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1 /13 0.9 Not all the Standing Rock Sioux are protesting

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STANDING ROCK SIOUX RESERVATION,N. D. — Ask around and you’ll hear storiesof pipeline protesters who’ve traveled greatdistances.

They’ve come from Japan, Russia andGermany. Australia, Israel and Serbia. And,of course, there are the allies, notexclusively Native American or indigenous,who’ve flocked here from all corners of theUS.

Together they stand in opposition to theDakota Access Pipeline, a $3.7 billioninvestment to move 470,000 barrels ofdomestic crude oil a day through four states. They’re fighting against what they see as corporategreed, an environmental threat and an assault on sacred land.

Demonstrating is their proud daily work.

The Standing Rock Sioux call this reservation home, and many are not on the frontlines of thismonths-long, and at times violent, protest. With no end in sight, what does it mean to them? Andare they even united in their support?

The answer to that last question: Not even close.

Wishing they’d go home

No one makes this clearer than Robert Fool Bear Sr., 54, district chairman of Cannon Ball. Thetown he runs, estimated population of 840, is just a few miles from the action. It’s so close that,given the faceoffs with law enforcement, you have to pass through a police checkpoint to reachit.

It’s about time people heard from folks like him, he says.

Fool Bear has had it with the protesters. He says that more than two years ago, when membersof the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe could have attended hearings to make their concerns known,they didn’t care. Now, suddenly, the crowds are out of control, and he fears it’s just a matter oftime before someone gets seriously hurt.

Go down to the camps, he says, and you won’t see many Standing Rock Sioux.

“It irks me. People are here from all over the world,” he says. “If they could come from otherplanets, I think they would.”

The presence of all these people has become a downright nuisance to his community, he says.Given the roadblocks, residents of Cannon Ball are often forced to go more than 40 miles out oftheir way.

Not long ago, he found three teenage girls from Ontario, Canada, camped out inside his storageshed. A white woman from Spokane, Washington, came to see him for help, saying she’d comehere with nothing and her car had broken down. When he was at the casino recently, someoneapproached him about two young kids who were on their own because their parents had beenarrested.

The situation has dissolved to madness, he says, and he wishes Dave Archambault II, theStanding Rock Sioux chairman, would speak up.

“If he had any balls, he’d tell [the protesters] to go home,” Fool Bear says.

And he’s not alone in feeling this way. Two women who listen in as he talks keep nodding inagreement, but they don’t want to speak.

Just look at a recent vote in the community for further proof that Fool Bear’s not the onlynaysayer. When protest organizers presented a request to build a new winter camp in CannonBall earlier this month, his community shot it down.

Of the 88 people who voted, he says 66 were against the camp, less than 10 were for it and therest remained undecided.

Even though Fool Bear is against the protests, that doesn’t mean he’s not preparing to helppeople out, too. He anticipates opening the community gymnasium for people without bedscome winter, and a growing pile of sleeping bags and blankets sits in his office.

Those protesters from Arizona, Georgia and California won’t know what hit them when the coldrushes in, he says.

A fight worth having

The tribal headquarters sits in the Sioux County seat of Fort Yates, nearly 30 miles south of theprotests. Driving into the small town, population less than 200, a hand-painted sign announces,“Oil & water don’t mix!”

To hear it from those hanging out in Club Diamond Z, a bar and deli, Standing Rock Siouxsupport of the protests is universal. They can’t fathom how anyone would disagree.

Artist Roger Valandra, 61, says he travels north to join the protests once a week. A proudVietnam Vet, he says the freedom to peacefully demonstrate was something he fought for, justlike his nieces and nephews who’ve served in Iraq.

To feel suppressed by the nation he’s served offends him. He’s baffled by the flood of lawenforcement from nearby states and North Dakota counties he’s never even heard of.

“Don’t they have enough to do?” he wonders.

Any violence, he says, was provoked by them. Valandra and those around him at the bar beginto rattle off the offenses, many of which they heard about through social media. They talk about

tear gas, rubber bullets, sound cannons and concussion grenades. They speak about the elderwho was beaten with a club, the horse that had to be put down, the boy whose wrist was broken.(CNN could not confirm these stories.)

