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(Above) Gerard Rond struggles with the snow on his single-shock Suzuki.
(Below) Honda's Roger DeCoster went ~ for third.
(Above) Brad Lackey loved the snow; went ,-, on his Uni·Trak for the points
lead . (Below) Hakan Carlqvist tallied a pair of seconds.
Jean Jacques Bruno placed sixth riding with a broken collarbone. .
World Championship SOOcc MX Series:
Round 2
Lackey masters
mud in Aust ria
By Alex Hodgkinson
Photos by Nick Haskell
SITTENDORF, AUSTRIA. APR. 20
After losing the power battle in Switzerland
the previous week, Brad Lackey went to
Sittendorf praying for rain. Even Brad got
more than he asked for though when snow fell
Saturday evening and again
during the second moto . But the
American Kawasaki star had a
grin on his face as broad as the
18
Stetson on his head as he stepped up to
take the laurels in the second round of
the 500cc World Championships.
destroying the opposition in both races
to move to th e head of the champion ship table.
Hakan Ca r lq vis t , 250cc World
Champion . is a major threat however;
he twice followed Brad across the line
despite feeling that he is not riding at
his best at the moment , being somewhat unsettled by the different atmosphere at the 500cc GPs.
For Honda. the factory who had won
the opening GP in both 250 and 500cc
clisses just one week before. it was a
weekend of disaster. World Champion
Graham Noyce was again a non -starter
when he was forced to pull off the track
after just four laps in Saturday training.
He was in great pain from his dislocated shoulder and im mediately set
off for Belgium to see Belgian "superdoc ," Dr . Joan Derweduwen.
His Belgian teammates , Andre
Malherbe and Roger DeCoster. were
both involved in a first corner collision
which also involved Gerrit Wolsink
and had to fight hard to get onto the
leaderboard by the end of the race.
Malherbe, leading the championship
at the beginning of the da y after double
wins in Switzerland. never got it to.gether and managed only eighth place
which he backed up with a second race
fifth while Wolsink recovered for a
tenth and a third.
