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Lange Nearly Perfect Two-Sport Star Darcy lange was nearly perfect at the Gund Arena in Cleve land , Oh io, january 30-3 1, the Canad ian winning three of four races dur- ing the eighth round of the Na ti o nal A r en a c r o ss Series. O n Friday night, Tommy Hofmaste r won the 125cc final , and that was the only time lange, who had engine trouble, was beaten. The rest of the weekend belo nged to lange, who now leads the cham pionship points standings . O n Friday, Hofmaster topped Brad Hagseth and Buddy Antunez in winning the I25cc final, with lange bo uncing back to win the 250cc class over justin Brayto n and Chad johnson. lange was perfect on Saturday, beating Hofmaster and Brayton to win the 12Scc class befo re coming back to beat jo hn Dowd and jeff North rop in the 2SOcc final. After eight rounds, lange leads Hofmaster, 544-495. josh Demuth, who is out with a bro ken leg, is third with 429 po ints, 14 po ints better than Dowd. 8 A Busy Barnes Baseball star jeff Kent ~ competed in the Industry ra ce at t he Texas Grand National Cross Country/Hare Scrambles ro und o n Sunday, February I, o n a Suzuki RM250. Kent , the second baseman for the Houston Astros, is a big-time fan of motorcycle racing and is a pretty decent rider himself. "Oh , this is so much fun," Kent said wh ile peeling off his riding gear. "I don't know how I did, but I had a great time ." Kent said that he'd like to own a motorcycle shop after he's through playing baseball. Since his salary for the 2003 seaso n was $6,949 ,840, that's probably a possibility if he so des ires. Kent batted .297 for the Astros last year, with 22 home runs and 93 RBI. Road race r Michael Barnes will be a busy rider th is year, chasing Y amaha contingency money when he's not racing a Kosco Har leyDavidson/Buell Ughtning in the AHA's new Formula Xtreme forma t. Barn es said the lure of Yamaha co ntingency money was too much to resist. FEBRUARY 11, 2004 • CYCLE NEWS "I can make more money at a club race than [Mat) Mladin makes for w inning a Nat ional," he said. Yamaha is paying $2000 for race wins in variou s series. "I can make $8000 in a weekend: ' Barnes said. The RI and R6 will be spo nsored by Turning Wheels Motorsports in leesburg, Flo rida. longtime tuner Tony Pogue will work with Barnes on both the Yamaha and Buell efforts. Bren Singer is the owner of Turning Wheel s Motorsports. Barnes said he'd also like to race in the AHA Superstock class when feasible. If that we ren't enough, the veteran from Florida is the backup rider for Vesrah Racingin the W ERANational Endurance series . Henny Ray Abram s Bahre Injured In Car Wreck New Hampshire International Speedway owne r Bob Bahre was in intensive care In a Maine hospital after he was se riously injured in a car accident on Thursday, jan uary 29, when his car went off the road, according to repo rts in the Co ncord Monitor. Bahre, who is in his late 70s, was listed in stab le condit ion on Monday, February 2, at Stephens Memorial Hosp ital In Norway, Maine, a hosp ital spokesman told the Monitor. According to track spo kesman Ron Meade , Bahre suffered a fractured vertebra, a broken ankle, a concussion and rib injuries and has been in and out of consciousness. Bahre was following another vehicle to his home in Paris, Maine, afte r a day at the speedway whe n his SUV went off Route 160 in Brownfield at 2 p.m. Thursday and hit a tree. Bahre owns and operates New Ham pshire Internatio nal Speedway with his son, Gary. Pirelli's Hung Up In Customs Race slicks need DOT approval to pass through U.S. customs. That was the finding of Pirelli's road race manager jeff SeIbert after the tires shipped from Germanyfor the recent Daytona tire test got hung up in customs at the Daytona Beach InternationalAirport. The hang-up meant that they didn't take delivery until Monday, january 26 , just before noon , causing them to lose almost a day and a half of track time . 40th Anniversary "There was a missed fiight somewhere. Instead of Atlanta, the tires ended up in Chicago: ' Seibert said. "They arrived after 5 p.m . after customs was closed." Seibert had to hire a customs broker, who specified that these were slick tires for race use only, that they'd be used for testing and then destroyed. But nothing they did could get the tires released on the weekend. He nny Ray Abram s