The crackdown also maddens Valandra’s 25-year-old daughter, Elaina, who works here at “theZ,” as locals call it. She grew up believing racism didn’t exist; not anymore.

She brings up the recent acquittal of Ammon Bundy and six others, who occupied a federalwildlife refuge earlier this year.

“The Bundys were armed to the teeth, and they’re acquitted,” she says.

She pulls up a Facebook post, showing a photo of a number scrawled on a man’s arm after hewas arrested Thursday and words likening the treatment to what Nazis once did. Onlinecomments and the stereotyping of her people leave her stunned. She wants people to know thisbattle isn’t about race.

“It’s about water, not just native people,” she says. “We don’t get another Earth.”

Her father doesn’t question what will happen to the reservation’s water if the pipeline goes in.Just look at the track record of oil companies, he says, and understand that the problem willgrow.

“When that water gets contaminated, it’s going to affect everyone from here all the way to theGulf of Mexico,” he says.

He calls the pipeline a “moneyline” for billionaires who’ll never live on the land theirdesecrating. It’s just “greed at play,” he says, in a world where nothing is ever enough.

A shrug of indifference

Ten miles west of the protests, a man who doesn’t want to be named, for fear of retribution,admits he looks forward to the pipeline. It’ll mean fewer trucks barreling down these ruralhighways and fewer trains flying down the tracks.

Back at Cannon Ball, however, Carl Bruce, 52, isn’t afraid to say his piece. For this StandingRock Sioux who has lived his life here, the pipeline doesn’t matter. If it breaks, he says he’d justwork around it.

“Oh hell,” he says. “I can move north of the break and get my water over there.”

The pipeline is coming, like it or not, he says. The world may watch this ongoing battle andbelieve it’s a unifying force for his people, but Bruce just shrugs his shoulders and walks away.

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2 /13 3.6 Flawless Matsuyama retains three-shot lead in Shanghai

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Oct 29 (Reuters) - Japan'sHideki Matsuyama turned inhis first flawless round of theWGC-HSBC Champions onSaturday to head into the finalday's play with a three-shotlead over reigning championRussell Knox. Starting the daywith a three-stroke cushionafter 19 birdies over the firsttwo rounds, Matsuyama wasagain in impeccable form atthe Sheshan International GolfClub, carding a four-under-par

68 to end the day 17-under for the tournament. The 24-year-old picked up just one shot in hisfirst eight holes but birdies at the ninth, the par-five 14th and the last kept him ahead of thechasing pack at the $9.5 million event. "The first two days, making lots of birdies, it's a lot of fun,"the world number 10 said. "But today, when you're in a position to win, playing smart andmaking no bogeys was very satisfying to me... I think the key for tomorrow's round will be notmaking any bogeys. " Knox, who won on debut last year, also carded 68, with American DanielBerger a shot behind him in third place on 13-under after mixing eight birdies and three bogeysin his 67. "I'm not going to give up my title without a big fight tomorrow," said Knox. "The wayHideki played today, he's probably going to play similarly tomorrow. He's an extremelyaggressive iron player, and when he's on, he's as good as anyone. I'm going to have to be footdown, be aggressive and try and catch him. " Italy's Francesco Molinari, who won at Sheshan in2010, started with three birdies in a row and finished with a 68 to tie for fourth place withAmerican Bill Haas (70), five shots off the pace. Haas put pressure on the leader with threebirdies over his first six holes to cut Matsuyama's lead to a single shot but dropped a shot beforeand after the turn and picked up just one more birdie over the back nine. World number threeRory McIlroy also started strongly with birdies on the second, sixth and eighth holes but lostground with three bogeys on the back nine to end up with a 70. The Northern Irishman has ashare of eighth place on nine-under with five others, including British Open champion HenrikStenson (67) and American Matt Kuchar, whose 68 included a hole-in-one on the shortenedpar-three 17th. (Reporting by Simon Jennings in Bengaluru)

