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00:00Limit none if Stanton keeps it upright and that you know, it's going to be his intention tonight
00:04Although you know last year Dave we were in a similar situation and Stanton said hang the consequences
00:09I'm gonna go for the win. You think you'll do it here tonight remains to be seen. I think he'll charge
00:13That's what got him into contention
00:15Charges on as they hammer into the first turn and lo and behold
00:18It's Stanton who busts out of the gate and through the whoopee deuce challenged by Tishner
00:23But definitely going for the lead early one key reason for that has got to be the difficulty in passing on this racetrack
00:31He doesn't want to be tangled up in traffic
00:33Most of all he doesn't want to crash tonight and I think probably at this point he would be a better out in front
00:39No doubt about that. He got a good hole shot
00:41He would rather be out in front take his chances there then they take the chances in the middle of the back
00:46We just saw one of the flaggers
00:47Take his chances jumping off the side of the hill as he was almost hit by a motorcycle
00:52Here comes the man to do the challenging
00:54It's Johnny O'Mara in the number two position good to see the O show up there followed by Damon Bradshaw
00:59Larry Ward and Jeff Ward
01:00We've got a pack of them up front
01:02Jean-michele bailed a well outside the top five looking for bail to make a charge and there he is
01:08he's back to the number six or seven position keep in mind the
01:12Arithmetic of all this if Stanton can finish nine, he will clinch the championship
01:17Regardless what anybody else does only Bale and Matasovich have a mathematical chance to win the title and it would take a total
01:25Disaster for the series champion number one to make that happen
01:28So Stanton is clearly in the driver's seat
01:30But Omar is coming up here now to challenge him for the lead as the old
01:35Veteran the guy that some people say may be riding his last season is up here for what might be one last fling
01:41Look at O'Mara. He's got this track dial. He pulls up to the rear wheel of Jeff Stanton
01:45He is within a bike link. He's looking to pass. He's not looking to mess around
01:49He knows I think that Stanton is in a vulnerable position
01:52I think it O'Mara is thinking right now if I can get a wheel on the inside
01:56Stanton is gonna give me the room and let me go. He can't be shipped
01:59What is O'Mara got game lose nothing, you know
02:01Maybe a little bit of status prestige out here by winning this big one and probably that's what's running through his mind
02:06But Stanton is not backing out of anything. You got to give that guy some credit Dave
02:10Well, we cared about the possibility that Omar might be planning to give up the sport
02:15He's on record as having said if he doesn't get a factory ride next year
02:18He'll quit what better way to try to convince the factory that you still got what it takes them to go out and win in
02:24the LA Coliseum
02:25Jeff Stanton
02:26Bola to the lead early on in this one right out of the gate as a matter of fact
02:29He is the defending champ. He's looking for the
02:321991 title in 1990. He'll carry the number one plate in 1991 is the way I should have said it
02:37But he's got his hand full behind in the Wiley veteran Johnny O'Mara former Supercross champ
02:42He won that title in 1984 and here comes the blast youngster
02:46So we've got a mixture old and new challenging Jeff Stanton for the win in this one
02:51There's a little bit of bad blood left between number eight the third place man Damon Bradshaw and number one
02:57Jeff Stanton back to the Charlotte race and a couple of other incidents during the season
03:01So if they get up there and get racing each other that should get pretty interesting right now number nine
03:06Johnny O'Mara is perhaps the buffer between the two
03:09I'm sure Stanton doesn't want any part of a vengeance battle design for Bradshaw. He's got other things on his mind
03:16You don't come to think of it. Is there a rider on the racetrack that Bradshaw has not had a run-in with this year
03:21We're talking about an aggressive young rider here
03:23And he's put it to all of them sometime or other during the course of this season
03:27And I think probably they all have a bone to pick with him
03:30So it's Jeff Stanton out front here comes the O show Johnny O'Mara falling slightly off the pace now
03:35Bradshaw looking things over in 30s rider number eight aboard that white Yamaha now O'Mara closes the gap again on on the Stanton
03:43He has not fallen off. Look at this. O'Mara is coming right back
03:46He's looking for new lines, but Stanton took the good one and O'Mara had nowhere to go
03:50It looked like he was gonna try to put on a charge and it just cost him about 15 bike length
03:55Say what Larry?
