AFTER SITTING OUT THE
PREVIOUS ROUND WITH
AN INJURY, JAMES
TEWART RETURNED TO
eTION WITHOUT HAVING
KIPPED A BEAT
By DAVE DERINGER
PHOTOS BY STEVE BRUHN
n a brilliant display of supercross riding, James "Bubba" Stewart
seemingly easily picked up his 17th victory in what is only his
third - and final - year on the 12Scc supercross circuit. It was also
the Chevy Trucks Kawasaki rider's sixth win of the year, putting
another exclamation point on his 2004 East Coast Supercross
title that he already wrapped up a couple of rounds ago. Stewart won
the Pontiac 12Scc East final by some 13-plus seconds and, while in
doing so, put on a spectacular aerial show for the 50,000 spectators.
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O bviously, Stewart's crash at the Indianapo lis Supe rcross h as 't= = iiI
slowed down the champ one bit.
"It was definitelya bummer to watch , but I had nothing to gain
by racing Indy Stewart said of his decision not to race two weeks
,"
ago, which ende d any chance he had of Winning every race. "I
would have liked the perfect season, but I'm already over it."
And what did he say of his nearly perfect outing at Pontiac?
"Well, I spun off the gate and got a decent jump, but I sure
was throwing elbows in the first tum," he said of winni
the $1500 Butterfinger Holeshot Award. "Then I
almost endoe d on the triple on the
fi rst lap. After that I was all
right."
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