Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

doub t but th at hi s wagon wa s ro ll ing agai n. " He's a so n of a bitch," said Mam o la d uring a joint interview. " I go into bends as qu ick as h im, then he squares it off, and it's as th oug h he's been fired fro m a cannon." T ak ahiko T aira was fo urth fastest , his best-ever on a 500, showing how th e Marlboro tea m is recove ri ng lost grou n d n o w th at th ey're u sin g cylinders grou nd by Kel carruthers. Mam ola filled the fro nt row in fifth . H e's spent th e week ge tti ng hi s arm treat ed af ter it "pu mped up" a t Do ning to n , and was hoping th e p ro blem wo uld not troubl e him again. " I' Il need a n o peration a t th e end of th e year," he said. . Rob McEln ea was six th fastest and showing more aggressio n than he ha s all year. Next ca me a pair of mi sfortu na te cras he rs - Haslam and Christia n Sarron, who banged hi s head yet agai n , but not hard eno ug h to put him o ut of the race. Ninth fast est was Didier de Rad ig ues, whose ever-im proving Cagi va han dles a nd accelerates well , and sho wed no to p-speed d isad vantage ei the r do wn th e lo ng stra igh t. Niall Mackenzie was 10th a mo ng th e close times, com pl aining of the bumps. At the start of th e 500cc GP, th e green light followed the red so q uickly that ma ny riders were ca ug h t na pp ing, a mo ng the m Spe ncer, who set off 14th. No t so H asla m , riding the H onda NS R, who immediately opened a small lead over Lawson, McElnea, Gardner, Roger Burnett a nd Mackenzie. By lap two, Gardner was second, and he passed Hasla m on e la p lat er. From then on, th e race was his a lone. By ha lf-distance he was a lmost 10 seconds cl ear, and in compl et e control. Behind Gardner, a five-man group had been joined by Spencer and was led by Marnola, while th e o thers struggled to get past Haslam , . whose NSR was very fast along the straight . By lap 13, Lawson had broken free, an d q uickly go t past Marnola, whose arm trouble was returning to take the edge off his speed. Lawson valiantly chased Gardner in a fine display of sus tai ned aggressio n. "Earlier on, . my fro nt tire was slidi ng," the 27year -o ld Ca lifo rnia n said. " It seemed to take time to ge t u p to tempera ture. I j ust kep t p ush ing . in sp ite of the sli des, and a lthough I was ge tti ng close at th e end I d id n't really expect to catc h Wayn e." In th e last lap , La wso n carved almost two seconds off the gap and was just 2.2 seconds shy across the line. Aside from the bug on h is visor (" T he more I wiped at it, the worse it go t!" ), Gard ner's only problem was with another piece of Swedish "livestock." "A rabbit ra n across th e track on the straight. I braked early, and had wor ked out where I was going to take to the dirt when it darted out of th e way." In the closing laps, sure of victory, Gardner said he was "able to cruise." Mamola hung o n to third, but McE lnea was having a fine ride behind him, and caught to within 1.2 secon ds of the American in spite of his ow n tire prob lems, and a serious (an d visib le) lack of straightline speed . T he sa me problems afflicted Mackenzie, w ho *ad~'been ·' ., as hi gh as thi rd , bu t dropped back. " I was mak ing ti me on th e bends early o n, but th at chewed u p my fro nt tire," the Sco tsman said, after fin ishing fifth. Beh ind Mackenzie, H aslam fough t off Spe ncer thro ug hou t, after the form er Wor ld Champion had easily climbed throug h the field. Haslam had his own front ti re problems . " I tried many different corner lin es, and in th e end th e only way to get ro und some of th em was to power it until .-------------------------------------------, " . . . 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