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then it was going to be a fight. Hat's off to
Craig for a tough race; this championship is
going to come down to the wire."
DeLong still had his sights on Baylor at
the finish. "That was a wild race; the first
lap was just feeling the track out," said De
-
Long, who grabbed the lead from FXR/Gas-
Gas' Layne Michael and AmPro Yamaha's
Ricky Russell at the end of lap one and held
it until the final two laps. That's when he
and Baylor started battling in earnest.
"Ricky got off in the lead, but Stew and
I started going back and forth for second,
"I really thought I could break Craig and
that was the intention, but we were tit-for-
tat all race," said the Tely Energy Racing/
Rocky Mountain ATV-MC/KTM Racing-
backed Baylor. "We were constantly back
and forth for the lead on those last two
laps. You could have thrown a blanket over
the two of us, and all it would have taken
was one mistake to determine the outcome
for either of us. I put down a heater with
two to go, trying to get a gap on those guys
and I looked back, and there was Craig and
I thought, 'Shoot, he's matching me!' I knew
