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(Left! Jared Mees (1GA) put together a fine ride at Hagerstown, finishing sixth. Rich King
__ the onl)' rider doing any passing in the main ....nt; the factory rider came from
behind to finish 10th by the end of the race. (Below) SCott SCherb __ the man t~ beat in
the Hariey 883 race. It was the Texas veteran's first NatIonal win since his .......... days.
Another veteran rider, Cape Fear
Harley-Davidson/Harley-Davidson of
High Point's Robert Lewis, was a solid
second. Rookie Expert Shawn Baer
brought his Battlefield Harley-Davjdson/BRP/Metro Racing backed Sportster home third.
A large field of 27 riders filled the
three heats, and the podium fjnishers
had previewed the main by taking
the three wins. Lewis had won the
first over Powell Performance/WD40's Andy Springsteen and Gutterridge Harley-Davidson's Josh
Toungett. Baer won the second heat
over the returning Jess Roeder (Lima
Harley-Davidson/Las Vegas HarleyDavidson) and McDermitt Racing's
Cory McDermitt. Scherb won tHe last
and fastest heat over Brian Thomas
(Jim Wagner/Mark Coffman) and
Frieze Harley-Davidson/Smokin
Moes' Scott Stump.
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BRIEFLY. ••
When the midseason break came. it appeared points leader Chris Carr and challenger
Joe Kopp were going in opposite directions. Carr seemed to be struggling while Kopp wa.
on a roll. While Kopp's fourth-place finish wasn't bad. he still dropped eight points to the
champ. Carr's lead is now back up to 28 points. Johnny Murphree is another eight back.
Kenny Coolbeth is 56 points back of Carr in fourth. with Rich King rounding out the top five
71 points down.
Chris Carr had suffered a scare when he got off hard at the Red Bull Supermoto opener in
Laguna Seca a few weeks ago. After taking some time off. Carr headed to South Dakota and
swept the two AMA Hot Shoe Nationals just three days before the Hagerstown races. -I
wouldn't have won tonight if I hadn't gone out to Sturgis and rode. - Carr said. -I was laid up for
2 1/2 weeks. Going out there and working the rust out felt really good.'
Mike Hacker's season seems to be on the upswing as he continues to regroup from last
year's injury at the Springfield n. "I'm pretty happy: he said. "I've been training real hard
and trying to get focused to get this thing turned around. and it seems to be working. We
never did anything to the bike all night. We were fast right out of the truck. I had been two
tenths faster than everybody all night. but I knew somebody would pick up the pace in the
main. I didn't think it would be a cakewalk. The track had changed a little bit. and everybody
had been doing their homework. I figured it would be Carr or Cooibeth. and I think Carr set
fast enough a pace that it got us away from everyone else. Toward the end of the race the
tire started getting really bad, and Kenny looked like he was catching me a little. It was a
good race. I had a great time.-
Ceo Roeder II is gaining more and more confidence in his "car track" abilities as his career
continues. "The bike was working good; we've been making a lot of progress on these car
tracks," Roeder said. '"I'm happy with eighth. It gives us something to build on. We made a ton
of changes to this bike, and it feels pretty good. We took it out to Sturgis, and I was happy with
it out there. too. We think it's like everybody else is running. We've got some momentum now.
We ran good at Sharon and again here tonight; we've just got to carry it over to Sedalia in a cou·
pie of weeks.Bill and Carolyn Powell of Powell Racing were in the pits. collecting parts for their 2004
return to the National scene ... We can't afford to go to all the races. but we're going to hit as
many as we can." said Bill. who has fought his way back from cancer and vows to be back
stronger than ever.
Hagerstown Speedway
Hagerstown, MlI'Ylend
Results: Aulust 8, ZOG3 (lieu... II lit 171
HEAT 1 (10 laps: 13 riders, top 3 tronsrer): I.
Mike Hacker (H·D); 2. Johnny Murphree (H·D); 3,
Chris Hort (H-D): 4. Bryan Bigelow (H-D): 5. Sam
Lowe (H-D); 6. Garth Bastian (H-D): 7. Dominic
Beaulac (H-D): 8. S