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3 /13 3.7 Japanese championship second stage results and

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Oct 29 (Gracenote) - Results and standings from the Japanesechampionship Second Stage matches on Saturday Saturday, October 29FC Tokyo 1 Vegalta Sendai 0 Gamba Osaka 3 Albirex Niigata 1 JubiloIwata 0 Urawa Reds 1 Kashima Antlers 0 Kawasaki Frontale 1 KashiwaReysol 1 Omiya Ardija 2 Sagan Tosu 2 Yokohama F-Marinos 2 SanfrecceHiroshima 4 Avispa Fukuoka 1 Shonan Bellmare 1 Ventforet Kofu 0 VisselKobe 3 Nagoya Grampus Eight 0 Standings P W D L F A Pts 1 Urawa Reds 16 13 1 2 34 11 40 ------------------------- 2 Kawasaki Frontale 16 11 1 4 33 21 34 3 Vissel Kobe 16 10 2 4 32 18 32 4Gamba Osaka 16 9 4 3 28 20 31 5 Omiya Ardija 16 8 6 2 24 17 30 6 Yokohama F-Marinos 16 77 2 31 18 28 7 Kashiwa Reysol 16 8 3 5 28 23 27 8 Sagan Tosu 16 7 5 4 25 22 26 9 FC Tokyo16 8 2 6 22 21 26 10 Sanfrecce Hiroshima 16 7 2 7 25 22 23 11 Kashima Antlers 16 6 2 8 24 2320 12 Vegalta Sendai 16 6 2 8 19 22 20 13 Ventforet Kofu 16 4 4 8 14 26 16 14 NagoyaGrampus Eight 16 3 4 9 13 26 13 15 Albirex Niigata 16 4 0 12 14 23 12 16 Jubilo Iwata 16 1 7 815 27 10 17 Shonan Bellmare 16 2 2 12 9 28 8 18 Avispa Fukuoka 16 2 2 12 15 37 8 1:Championship play-off

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4 /13 1.5 Nissan car plant investment brings pressure on

ministers to reveal assurancesMinisters are coming underrenewed pressure to explainwhat assurances were given tothe Japanese car giant Nissanthat persuaded it to pour newinvestment into its Sunderlandplant following the vote forBrexit. Two former businessministers who have negotiatedwith the company have saidthey believed it must havebeen told Britain would remaina part of the EU customs unionor offered mitigation for any

new post-Brexit tariffs that were imposed after leaving. Downing Street has insisted Nissan hadnot been offered any form of "compensation package" and that ministers had simply assured thecompany of the Government's determination to secure the best possible deal after the UKwithdrew. However, the senior Labour MP Chuka Umunna, a leading supporter of the OpenBritain campaign, has now written to Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood requesting thepublication of details of the commitments "written or otherwise" which have been given to thefirm. "There has been speculation that the Government may have suggested that public moneycould be used to compensate Nissan, be it in direct aid or through more indirect means. "Othershave suggested that ministers may have given an indication about the UK's future role inrelation to the customs union or single market," he wrote. "If either are true, they pose hugequestions, most importantly what financial support was offered; whether any limit was placed onthe public finance available; and whether the same assurances would be extended to otherautomotive-manufacturers and other sectors, including service sectors. "I am of, course,supportive of the Government's aim to protect our manufacturing base, but it seemsextraordinary that the Government would reveal elements of its negotiating strategy tomultinational companies when it is at the same time doing its best to keep Parliament and thepublic in the dark. " There has been intense speculation as to what the company has beenpromised after Nissan chief executive Carlos Ghosn announced on Thursday that the "supportand assurances" it had received meant it would build the next generation Qashqai and the newX-Trail models in Sunderland. The move was hailed by No 10 as a "vote of confidence" in theUK in the wake of last June's referendum vote to leave the EU, securing 7,000 jobs at the plantand a further 20,000 in the wider economy. It came after Mr Ghosn met Theresa May in Downing

