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rhyth m secti on. At that same moment, Reed wo rked his way around Ramsey for fou rth . Vuillemin put up no fight with Reed whatsoeve r for third, doubling a tri ple as Reed flew overhead. " It was good to have Vuill min o ut e there," Reed said . "He let me by." LaRocco had the race in hand , lea ding by over seven seconds with three laps to go , but Reed was gaining quickly on Windham for second. Reed got to Windham's tail on the last lap, but he couldn't make the pass stick. "I think it was two comers to go when I kind of went up the inside , and I could 've been maybe a little more aggressive and try to make something happen," Reed said of his battle with Windham. "I just wanted to be on the podium and not take him out or anything like that. I just did what I had to do . My best tonight was third. " W ind ham was almost as happy for laRocco as he would've been to win himse lf. '" don't even know what place I got; I just know t hat Mike laRocco won!" W indham said. '" tel l you w hat, 200 [races] stro ng and still doing the th ing, that's awesome for Mike , and it's awesome for o ur team. It really paid off to night. It feels great to go 1-2." And LaRocco was understandably ecstatic about his 10th career SX win afte r his third career main-event holeshot. "lt's big," laRocco said . ''I'm aetua11y doing supercross only, and to aetua11y put all my focus in supercross, you kind of feel like you're coming to an end in the sport. and you don't want to go out not winning . Everybody wants to be as competitive as possible as long as possible and not just fall off and fade away. To me, it's cool to get this win. It means a lat." CN RCA DoME INDCANAI'OUS, INDCANA RIsuIJS: MARot 20, 2004 (ROUND 130f 17/12 Of 16) MAIN (1 0 laps); I. Mike Lagcccc (Han); 2. Ka;n Wnm ~. Nathon Ram>ey ); (Han ); 5. [};Md VuO_ (Yam); 6. N-m 8. G""" Long.ton (KTl'1); 9. s..", Han-blin ); (Suz); 10. 1)'ler Evan. (Suz); I I. Nod< Wey (Suz); 12. Ry.>n Cbrl< (y",,); 13. Michael Byrne (Kaw); I ~. Joe Oehhof (Han ); IS. Isaiah JoIv=o (Y am); 16. Ted Campbell (Han); 17. er.;g Arderscn (Han); 18. jason Thomas (Han ); 19. lOmmy Hofmas W ndtwn (256/3 wins); 3. M,ke L.&cco (230/ 1 _ ); ~ . Daoo VuOllemin (220); 5. Michael Byrne (158); 6. Nck Wey ( 143); 7. Heath voss ( 136); 8. Damon Huffman(12 1); 9. (T1E) Gr.>nt ~ Han-blin ( I I I); II. lYle< Evan;; (9 1); 12. Nattw>Ram>ey (B2); 13. (T1E) N-0( ( 100); 10 . jason Thomas (9'1). Vo.s (2% ); l . G.... L>ngston (228); ~ UPCOMING ROUNDS: R 14/ 13 · P ound ontioc, Michigon, April3 ound 105 R 15/14· 001 , Texas, April 17 25 Nathan Ramsey 4th "Me and Hamblin were on the first two gates on the inside , and we bumped a little bit , and I just had plans on cutting really far to the inside ," Honda's Nate Dog said. "So when it pushed out and the pile up happened , I cut under them , an d that helped a lot . I fe lt like I was riding goo d. There was one po int where I th ink I wa s in third, but there was some pretty hard gunners coming, so I held o n, and I e nded up fourth." www.cyclenews .com Motoworl d Racing.com Suzu ki's Andrew Short and Daryl Hurley w ill both be riding fou r-stroke RM-Z2S0s come the o utd oo r season, whereas Bobby Kiniry and Shae Bentley will re main o n t he ir tw o -stroke RM 12Ss. Continued on page 33 CYCLE NEWS • MARCH 31, 2004 31

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