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weekend of the
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Series,
one
might
perhaps
have expected
a li8ht
turnord, Not so, as tlle
grid
sheets showed
184
entries-
Horever, this is not to say it
wasn't coldl
With
the
wind-chill factor
added in, the temperatures never
left
the
40s. Bur the racing at Grang6
is
always
hot, which warrns
you
up!
One
p.m.
sharp saw the first
of
ll
main events staging.
As
the 450s carne out, something
was different
Gary Trachy was-
nt aboard one of his Hondas.
Rather; tre was atop one of Paul
Lima's
GP Cycles
Husqramas - hx
seen under orie Leonardo
BaSnis. Could
rmething
be in the works for TracM
As starter/promoter
Don Canet
turned the lield of
15 riders
loose,
Del
Amo Motor Sportsffamaha's
newly
signed
rider
Cameron
Welsh shot to the
front from the outside of the
front row.
Going down the back straight
for
the
first
of
l0 times, Axo's
Jimmy
Roberts slipped
into second up the inside - only
to have
Trachy, who started on
pole,
power past
around the
outside in the left-hander at
the end of
the str-aight, moving Roberts
back to third. Scott Hoffman of Super
Molo
Rocf/ Mogodne ftn fourth, with
Miami's Eddie
Ray in fifth and Metzeler's
Mike Ullrich sixth,
Two laps in,
Welsh
and
Trachy were
gapping
the
rest
of the
field, while
Robe.ts, in third, was under atta.k from
Hoffman.
Lap four saw Welsh turn
his fastest lap
at one
minute and 4.65 seconds. but this,
as
good
as it was,
wasn't
allowing
him to
get
clear of Trachy.
On
lap
five.
in the right-hander enter-
ing the dirt section,
Troy Lee's Trachy
made his move and took the
lead
away.
However, Axo's
welsh, with new deter-
mination, \r'as
putting
in one of the best
rides
of
his career and was coming back at
Trachy. Meanwhile,
some
two seconds
back, Hoffman, riding the best
we've
ever
seen,
wouldn't let
go
of Roberts, and Ray
had
his
hands full with Ullrich.
By lap six, Trachy, who holds
riding
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