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trying to give it everything I had.
My heart rate must have been
250 coming to the checkered."
The margin of victory was
two tenths of a second, one of
the larger leads of the night.
Just another tenth of a second
back was Coolbeth. "Those
guys were animals. I was con-
centrating more on them," said
Coolbeth. "They were weaving
down the straightaways. They
were kind of taking each other's
line away and I thought it was
going to benefit me. On the last
lap going into three, I thought
something was going to happen
between them. I probably could
have gotten Jared if I wasn't so
concerned about what they were
doing."
Kennedy Racing/Armbruster
Racing's Brandon Robinson took
advantage of the restart and
moved into a fourth-place finish.
"I did pretty well on the restart. I
was in sixth and ended up fourth
so I got a good start there," said
lems spoiled what looked like at
least a top-five finish.
"I got a good jump and it kind
of wheelied, I rolled out of it and
he [Mees] came up underneath
me," said Smith. "We kind of
had a drag race going in there.
Mees was on the inside and you
don't want to give him an inch
because he takes a mile. I kind
of checked up and let him go
and came back underneath him
there in four."
Mees led lap 21, but the green
Kawasaki was back up front one
lap later. "It was a pure wrestling
match on the last corner. I went
in low and got it real sideways
and Jared tried to come under-
neath me and he must have
gotten it sideways. My foot was
falling off coming off the corner,
but when there is a restart you
never know. You hate to see the
cards reset."
Foster and Wilhelm were able
to make the restart, but the big
surprise was Sammy Halbert's
Harley-Davidson headed to the
pits rather than the starting line.
Halbert's brake had completely
quit working and for the second
race in a row mechanical prob-
(Above) Ryan Wells (center) won
the GNC2 final over Dalton Gauthier
(right) and Kevin Stollings.
(Left) Mees leads Smith, Brad Baker
(6) and Sammy Halbert (69).
