Formula USA/Pro Honda Oils Sportbike Series
Round 5: Road America
sort of didn't even try to pass him
down the main straight here. I
thought, if I got under on the brakes
into five, I thought I could pull a bit of
a gap that very lap, and I think that's
how it turned out. It gradually just got
bigger and bigger every lap."
At the end of the 12-lap, 48-mile
race, Connell had 3.22 seconds in
Craig Connell was the man In the
Pro Honda Oils Sportbike final at
Road America, the diminutive
Australian winning by 3.22 seconds
over Michael Barmes.
hand. He averaged 103.288 mph.
And how does Acree explain second-place finisher Michael Barnes of
the Hooters/Mountain Dew Suzuki
team? Essentially the same theory,
only Acree had to try to get through
Barnes and his teammate Larry
Pegram as well. Their three-way
finisher, of the smaller Connell, "Even
when I could get a little better drive
out, I just couldn't match his acceleration. I don't think it's a matter of him
having a better bi!
