enough. Still, Smith was happy with what was his best ride of the year. "I've had the speed all year, but I haven't been able to put it together," Smith said. "I'm happy with second, but I still want to win." Finishing on the podium for the first time all season was Tyler Evans, on the DGY Racing Suzuki. Evans, who competed in the 250cc class as well, battled back from an early-race £all and took full advantage of a Brock Sellards miscue late in the race to secure third place. "I saw Brock go down - I was so stoked to get third," Evans said. "I'm kind of wore ou t (after riding the 250 and 125cc heat races, as well as the 125cc . ' main), but that might've helped me." Evans wasn't the only double class rider in the 125cc main; so was fourthplace finisher Josh Demuth on the Excel Motorsports Yamaha. He caught up from an eighth-place start to finish fourth ahead of Primal Impulse/Suzuki rider Dostal, Demuth's teammate Jason Thomas, SplitFire/Pro Circuit/Kawasaki's Nick Weyand ProteI/Triad Yamaha's Jim Neese. After falling down with two laps to go while running third, FMF/Honda's SeJlards took ninth, with A.M. Leonard/KRW's Joseph Oehlhof rounding out the top 10. In the series' final standings, Fonseca, who already clinched the title at New Orleans, finished out the season with 172 points and six wins. Weys seventh place in the main and Robbie Horton's inability to qualify for the main solidified Weys second-place position in the series with 119 points and no wins. Horton, however, finished out the year with a respectable third (103 points), followed by Sellards (98) and Danny Smith (88). Sellards was the only rider other than Fonseca to win an East Coast main all year. HEATS Demuth started things off in the fust heat race by taking the holeshot and taking full advantage of it. He kept his Yamaha out in front for all six laps. Team Green Kawasaki rider Jeff Gibson, however, kept it close as he kept pace with Demuth the whole way, but he just couldn't get close enough to force'a pass. Late in the race, Wey positioned his Kawasaki right behind the lead duo but ran out of time and had to settle for third, ahead of Suzuki rider Robbie Skaggs and Danny Smith. Filling out the