03:56It's also gonna cost him second spot
03:57We'll get around as O'Mara tries to recover from the bobble and the bobble came about because he had to take such a
04:04Radical line to try to get around Jeff Stanton
04:07We've said before it's a tough track on which to pass
04:09Well, it takes an aggressive rider to do the job Bradshaw is one of those and he's on the way 90 camels supercross series
04:15And it looks like the season is going to end the way it started
04:19We had a barn burner in event number one and this one is nothing short of that
04:23Jeff Stanton holding down the number one position, but look at this here comes Bradshaw on the inside
04:27This is where all of the passing what little there has been has taken place
04:30I said it takes an aggressive rider Bradshaw is that he got the line on the inside and I think that Stanton just said hey
04:37I want no part of this kid tonight. I'm looking for gold. I'm looking for that golden camel
04:42I'm looking for the number one plate and all the bucks to go with it and he just let Damon go
04:46Absolutely. He wants no part of Damon Bradshaw tonight
04:49He will settle a score with Bradshaw somewhere down the road
04:52But not tonight not with this championship on the line Bradshaw should be able to win this rating because Stan
04:58I don't think it's gonna let everybody do that
05:00He's not gonna let the whole field through you look back in the pack and say who are the contenders?
05:04Who are the guys that can come up and challenge?
05:06Damon Bradshaw, obviously Stan is one. He's not going to do anything
05:09I don't think Johnny O'Mara is a threat Jeff Ward is back away
05:12But last event of the season Ward has nothing to gain
05:15I don't think you'll see Ward moving up the challenge and bail is well off the pace
05:18So I have to agree with you
05:20I'd have to think right now it is Bradshaw and there is bail
05:23Incidentally as he passes his teammate and he finds a new place to pass a new line
05:28Jean-michel bail passes Mike Dabrowski and bail isn't giving up. That's a move to put him into sixth place, Larry
05:35That's still a long way from the front
05:37But the point is he's going the right direction and he did find a new place to get around
05:41That was a good double jump move that he put on Kudrowski
05:43He will quickly set his sights on the green Kawasaki of Jeff Ward bail the man on the move
05:49But you see the leaders are already up into the periscope. He's got a long way to go
05:52Indeed. He has a long way to go, but he's a two-time world champ
05:56You do not get a two-time world champion without having a long way to go on occasion and getting there
06:01So we'll see what happens as this race develops. Meanwhile Bradshaw heads into the peristyle one more time
06:06He's still followed by Jeff Stanton and Stanton
06:09Don't forget only has to finish ninth tonight to secure that championship so then he can go backwards a good number of positions
06:16Although it doesn't look like he's going to do it at this point Damon Bradshaw really has the race under control
06:21Now here's Jean-michel bail still charging and there's a tough customer to get around and he makes it look easy
06:26He just sailed by Jeff Ward. He's found places to pass all over this racetrack
06:31Everybody else has struggled tonight to find one place to pass and bail has shown us two
06:37Already in the main event and they're different spots from what we've seen earlier. So don't count him out
06:42There's still a long way to go
06:43Johnny O'Mara has gotten by Jeff Stanton O'Mara has moved to the number two position dropping standing back to third
06:49You know what? This looks like to me Dave Stanton. Obviously is the guy that is after the championship. It's in his grasp
06:55He doesn't want to make one. He's gonna stay out of everyone's way at this point Bradshaw. Obviously, he's charging
07:01He wants to get win number five on a season that'll tie him with bail
07:04You look back at Jeff Ward Ford has nothing to gain. You look at Larry Ward. He's in the hunt in this one
07:10He has nothing to gain and they're pretty much letting Jean-michel bail and Bradshaw the two guys who are charging do what they want on
07:16This racetrack the enemy for bail is time
07:19Will there be enough laps left for him to get up there and make a meaningful impact?
