"It was one of those things where
the last lap, we were stopped up on
the banking, we were cruising along,"
Pridmore said. "I decided that I wanted to race to the finish. I didn't want
to have it just end like that. I was
totally convinced that if I got second I
was going to be proud or if I won I
was going to be proud.'
Alexander crossed the line about
11 seconds later, all by himself. On
the eighth lap he'd made a mistake
going onto the West Banking which
sent him onto the grass. "We lost a
lot of time. Just totally blew it there,"
he said. Then he hit a lapper in the
first horseshoe and was watching his
gap over Jimmy Moore dwindle.
"I was closing on Richie," Moore
said. "I gave it my best and came up
just a little short.' Moore finished
about 1.5 seconds behind Alexander.
Fifth went to Hooters Suzuki's
Brian Gibbs. Gibbs had run with
Moore for a while before falling off the
pace and settling into a safe fifth.
Like Spies, Gibbs was riding hurt.
The Georgian had injured his right
hand in a boxing accident and was
wearing a cast until two weeks ago.
The hand was numb at the halfway
point. "I just couldn't feel the brakes,
and counter-steering the bike in righthand comers was real tough.'
Sixth through eighth flashed
across the line in a blur, Tuff Dog's
Alan Schmidt beating Peter Brady's
John Ashmead, and Bells Suzuki's
John Jacobi by a few tenths.
Vincent Haskovec was a close
ninth on the EBSCO Suzuki, with
Charles Chouinard edging out Daigoro
Suzuki for 10th. The top 27 finishers,
and all but four of the finishers, were
Suzuki GSX-R750 mounted.
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750<:c SOPERSPORT: 1. Joson Pridmore (Su,):
2. Ben Spies (SUl): 3. Rlchord A1exonder (SUl): 4.
Jimmy Moore (SUl): 5. Brion Gibbs (Su,); 6. Alon
Schmidt (Su,); 7. John Ashmeod (Su,): 8. John
Jocobi (Suz): 9. VlIlCeIlt Hasl
