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Cycle News 2014 Issue 17 April 29

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VOL. 51 ISSUE 17 APRIL 29, 2014 P21 M.C.) explained: "As a club, we work sometimes all year setting up where the course is going to go, working out our personnel, spending time to make sure the course works and is safe and makes sense as far as how many people we have to help. "The Vikings had a course laid out and with - I don't know - 90 days to go, they were told that 80 percent of their course couldn't be used! Because of that, it was too hard on the Vikings to throw together a course, and they weren't comfortable with the safety aspect [and] the fact that we were so close to Easter Sunday. The Vikings decided that for their personnel it was best to back out and not host the race. "They gave the NHHA permis- sion to use their weekend and the NHHA, which is all four [AMA District 37] clubs [that host Na- tionals] - the 100s, the Desert M.C., Vikings and Four Aces - we all worked together. "We kind of busted our butts and got a course laid out and accepted by BLM," Sanders added. "Jerry Grabow from Dis- trict helped and got everything squared away so that we could host the event. "Something that's important to cover is that [the Marines] don't have a hard [boundary] line of 'this is where we're closed.' Ac- cording to the BLM, the Marines haven't determined which part is closed. They know that it's this vicinity and shaped like this, but how far the boundary is, they don't know yet. So every time a club submits an application for a race, the BLM has to go to the Marines and see if it's on Marine land or not, so that's part of the issue." Mark Kariya continued on next page KASPRZAK WINS AT HOME P olish star Krzysztof Kasprzak admits winning his battle with nerves has transformed his for- tunes after claiming his first ca- reer victory in the Meridian Lifts European FIM Speedway Grand Prix final in Bydgoszcz, Poland on Saturday night. Kasprzak was a popular win- ner in his homeland, after scyth- ing under Australian Darcy Ward in the final turn to cap a speedy performance that puts him 11 points clear in the World Cham- pionship. Kasprzak's victory is even more astonishing after he failed to score a single point in five rides at Bydgoszcz in 2013. "My psychologist is making my head relaxed," the Pole said. "I haven't got too much pressure. When I was stressed before, my body tensed up and I couldn't race properly. Everyone was writing me messages and telling me on Facebook 'you'll win, you'll win' this weekend. But I don't like this. When people say this, it's usually a bad meeting. But now I'm just thinking 'it's just a league Krzysztof Kasprzak won his first- ever World Speedway Grand Prix at his home race in Poland. Here he leads Darcy Ward and Greg Hancock in the final. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOHN HIPKISS

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