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Campbell, Hengeveld Top Nevada 1000 T hough he and partner Johnny Campbell enjoyed a cumulative lead of more than 10 minutes, Honda's Steve Hengeveld added to that on the final day of the McMillian Nevada 1000 on July 10, at round four of Best in the Desert's Silver State Series. Riding the final I 19 miles solo, Hengeveld stretched out the team's comfortable lead to give the Precision Concepts/HRCNHonda Pro Oils XR6S0R-mounted duo a four-day time of 17 hours, 27 minutes, 0 seconds, which was over IS minutes quicker than the next-best team of Kendall Norman and Robby Bell. "Everything went as planned," Campbell said. "We had a strategy, we stuck to it. We had a couple obstacles to overcome - flat tires and whatnot - but all in all, Steve [Hengeveld] took the majority of the race and rode like a true champion and just pulled the lead. So, when I got on the bike, anytime I rode, it was just get the bike back to him and not make any mistakes." Mistakes and other problems made the short final day more dramatic than expected. To start with, day-three runners-up Shane Esposito and David Pearson never even got started. Their Team Green/Pro Circuit/Dunlop KXSOO apparently had had enough and refused to fire, giving them a DNF for the day and fourth Open Pro. As the field streaked southward across the valley between Tonopah and Goldfield, KTM's Andy Grider was running second, with Honda's Kendall Norman a close third, but Grider soon crashed. "I hit a couple square edges, and it swapped three or four times. then it hit a big rock in the middle of the road," Grider said. He managed to pick up the Red Bull/ Michelin/Motorex 690 LC4 rally bike and get it to partner Chris Blais, who soldiered on to finish fifth on the day, giving the duo fourth overall. Norman took over second position after Grider crashed, hoping to make amends for getting lost in the last miles of day three and dropping from second to fourth on the Precision Concepts/Dunlop/Honda Pro Oils XR6S0R. Mike Childress, however, caught and passed Steve Hengeveld was the workhorse on the Norman on his XR's winning Honda team at the Nevada 1000. Only/Temecula Motorsports/O'Neal XR6S0R, but that to the awards ceremony on Sunday wasn't enough to pass Norman and Bell in afternoon with the help of crutches, the overall results column. having broken his foot on the last day. ':AJI we wanted to do was finish second Still, he finished second on the day, overall, and we were stoked," Bell said. which was good enough to vault him to Getting third for the final day boosted third overall. them into the second overall in a total In all, 77 bike and ATV tearns entered time 17:44:33. with 44 finishing the final day. The next Childress, who'd soloed every day race in the series is the TSCO Vegas to because partner Chuck Dempsey was Reno SOO-miler in October. still recovering from an injury, hobbled Mark Kariya Raines Takes Over Defending champ Jason Raines claimed the victory at round five of the AMA National Hare Scrambles Series in Crab Orchard, Illinois, on July 10, and with it, he moved into the lead in the overall points standings. Raines trailed Kawasaki's Chuck Woodford early in the race but took advantage of an incident between Woodford and a lap per on lap three of the five-lap race to put his Am Pro Yamaha into the lead for good. Woodford rebounded to finish second, while KTM's Robbie Jenks rode a steady race for third. Raines now has a 19-poim advantage over Woodrord in the series standings, 92-83, while Brian Garrahan is third with 6S. Garrahan, who was the points leader going into the event, dropped out on the first lap of the race after clipping a tree. Local Pro Chris Mullins turned in a strong ride for fourth on his Yamaha, while Kawasaki-mounted Travis Green was the top-finishing non-Pro rider in fifth overall. Completing the top-10 overall were Yamaha rider Kevin Bailey, Suzuki-mounted Nathan A1ering, Husqvarna pilot Marty Michels, KTM's Patrick Garrahan and Kawasaki rider Morgan Green. Shan Moore Jason Raines moved into the National Hare Scrambles points lead with a win in Illinois. Briefly... Airwaves Ducati rider Gregorio Lavilla and Honda's Ryuichi Kiyonari split wins in the eighth round of the Bennetts British Superbike Championship at Snetterton on July 10. Kiyonari topped Lavilla's teammate leon Haslam and Rizla Suzuki's John Reynolds in the first race, but Lavilla came back to win race two over the Hondas of Michael Laverty and John Rutter. After eight of I3 rounds, Rutter leads the series over Kiyonari, 302257. "I'm not sure what happened in the first race, I just lost the front end when I was exiting the comer," Lavilla said. "The conditions were a lot different today, and maybe that was the reason why. The bike felt good in the second race, but I couldn't relax at all and pushed hard all the way to the end. It was an exciting second race and keeps me challenging for the championship." Boost Mobile is now the official wireless provider to motocrosser James Stewart, according to a release from his publicist. Boost Mobile joins Kawasaki, Fox Racing, Oakley and Red Bull as the latest Stewart marketing partner. Stewart and Boost Mobile had an alliance early in his professional career, so the partnership is in many ways a reunion. "We are excited to align ourselves with an athlete that represents such excitement and commitment to the sport. James Stewart is a perfect fit for our team," said Damion Roberson, Boost Mobile's team manager. ''I'm excited to be back with Boost Mobile," Stewart said. "My whole family has been using Boost phones for years, and we have always been really happy with the service. Boost has always been a part of the action sports scene, and the brand fits my personality." Kawasaki's MX2 rider Stephen Sword will miss the Grand Prix of South Africa on July 17 after being diagnosed with a double hairline fracture to bones in his right hand. The Scot was testing with the team at the French drruit of Plomion three weeks ago when he suffered a small crash that resulted in the hand injury. At the last two GPs, in France and Sweden, Sword has attempted to race and qualified for both events only to be prevented from racing because of the pain. Despite injections of painkillers and riding with a supporting wrist brace, Sword found the pain unbearable and was forced to sit out the championship races, according to his team. Immediately after the French Gp, Sword returned to England for X-rays that revealed no broken bones, but did reveal suspected ligament damage to his right hand. Undergoing extensive laser treatment at a sport injury clinic near Ipswich, Sword remained optimistic for the Swedish Grand Prix at Uddevalla, July 2-3. It soon became obvious that the injury was more severe than first diagnosed and Sword underwent a MRI scan on Tuesday, July S that revealed two small bones as having hairline fractures. No surgery is required to assist in the healing process. "It's very frustrating, but there is nothing that I can do to speed up the healing process," Sword said. "I have tried my best to ride after it was confirmed I had no broken bones to my wrist, hand or scaphoid, but the pain has been diffirult to race with safely. The bones are so small that the fractures were only revealed by a MRI scan that I underwent on Tuesday Duly S]. I suspected the worst as I have hand injuries before but never experienced this kind of pain. I can drink tea, talk on the telephone, but when I try a twisting action like starting my car, the pain is terrible." CYCLE NEWS • JULY 20, 2005 11