Street earlier this month for talks on the company's future in the UK while Business SecretaryGreg Clark has also been out to Japan to meet senior figures at the firm. However, the LiberalDemocrat former business secretary Sir Vince Cable and Conservative ex-business ministerAnna Soubry have both said they believed Nissan would not have gone ahead with theinvestment unless it had been assured the UK would either remain in the customs union or therewould be mitigation for any new tariffs it faced. The Unite trade union said it would be pressingto ensure that whatever assurances had been given to Nissan would apply across themanufacturing sector. "Our members at car and other manufacturing plants across the countryrightly are looking for the same job security that appears to have been secured at Nissan thoughgovernment intervention and investment guarantees," said Unite assistant general secretaryTony Burke. "We need similar arrangement across the manufacturing sector to protect workersand secure these crucial high skill, decently paid jobs. " For Labour, shadow business secretaryClive Lewis said: "The public, and the many other businesses and employees facing turbulenttimes ahead, have a right to know what Nissan was offered to stay in the UK. Secret backroomdeals are unfair, unsustainable, and are no way to run an economy. "

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5 /13 0.0 NASCAR Camping World Truck Texas Roadhouse 200

Lineup1. (71) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 96.254 mph.

2. (51) Daniel Suarez, Toyota, 95.922.

3. (00) Cole Custer, Chevrolet, 95.903.

4. (29) Tyler Reddick, Ford, 95.883.

5. (21) Johnny Sauter, Chevrolet, 95.854.

6. (4) Christopher Bell, Toyota, 95.743.

7. (9) William Byron, Toyota, 95.733.

8. (13) Cameron Hayley, Toyota, 95.651.

9. (11) Matt Tifft, Toyota, 95.295.

10. (24) Kaz Grala, Chevrolet, 95.266.

11. (88) Matt Crafton, Toyota, 95.208.

12. (8) John H Nemechek, Chevrolet, 94.879.

13. (19) Daniel Hemric, Ford, 95.338.

14. (41) Ben Rhodes, Toyota, 95.333.

15. (20) Austin Hill, Ford, 95.261.

16. (18) Harrison Burton, Toyota, 95.218.

17. (23) Spencer Gallagher, Chevrolet, 95.184.

18. (33) Ben Kennedy, Chevrolet, 95.122.

19. (17) Timothy Peters, Toyota, 95.084.

20. (05) John Wes Townley, Chevrolet, 95.041.

21. (92) Cole Whitt, Ford, 94.581.

22. (63) Kyle Donahue, Chevrolet, 94.242.

23. (81) Ryan Truex, Toyota, 94.101.

24. (98) Rico Abreu, Toyota, 93.961.

25. (44) Tommy Joe Martins, Chevrolet, 94.157.

26. (49) DJ Kennington, Chevrolet, 93.989.

27. (02) Austin Theriault, Chevrolet, 93.868.

28. (22) Justin Fontaine, Toyota, owner points.

29. (07) Kevin Donahue, Chevrolet, owner points.

30. (66) Joshua Reeves, Chevrolet, owner points.

31. (1) Josh White, Chevrolet, owner points.

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34. (45) Casey Smith, Chevrolet, 93.120.

35. (28) Kyle Soper, Chevrolet, 91.469.

36. (62) Donnie Levister, Toyota, 90.013.

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6 /13 1.8 Former Yankee Laird leads Nippon Ham to Japan Series

titleFormer New York Yankeesinfielder Brandon Laird hit agrand slam in the eighth inningon Saturday as the Nippon HamFighters beat the Hiroshima Carp10-4 to win the Japan Series insix games.

The Fighters scored two runs inthe top of the eighth to break a 4-4 tie and Laird connected offHiroshima reliever Jay Jacksonto put the game out of reach.

Laird, who was named seriesMVP, led the Pacific League this season with 39 homers and hit three home runs in the six-game series.

The Pacific League champion Fighters won their third Nippon Professional Baseballchampionship and their first in 10 years.

The Central League champion Carp were bidding for their first Japan Series championshipsince 1984.

