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ROAD RACe - Round 2 April 24, 2005 Pro Honda Oils Supersport Championship Daman Buckmaster (6) and Jasan DiSalva (40) diced early befare Disalvo surged ahead to finish fourth. Buckmaster finished sixth, behind another Yamaha factory rider - Aaron Gobert. with a third-lap crash. With two laps completed, the restarted race would be 15 laps. Hacking and the Haydens got the jump on the field. Damon Buckmaster was with them for a spell before drifting back with a vagueness in his front end. He'd finish sixth. Then the lead three were away, Hacking in front of Roger Lee until the 12th lap when Tommy made the pass into the tum fIVe hairpin. On the next lap, Roger Lee went wide and onto the grass on the outside of turn one. His time at the front was over. "My own mistake, and after that, I just brought it home in third," he said. Traffic was ahead for the leaders, and Hacking used it to good effect. "I lost a little time in traffic, and that killed me," Hayden said. Still, he'd saved his tire and was within 24 striking distance, Hacking thought. "I don't think I had quite enough tire underneath me like he did," Hacking said. Approaching the penultimate turn, a looping right-hander, Hacking knew he had company. "I knew he was going to try me up there in that top hill, because every time I could go in there, I could hear that Kawasaki," he said. Hayden waited until the downhill left leading onto the front straight. Hacking moved a little bit to block on the inside, but Hayden still had an opening. "I mean it was close," Hayden said. "I mean it was definitely borderline." But not quite enough. "I've done that move before, so I knew how much effort you really got to put into it to make it happen," Hacking said. "I just got MAY 4,2005 • CYCLE NEWS that one little extra drive down the hill and shut him off, and I knew right then I had the line to come to the stripe." Roger Lee was alone in third, with the Yamaha team following. Jason DiSalvo just beat teammate Aaron Gobert to the line. Gobert had passed DiSalvo on the final lap but nearlly tucked the front end, and Disalvo reclaimed fourth. "I went right back at him [Gobert] coming down to the stripe and got underneath and came across the front and led off across the front straightaway and won that battle," DiSalvo said. Damon Buckmaster was sixth at a gap of over seven seconds and talking of a problem with front-end feel. "Just couldn't get enough feel trail braking into these long sweeping turns," he said. Robert Jensen was alone in seventh on the Kneedraggers.com Yamaha, with Ben Attard eighth on the Attack Performance Kawasaki. Canadian Chris Peris was ninth, with Yoshimura Suzuki's Ben Spies moving up a spot on the final lap to take 10th. Hacking and Tommy Hayden are tied for the championship lead with 70 points, after two of 10 rounds, with Yamaha's Jason DiSalvo fourth today, third overall with 56. eN BARBER MoTOllSl'ORTS PARK BIRMINGHAM, A1ABAMA REsuIJ5: APRIL 24, 2005 (ROUND 2 OF 10) SUPERSPORT FI~ I. Jamie Hadcing (y""): 2. Tommy Hayden (!.vnon Bucknwter (y",,): 7. Roben J"""'" (y",,): 8. Ben AttMd (!

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