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Anna Johnston announced at VIR that her team, Annandale Racing, would not be back for 2004.

“My heart’s in it. We love racing and the world of motorcyclists and Honda and Michelin and all of our sponsors could not have been better to work with, but it was a decision that Dale (Lemaster) and I made, that we couldn’t meet our internal goals and we didn’t feel confident that we could play catch-up next year. Finances were part of it; we wanted to make it a self-sustaining organization.

“We’re going to take some time off with the change in the economy and see how things work out and maybe come back in the future,” Johnson said.

“We’re going to spend some time in the next few months wrapping the team up and trying to help everyone on the team find out where they want to be. They want to continue in racing, and they’re out looking for jobs. I can certainly highly recommend everyone on the team.”

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7/29/2003 Analysis: Number Of AMA Teams And Rides Will Decrease In 2004