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he was hopefully a little rattled. It seemed like he would have been to me because he just about crashed pretty hard. I pounced on him, and then I felt myself catching Geo , and I could see I was getting away from Chris. "I thought to myself, "O kay this is your race," Kopp continued. "I knew it was going to get brushed off. So I just wanted to keep working him . I didn't want to do anything stupid . We were really having line problems. We were crossing line all over the place. I'd come in low, he'd come in high, and our lines would intersect. I thought, ' Man I don't want to try and pass him with a stupid move. ", Roeder said that he could feel somebody pressuring him , so he lowered his line . " I didn't hear anything for awhile," Roeder said. "I thought maybe I gapped him. When I came up on the lappers, it took me a little bit to get around them. I knew I had to make a good turn, but I made a bad one, not really bad, but not good enough. The next thing I knew, there was someone right on my butt again. I rode as hard as I could; the bike worked great; I can't make any e xcuses." Lap 22 saw Kopp finally make his into turn three; the thing hit a rut or something. It just kind of stuck and tried to pitch me up over the front of the bike. It got my attention. I got a real good look at the front tire. That really broke my rhythm, and I was kind of hesitant the next four or five laps until I found a comfortable line again. Those guys (Roeder and Kopp) up front were going good, and I didn't have anything for them." The battle over third was a heated one. "I think we swapped third about 20 t imes," Carr said o f his dice with Coolbeth . "It was a lot of fun , a good race. We were running about the same line in one and two, bu t in three and four we were complete opposites: 1was highlow, and he was running about the m iddle. I got away, but he came right back. I just stuck with my plan, and it worked for the position." Coolbeth said that he had gotten off the line about fifth before slugging it out with Carr. "C h ris and I had a hell of a battle over third ," Coolbeth sa id. " I just couldn't get around him . He had a high-low line down in three and four, and I was way low. I thought I had him on the last lap . I thought I was going to outsmart him and ride the bottom all the way around, but he still came underneath me, high -lowed me. It was a real good race, real safe and a lot of fun . He got away one time, about four or five bikelengths, and I thought I'd never catch him , but I caught him and got around him a couple of times. Then he outsmarted me on the last lap ." Polesitter Dominic Beaulac had his Picotte Performance/www.motomax. qc.ca Harley in fourth until Coolbeth charged by in search of Carr. Brake Briefly... , Roeder Harley-Davidson, Hales Harley-Davidson, Napoleon Harley-Davidson, South East Harley-Davidson, Schaeffer's Harley-Davidson, Mike's Harley-Davidson, F&S HarleyDavidson, Jim's Harley-Davidson, Tim Sherman's Signature Harley-Davidson, Thiels Wheels Harley-Davidson,Las Vegas HarleyDavidson and Uma Harley-Davidsonwere the benefactors for the $6700 George Roeder Dash for Cash. The race was run with an inverted start, much like handicap speedway. Event promoter Dean Gallup added $1 ()()() if the fast qualifier(MikeHacker) could come from the backto win the frve-Iap dash. In the dash, Chris Evansrocketed from his second starting position rightto the top of the track and into a lead he never relinquished. "The Dash for Cash went pretty good ," he said. "I had tweaked the bike and changed a couple of things. I thought I'd just try to take off, and it went pretty good ." Evansled Roeder, McCoy, Carr, Kopp and Hacker home . "Sure you can win money in the dash for cash, but I was here to get points, that was our main objective here," saidJoe Kopp after the Roeder Memorial race. "I told myselfthat if I didn't get a good start, Iwasn't goingto kill myse~ trying to win it, I'm going to play around with the track and try to see what 's worl

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