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(Above) Doug Henry put his Yamaha thumper lnto the early lead in the second molo. The defending champ ended up fourth in Ihe molo. (Below) Ever s ince winning his first National at Washougal, Jimmy Button has bee n on the podium. Al Binghamton, Button went 5-2 for runner-up honors. sma rt move, on my behalf. In the secon d mota, I found myself in eigh th place and, on the third lap, [ got a rock stuck in my shifter. 1 was really struggling to shift sometimes it would a nd so me times it wou ldn't. Most of the time I wa s going throug h tu rn s in fourth gear because it wouldn't shift down - the gear shifter was actually locking up. So, I was having a lo t of problem s with th at. Wh en I , closed on Jimmy (Button ) and them, I w as ju st force-shiftin g it a nd , after a while, it s ta r ted slicking ev en worse. Considering the circumstan ces, I'm not too -unhappy. It could've lock ed u p on me totally or stopped wo rking altoge ther. I' m still in co n trol of thi s cham pi o ns h ip a nd Steel City is m y fa vorit e track, so every thing should be okay ." Roundin g ou t th e top five overa ll wa s the aforem enti oned Reynard. After ,' a poor s ta r t that sa w h im in back in 17th-place at the end of the first lap, Reynard ch arge d aggressively through th e pa ck, e ve n tu a ll y finishin g s ix th . Re ynard fa r ed b etter in the s e co n d m ota, sta r li ng within the top 10 an d passing Ferry, Ward, Lak occo, Albertyn and Henry before finishing out the mota in third. "Yeah, it was really good raci ng out the re," sa id th e 22-year-old rid er fro m No rman, Okl ah om a . "A bu nch of p eople we re ridin g really good . The 250cc class is really difficu lt. I didn't get good starts in either mot a this weekend . I had to work 'reall y hard, but I fe lt s trong bo th motos. That's the main thing." Pu tting in his best rid e of the se ries w as Team Chaparral / Yam aha ' s Tim Ferry , who went 4-7 for sixth ove rall. 'Things hav e bee n working out real ly well," said Ferry. "In the last four or five races, I've actu ally picked the pac e lip . Before, I was like a sevent h-, eigh th-, or ninth-place rid er. Now, it see ms that I'm in the top five quite a bit. My goa l was to finish o n the p od ium a t lea st once this year in the out doo r Nationals. We only have one mor e race th is yea r, so we'll see wha t happens." Henry was seven th ov era ll wi th his 10-4 rid e, a nd was awa rded the $500 THQ H oIeshot Award fo r the second mota. Ward was a consis tent eig hth (B8), foll ow ed by Tea m Yama ha's Joh n Dowd (7-10) in n inth. Team Hon da's Ezra Lus k rou nded ou t the top 10 wi th hard -fou ght 9-11 mota finishes . With hi s comm andin g 1"1 ride a t Bing ham ton, Wind ha m closes to within 21 points - less than one mo ta - of Alber- 0> 0> 0> ~ r:O ~ Q) .D Mike laRocco (3), here passing Greg Albertyn. kept his slim hopes of finishing second in Ihe series alive with another strong performance at Binghamion. He's currently 27 points behind Windham. E Q) 0.. Q) en 11