Henson Pounds Indy Prostar Pavement
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Barry Henson became the first
rider in AMA Prostar history to
make a 2 00·mph pass using a
DOT rea r tire.
Keith Lynn took his first win in the
Weisman Transmission Funnybike class,
over first-time finalist Troy Brown, and
Todd Doege won the Accel Pro Stock final,
with a close 7. 17-to-7.18 victory over Paul
Gast.
In the Sportsman ranks, Ryan Schnitz
padded his points lead as took his fourth
win of the season in the Lee's Performance
1000cc Supersport class. Schnitz set new
records for the class at 9.014 seconds and
156.08 mph on the Muzzy ZX-IOR and
took out fellow Kawasaki rider Chip Ellis in
the final. Ellis, meanwhile, scored his fourth
win of the season in Zero Gravity 600cc
Supersport, getting by Richard Gadson,
nephew of Rickey for the second straight
,
final. Rick McWaters got the win in the
Yamaha Hot Rod Cruiser class, getting by
the V-Rod of Jamie McNaughton in the final
and setting records of 9.254 seconds and
144.97 mph on the Patrick RacingYamaha
arry Henson made history at the
AMNProstar Pingel Thunder Nationals
at Indianapolis Raceway Park, August 2 122, becom ing the first-ever rider to run
over 200 mph in a street-tire class. The run
came in the semifinals of the Mickey
Thompson Streetbike Shootout, where
Henson recorded a 7.3S elapsed time at
200.17 mph to take the win over Muzzy
B
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Kawasaki's RickeyGadson.
Henson, riding his Velocity Racing turbo
Hayabusa, took the final over team rider
Mike Siowe with a 7.291 at 198.03 mph,
which stood for both ends of the national
record. The run was the first under 7.30
seconds and gave Henson his third straight
event win .
Larry McBride remained undefeated in
SEPTEMBER 8, 2004 • CYCLE N EWS
Top Fuel and virtually locked up an unprecedented sixth class championship. McBride
ran unopposed in the final , as scheduled
opponent Ron Webb bro ke in the burn-out.
Also remaining undefeated for the season is
Lectron Pro Mod champ Cha rlie Farrar, who
rode the C&W Cycleworks Kawasaki to his
second straight win over Mike Caputo, beating the Oh io rider 6.81 to 6.8S.
40th Anniversary
Warrior.
Ot her winners included Kathie Van
Strien in Super Eliminator, Butch Schwartz
in Schnitz Top Gas, Mike Konopacki in MTC
Super Cornp, Scott Parker in RC
Components Super Gas, Mark Coulson in
Dyantek Pro ET and Craig Gutowsky in
Street ET.
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