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7 /13 0.7 Melbourne Cup barrier draw sees Japanese horse

Curren Mirotic draw unlucky 18Japanese raider CurrenMirotic will have to defy all theodds to win the MelbourneCup after drawing the unluckybarrier 18 for Tuesday's bigrace. No horse has ever wonfrom that starting position sincethe race first installed barriersback in 1924. And as if thatwas not enough, CurrenMirotic is trying to become theoldest ever winner of theMelbourne Cup at the grandold age of nine. Only twohorses, Toryboy in 1865 and Catalogue in 1938, have ever managed to win the prestigiousprize aged eight and none have done it a year older. While it was bad news at the barrier drawfor the $26 outsider from Japan, there was better luck for most of the favourites. Hartnell,

currently paying $4.50 for the win, was drawn nicely at number 12 - right next to the well-fanciedOceanographer in barrier 11. The Godolphin trained horse booked the final place in theMelbourne Cup with an impressive victory in the Lexus Stakes at Flemington on Saturday.Another strongly-tipped horse, Caulfield Cup winner Jameka, will start from barrier two.Jameka's trainer Ciaron Maher was well pleased with his draw and said: 'I'm very happy with it.It's all up to Nick (jockey Nick Hill) now. 'I have just been rapt with her preparation, she is insuper order, she's very bright and she works super. 'I would imagine she would be in the firsteight horses out of the start. Nick has so much confidence in this horse, I'm sure he'll ride apositive race. 'Hopefully she has the same turn of speed she showed in the Caulfield Cup. 'Towin the Melbourne Cup would mean everything to me. Growing up in Victoria, this race iseverything, so it would mean the world.'

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8 /13 3.3 Urawa beats Jubilo to maintain 1st place overall in

JapanThe Urawa Reds beatJubilo Iwata 1-0 Saturdayto secure the J-League'ssecond-stage title andmaintain first place in theoverall standings.

Yuki Muto scored his 12thgoal of the season in the72nd minute as Urawaimproved to 73 points, oneahead of KawasakiFrontale which beat first-

stage winners Kashima Antlers 1-0.

The overall points leader will be decided on the final day of the regular season on Thursdaywhen Urawa hosts Yokohama F Marinos and Kawasaki faces Gamba Osaka. The team with themost points heads directly to the league championship final on Nov. 29 and Dec. 3, while therunners-up must face first-stage winners Antlers on Nov. 23.

In other matches, Gamba beat Albirex Niigata 3-1 and Omiya Ardija edged Kashiwa Reysol 2-1.

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9 /13 0.9 TIFFCOM: VR Lingerie Shows and a Zoetrope

Simulation Get Tokyo TryoutsTOKYO – “This has been called the first year of virtual reality ,” said Motoo Kawabata, a softwareproducer at VR content maker PolygonMagic.

At this year’s Tokyo Film Festival market ( TIFFCOM ,) which ended on Thursday, it was certainlythe first year for VR companies – three altogether – to take booths and demonstrate their

products. They also pitched products andservices still in the development stage.

In PolygonMagic’s case, these includedhaving visitors don a Samsung VR headsetand watch an attractive young womanalone in a room showing off her newlingerie. This being 3DVR, the viewer feltthat he (or she) was also in that room – anillusion that suggested all sorts of possibleuses for the software, which Kawabataadmitted “is exactly our intention.”

The company, however, does more thanmake slightly risqué content. It also shootsand edits VR film to clients’ specifications, develops VR applications and markets an eminentlyaffordable 3D viewer — “only JPY1,000 ($10) at electronics stores in Japan,” Kawabata said.

“We are studying the production of films,” said Kawabata, “but VR filming is totally different fromfilming with a normal camera. Instead of a sequence of shots, you’re shooting in 360 degrees.”

At TIFFCOM, Kawabata and his colleagues met with buyers from all over Asia and NorthAmerica. “We’ve had a lot of talk about partnerships and content production,” he said. “We’lldefinitely be back next year.”

