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Ty Siminoe topped both the
Pee Wee SOc:c Stock and
Modified 7·8 cla sses.
The sec ond outing for Alessi
was in the 250cc Stoc k Pro, but
Grant turned in a stellar performance to take the win and
the championship with Alessi
having gone down in the first
turn. Aless i remounted and
went fro m dead last to finish
second by the end of the race.
It was then that Alessi made it
known via the airways in a pastrace interview that he was
going after Grant and inten ded
to win the remainder of his
events.
The third Pro race was the
125cc Modified Pro , of wh ich
Suzuki's l<¥1e Partridge gra bbed
the ho les ho t and led the first lap
befo re Aless i too k over the lea d
and neve r looked back. Honda
of Houston's Tommy Hah n of
Kansas finished third for a second overall.
Jeff Ward added
another title to his
re sume at the
World Minis .
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The final Pro event, th e 250cc Modified,
was disast er for Alessi at the start. Alessi
and Grant were bar to bar into the first
tu rn. Alessi began to push Gran t out , but
Grant somehow managed to hold his
ground, but not without Alessi getting the
brunt of the collision and tumbling off the
side of the track - once again remounting in
dead last. Alessi went down again in another section of the course and called it qu its
and headed back to pits. Tommy Hahn took
the lead out of the first tum chased by
Team Greerv'D&S Kawasaki's Cody Dickey
of Texas, who was followed by Grant.
Grant got around Dickey on the second lap
and went after Hahn in a chase that lasted
all the way to the checkered flag. Hahn
took the win, but Grant's division win and
run -off second awarded him the title. Team
Green's Ryan Sipes, of Kentucky, finished
third , rounding out the pod ium behi nd
Hahn in second.
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33 RD ANNUAL NMA WORLD MINI GRAND
PR IX
LAs VEGAS, NEVADA
RE SULT APRIL 14·18, 2004
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(Cob) ; 3. PArl<... FJem;ng (Cob ); 4. jet (Hon) .
125 STK INT: I.)ooh Hi! (Yom 2. ems N"'" (Hon); J.
);
Mkhael UPagfia (Suz); ~. Daniel Sa->l (S