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Wayne Gardner (1 ) lofts the front wheel of his Rothmans Honda en route to winning the Belgian GP; Christian Sarron (6 ) pursues before crashing.
Edd ie Lawson (3 ) leads Sarron (7 ) and Kev in Schwantz on the first lap
of the 500cc GP; Lawson finished second. Schwantz and Sarron crashed.
World Championship Road Race Series:
Round 9
·Gardner- takes second
ina row in Belgium .
By Henny Ray Abrams
FRANCORCHAMPS, BELGIUM, JULY 3
Ro th mans Honda 's World Champion
Wayn e Gardner continued h is m id-season
surge with a second consecutive win over
Marl boro Yamaha's Eddie Lawson, winning the Belgian Grand Prix
on th e wet and dangerous SpaFran co rchamps circuit b y
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30. II secon d s. Th e A us t ra IIan
Iini hed th 17 I
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e - ap, . -rru e race in
46 minutes, 55.21 seconds for an
average speed of 93.75 m ph .
But th e most surp risi ng acco m plishment of the day went to Randy
Mamol a wh o finis hed third, gi ving
Cagiva their highest placing ever in
500cc GP competition a nd first
podium.
" It 's been a lo ng time coming,"
Marnola, easily the crowd favori te,
said. " It felt so good to show my .
ability."
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Lawson's Belgian teammate Didier de Radi gues finished fourth after
Pepsi Suzuki's Kevin Schwantz fell
with three lap s to go , breaking his
right knee cap. Schwantz was take n
to Bol ogna the day after the race to
have an operation to correct 'the
. break and has not ru led out the
possib i lity of re tu rn i n g for d i e
Yugoslavian GP in tw.o weeks time.,
T eam Lucky Strike R o berts
Wa yn e Ramey, un settled by the
chanei
a ngmg con di .
mons, Ii h ed fifth ,
nus
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h W Id
roppm.g to .tIT .m t e . or
Championship pom t . s ta n.d m &.s.
La :wso n still lead~ th e list Wlt~ b .9
p oin ts t~ Ga~dner s 125 and Rame.y s
117. Ram~y s fellow ~ucky Strike
m ember IS. f0l;lrth with 89 even
though he didn t race today.
!i:)
~agee fell .hard in practice . on
Fnday, .suffenng a .secon.d degree
conc1;lsslOn and sending him to ~he
hospital for the night. The Belgian
Federation's doctor refused to allow
him to ride on Sunday, taking the
burden of making the decision off
Magee.
Mike Baldwin rode to 20th place
on a T ea m Katayama th ree-cylinder
Honda in his role in the movie
currently being made about GP
racing, " American Built. " Baldwin,
