No hard feelings for Murphree, it was just racing. The H-D of Sacramento team looks forward to another run for the front at this weekend's Harrington Half-Mile, somewhere Chris has excelled in the past.

"I guess our luck at Charlotte hasn't quite gone the way we wanted it to. Two years in a row, I'm sitting on the pole for the main event, and two years in a row, somewhere along the way in the race, I find myself on the ground. We got a pretty good start - we were third into turn one on the main event - and went by Johnny Murphree down the back straightaway, went into turn three...I was on a higher line than Will Davis was in the corner, went to square him off, and I got clipped from behind and went down. The bike caught on fire - it was exciting. It was like Holly wood. I thought, 'You couldn't have written this script.'

"The track guys there did a real good job of getting the fire out in a hurry, and Kenny Tolbert and the gang (and several others) got to work on it and got the thing somewhat back in shape for the race. I came through the pack and got seventh. It was a good night for salvaging points, I guess you could say.

"It was the first lap, so it was a complete restart, and I had to start on the fourth row. We just kept picking guys off one at a time, and I found myself in seventh at the end. It was a good damage control night for us, pretty much. Things were going good, the bike felt great, and we felt like we had a really good shot at winning the main event. I can't sit here and harp on it, it's just one of those things where shit didn't go our way."