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Endurance Race: Six Hours of Glen Helen The winning number-three KTM 520 ElXC ridden by Tod Sciacqua (above left) and Jimmy lewis (righll started the Six Hours of Glen Helen with a headlight/number plate afIlxed to It . After a lewis cartwheel, the lead team was left without a front number plate. At a gas stop they regained their identity and composure and raced to the overall. By MATT FREEMAN PHOTOS BY BETH LARoCK SAN BERNARDINO, CA, MAR. 26 he Seventh Annual Six Hours of Glen Helen finally went to Jimmy Lewis and Tod Sciacqua. For the past two years the Lewis/Sciacqua duo has teamed up to finish runner-up to such company as '99 winners Mike Healey and Larry Roeseler. This year, mounted on a KTM 520 E/XC, Lewis and "Big Air" Tod Sciacqua finally got the job done despite a Lewis get-off that left their E/XC without a front number plate and a badly bent subframe. The Lewis/Sciacqua team led from the get-go, completing the first fourmile loop in just over seven minutes. The remaining five hours and 53 minutes of the event saw the team of Scot and Brent Harden, also mounted on a KTM four-stroke, move into second overall on the lead lap, finishing behind Lewis and Sciacqua. The two T lead KTMs were two of only four teams to complete 44 laps of racing. Nevertheless, the lead team was never really closely challenged for the lead, even after Lewis' crash. Finishing third overall and posting the Expert/Amateur Vet/Senior class win was the WR400 of Ron Lawson and Gary Jones. Their 44-lap race with the fourth-place team of Bob Maxwell and Chad Blough was tight from the 8:30 a.m. start all the way to the 2:30 p.m. finish. Maxwell and Blough failed to move back into third place, a spot they held early on, despite a late-in-the-race bike change by the Lawson and Jones team that cost them some time. Still, the Maxwell/Blough CR250-mounted team finished runner-up in class. One of the most impressive rides of the day went to Rick Daniel, who rode the entire event solo, completing 43 laps in the process. Daniel's partner never got on the bike due to an injury The older the violin, the sweeter the music. Gary Jones (shownl and Ron Lawson teamed up once again to finish third overall and post the Vet/Senior Expert/Amateur class overall honors. 38 APRIL 19. 2000' cue I e n e _ IS that he suffered before the event. Instead of changing his entry over to the Ironman class, which he would have won handily by over two laps, Daniel sucked it up for the team and put the John Burr Cycles/IMS/Torcobacked YZ426F in fifth overall. Despite only getting to stop three times throughout the six-hour event (twice for gas and once for the scheduled track Enduro rider Rick Daniel signed up on a two-man team in maintenance period), the Expert/Amateur class. The only problem was his teammate was injured before the event even started. It Daniel had a blast. "I knew if I just turned out to be no problem at all as Daniel managed to put in a great ride by himself to finish fifth overall, third in class. paced myself and only stopped for gas at the game. There are so many guys out last possible moment I would do fine," there - after the first lap you are consaid Daniel. who ran a 3.4-gallon IMS stantly passing someone. There's tank on his Yamaha. "This race kind of always someone in front of you." reminds me of a car racing video While KTM's Scot Harden (51 Is old enough to race in the Senior class, his son Brent isn't. The Hardens turned their backs on the Family class and opted to ride the more prestigious Eipert/Amateur class. Their efforts landed them second overall.