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SITARS/ Mota Connection S uper IT Round 5: EI Cajon Speedway Cernicky At round f ive of the STTARS/Moto Co n n ecti o n Su per TT. Mark Cem i c ky (21 lead s Eric Wel ch (4 2 7 1. J e ff Ho e p pner (391. Jimmy Wood (8 81 and the r e st o f the pack int o tum one at EI Ca j o n Speedway e n route to a four-for-four night! W e l ch , H oeppn er . J ua n B ena vid ez and Bar b osa . On t he seco n d t r i p throu gh th e d irt se ctio n , Ben av id ez w ent from fourth t o seco nd and set sail after Matiasevich . For sev en laps, Matiasevich and Benavidez wen t at it as th ey separated t hemsel ves from th e field . Working the ir way thro ug h lappers on every lap , the se two had a war going on . T hen, on the last lap , in th e la st co rner, with some 50 yards to th e str ip e , M at i asevi ch slow ed a n d hel d o ut hi s han d in a gest ure indicat in g th ey sho uld cro ss th e line togeth er - o nly to wat ch Benavidez acceler at e past h im fo r th e vi ctory. At 8:20 p .m . , w i t h so m e 5 2 0 0 peop le in th e stan ds, th e Open ma in came t o th e li ne . To rco Oil s' Cern icky - who had already chalke d up two heat -r ace wins and a m ain -ev ent vi c tory - was looking for a t ota l li!III,,-.lI. With three heat s in the books , th e Sp ortsman ma in c ame to the li ne at 2:50 p .m . for their 10 laps to fa m e. H eat winner D u n n B o y e r o f Santa Cruz . California, p ic k ed up whe re he left off and sho t to the front and never looked b ack . A t t he complet ion of one lap , Voyer led th e Three Br other s KTM of J eff Bra g ia by 2 1/2 seconds . By lap two , Matt Foster was running third, with Mike Hend ri x fourth , Mark S T O RY AND P HO T O S B Y J A M E Y B LU NT a CAJON. CA. AUG. 23 ith Don Canet attending to the A MA R e d Bu ll S u p erm o t o Nati o na l in Sou th Bo st on , Virg inia , title sp onsor Mot o -Con necti o n's Todd Kell y wa s aske d to fil l in at round four o f th e STTARS S er i es . A well instru ct ed STTARS crew w a s w e ll aware of wha t need ed t o be don e to put on a flawl ess prog ram at El Cajon Speedw a y in e a ste rn San Di e g o County . Ev en th ough he was thou - W t im to the dirt section; he re-j o in ed at th e rear of th e p ack . By la p fi v e , N o v i c k had taken over f ourth . Lap seven saw Br ag ia beg inn ing to ti re. Meanwhile, Foster was cha rging ha rd fr om thi rd. Ju st afte r th e eig hth lap, hi s efforts pa i d off , as F o st er took ove r second. Voyer put in th e fast est lap of 4 8 .95 seconds and cruised to victory by m or e th an ei ght seconds . Th e M iddle w ei ght m a in was a c ont inuat io n of a great d ay fo r Vo l _ s sand s o f mile s away, Caner's in fluen ce was felt; after all , Canet is one o f the g uys resp o nsibl e fo r rev iv ing the Supermoto fo rmat of raci ng in the United St at e s. Ev en w ith two o t her Sup e r TT r a c es b ein g run o n this sam e day, some 55 entries were sl at ed among four classes . Du e to a min im um- age requirement of 16 ye ars to ente r the pits , th e Mini Motard c lass was sc rapped at this round. 58 S EPT EMBER 24, 2003' c ue Helm et s' Ian F oulds, w ho le d th e pack to tu rn o ne . Enterin g th e dirt section, Chu ck McCart y too k t he lead , followed b y C ern icky, B ob C obb , Wo od and No Fear's Marty Moates. On th e second tr ip through the Jon es f ifth and Kawasaki 's D a v e Novi ck sixth . Lap fou r brought out a ye llo w flag, as J erem y Lewi s fell vi c - Jeff Matiasevlch (1111 led Juan Benavidez (Xl for nine of 10 laps in the Novice main and then made a generous. sportsmanlike gesture. But no good deed goes unpunished. I e n e of four vi ct ori es . M aking h is first -ever Sup er T T a p pear ance was KLH Rac ing /Su moy co m / Dunlo p/ J oe Rocket's M ark Cer nicky, who won every thi ng he entered o n thi s d ay - not to m ent ion tak ing o ve r th e se r ies ' p oint s l e ad . Cerni c k y ' s A ria Honda ex plod ed to th e front and disa ppeared, as he pu t in a 46.28 -se cond lap . J eff Ho eppner, ou t of th e Kawasaki ca m p , was running a ver y im p ressive seco nd on a brand new Kawa sa ki 250cc fo ur-stroke , whil e Ed d i e Mulder protege J imm y Wo od ran th ird . By lap three, Wo od was all over Hoeppner and ap plying pr essure , wh ile Cerni cky lowered his lap time to a best of 4 5 .48 sec onds . Going into turn one on the fi fth lap. Wo od put a w h ee l u nde r Hoeppner and moved him o ut to take o ver seco nd. KTM rid er Andre Ba rb o sa ran fo urth , pr essu red by Olive Chami and Foster. Th e sixth trip through the dirt saw M a xx is Tires' Wood st a ll his 4 50c c Honda . th us m oving everyone else up a pos iti on . At th e checkered flag, Cernic k y had a 2 5-second cus hion ove r Hoeppner, Ba rbosa , Cha m i, Foster and Erick Welch . T wenty- th ree ride rs staged for th e N ovic e m ain . Kawasaki' s J eff Matia sev i ch too k th e p oin t , fo llo we d b y hazardous dirt sec t ion, Moates went down , h o lding up Cobb and allowing Foulds to advance t o fo urt h. At th e e n d of t h e b a c k chute , Cern i cky o ut brak ed McC arty t o t ak e th e lead . By lap fo ur, Wo od was all o ve r M cCart y f or seco n d . showing him a wh eel at eve ry other turn . Th en , o n the sixth go -a rou nd , j ust as before, Wood had p roblems in th e dirt section , whi ch all owed Foulds t o c apitali ze o n th e m i stak e and m ove into th ird. By the halfw ay po int of this 15-la pper, Cern icky was long gone, but Cobb , realizing Foulds was new to this kind of raci ng , was pres suring ha rd. However , Foulds was impressive and nev er buckled. A t the fi n ish - w hich was never in d ou bt Cern ick y took the bigg est pa rt of the S 1000 purse , wi th McC arty secon d , F ou ld s th ird and Cob b fourth - thus giving Cernicky his fo ur for fo ur! eN EI Cajon Speedw ay EI Cajo n, Californ ia Results: August Z3, Z003 [ Round 5] NOV: 1. Juan Benavidez ; 2. J eff Matia sev ich; 3 . Jef f Hoeppn er. SPTSMN : 1. Dunn Voyer; 2. Matt Foster ; 3 . J eff Bragia . M /W : 1. Mark Ce rn icky; 2 . J eff Hoep pner; 3 . An d re Barbosa. OPEN : 1. Mark Cem icky; 2. Chuck McCart y; 3 . Ian Fou lds .