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Briefly... Continued from page 27 signs of slowing down on the motocross track. Finch, 55, raced an Impres sive nine ma tos on Th ursday and Friday's Racer Productions-produced amateur days at Steel City. "I ran into Ricky [Carmichael] at the end of the day, and he was like, 'Vou look beat. Duke ...• Finch said. "I said, 'Hey, ]0 years from now. you think you'll be riding nine motos? ' RC's response to Duke: "Dude. I highly doubt I'll still be riding ]0 years from now." m This Fridav...September 10, 2004 Autographs • Giveaways • Prizes 6-8pm evy Trucks Kawasaki James Stewart • Michael Byrne Former Nat ional MX Champion Jeff Emi g came out to watch the Steel City round of the series. Emig said he was in town for a Fox dealer ride at jeff Cernic's and also, according to Emig, "to watch RC win another championship." Emig and RC have been good friends ever since their days with Kawasaki. Following Saturday's practice, Honda's Ricky Carmichael took time out to field a special phone call fo r some advance press on Glen Helen - direct fro m the press box at Fontana Motor Speedway fro m SoCal motorsports writers Shav Glick (LATimes), Damian Datto re (Orange County Register) and Jim Short (Riverside Press). Carmichael he ld co urt as the th ree re porters hudd led around a phone d uring the NASCAR qualifyingat Fontana, even firing some questions back at them on how NASCAR driver Kevin Harvick was doing! During a particularly exciting Saturday practice-session battle between Honda's Ernesto Fonseca and Kawasaki's james Stewart. Stewart pulled off yet another move that floo red everybody. AllTeam MotoworldRaclng.comlSuzuki's Andrew Short could say was, "I wonder it feels like [to be like Stewart] : ' A source close to Cycle News said that Vamaha ofTroy 's Mike Brown will run the next two years in Europe fo r the CAS Honda team. The Nationals' Saturday Night Mini Cycle Series Cham pion, To m Carson (Asterisk), was talking to Scott 's Bevo Forti on Saturday on the fun subject of "how it used to be ." "The first half of my career, I raced on [Bob] Hannah and [Rick] johnson's practice tires ," Carson said. "I was friends with Brian Lunnis, and he used to give me their tires so I had something good to race Ti !fi,'l;'o il/ C h a p a r r a l Honda Ti am amaha Tim Ferry • Chad Reed David Vuillemin A Also scheduled to appear... Team Mach1 Motorsports II Silent ~ Ezra Lusk • Heath Voss • Eric Nye Team Boost Mobile/Yamaha/Trov Racing Danny Smith • Kelly Smith • Josh Hansen • BrockSellards • Mike Brown r ~PECIAL ~AVING~ _. ;U2004 ~~ ' . I. pick from top brands Iknefiting Loma Linda Trauma Center Auction forMotocross mtmorabilia and souvenirs begins @6pm . "! . on," Honda of Houston's Jessica Patterson of Tallahassee, Florida, wrapped up the WMA Pro Championsh ip with a I- I performance at Steel City. Patterson won 10 of the 12 motos this season. This is her second WMA Championship, winning in 2000 as well. Patt erso n's teammate Tarah Giege r, fro m Aguadilla, Pue rto Rico , was runner-up, and AGPRacing.com/Yamaha 's Tania Satchwell, from Taupo, New Zealand, was third . 5ixteen-year-old Livia Lancelot of Legna, France, had a grea t deb ut in the WMA Pro class, going 6·] . Livia got to the United States with the help of David Vuillemin and Pierrick Paget. Ridinga yz 125. she was one of the few girls who was not on a four-stroke. The top lOin the final points stand ings are as follows: I. Jessica Patterson (270); 2. Tarrah Gieger (252); ] . Tania Satchwell (229); 4. Elizabeth Bash (165); 5. Kaide Garrett ( 14 1); 6. Stefy Bau ( 134); 7. Jessica Gebhardt ( 104); 8. Sarah Whitmore (84); 9. Jolene Van Vugt (82) ; 10. jessye Davis (80). Mike LaRocco • Kevin Windham • Chris Gosselaar Josh G rant • Ryan Mills • Travis Preston Billy Laninovich I i ~ea-3, ! . L ._ ._ ._ ._ ._._ ._ ._ ._._._.~ ~~ 4. Chaparral Motorsports 555 South ' W Street, San Bernardino, CA 92410 This week recipients of the U.S. Tobacco Top Priva teer Awards were Tim Weigand and Dan Mcgourty in the l25cc class. and jason Thomas and Clark Stiles in the 250cc class. Weigand and Thomas each earned an extra $1500 from U.S. Tobacco for being the top privateer finishers of their respective classes, while Mcgourty and Stiles each took home $750 for being the next-best finishers. www.cyclenews.com CYCLE NEWS • SEPTEMBER 15,2004 29