Loudon 99

Superbike Race Action

These are pics from the 1999 Superbike race at Loudon. A couple of the pics are a little blurry.

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This is how they looked the first time around. At the start Gobert had the lead followed by Chandler, E.Bostrom, Yates, Mladin, and B.Bostrom. Mladin trailing a bit coming back onto the oval.
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Chandler catching Gobert coming onto the oval. Ben Bostrom got by Mladin and started to goto work on his brother Eric. After Ben got by Eric, Chandler got by Gobert. Then Ben pressured Gobert knowing he couldn't let Chandler get away.

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Picotte ran well on the Harley As did Russell Scott Russell comes by again finishing in eleventh place
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Picotte goes around slower traffic and finished in ninth place Eric Bostrom did well on the Honda crossing the line in sixth place Hacking comes by on the Yamaha eventually finishing in fifth place

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Here I tried to get both the Hooters bikes in the same shot while they were still close eneough together, but it came out a little blurry. Jamie Bowman tries his luck in the Superbikes race on his Supersport spec bike. Bowman made a good showing nabbing 13th place on his supersport machine.
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Mat Mladin tried hard but after catching Gobert he couldn't get by and ended up settling four a fourth place finish.

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Ben Bostrom started to gain some ground on Chandler in the middle of the race But Chandler pulled away from the him getting through traffic better than Ben did Gobert struggled in third and could not match Doug and Ben on this day
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Doug Chandler kept a comfortable lead in the closing stages of the race Doug Chandler had a convincing win which made him and his team very happy It had been a while since the Kawasaki had been on the top of the podium

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The top ten places went to:

1. Doug Chandler (Kaw ZX-7R)

2. Ben Bostrom (Duc 996)

3. Anthony Gobert (Duc 996)

4. Mat Mladin (Suz GSXR750)

5. Jamie Hacking (Yam YZF-R7)

6. Eric Bostrom (Hon RC-45)

7. Steve Crevier (Suz GSXR750)

8. Pascal Picotte (H-D VR1000)

9. Larry Pegram (Duc 996)

10. Jason Pridmore (Suz GSXR750)

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