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Sellards crept two
points
closer
to
Johnson
in
the title chase, but
still trails rhe
Wisconsin native
by l7
points
with
ont three rounds
remaining
on
the schedule.
Last
week's double-€\€nt
y/inner
in Bahirnore \
/as the
"other"
Johnson
- Tearn Faith's Kevin
Johnson
- who now
sits in third ovErall in
the series
points
standings. Kevin
suflered
a crash in Friday's
main in
Guthrie and later
packed
it in
for the evening,
but he came
back strong on
Saturday to
claim a second-place
finish after
gMng
up the
lead to
Sellards with three laps to
go
in the race.
With seven rounds
in
the book, Chad. who
prefers
the Y2250
to the four-stroke for indoorc,
leads
the
points
standings with
302
points,
followed
by Sellards
with 285
and Kevin
lohnson
with 252-
The
Guthrie race features
the largen facility
on the cir-
cuit, and the
track lq/out is
over twice as big as any
other
Arenacross
event on the AMA circuit. ln
fact, the lap
tirnes
in Guthrie were longer
than
the ones being tur.ned
at the
Anaheim
ll Supercross
on the same weekend.
ln Friday's main event,
both Sellards
and Chad
gated
well,
with rhe Honda rider getting
the adyanta€e
coming
gut
ofthe flrst tum. Kevin was running
midpack
after a
poor
start, but made
up
ground quickly
in the first few
tums.
Near
the end of the first lap,
Sellards overiumped
a
triple
jump
in the
rhythm
section, which caused him
to
miss his line for
the second set of triples.
That wa5
iust
the openinS Chad needed
to make a pass.
Sellards hung with
Chad for the next three-foufths
of
the race
and
pulled
even in
a couple
of sections, but
eventually wenr
down
jn
the whoops and from there,
concentrated
on holding off his teammate
leff
Nonhrop
for second place. ln
the meantime,
Chad cruised home
for
the
win.
"Brock
8ot
the
jump
on me
with that
big 450." Chad
said.
'l
nrissed
a shift and he got into
rhe first turn firsr,
but he missed
the triple and I got
into the lead.
He
pushed
me hard for
rhe first l5 laps,
bur he ended
up
going
down and
thar was it."
Team Rock Star
Suzuki s
Greg Schnell led fcllow
Suzuki rider
lim
Neese
to the finish for founh.
whrle
Kevin
packed
it in afrer a hard
crash.
On Saturday, Kevin grabbed
the holeshor
and led for
I5 of
the
I8
scheduled laps- Chad
was stuck rn
sixrh
place
afrer the
start, but worked
his way up ro third
by
the midway point.
Sellards chased Kevin for
most of
the race. and wirh
three laps
to go, made his
move in the whoops,
bounc-
ing
off of the Tuff Blocl
