AMA GRAND NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
VOL. 51 ISSUE 27 JULY 8, 2014 P71
his semi, he took a provisional start
to get into the main, started from
the back of the grid and finished
eighth. Baker and Briar Bauman
rounded out the top 10. CN
1. Bryan Smith (Kawasaki)
2. Jared Mees (Harley-Davidson)
3. Jake Shoemaker (Kawasaki)
4. Brandon Robinson (Kawasaki)
5. Sammy Halbert (Harley-Davidson)
6. Jake Johnson (Harley-Davidson)
7. Doug Lawrence (Harley-Davidson)
8. Henry Wiles (Kawasaki)
9. Brad Baker (Harley-Davidson)
10. Briar Bauman (Kawasaki)
Briefly...
can to get through it and come out
swinging next year."
Evan Baer suffered a hard crash in
his semi, going into turn four when
others riders checked up in front of
him and he went into the back of
them. Baer was attended to by track-
side EMTs, but was later released to
his pits. He suffered an injured left
elbow and perhaps a concussion in
the crash. "I'm okay," Bare said af-
terwards. "I didn't remember what
happened at first, but after seeing
pictures I do."
A radiator hose blew on Henry
Wiles' Kawasaki before the start
of his semi. He went to a backup
bike that wasn't set up and didn't
qualify. He took a provisional to get
into the main. The hose blowing on
Wiles' machine comes on the heels
of a hose busting on Briar Bauman's
Kawasaki a week earlier in Lima.
Veteran and multi-championship win-
ning tuner Bill Werner said he felt
one of the issues is AMA Pro Rac-
ing officials are holding the bikes on
the line too long before the starts.
"These water-cooled bikes can't just
sit there that long," he said. "They're
all going to overheat if they hold them
too long."
Werner went on to say the problem
with Bauman's bike at Lima was par-
tially due to too much dirt building
up on the radiator. "You race these
things and develop them and occa-
sionally things crop up that you didn't
anticipate," Werner said. "We found
some stronger aftermarket radiator
hoses with more braiding than the
OE hoses. And I build so deflectors
to put in front of the radiator to try to
keep dirt from building up."
(Above) Bryan Smith gets ready
to high-five former racer Steve
Morehead after he won Hagerstown
for the first time. Riding with Smith
on the victory lap is mechanic Ron
"Dink" Glidden.
(Below) The Grand National podium:
(From left to right) Jake Shoemaker,
Bryan Smith and Jared Mees.
