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he's not holding back," Roger Lee said. "We bo th want t o be a champion , and that's t he way it is." Tommy said he wasn't willing to throw everything away in turn 10 . ':o\nd I t hink that when 600cc races are that close is kind of what se parates winning and losing," Tommy said, "and I just didn't th ink it was worth quite hanging it out a little bit that far. So I took what I could get and go o n to Virginia with an 11po int lead. I'm going with a whole lot different attitude. I definitely don't have to win there, but I can. I'd like to at least get on the podium, an d I t hink things would be okay." DiSalvo called his po d ium one o f the "hard es t- fo ught third places I've ever ran . I was rid ing I 10 percent the whole race. And neither Tommy nor Rog let up an inch, and neither did I." Aaron Go bert e nded up alone in fourth , 1.6 seconds behind DiSalvo . Then came Ben Spies , cruising to fifth with a motorcycle that was suddenly slower than it had been all weekend. Yamaha's Da m o n Buckmaster was back on track after skipping Mid-Ohio. The Austral ian had race d at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca at less t han full strength. He opted out of the Superstock race but came in sixth in Supersport with a st ill-healing scaphoid. My OWN The privateers went at it fo r seventh, Corona Ext ra EBSC O Media Suzuki's Ben At t ard holdi ng off Valvo line EMGO Suzuki's Steve Rapp and Cha m p ion sonline .com/ Prie t o Racing 's Michael Ba rn e s . KWS Motorsports/Millennium Technologies' Danny Eslick held o ff Attack Kawasaki 's Tony Meiring for 10th. eN ROAD A TlANTA B RASELTO N , G EORGIA RESULTS: S EPTEMBER S , 2 004 ( R O UND 10 ) PRO HON DA O ILS 5/SPT: I . Roger Lee Hayden (Kaw); 2. T ommyHayden (Kaw): l . Jason DiSal o (Yam); 4. Aaron v Gobert (Yam) 5. Ben Spies (Suz); 6. Damon Buckmaster : (Yam): 7. Ben Attard (Suz); B. Steve Rapp (Suz); 9. Michael Barnes (Y am); 10. Danny Eslick (Suz): II . Tony Meiring (Kaw); 12. Lee Acree (Suz ); 13. Chris Perfs (StIl ); 14. Blake Young (Suz); IS. Jason Perez (Yam); 16. Darren Luck(Suz); 17. Ch ris Ulrich (Suz): 18. William Meyerl (Yam 19. Darin ); Eli Edwa rds (Suz); 20. Giovanni Rojas (Y am): 2,1. Benjamin Carlson (Suz); 22. Jason Farrell (Kaw) ; 23. NICky Moore (Hon ); 24. Taylor Knapp (Yam); 25. Chris Siebenhaar (Hon ); 26. Daniel Doty (Yam): 2'7. Montez Stewart (Y am); 28. Dan Ortega (Yam i9 . }35OO Moss (Yam); lD.}oseph Ford (Yam ); ); 1 I. Scott Beckley (Yam n . Ryan Andrew s (Tri ; ll . Jim ); ) Wood (Suz); 34. Stacy Summers (Kaw): 35. Robert Tera ndo (Kaw); l 6. Mart in Carde nas (Yam); 37. Nathan Hester (Yam): l8. Chad Simons (Yam). Time: 22 rnin., 44.4 sec. Distance : IS laps. l7.8 miles Ave ra ge speed: IOl .878 Margin of victory: 0.10) sec. PR O HON DA O ILS S UPERS PORT C'SH IP SERIES PO INTS STAN DINGS (After 10 of II rounds): I. Tommy Hayden (327/4 wins); 2. Roger Lee Hayden (l 16l4 wins); ) . Ben Spies (255/ 1 win); 4. Aaron Gobert (255): 5. Jason DISalvo (23611 win); 6. Steve Rapp (229); 7. Michael Barnes (226); 8. Jamie Hacking (20 1); ~ . Ben Attard (167); 10. Danny Eshck ( 156); I I. Chris Peris ( 15 1); 12. Tonr Me iring ( ISO); 13. Aaron Y ates (14 1); 14. Darren Luck ( l7); IS. Lee Acree ( Ill) . UPCOMING ROUND Rounds 11 : A cton, V irginia, Septem 19 ber RACE 96 Aaron Gobert 4th Yamaha's Aaron Gobert led four of the first five laps before getting swallowed up and eventually passed to the back of the four-rider breakaway pack. "They kept bringing me back; they kept coming back under me ," Gobert said of his early success . When he saw how intense the fight was, he thought better of being a hero and backed off. "I didn't want to risk everything. I had one bad lapper, and that was it. Once I got through the esses with the lapped rider, I couldn't get back on the lead group. " Traffic, and where it was caught, wou ld determine who stayed up front. "The re was a few times I looked backwards and thought whoever was behind me is going to have a bad run now." Gobert ended the day tied for third in points. "We've moved forward in both classes," he said of taking the Superstock points lead. 11 Ben Spies 5th "My bike was about 30 mph down or something ," YoshimuraSuzuki's Ben Spies said, exaggerat ing the deficit to the fleeter Yarnahasand Kawasakis. It wasn't inherently slower - it became that way mysteriously. "The bike had been running good all weekend. I crashed it in qualifying and we fixed it. Everything was going fine. This morn ing I did some last laps, was third quickest . Cou ldn't even get close to that time this afternoon . The bikes, I mean, Roger [Lee Hayden] almost hit me, he passed me at such a high rate of speed. I was just about 8 mph down on the straightaway. I don't know what happened. We didn't change anything. I don't know if it's tying up or if the wind was that big 01 a key. I was perfectly in the draft, and my bike was pullingall the gears, but it was down on power. I just kept making It up every lap and losing on the stra ightaways." 308 Ben Attard 7th r.'.,'t!'~;~' . '. '.. , ", a·=" .. . ;'· . Corona Extra EBSCO Media Suzuki's Ben Attard won the f '..1: ' / .

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