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April 29,
2006
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rebounded from a
disappointing
fifth
place
at
prer'i-
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Best ln The Desen Silver
State mce to win by
miles, liter-
ally. at the Terrible's
Town 250.
finish.
"lt
was
one of those days where nothing
could
go
wrong.
I
pushed
as hard as I colld
in the
morning
without doing sornething stuPid
and
crashing. We kept switching
the bike and
doing
our
iobs
and both
riding
as
hard as we could,
and
it
paid
off."
And
it
certainly
did. For
winning, they earned
a
$5000
cash
bonus, counesy
of the Herbst fam-
ily who sposor
the race through their casino
empire- lt
rnarked the Urst time Childrels
picked
up the bonus.
while. for Hengeveld, this was
his
third
drive home with the cash.
Having drawn
the first
starting
position,
Hengeveld
got
the winnerc off to
a
quick
sun on
their Berkeley
Honda-prepared Precision
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teamed up with Steve Hengeveld
for the
fi6t time
in the series, and the Open
Pro com-
bined efforts to complete
the fast and
rough
242-mile course
in a winning time
of four hours
and nine minutes.
which was
nearly 40 minutes
quicker
than
the
eventual
runner-up trio of Max
Eddy
lr..
Chris
Ray and
.leff
Trulove. They com-
pleted
the
race with a
time of 4:48:29.
Four-
Stroke
Pros
Jim
Finerty and
Robby Woods were
another six
minutes back
in 4:54:10 to round
out the
top three
motorcycles overall.
"lt
was
a {lawless day." Childress said at
the
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