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Doug Gust First In Points After WPSA's Wild Cat Event;
Jones Continues To Dominate Podium
Rossville, IN - (7/26/06) -It's official:
Doug Gust of Team Yoshimura Suzuki is now the leader in
WPSA points standings. Having survived eight grueling
rounds, Gust has gotten a toe-hold on the SuperQuad Pro
450 Championship with a one point lead over Dustin Wimmer.
At Rossville, Doug was still a little banged up from
last week's crash. Gust bucked it up though for two
days of all out physical punishment. His recipe for
success included back-to-back wins in both qualifying
heats on Saturday and a second place finish behind teammate
Jeremiah Jones in the main event. Sunday started with
another set of qualifying wins and a first place finish
in the main.
"It was a great weekend for Team Yoshimura Suzuki,"
Gust humbly commented. "These LT-R450's were going
great for both of us. The Yoshimura guys had these things
dialed in just right and we just rode them as fast as
we could."
But that wasn't the only news from the fast blue-grooved
track in Rossville. Teammate Jeremiah Jones, who has
had six consecutive visits to the podium, snagged his
third win in six races in Saturday's main event, driving
the entire race with nothing but the track in front
of him. Coming out of the hole shot in first, Jones
pulled out to a comfortable lead, and didn't relinquish
it for the rest of the race. Doug Gust was the only
one to even come close to Jeremiah's dust, but even
he fell about 4 seconds back by the time the checkered
flag flew. The rest of the pack didn't have a chance.
Jones, who is third in overall points standings, felt
incredible about his win on Saturday. "I guess
I just ran away with it. I got the hole shot and I just
turned it loose… Doug and I had
an easy ride."
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On Sunday's main event, Doug Gust came out unscathed
from a start melee that caught Jeremiah and a bunch
of other riders. In typical JJ style, Jeremiah worked
his way through the crowd to seventh, but another tie
up held him back and he finished ninth. Gust took the
lead early and just marched around the track unchallenged
securing another first place podium spot for the team.
Team Manager Wayne Hinson was beaming: "These
boys are in their own class right now. All you need
to do is turn them loose and they'll do the rest."
With one final weekend of racing to go in this series,
the two-day showdown in Englishtown, NJ promises to
be a "can't miss" battle for first place.
Team Yoshimura Suzuki is more than a little optimistic
that it's going to put a lot of blue Suzuki shirts up
on that final podium.
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