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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