VOL. 50 ISSUE 37 SEPTEMBER 17, 2013
(Left) Steve Rapp was in a class by
himself in the Vance & Hines Harley
final in New Jersey.
(Above) The race for second was
epic and went the distance with
Tyler O'Hara (29) getting the spot
over Eric Stump (77). Ben Carlson
(45) finished sixth with Travis Wyman
(24) ending up fourth.
so that was confidence building
coming in here. I had a good
weekend at Indy and, as the year
has progressed, we've gotten a
little better at every race."
It was a wild seven-rider affair
that came down to the final lap.
It was group draft that looked like
an AMA Grand National Mile. In
the end it was Tyler O'Hara edging out Eric Stump by drafting
him just before the finish line.
"I think I was back in fifth or
sixth at one point," said O'Hara,
who won the season opener in
Daytona. "I picked a couple off
here and there on the straightaway with the draft. Stump
passed me on the straightaway
with two to go. On the long left,
before the series of chicanes
coming onto the front straightaway, Stumpy grabbed another
gear and I watched him. On the
last lap I went through there with
a different gear, same as him and
then got a run on him."
For Stump it marked the first
podium of the season and doing
it at his home track made it that
much sweeter.
"I know some fast lines and
know where to grab some shifts
and where not to rev it," Stump
said of his home track advantage.
"Come race time I just knew I had
to put my head down and make
sure they didn't get away from
me too bad. I just kept plugging
P81
away. I know the ins and outs, the
rough stuff and all that, so it definitely played to my advantage."
Travis Wyman kept slim title
hopes alive by nipping his brother Kyle for fourth, while Benjamin
Carlson finished sixth after running second early. Defending
series champ Michael Barnes
came home in seventh.
CN
Harley-Davidson Final
1. Steve Rapp
2. Tyler O'Hara
3. Eric Stump
4. Travis Wyman
5. Kyle Wyman
6. Benjamin Carlson
7. Michael Barnes
8. Shane Narbonne
9. Nicholas Hansen
10. David Estok
