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Brock Sellards cuts
Chad
Johnson's
lead
to
seven
with
just
two to
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out of
Chad
Johnson's
series
points
lead by
sweeping round eight
of the Toyota
AMA
National Arenacross Series, held at
Hamp-
ton
Coliseum in Hampton,
Virginia.
with only two rounds
(four
races) of the lo-round
series
left on the schedule,
Johnson
holds a slim seven-
point lead over Sellards, with
the series' otherJohnson,
Kevin
Johnson
(a.k.a.
"KJ"),
also
well within strikinS dis-
tance in third-
At stake
are the champion's
braSginS rights to the
newly named AMA Arenacross-class title
- the Toyota
AMA National
Arenacross Series'
premier
class, not to
mention the keys to
a brand-new
Toyota
Tacoma
4x4
truck-
There is no doubt
that it was Sellards' starts that
were the key to his success
in Hampton, as the Team
Thor/Honda/TUF
Racing-backed rider
pulled
the
holeshot
in
both
mains.
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