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Five-time Italian National Enduro Champion Angelo Signorelli celebrates his last- m inute. come-from-behind v ictory at the Incas Rally in Peru. KTM rider Fabrizio Meoni leaves t he t ow n of Areqwuipa during a dayfour special test. Meoni ended up finishi ng fourth overall. Ivan Alborghetti had a comfortable lead going into the f ina l day. bu t adestroyed tire cost the Italian the overall victory by 25 seconds. Signorelli storms to Incas.Rally win_ CUlCO , PER U, J UN E 5-15 Five-ti me Italian National Enduro Champ ion Angelo Signorelli out-lasted and outlucked the rest of the com peti tors in the Acerbis Incas.Rally '89. The Yamaha .rider 20 too k t he o ve r a ll . win after ' _ was provi ded by Franco Acerbis of jumping into t he top spot at .Acerbis Promoti o n , as wel.l asCamel . beati Adven tu res, SoMet Tex tiles, Avendero Freight and Agip Fuel (Ita ly). t he ve r y 1as t mmute,.· eating ou t late- ra ce fa vorite Iva n There weren ine days of racing and Alborgheu i by a mere 25 seconds. one day of rest. Alborgben i, who seemed like a Alborghe ui had fin ished the evening before wit h a very comforta ble 37shoo-i n o n the nex t-to-last day, minu te lead over second pl ace Rysstarted th erun bac k from the jungle zard Ga ncews ki of the -Poli sh team , wi th p lenty of speed and confidence. who was o n ly seconds ah ead of H e led through each of the 'check , Sig nore lli at the tim e. poi nts in the beginn ing and sudde nly dro pped from the standi ngs ' T he event covered 2576 mi les in the so uthern half of Peru, starting wh en his rear tir e self-destructed in Li m a on Monday, june 5. T he from th e hi gh speeds a nd heat. H e fini shed fou rth for the .day, but o n co urse headedsouth do wn the coast to Ica, then sou th agai n to Arequipa a . tire that was missing every kn ob before heading inland to P uno, o n and jus t barely han gin g onto the rim. the shores of Lak e Ti ticaca. The Poli sh ent ra nt Gan cewski, who rider s th en turn ed northeast to . was also in stri king distance o n th e C U lCO , wh ere th ey finally fini shed . last da y, lost all ho pe 'when his rear up , af ter a flat -out fin al run .iruo th e ' wh eel colla psed, leavin g him 'stuck Amazo n Basin town of Puerto Mal _ in th e middle olthe jungle. To add donado a nd back. insult to injury; th e sup port tru ck that picked up Gancewski developed Overall sponsorship for the event severe m echanical p ro blem s and stra nded the whole group for th ree days. Gancewski's teammate, Zbig ni ew Przybyla , up held the team honor by fin ishing third overall for th e even t. Fo urt h wa s Fabrizzio Meoni of Ita ly. Walter Surini, overa ll winner of last year 's Incas Ra lly, finis hed fifth overa ll. During th e event he wor ked his way up to third overall, but never rea lly go t o n th e m ainj et hard enoug h to overco me th e challenge prese nt ed by the rest of the race leaders. Finishing sixth was Polish rider Ga nce ws ki, while Roberto Belm onte of the Peru Desert team finished up hi s rid e o n an XR600 . fo r sevent h overa ll. Eighth overall was Gr eek . Motocross and National End uro Champion Chris tos Tasoulis, who battled up to eig ht h after suffering a massive engine seizure o n the second day and having to accep t th e max imum tim e penalty for the day . japanese legend Tos hi Nis hyama fi n is he d ninth overall, mos tly by virt ue of a' sol id, steady ' ride throughout the event. Nis hyama is a veteran of many ISDEs and was the j apanese organizer for th e In cas Rally . H e introduced seven o ther j apanese rider s to the event. Only one of them, Nokuo T sutornu, finished in the results. Rounding out th e top 10 was Aida Winkler of Italy on a KTM 350. . T he American hope for the even t . was fo rmer Nati onal Enduro Champion Kevin H ines, who rode th e Roof of Afr ica Rally last yea r. · Hines attacked the first day of th e event with , a vengeance - a three-mile . beach race held to determine sta rting .positio n for th e ac tua l rally which would begin th e next day. H e too k a th ird-slot sta rti ng position beh in d French rider Thierry·Magn aldi and Italian Giorgio Grasso. T he next day was th e first' tou gh special test, a 117-mile run during a total 3I5-m ile day. Hines started th ird a nd passed Grasso midw ay thro ugh the test an d had Magnaldi in his sigh ts towar d th e end of the timed course, until he suddenl y ran out of fuel. H e wait ed for assistance, fina lly receiving it from Oll e Ohlsson, the lon e Swed ish en try in th e event and a good friend of Hines'. "When we too k off again, we rode side-by-side to try to star out of each o ther's dust and we never should hav e done that," said Hines. " I was nervous, in a hurry, and not paying attention, and I h it a big roc k in th e ' m iddle of th e road a t abo ut 70 m p h." The resulting cras h broke Hines' collarbone and three of his ribs, and he suffered a mi ld concussion. He had the dubious distinction of being the first rid er to be carried away in the helicopter. After a two -day stay in a Lima hospital he headed home to heal. This-left th e respons ibility for a decent American fini sh in the hands of Sidney Dickson; a tree mov er from ' St. Michael s, Mary land. Dickso n 's last serious rally com pe titio n was in the , London (England ) to Sydney (Australia ) Marathon in 1968, a 1O,500-mi le car rally. But when the alread y unmerciful time schedule got tougher towards the end of th e week, ·Dickson fin a lly arriv ed well afte r dark on hi s rental KTM . Sin ce th e next two days - into the jungl e and back - promised to be brutal , he decided to liang it up and become a touri st. "I proved what} wanted to prove' and I don 't need to try to hurt myself n ow . I had a good time;" said Dickson. . Of the other notable nam es in the · " DN F" colu mn , one in particuiar · stood out - Heinz Kinigadner, 250cc MX World Chainpion in '84 and '85 and a well -known Austrian wildman. Although Kini gadner had ,no previo us rall y experience, he was an immediate favorite for th e win. On th e same day Hines went down th e first full day of th e ra lly Kini gadner was smoking along a cliff-edge mountain road, while feel ing a l ittl e addled from th e altitude and figh ting h is way around someo ne else's dust cloud. When he broke o u t of the dust th e tra i l turn ed right , following a canyon into the edge of th e mountain, Kinigadner was .going too fast to ' make the turn. Forty-feet. across a deep cha sm was the road again; looping back on th e other side of th e can yon, so he did what any decent motocrosser wou lddo -:- he straightened up and jumped it. The bike cased out on the edg e of the road on th e other side , flipping'hi m over the ·bars and safely on to the roa d, while the bike dropped off the cliff. · · ' .