Also at TIFFCOM was 1-10 Holdings, a company that calls itself a “spatial entertainmentagency.” Using VR technology, 1-10 produces installations, games and other content, as well asthe artificial intelligence system for Softbank ’s Pepper robot and the ANATOMe 3D body scansystem. “We can scan you in a second and animate you in 3D any way we want,” saidcommunications director Michael Lam with a laugh not entirely sinister.

The company has a subsidiary that produces TV commercials and other video content, but 1-10does not include it in its PR materials. “We are branding ourselves differently,” explained Lam.“But we can call on their expertise when we create video content using our own IP.”

One use of the technology that 1-10 is contemplating is a VR theater featuring music and liveperformers, but with audience viewing the show through VR headsets. The theater would becircular, but instead of facing the center, the audience would be facing outward and revolving asthe show progresses.

The experience would be somewhat like being inside a Zoetrope, watching a live performancein a VR setting. “We would provide the technology and leave the contents of the show up toothers,” explains Lam. “There are all sorts of creative possibilities.”

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10 /13 1.0 Fearing God's Wrath, Philippine President Vows To

Stop SwearingMANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has made a promise to stop swearing,

saying God spoke to him during a flightfrom Japan on Thursday and warned himthe plane would crash if he k...

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11 /13 1.4 Wayne Gardner

forced to pay nearly$4k to end his 12-dayJapanese jail hell

Motorcycle racing legend Wayne Gardnerhas reacted with fury at havingto pay his way out of hisnightmare 12-day spell in aJapanese jail. Gardner landedback in Sydney on Saturday,but not before he was forced tohand over nearly $4,000 tosecure his release after beingarrested for allegedlyassaulting three men in a roadrage incident near Tokyo. The57-year-old, who won the500cc world championship in1987, was in Japan to watchhis teenage son Remy race in the Moto2 race at the Motegi circuit when they were involved in aminor traffic incident. According to reports, the car hired by the Gardners clipped a van occupiedby a group of Japenese men who then gave chase. Wayne Gardner is alleged to haveassaulted the trio during a subsequent confrontation, which he called a 'misunderstanding', andwas then thrown into a police cell in Shimotsuke. The man known as the Wollongong Whizduring his racing career denied the accusations for nearly two weeks, but is believed to havefinally admitted guilt and paid a significant fine in order to get himself out of custody. 'It's a stupidsystem, extortion was the name of the game,' Gardner said. 'I'm speechless about the wholething, annoyed. To cut you off in communication when your son’s racing and they won’t tell youwhere he is or how he’s gone, has he crashed? It's horrendous how they treat you.' Gardner'sson Remy, 18, had been detained briefly after the incident in Japan due to a driving licenceviolation, but was released in time to race at Motegi and is also in action this weekend inMalaysia.

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12 /13 0.4 Correction: Zika-Florida story

In a story Oct. 27 about efforts to control the Zika virus in Florida , The Associated Press reportederroneously that Miami Beach has been cleared of Zika-carrying mosquitoes. Miami Beach isstill considered an active transmission zone.

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13 /13 0.5 Matt Hagan leads

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Friday, Oct. 28, 2016 | 8:29 p.m.

Matt Hagan topped Funny Car qualifying Friday in theNHRA Toyota Nationals, breaking the track time recordwith a 3.872-second pass at 329.18 mph in a DodgeCharger.

"I think today was pretty cool because we had cloudcover," Hagan said. "The track was tight, it was good out there. The groove is very narrow so youhave to watch what you're doing. All in all we had a good day and tomorrow is another day, sowe come back out tomorrow and fight hard again and just try to scoop up as much points as wecan. "

Leah Pritchett led in Top Fuel, Drew Skillman in Pro Stock, and Jerry Savoie in Pro StockMotorcycle in the fifth event in the six-race NHRA Mello Yello Countdown to the Championship.

Pritchett had a 3.705 pass at 326.63 to break the track time mark, Skillman ran a 6.681 at 204.94in a Chevrolet Camaro, and Savoie had a 6.904 at 192.66 on a Suzuki.

2016-10-29 03:29 Associated Press lasvegassun.com

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