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Hoger wins~
BrlUl secon~
Gerrit luillls
onto points J~
lelUl in ItalU : .
arrived in Europe the day before,
Eu ropean team manager Steve>
Whitlock headed down to Italyfrom his base in Offenbach , West
Germany. Pierre's "Red Devil" was fast
as we ll as good handling as he posted
second fastest official qualifying time....
on Sunday morning behind Suzuki's
Roger DeCoster. Roger was trying new
Konis on the rear 0 f his 370. Third J
fastest man was Herbert Schmitz whose
factory Puch had been having seizing
problems during practice on Saturdayr"
Fourth was Maico 's Ake Jonsson , and .
fifth was Husqvama's Brad Lackey with'
a fresh engine just brought down from
Sweden to the ra ce. Brad had ra ced all'
the Internationals and the first two GPs~
on 0 ne engine. Willi Bauer, -Gem ~
Wolsink, Arne Lindfors. Christer
Hammergren and Paolo Piron were the
re maining top ten qualifiers.
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Twenty -five thousand spectators
settled down on the lush hillside of the'
nicest course the ride rs have seen in a
long time. The lay out was excellent'
with no t a tire mark on it prior to the l
first p ractice. The circuit was staked ou t'
by the m o to clu b Ip pogrifo using only
the natural terrain an d the earth wasi
un touched by man or machinery . Th e'
surface was mo stly mowed grass.
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(Left) Bad Brad put together fourth and
fifth place mota fin ishes for an overall
second in Italy. The Monterosato circuit,
With its lush rolling hillsides, was judged
to be one of the best that the GP
contestants have seen in quite a while.(Below, left ) Pierre Karsmakers' new
factory Honda carried " Pi-R" to second
fastest qualifying time, and a win in the
second mota. Unfortunately. as shown
here, its refusal to run at the start of the
first mota resulted in attracting lots of
attention and one hil#lly peeved
Dutch man . (Below, right) Looking
better. Pierre pursues Roger DeCoster
after the bike f inally shaped up.
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