VOL. 50 ISSUE 33 AUGUST 20, 2013
The race for second
goes to the line with
Brandon Robinson (44)
beating Brad Baker
(12), Jared Mees (1)
and JD Beach (95) to
the line.
The win went to Texter – her second
of the Pro Singles season.
Wyatt Maguire was 14th at Indy,
but continues to lead the Pro
Singles points by just four over Ryan
Wells.
the superb Smith at the controls,
a mile specialist who is a threat
to win on the big tracks no matter
what machine he races.
The Indy Mile, held on a late
summer night with the lights from
the Indiana State Fair's midway
as a backdrop, was all Smith
needed from green to checker.
He was only led for about a halflap by holeshot winner Henry
Wiles on the Lloyd Brothers Motorsports Harley-Davidson. From
there it was all Smith. Things
were going almost too smoothly
and it worried him. Without a battle to concern himself with, his
mind wandered.
"It's mine to mess up or give
away," Smith said. "I've done that
before. It's stressful. Even when
you get halfway and you've got a
lead you look back and wonder
'Can I keep it?' Am I on the right
line, should I try something different? Luckily, I checked the gap a
few times and luckily I was pulling
away. So I just kept doing what
I was doing, but it's stressful, no
doubt."
Smith further explained that
even with a rocketship under him
the start was the area of concern.
"I knew I had to get off the line
decent, just so you don't get jumbled with anybody," he said. "I
think it was [Henry] Wiles who got
the holeshot from the inside and
I was second from the outside. I
just gave him a little bit of room
down the back straightaway and
drafted him and just tried to put
down a couple of really hard laps
- the first couple when I got into
P61
Briefly...
won by Steve Morehead. Aldana
won the Indy Mile in 1970 on Dick
Mann's BSA. "When I rode here
in the '70s there was a cushion
on the outside you could ride on,"
Aldana explained. "In fact, Kenny
Roberts made that cushion quite
famous when he rode that TZ out
there and won it. I was riding one
of Dick Mann's motorcycles. He'd
broken his ankle in Sedalia, Missouri, and he asked if I would ride
his motorcycle for him. He gave me
some pointers that helped me win
the race that night. I was running
it wide open all the way around in
practice and he told me to keep the
wheels in line, lean the bike over
and keep the wheels tracking and
back off the gas in the corners so
the primary chain can get some oil.
I won the race quite handily thanks
to good advice and a good motorcycle from a legend in his own
time, Dick Mann."
Indianapolis's own Danny Ingram
wanted to race Indy so badly that he
pulled out the pins holding broken
bones of fingers on his left hand
himself a few days before the race.
He had his fingers heavily taped to
race. The veteran racer made the
main, but unfortunately the chain
on his Kawasaki broke and he was
sidelined on the first lap.
Jake Johnson fought issues on
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