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. Jay Springsteen and teammate Randy GOD display winner's circle smiles. Leading all the way, Springer had a fair time in winning his 32nd National. ANA Grand National Chalftpionship/Winston Pro Series: Round Z~ get a scare a couple of times though. I looked down and saw a shadow and thought someone was right on my tail. It was my own shadow." "I was stuck in traffic on the start," said Springsteen's teammate Goss of his ride to second. " Dur in g the early laps we were all running in a big pack and it was hard to move up. I got close to (Hank) Scott and Poovey at the end and caught their double draft as we raced to the flag." " I didn't even know Goss was there," said Hank Scott. " T er r y (Poovey) and I were fighting so hard that we let him sneak right up on us. I've got to thank the folks at South East Harley-Davidson in Cleveland and Skip Eaken for letting me ride Lance jones' spare bike. It was definitelya runner." The Indy event, a double-header of mile racing run during the Indiana State Fair since 1976, reverted back to a single date this year. A crowd of over 10,000 filled the stands to watch Springsteen collect his II th career mile National victory. Springsteen flies to Indy Mile ",in By Gary Van Voorhis Photos by Bert Shepard/Silver Shutter INDIANAPOLIS, IN, AUG. 28 Jay Springsteen, with a devastating display of superiority, won the Indianapolis Mile by a margin of 16.seconds to collect his fourth National victory of the season and the ·32n d of his career. Harley-Davidson's Springsteen, out front from the moment the green startinglight flashed, was ahead of a fierce fight for second at the Indianapolis Fairgrounds oval. At one time, the second place battle involved 10 riders running wheel-to-wheel. In the end, it was Springsteen's teammate Randy Goss winning the drag race to the flag for second over Hank Scott and Terry Poovey. 12 Rickey Graham, after being involved in a collision with Scott Parker as the pair were dueling over second with less than two laps to go, placed fifth . The Graham/Parker bang-up allowed the Scott/Poovey/Goss trio a shot at second. . Springsteen's win coupled with Goss' second and Graham's fifth further tightened up the Winston Pro Series title chase. Graham 's lead has now shrunk to II points (172-161) over Springsteen with Goss holding at 151. " I got a great start and didn't look back once," said Harley-Davidson's Springsteen. "T hey were going to have to run like hell to catch me. I did Time Trials Terry Poovey sped to a 37.177 second lap to post the top qualifying time - no threat to Hank Scott's track record of 35.283. Scott followed at 32.277 with Alex jorgensen a few ticks of the clock behind. The top three Had waited until late in the session, gambling the track would get faster. Springsteen and Graham rounded out the top five. They posted their times very early in the session. - Steve Eklund crashed during his time trial run and was taken to the hospital for observation. He went down hard, did not remember crashing and reportedly aggravated the neck injury he had sustained at last year's DuQuoin Mile. Heats The four heats would transfer the top three from each to the National. Gary Scott led the charge on the opening lap of heat one only to be replaced at th e point by Graham before they finished the lap. Poovey, with a shifting problem which caused him to start at the back of the grid with the transmission jammed in third , was slicing through traffic. Graham, Scott and Charlie Roberts ran wheel-to-wheel in the opening laps with Bubba Rush moving in to make it a foursome. Graham seemingly broke away on lap six as Poovey was moving into fourth. . On the next lap, Poovey took third from Roberts, second from Scott and .put a run on Graham. Poovey then moved into the lead to complete his last to first ride. The trio put in a drag race to the £lag with Poovey holding off Scott and Graham in nearly a dead heat. Scott Parker trashed his gearbox on the start, leaving him with only fourth gear. He managed to pick up the last transfer to the semi. The action continued in the second heat with Goss, Bubba Shobert ana Hank Scott swapping the top three positions on nearly every one of the to laps. It was a classic draft, slingshot, pass and repass display. "It was a lot closer than I like to ride," said Scott afterwards, "but it was a lot of fun." Shobert led the white flag lap, lost the lead to Goss with Scott coming up to stick his nose in. Shobert, with a great drive off turn four, inched ahead of Scott and Goss at the flag for the win. ~ Alex jorgensen, Lance jones and Rod Farris put on a display of close quarters riding in heat three for the opening five laps with Garth Brow slicing through traffic and trying to reel them in close enough to catch their draft. ", jones led lap six -as jorgensen appeared to fall off the pace. "We were having some problems with handling so I slowed a bit to sort things out," jorgensen said later. Meanwhile, Brow was putting a move on jorgensen while Farris took the lead from jones. jones grabbed