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before. The first couple of laps I had to
learn it, and the rest was just hanging on for
a few points,"
The R I was a handful in comers, skating
in the rear, chattering the front, and not
braking very well, especially when being
sucked into the comers off the draft. With
Hacking hurt, this was Gobert's chance to
move to the lead, but he couldn't .
My OWN
1 Jo sh Haye s
"I thought that we'd make more points
on jam ie [Hacking] this weekend, but obviously he did pretty well considering his
injury, " he said. "We definitely couldn't have
Tommy [Hayden) beating us all like he did."
Gobert ended the weekend I0 points
down on Hacking and fIVe behind Tommy
Hayden.
By the end Gobert was in peril of losing
fourth to Attack Kawasaki's josh
Hayes, but he he ld him off by 1.3
seco nd s. Hayes nearly h ighsided
in tu m two . A comer late r, he
had to dodge the falling Geoff
May.
" It took me a lap or two to
collect myself," he said.
The gap bac k to DiSalvo in
fifth was another nine-plus seconds. O n the final lap , Yoshimura
Suzuki's Ben Spies overshot tum
two, giving Hacking sixth.
Spies hel d on for seventh wi th
Star Motorcycle School's jason
Prid m o re by him se lf in eighth .
Uon Racing's Jaco b Holden
was ninth with Erion Honda's
4t h
5th
Graves Mot ors po rts Yamaha's Jason DiSalvo knew from th e fo urth of 17 la ps that he
had the wrong rear tire. " My t ire was not
gr ippy at the start and less grippy as the
race went on ," he said after finishing fifth,
IS seconds beh ind the winner. " I was riding real ly hard the first co uple of laps and about the fourt h lap a bo ut the lap I lost th e lead - I just said to myself, 'Th e re 's no way I
can ru n th is pace .' I'm having to work too hard to get th is bike
around there. Th e thing was a ll over the place . And it was worse
th an it loo ked ." DiSalvo said the team was caught o ut by a lack of
warm weather pra ctice . " I wis h the AMA would have given us a
pra ctice sess ion in the afternoon, bec ause th is place change s so dra matically. Th e heat and 20 engines blown up ," he said o f the two red
flags d uring t he day. ''All the o il. Th is place looks like a war zo ne ."
Ja mie Hacking
6th
G raves Motorsports Yamaha's Jamie Hac king bro ke his righ t collar-
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REPSOL SiSTI<: I. 1i>mmy Ha)den (Kaw); 2. Roger
Lee Hayden (1Uw); ] . /Woo Gobert (Yam) 4. p.h H_
:
(Kaw) ; S. psoo D6aIYo (Yam 6. Jamie Hackng (Yam 7. Ben
);
);
Spies (Sm ): 8. psoo Pridmono (Suz): 9. Jxob Holden (Sm) :
10. foJex Gobert (Han ); II . Voncen' Haskceec (Suz): 12. 5'"""
Raw (SuI ): 13. Scott G