Formula USAlSFX National Dirt Tr:-8Ck Series
Round 7: Portland MotOr Speedway
able, Snyder's position is even less
secure, as Willie McCoy and Bryan
Smith each narrowed the gap between
themselves and the leaders.
Fans were still filling the stands
Saturday evening as practice got
under way at Portland Motor Speedway. While some other riders were
STORY AND PHOTOS BY
DOUG KARCHER
PORTLAND, OR, SEPT. 8
erry "The Texas Tornado" Poovey
hit Portland Motor Speedway Saturday night, taking only 8.28 minutes
to demolish the field of riders in the
20-lap Pro Singles main event on the
hard-clay half mile track.
In doing so, the lstlegal.com/USC
Racing-sponsored Poovey extended
his points lead in the Formula USA
Pro Singles Championship Series to
62 points over Harley-Davidson's
Jennifer Snyder, whose seventh-place
finish was enough to preserve her
standings in the points for now. Dan
Stanley's second-place showing
moved him up four places to a tie with
Brett Landes in sixth. While Poovey's
lead is starting to look insurmount-
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(Top) The Pro Singles main event
blasts off the line at round eight of the
Formula USA/SFX National Dirt Track
Series on the half mile at Portland
Motor Speedway. Terry Poovey would
go on to collect his second win of the
year there.
(Right) Dan Stanley (10) led the main
event early before Poovey (18)
sneaked undemeath him and
snatched the lead away. Stanley hung
gamely to Poovey's rear wheel for the
rest of the race but couldn't make a
pass that would stick.
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out on their first practice laps, Poovey
was riding his pit bike from place to
place around the inside of the track.
Checking the condition of the track
and observing the other riders at
speed turned out to be time well
spent for the series points leader. The
hard-clay surface still had some
tricky sections in spite of the fact that
track workers had been prepping it
since early that day, and it just wasn't
in the exceptional condition that riders remembered from last year's
event.
When the eight-lap qualifying
Heats got under way, it was Smith
