I
race. But everybody
was
tanSling handle-
b€rs and
Bilb/
[Laninovich]
went
down in
front
of me,
and, as he is
going
down,
I
ended up
gettin8 stuck
betlveen his
fend-
er
and
his wheel
-
it was
pulling me over.
Then
I
popped
the
clutch out and
man-
aged
to
get
untangled,
but
I think I was
last, outside
of him,"
After
that,
LanSston went into
recov-
ery
mode and started
working his way uP
through
the
pack.
"l
just
knew
I needed to
get uP front
as
quickly as
possible," he
said.
"l
knew
every
point counted and
PUt
my head
down and
went
for it. I am
quite
Pleased
with
how I rode,
iust
bummed
to come so
cls6e
and didn't
quite
get
it. With the
points
race being
so
close, there was
one
guy
I didn't need in
front of
me and that
"When
I
got
the bad
start, I am
iust
thinking
how critical every
point is. About
halfi{ay
into the
race, I looked
at the bi8
scoring board
and saw
I was in fourth.
At
that
point
I knew that
[Mike]
Alessi and
Nathan
were in second and
third, and
Andrew had a
big
gap
on everyone, and
I
ligured
I could
8et
second.
I
just
Save
it
everything
I
had and in the end
it was real-
ly close.
[Short]
rode really
good -
I had a
little bit of
trouble with a couPle
of
lap-
pers
near the
end.
lt was frustrating,
because
I could see
Andrew
uP ahead of
me and there
would be one
laPPer
in
between us.
I almost
8ot
taken out on the
last
lap."
Short
never tried
to hide the
fact that
Langston was the
fastest
rider on the
track
tonight.
"Grant
was
riding realty
good toni8ht
-
he caught
me,
dEt's
for sure," Short said.
"l
rode as hard as I could
and tried
to stay
consistent.
I
had
some
trouble with
that
triple, they
had
the
red
lighs on
[once],
and I
was the only one that
had to
single
continued
hon
poge
2l
fuicated his San Di€o
win to Karla.
Frorn fie
podium
Stewart said,
"l
want to
tive
a shout
out to the Asch tamily,
This one's for
),ou
Karla." The Kawaraki team
attended
her
funeral the Friday before
the San
Diep rece.
To
promote
the new No
FearlsoBe Gold
energy
drink, the So8e/Samsung
Team
Honda's Emcato
Forceca
and Travis
Prestorl
hed e m€h ni8ht.
Preston went
down
in the first
tum and crathed a€ain
while
tryint to corne
up throrlth
$e fi€ld. The sec_
ond fall l€n him brubed and battered
and it
was all
he could do
iust
to
8et
to the finish,
team
manager Erik
Keho€ said. Prcston
was
credned
with last
place- Fons€e also
8ot
prn_
balled in the fir.r lum
and rounded
the first lap
in I
7th
place.
Despite
runninS off the E_ack
.
later in the race,
Fonseca mana8ed
to sahrd8e
a ninth.
BooKoo
Honda s David
vuillemin was
left
dckinS
himself up ofi
rhe
ground in the fim
tum
and wesnt able to mount
a serious
come-
back.
He ended
up l8th.
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