07:24Whatever happens with Jeff Stanton, you know bail wants to try to win the race and claim his sixth victory
07:29We've got a lap wider off and that's the reason for the yellow flag shouldn't affect anybody
07:34Although O'Mara got off line there and lost a foot peg momentarily. Yeah. Well, we're looking at that way down the line
07:40We just had a shot of that long straightaway David and we saw Jean-michel bail in fifth
07:45He has closed the gap considerably. You made the point just a second ago. Do we have enough time left for him to?
07:51Close and tangle with the leaders of frankly. I don't see how he can do it
07:55The things that happened on supercross track and who knows certainly the Honda guys
08:00We just had a glimpse of them in the mechanics area are leaning out and cheering him on and there was another lap rider
08:06He was waving to Johnny O'Mara. It looked like but the Bradshaw is he's just awesome tonight
08:11He's just turned this track into his playground and no one can hold a candle to him. O'Mara is keeping up
08:16He's watching the line
08:17But if O'Mara makes a move Bradshaw just dials a little harder and he starts to pull away again
08:21He has it under control Bradshaw at the age of 17 won the first series race a rookie
08:27moving up into the big leagues of supercross and everybody said this is going to be the man and then of course he
08:32Cranked and broke his ankle
08:37He's really been off line two times in a row down through there
08:41I wonder if he's getting tired to finish the Bradshaw story a broken ankle actually forced him to miss a couple races
08:47Yeah, he's in trouble. He's he's off the motorcycle now
08:50You got to wonder how many of those mistakes O'Mara can make before Stanton will finally pass him back
08:55We'll be back what happens right after this time in Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
08:59Damon Bradshaw had been the leader and we thought without any competition
09:03But Jean-Michel Bale while we were away came up to the pack and Bale almost makes the pass
09:08He almost got the wheel in front of Bradshaw and made the pass as I started to say he came up through the pack
09:13Made a couple of tremendous passes and we're going to go back and take a look at them in just one second
09:17But we want to be sure we don't miss any of the action between Bale and Bradshaw
09:21This is the critical section of the racetrack Bale tries to make a move on Bradshaw
09:26He really got a drive off that jump go back and take a look at the two passes Bale made to move into contention
09:32Here he works that same series of jumps to his advantage over Jeff Stanton came back a couple of laps later
09:39Working on Johnny O'Mara actually got the jump on O'Mara a little earlier in that straightaway
09:44But use that same series of jumps to make the pass now
09:48He's right there
09:49Challenging Damon Bradshaw for the lead and Bradshaw's got to be thinking about that chunk of racetrack
09:55Bradshaw's top of that finish line jump
09:56He looks to the side and he saw he saw Bale right beside him
09:59You know, he kind of changed lines almost in midair to take the good line away from Bale
10:04He's keeping it all to himself
10:05So it's a matter now of Bale
10:07Working some kind of magic trying to find an angle some kind of a place on the track there
10:12Goes again to the inside
10:14He's looking for that block pass. He could have done the job right there I think but well
10:18I think he probably thought to himself
10:20Bradshaw is a little bit on a dinghy side when it comes to this kind of action
10:23I don't want any part of this kid and Bradshaw is the most aggressive rider in the state and I think he's taking him
10:29Out right there. Here we go again. No, he comes up a little bit short
10:33He is extremely fast in that section Dave Bradshaw has picked up the pace through there
10:37He's not allowing Bale to make any kind of an assault on him there or at least hasn't the last two laps
10:43Bale is there Bradshaw is under full attack at stake
10:48Here is the honor of being the rider who wins the most races this season
10:53That's all that's really there for the that and just personal pride racers are racers
10:59Well, of course in the back of Bale's mind
11:01He has to be thinking if Stanton slides back a couple of more positions that he's got to crack at the title
11:07You know, he needs to win and he needs to have Stanton finished back there around 10th place if Stanton finishes ninth
