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Formula USA,/VVrenchead .com N ational Dirt Track Series Round 5: T e x as Motor S p e e d w a y Terry Poovey dominated the Formula USAlWrenchead.com Fort Worth Half Mile at Texas Motor Speedway. The win was his 12th in national dirt track compe tition , and It marked the th ird ti m e this season that Poovey has been on the podium. FORT WORTH, TX, AUG. 26 bert-tun e d Rotax after taking advan tage of lappe d traffic to get close. But Poovey was the fas test gun in Texas on this night, a nd he prove d that he ca n st ill race his moto rcycle hard . " It jus t worked g o o d tonight ," Poove y said. "I felt like .I was at the De vil' s Bowl [S peedway] , just out the re , rid in' m y own race. I sure like riding these sin gles. It's a real go od deal, and we can ride safely with th e twin s out there. I' d like to see the AMA guys do it, but I don 't know if they ever will. I like this PACE deal. They treat m e good, like a rea l person . I like that. " The fact that Poovey finished in front of Ca rr a nd also ran a head of J a y S p ringsteen a nd J .R. Schnabel duri ng th e Na t ion a l final le ft little doubt tha t he can ride with the best of ' e m , but the fac t rem ain e d that the polarization brough t abo ut by conflicting da tes b e tw e en t he F o rm u la USA/ Wren c he a d .co m Nati ona l Dirt Tra ck Series and the AMA/Progres sive Insurance U.S . Flat Track Cham pionsh ips , th e la tt e r hosting a round of its se ries in Sedalia , Missouri (see page 12) , p ro bably hurt bot h series in c e its ince pt io n , you might say that th e Formu la USA /Wrenc he ad .c om Nation al Dirt Track Ser ies ha s been somewhat o f a si ngu lar sensa tio n fo r lon g time dirt tra ck veteran Terry Poovey. With liberal rules th a t allow singles and twins to m ix it up with ea ch other, th e fled gling na tio nal d irt t rack tour ha s proved to be a bsolute he aven for th e 4 2 -ye ar -o ld Te xa n , who many co m petitors will tell you is absolute he ll t o race agai ns t whenever he th rows a leg ove r his Teddy Pooveytun ed Rotax. That's how it pla yed out a t T ex a s Motor Spe edw a y , a s the 1stlegal.com/USC Racing/Hap Jones back ed Poovey g ra bbe d the holeshot and s to rm ed to h is s eco nd maj or national victory of th e yea r o n th e banked half mile th at is adjacent to the big NASCAR trac k. He led a ll 25 lap s of the Nat iona l fea ture in front of o ve r 5000 of h is home town fans , best in g Grand Natio nal Ch amp ion Chr js Ca r r, who finis hed second aboa rd his own Wrenchead.com/H-D of Sacra m ento -s po nsored , Kenny To l18 SEP TEMBER 6 , 2000' C U c • e n e vv s e q ually . The Na tion al class at Fo rt Worth ca rried only 25 e ntries against a required 48 for a full field , while the S edalia AMA eve nt wa s qu oted as hav ing 36 riders in a class tha t need s 48 to be consi dered as hav ing a full field . The conflict turned out to be ne ither here nor there for current num be r-one Carr, whose second- place finish at Fort Worth vaulted him into the Formula USA/Wrenchead.com National Dirt Track Series points lead while at the same time his AMA series points lea d remained intact after his main com petition suffered ba d luck a nd/or poor finishes in Sed alia. According to Ca rr, that isn 't the way that he'd like to conduct his po ints battles . His m es sage was loud and clear. "I'm pleased because that was m y bes t finish in the Wren ch e a d. c om series this year," Ca rr sa id. "It was a good nigh t for us . Obviously, I would rather hav e see n a ll the guys who are at the AMA race competing her e too. It's my hope tha t Fo rm ula USA and AMA can get together in the off-season and keep off each other's dates. I'm not go ing to sit he re and po int fin- ger s at either o ne of them . It is ju st m y fee ling th at bo th se ries ca n c oexist , if not merge , a nd it is my perso nal fee ling that I would like to see the m co -exist. Lets have two seperate series . Let AMA ru n its tradit iona l series an d le t PAC E pro m o te d irt track unlike it has ever been promoted . I hope that's something th at both sides understa nd. Ha ving co nflicts is not going to help th is s port. In m y o p inion , both organizations have a responsibility to make sure that th eir decisions are not based on competition with one another, but o n what is good for the sport. " Form e r AMA Roo k ie of the Yea r J .R. Schna be l' s decision to head to Fo rt Worth was a smart one, as th e 21-year -old Wisconsinite pilo ted his Tea m Powell/W est Bend H-D-ba cked XR750 to third place afte r J a y Springsteen c rashed in tu rn one while hold ing the posi tio n with about five laps to go . S pringer was unhurt in the crash, which mo ved Schnabel up one s pot after he had been running fourth on the t rack for most of the race - two spo ts ahead of whe re he fin ished when the Wrenchead .com ser ie s