Au stralian Gregg Hansford on his
Kawasaki ent ert ai ned the crowd with
so me m agnifi ce nt Shee ne -st yle
wheelies a nd he clinch ed fou rth pla ce
overa ll a nd a d ded some m achine
va r ie ty to t he e xpected Yamaha
benefit.
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Ken ny Roberts , th e quickest man '
during training and winner of the
250cc race in the ra in on Sa tu rday,
roc keted off t he grid in the first leg to
set the pace bu t ~ fter three laps he
to stop when , hIS Ya m aha be ga n ,to,
sei;te a nd in the seco~d ra ce King Ken;, );
ny s luck was ou t aga m.
Ba ttling through fro m the ba ck' of
the grid Kenny had ca ug h t the p~ ck
wit hin a la p but he was tryi ng just a lit tle too hard . He ca n no ned off Greg g
Hansford at the chica ne . falli ng off
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without inj ury.
There wer e quite a few spills in
training and the races but unl ucky
J ohn Will iams was the worst hit of all
He fell o n th e last but o ne lap of th e
first leg a nd was ru sh ed 10 hospital su ffering fro m two damaged venebrea~ J '
two broken ribs and a n injured kidn ey: I
In th e first leg it was Robert s, Bake r '
a nd Ita lian Marco Lucchinell i who I
were the ea rly pa cemakers u nt il
Ro berts' engi ne ceased and soo n af ter
Lu cch in elli a lso fell by th e wa yside .
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Sarron moved throug h fro m fifth to
second a nd began 10 cha llenge Ba ke r
as the pa ir pulled away fro m Steve's
te ammat e in th e N ava O lio Fiats?
q uad. Virginio Fer ra ri . Bu t Virginin
tried too hard to stay in tou ch , He fell
off with out inj u ry b UI was a b le to ,
restart a nd rejoin th e baule. How ever .
he had lost a 101 of g ro und but he kept
go ing to fin ish 20th , returning to the,
paddock with tears st re a m ing d own
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his cheek.
At lea st he fini shed the ra ce .
Am eri can Skip Aksl and had to SlOp'
ea rly o n with a fla t rea r tir e and C hristian Esrrosi of France pulled oulon the sixth lap wit h mech a nica l
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prob lems.
Big surprise in the first leg was til('
a lmos t u n k n o w n It al ian G iova n n i
R os s i wh o at 011(' sta g (' in t lu -
proceed ings eaug ht and passed Ce n .t to on ly to lose co n ta ct after a slow
refuell ing stop. Even '" his fourt h
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