11:12He carries home the number one plate two years in a row, but it all depends because we're talking about three full points Dave
11:18That's the difference between first and second. It depends on what Bale does in this race. He has to have the win
11:24He knows it. I think it's gonna be interesting
11:26I think it's gonna go right down to the wire and I would not begin to predict
11:29Which of these guys is gonna win this race because when push comes to shove, I think they'll both take a chance
11:34This is the critical section
11:36But see how Bradshaw now has it dialed in as well as Bale and I don't think that leaves Bale a lot of good
11:42Places to pass he's gonna have to pull some kind of surprise on the kid. Well, we've got surprises throughout this series
11:48They started in event number one and they're carrying through to the finale and here we go for a battle to the number three
11:54Visiting O'Mara. He's in third right behind him comes Mike Kedrowski Stanton. Now. We just saw the front fender dropping back to fourth
12:01Kedrowski moves into third place O'Mara now fourth and standing back to fifth now we're winding this thing down
12:07We're getting into the final laps, but Stanton cannot afford to drop back too many more positions
12:12He's got to watch himself
12:14Meanwhile up front watch this battle Bradshaw again under attack as the Frenchman Jean-Michel Bale
12:21Tries to figure out a way by he's been quick through here. Notice how Bradshaw moved over took his line away
12:26He knew what the Frenchman was gonna do and he said you ain't gonna do it here
12:29Now he goes around to the outside Bradshaw is in the groove. There's only one good one fast way
12:34That's the inside up on top of the parasol if you're in that line
12:38There's no way anyone's going to get around you here comes Bale. He almost got the drive
12:42He was really on a gas but Bradshaw has not fallen victim to that trick if you can call it a trick earlier
12:48We saw that Bale passed O'Mara there. He passed Stanton there
12:51It's his favorite part of the racetrack
12:53But he's gonna get by Bradshaw the youngster the rookie is holding him off as the laps wind down
12:59We're close to the finish line. Now. There's this guy
13:01I believe they're gonna get the white flag this time by in fact as Bradshaw begins to look a little ragged
13:07There is the white one lap to go under heavy pressure Bradshaw starting to perhaps bobble just a little bit
13:14He is really feeling the heat as they go into the pair of style for the final time one lap less than a lap
13:20Now to go Bradshaw. Can he do it? Can he hold him off? And I guess the question is can fail make the pass?
13:26I don't know where it's going to come from if indeed he can Bradshaw the good lines here comes all Michelle Bale
13:31They don't got a drive fail goes into the number one spot. Here comes Bradshaw right in he hits Bale
13:36Oh a little bit of contact Bradshaw took the lead back. We're sitting here wondering where can he make the pass?
13:42And we just saw two of them inside of about five seconds
13:46And this one is still not over side-by-side through the roughest part of the racetrack and Bradshaw grabs a handful
13:52Comes out in front what this turned out to be Bradshaw
13:55Absolutely will not let him by when he got by he just shoved the elbow shoved the shoulder said there's no way you're gonna pass
14:02Me Bale will make another shot at him because this is where most of the passing has been done
14:06They're coming down to the checkered flag over now. It's all no look at Bradshaw
14:12Cycle I don't believe it. What a way to end the season what a way to end the series
14:17Bradshaw was completely off the motorcycle
14:20He he managed to grab a handful stayed on top long enough to take the checkered flag. He wins it Kedrowski
14:26That was a shot of him taking the checkers for the number three position Dave
14:29I've never seen a wilder finish in my life
14:31And I don't think that any of the fans have either if you look around the stands
14:35They certainly were pumped arms up in the air and there's the man that is getting all of the limelight down on the field
14:41He won the championship tonight being congratulated by his competitors as a matter of fact
14:45Damon Bradshaw won the battle here tonight
14:47Of course Jeff Stanton won the war Bale coming in second Kedrowski third O'Mara fourth Jeff Ward in Jeff Stanton
14:54There's the champion. All he needed was a ninth place and he held on