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wi th Barnes third and last year's W illow Springs numberone plate holder jeff Stern mo ving up to fou rth . Perez
was fifth, wi th jack Pfeifer on his GSX-RI 000 sixt h and
Haskovec slip ping back to seventh . Three more
Suzukis, ridden by Marte Cooksey, D ale Kieffer and
Premysl Glinz, rounded out the top 10.
From lap 20 until the checkered nag 60 laps later,
Hayes w as out front and in total command . H ayes made
his second pit stop on lap 66, and from there he just had
to cru ise home . his lead growing to almost a lap. At the
finish line, he had one minute and 20 seconds in hand.
Barnes quietly had second position locked down
after pitting on lap 60 for his second of two stops. For
good measure, he turned his fastest lap of the race on
lap 64 - a 1:23.498 .
" It was pretty uneventful - it was just a struggle with
the wind," Barnes said. " I've got a pain in the right
shoulder and my neck was getting tight . O ther than
that , it was just going around in circles 80 times. I wasn't
really contested by anyone unti l the last lap, and then I
saw Vincent [Haskovec] come by me. I thought he was
the leader, so I wanted to race him because I knew he
wouldn't make a big deal out of it, and I didn't wa nt to
be a lap dow n. That was pret ty much the on ly race I had
t he entire t ime, and then I found out he ran out of gas,
unfortunately. I'll definitely take t his. Carry [Andrews]
called me up Wednesday and I new out Thursday to do
t his race, so it co uldn't be any better really."
From lap 6 1 on, Att ard had a lock on the final podium posit ion, and as the race moved into the final stages,
the to p 1 stabilized for th e most part .
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" It was my firs t w eekend at Willow," Attard said. " It
w as also my first ride on a 1000 over here. I just tried
to be consistent. I knew that the Attack Kawasaki w as
put together perfect, and if we didn' t have any drama,
t he pit stops w ere to the second perfe ct . I had faith in
my team. I just lapped aro und, was con sistent and
brought it home . T he guys at Attack we re perf ect and
did a perfect job. It gets w indy at Phillip Island [in
Australia], but nothing compared to here - th is w as
unbe lievable. Trying to hang on to the big bike in the
w ind... I'm not a big guy, so it was hard ."
With t he w ind howling and the field looking rather
tired, the chec kered nag finally new, the top-10 loo king like th is: Hayes , Barn es, Attard , Pfei fer,
H askovec, Perez, Stern , Kieffer, Scott jensen on a
Suzuk i, and Cooksey. Hayes w on the aforement io ned
$50 ,000, w ith Barn es taking $30,000 and Attard
$10 ,000 - despite a misprint on his podium check ,
wh ich read $20,000.
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W ILLOW SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL RAC EWAY
ROSAMOND, CAUFORNIA
RESULTS : OCTOBER 17, 2004
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TOYOTA 200 : I. Josh Hayes (Kaw ): 2. Michael Barne s (Suz); 3. Ben Attard
(Kaw) 4. Jack Pfeifer (Suz); S. Vincent Haske v ec (Suz); 6. Jason Per e z (Yam); 7.
Je ff Stem (Suz); 8. Dale Kie ffer (Suz ); 9 . Scott Jensen (Hon); 10 . Marte Cooksey
(Sua): I I . C esa r Me sa (Suz ): 12. Dean Mizdal (Suz); 13. Michae l Beck (Yam); 14 ,
Skye Girard (Suz): 15. James Kerker (Han); 16. Prem ysl Ghnz (Suz): 17. Will
Eiken be rry (Kaw); 18. Mar k Simon (Suz) ; 19 . Cl inton Wh itehouse 111 (Suz) ; 20 .
Ruben Munoz Jr. (Suz) ; 2 1. Joh n Chen (Suz ); 22 . Tim Knutson (Yam); 23. Jas o n
Caldwell (Suz ); 24 . Reno Karim iam (Suz ); 25 . Jimmy Moore (Suz) ; 26 . Joseph
Shelton (Yam ); 2 7. Stu art Smith (Kaw ); 28 . Josh Alve rs on (Yam 29. Ma rti n
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Szwarc (Suz) ; 30. Micke y Lane (Yam) 3 1. Mike Sullivan (Hon).
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Time: 1 hr.. 53 min .. 18 .59 7 sec.
D ist a n ce : 80 laps. 200 m iles
Ma rgin of vktory: I mi n .• 20 .082 sec.
Fas t es t lap : Jos h Haye s. lap 48. 1:22 .672
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