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when a blown engine dumped
oil in turn one
on the ninth of
l7 laps. Scoring
reverted to
and Hacking
had 3. 137 seconds at the end of
the eighth lap, which would be the margin
of
victory for his second
win of the season.
"You
know, it kind of sucked," Hacking
said.
"Second
Tace
in
a
row
that
we've
been
leadinS and
pulling
away
from the
pack
like that and had a red flag
[the
California Speedway race
was red-flagged,
then restaftedl.
Those
guys
did the
right
decision in calling the
race, but I would've
liked to have raced all the way to the end,
and thought we definitely
had
the
bike to
beat today."
Hacking said
that he'd executed his
plan
to
pedecrion. getting
out front. throwing
down some fast
laps,
and
making them
come at
him. No one did-
"l
definitely dropped
them right away
there,"
he began,
"and
lbacked it down
into the 38-flats. which
is still not a slack
pace
around here,
you
know." He'd
quali-
fied third fastest at l:37.059.
'And
I
iust
held that and
I felt comfonable, and I was
iust
going
to
hold
that
8ap
and then it
stretched out to three seconds. I
was
kind
surprised, and then the
red flag.''
Yoshimura Suzuki s
Aaron Yates was in
second when the race was stopped. He'd
passed
Graves Motorsports
Yamaha's Eric
Bostrom
when Bostrom missed a shift on
the seventh
lap, then Yates added a few
seconds to his cushion.
'After
our
qualifying
results, I feel
pret-
ty
good
about second
place," said Yates,
who'd
qualilied
lifth.
Yates said he went after Hacking for a few
laps, but said,
''l
could tell
I wasn't
going
to
catch
him. I
got
to slidin8 around a
Eood
bit.
the eighth
lap, less than 50
percent
of the
race distance. And after a 24-minute
inter-
val,
AMA race officials declared the
race
complete, even
though it was less than
half complete.
The reasoning
was
solid.
Rain that could
have wiped
out the day's
program
was fast
approaching
and the showcase Superbike
race was next. And no one was
going to
