VOLUME 58 ISSUE 46 NOVEMBER 16, 2021 P83
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n a weekend when he apparently could do no wrong,
Denso Buell's Matt Smith won the Auto Club NHRA
Finals in Pomona and in the process, won his fifth
NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle Championship.
Smith clinched the championship halfway through final
eliminations when he beat Vance & Hines Suzuki's Angelle
Sampey and then finished the rout with a win over Big St.
Charles Suzuki's Karen Stoffer in the final round.
Smith didn't have the quickest bike in the final, but his
quick reflexes allowed him to get a starting line holeshot and
ride to a 6.81 elapsed time for the win, covering Stoffer's
quicker 6.76.
BY KEVIN MCKENNA I PHOTOGRAPHY BY MATT POLITO
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