AMA/ Red B u ll Su p e r m o t o Champions h ip S e r ie s
Round 2 : B ig Daddy 's S o u t h B oston S p e e d w a y
exciting start Supennoto main event 11. Kevin an
The Red Bull when Chris Fillmore (1 got off to
Schwantz (airborne w ithout his bi kel. and. a couple of
others went down In a heap. Meanwhile Doug
Chandler (1 0). Ben Carlson (451 M ike M etzger (8 7 5).
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and Mark Ava rd (9 4) broke away from the mess.
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original cast of stars fr om round one
at Lagun a Seca in att endance, but a
co uple of rin gers fro m th e FIM Supermoto Championship were flown over
f r om Europ e t o
sh ow
th e
ne o ph yte
posed to be a clash of the t it ans of
m ot orc y cle raci ng. Not only were the
Americans how it is don e. It sounded
like a great scrip t, and if the ea rly
heat races on Satu rday - prior to the
sk ies openi ng up - were any indication , the racin g was going to be spect a c ul ar. Th e t w o Euro p ean s , KTM
factory rider Boris Cham bon and fac t o ry Husaberg pilot Ivan L azzar i n i
were set to go head to head with th e
likes of T roy Lee Designs Hon da 's
Je remy McGrath and Jeff Ward , Team
Zoo York Honda 's Mi ke Metzger, Fo rm er 500cc Gr and Prix Wo rld Champi on Kevin Schwantz , thr ee-t im e AMA
Sup erbike Cha m pion Dou g Ch andler
an d forme r two-time 125cc Natio na l
Mo tocross Champion Micky Dym ond
- to n am e a few of t he big -name
Americans.
But it was never to be .
After a ho t an d su n n y Saturda y
afternoon in which the scratch heats
and hea t race s went off without a
hi t c h , the even ing brought rain in
ri d i c ul o u s po rti ons . It lo ok ed for a
wh ile like the nigh t's semis and m ains
would run after the track crew resur rect ed th e track from th e dead , only
to have th e skies open u p a sec ond
ti me after th e riders took to the tra ck
for a brief practice session. The races
were postpon ed un til Sunda y night.
an d once ag ain Mothe r Natu re t or tured th e pat ient teams and fan s wi th
her mischief. By Monda y aftern oon ,
wh en t h ings finall y go t und er w ay ,
many of the m ain protagon ists h ad
left town for either prev ious co mmitm ents (M cGr ath. Wa rd, Chamb on ,
Lazzarin i) , o r simpl y to get bac k t o
Chandler led every lap of the
Su pennoto tinal. run two days late on
M onday afternoon.
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