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Kevin’s perspective, from his biography:
Half way around the last lap Wayne was in front but coming out of the Ost curve at the far end of the circuit Kevin had the rear wheel hanging out in an unbelievably long power slide. It was driving as well as sliding giving him a superb slingshot pass on Rainey as they charged down the second to last straight heading for the chicane. Into the chicane first Kevin tried to take advantage.
“I slowed her up a bit so that Wayne would have to slow down when he didn’t want to, then I would get the jump out down the last straight.”
But Kevin miscalculated, he was further ahead than he realized going into the chicane, him slowing just gave Rainey the chance to catch up and he flashed out of the chicane rapidly overtaking the Suzuki.
“As Wayne came past I moved across to pick up the slipstream, I was concentrating on the back wheel of the Yamaha so that I could tuck in right behind us he came past. I wasn’t watching ahead, we were closer to the corner than I realized. As I moved in behind he got on the brakes, luckily I was still moving right and I kept going, missed his rear wheel. By the time I looked up the corner was there. I was in really really deep, I went all the way back to first, the back was in the air, the front intermittently locking up going skip, skip, skip into the turn. I was across to the inside but managed to get it turned and still leave Wayne enough room so I didn’t run him on the grass coming out. I had the drive down to the Saks curve and got there in front of Wayne, that was the race.”
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