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Cycle News 2001 05 09

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the win , as bikes were strewn across the track four wide. When th e finishing order was settled, it wa s Fisc her, . Clark and Wood. "I got off to a s hoddy sta rt," Cla rk said. "An d re (Ca stanos] wa s ru nn ing away with th e race and e ve ryone else was holding each other u p. By the time I put my head down and tried to drag everyone e lse up to Andre, he crashed. I tried to get a wa y for two or three la p s and , with the d raft, I jus t c ouldn't get away . I knew I was faster everywh ere , so I just sta rted s itt ing up and le t every body g o p ast and get back in to the tactics of th e race. I've a lwa ys gone good here. I wo n here last year [in the Ap rilia Cup]. We had the bike geare d for turn nin e - I led through there last year a nd won it. I saw Dan Fischer's whee l th ere , he's my teammate , and I d idn't know who won and he d idn't know who 'd won , but it' s good fo r the team .· In the post-race tech inspection, King was disqualified from his fourth -plac e CN finish for an a ir-filter infractio n. Pro ItaJIalCopler Discount Warehouse's Dan Fiseher emerged the victor ' the Apri ia Cup Challenge race. After a race-Iong battle bet......, five riders - Derek King (84) among them Fischer n pped his teallUllate Aaron CIart

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