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Cycle News 2006 Issue 23 June 14

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Elkh.rrr Loke. wl V#i"".":*i"#ki":# I ona win in a row in a flaq-to- I n"g romp in the Pro HJnda Oils Superspon ChampionshiP. "lt feels good," Hacking said after set- ting a new race record of 23 minutes and 25.030 seconds - 12 seconds faster than in 2005. "We've been coming here for a long time now and I can't believe we've only got one win here [before this year, in 1999]. I've 8ot the track record numerous times- l've always been fast, but it seems like we've been Pl€ued with rain, or l've had a mechanical, or a failure in myself, not able to bring it home. But it definitely feels good to bring the factory Yamaha home first." Hacking won the drag nlce to turn one and held the point uneasily tnlo turn five, when he misshifted. "l thought I went down all four, but I must've only went down three, Hacking said. Danny Eslick used that bobble to close right up and cut under Hacking on the exit of the foilowing left, a 90-degree left at the top of the hill. "Eslick came around the inside of me and kind of surprised me a little bit," Hacking said. "But I iust took my time and got back by him, and then just tried to settle in my own pace that l've been run- ning all weekend." With Esli

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