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Se v en s eco n ds la t er fo llowed Fowler, then Davis. "I wa sn't su re how I was going to be:' Dubach said . "I went out hard . I go t an okay start and I felt pretty goo d . As the race pro gressed, I started pickin g up the pace. I came ou t on top. I hope I can stay clean in the next start." "I got a start right where I wanted to," said Fowler. "I like that bett er than ge tting th e holeshot and lead ing , th e n fi n di ng out wha t eve ryone else's pace was . I hoped Dou g was a little fur ther back tha n tha t. I cou ld see in the comer of my eye that Dou g messe d up at the s tar t. He surprised me w hen h e passed me . He rod e strong the whole mota. I guess I n eed for him to sta rt a little further back." Regard ing his battle wi th Davis, Fowler said, "It wa s a good race b e tween me and Ty. We were both practicing this week together. I knew he wouldn't pass me unl e ss I let him b y . We hooked pretty good ." . Off-road rider Davi s said , "It w as better than I ex p ected . Getting a good start is 90 percent of it her e. I was shocked that I could maintain th a t pace with those g uys . Dubach cam e b y m e at a pretty fast pace . I should've gotten by Fow ler. We collided a couple times." . D a v is lau g h ed and ad ded, " If he [Fowler] wasn' t a friend , I would have T-boned him. It was so close. I tried to get him in the back corne r like Dubach did to me . I decided to wait until the se cond m ota . We 've been practicing together and joked w ith each other that it' s going to be a race for seco nd place. And her e it is, him and me going at it. H e s ta r te d m akin g mi stak es , but I could n' t capitalize on it." I Dubach sta rted stro ng in mot a two, seizing the holeshot. Brad Bolton, Bryan Ne lson, Fowler, Matiasevich and Davi s pursued . Before th e se co n d la p w a s over, Dubach, Fowler a nd Da vi s had taken up positions one through three. Rich Taylor moved into fourth with Nelson and Matiasevi ch in tow. Dubach, Fow ler and Davis held onetwo-three for the next three laps, th en Ta yl or bri efl y to ok thi rd a w ay fro m Davi s. Davi s reclaimed third in the seve n th lap . Fur t h e r ba ck in the p ack, Robert, wh o started the mota in eighth, a d vanced through th e rid ers pl a cing him in fourth at the start of lap seven. At th e finish lin e, Dubach h eld a four-second lead over Fowler, Davis and Robert. Kehoe crossed th e lin e in fifth and Matiasevich in sixth. "It's great to wi n it. This is my sixth time now," said Du bach. "It's certainly not get ting borin g. It seems like there's a new chall eng e th a t comes u p every tim e. That second mota, I wa s jus t trying to keep pace. I didn't know how much I had in me . Th en h e [Fowl er! backed off a littl e b it and gave me the cush ion I need ed to cruise home. "I lost my father earlier this year. So many thin gs have gone on. I'm jus t so happy." "I d id every thing I cou ld , rode th e bes t I could ," admitted Fowler. "Sometimes you come out on top; sometimes the better guy does it, again [Dubach], for the thou sandth time in a row now. We'll start training a little ea rlier in the year n ext year. I sta rted righ t be hi nd (Above Right) Terry Fowler gave Dubach a run for his money in the 3D-Plus Pro class. Fowler came up a him, right where I wanted little s hort, finish ing off the day with a pair of 2-2 finis hes. to . He just pulled aw ay. I (Above left) National Enduro Champion Ty Davis compete d at the Vet Champions hips for the first lime stayed with him for a little and pulled off a respectable third-place finish behind Dubach and Fowler. bit, m ad e a fe w m istakes (Below) Koji Masuda (811) leads winner Hldeakl Suzuki th rough the first turn in the 50-Plus Expert. and he got away from me." Suzuki got aro und Masuda and came out on top. Masuda settled for runner-up honors. Davi s, who dealt with a sticking throttle during the entire mot a said, "I had a good s ta r t, and then I stalled it in th e fi rs t turn a nd lost th e hol eshot. Th e th rot tle slide was sticking , so I h ad to ba ck th e p ac e off. It' s kind of a bummer, bu t I' m happy to be here. It's m y first Vet Nation als, an d I go t o n the p odiu m . It's good training. I wa s ou t here with big-name riders like Mat ia sevich, a nd I'm jus t an off-road gu y. White Brother s' rac es se em to be prett y good for me." Cap tu ring fourth pla ce overall, Kawa saki-mounted Mati a s evi ch sa id , " N e xt yea r I'll come a littl e bit m ore prepared. I didn 't know it (the even t! was so se rio us . It was almost lik e bein g in a National, six or sev en years ago. I'll com e pr epared next year." The tw o-day World Vet Championships brought over 500 riders Sunda y. Th e o n ly rid e r to challenge then squa red off the turn before the first from all over the United States and tabl etop and se iz ed th e number-one Turn er in an y mota wa s Cooksley, who seven co un tries total. Th ey ranged in position . Answer /Pro Circuit /Wayne took second in both. ag e from 25 to 70-plus, in classes from Smith /Maxima /VP /Goat/ AC Racing's Yama ha' s Cooksley exp lained, "Yes, Novice to Expert. Sev eral classes, such Turner negotiated the track for the rest I really d id come here f r o m N ew as the 69 rid ers in th e Over 40 Novice of the rna to to take first. Wa rren HickZealand for this rac e. I go t a cou ple of class, had to be separated into two diviman, from Id aho, cha lle nged Turner's b ikes from Jim Holl ey . I' v e se en th e sions to accommodat e all of the racers. e ve n t in the maga z ines. In New lead but was unable to make the pa ss . In the Over 40 Expert class, 30 riders Zealand, the Vets are not very big, so we Ton y Cooksley, from New Zealand, caplined up for the first mota. On the lin e tured third. thought we'd come here . Four o f us was Ro n T urner , w ho s ai d he wa s "I wa s a little bit intimidated at first came fro m New Zealand an d we' re havde termined to pick up career win numbecause I didn't know som e of th ose ing a great time. I've read about him ber 845. Turner, who has been racing [Turner] in magazines, now I'm racing guys. But it felt good and worked out all since 1969, ad mitted that he was a little ri ght ," said Turner. "H e [H ick m a n ] against him ." nerv ou s, a d ding, "Th ere' s some new Ma tt Tedder, David Da nko, Edgar stayed right in there. I was a little tense guys here I haven 't raced against and wa sn't quite as calm as I usually Avila and Peter Murray were the firs t before." riders through the first turn in the Overam . If th e rest go lik e that, I'll be jus t Turner, who is us ua lly known for his fine." 40 Expert's fourth mota. Turner got an quick sta r ts, to ok second to Mike Turner took ho les hot honors in th e uncha rac teristic sev en th-place start: Altenhofel through the first turn. Turner second m ot o and als o mota th ree on Before the completion of the second lap , • en g: - 23