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The 27-year-old won three GP s last year, but su ffered from poor starts and crashes. He started his new associa tion with Honda, how ever, in fine fashion , having nipped Cardus in the season opener in japan. Most feel the battle for the 250cc crown will go to th e wire between Cadalora and Cardus. Helmut Bradl 1990 Results: 4th in 250cc championship Team HB Honda radl didn 't win a Grand Prix in 1990, but he cam e close. The 28-year-old West German fin ished second three times in wh at was his fourth season of GP racing. A crash in Holland left Bradl with an injured an kle and he missed three races. He was ab le to come back without missing a beat , though, and he closed the season wi th a third and two second place fin ishes. Bradl has already given up ground to Cadalora and Cardus, h is main cha mp ionshi p riva ls, in j apan where he fini shed sevent h. B Wilco Zeelenberg 1990 Resu lts: 5th in 250cc championship Sampson-Sharp Honda he you ng Dutch man vaulted him self from his ra nking as the top 250cc privateer in 1989 to a cha mp ionship conte nder in 1990. Zeelenberg won a single GP in Germany after a race-long battle with Cardus and Kocinski, and he finished third four time s. Zeelenberg fini shed the recent japanese GP third behind Cadalora and Cardus, and he should be a thr eat to fight for th e crown in '91. . T THE 250(( CLASS Carlos Cardus 1990 Results: 2nd in 250cc championship Team Repsol Honda arlos Card us foug ht ·john Kocinski throug hout the 1990 season, but his attem p t to win Spain's second successive 250cc title went down th e drain a t the final round in Australia when he suffered a brok en shift linkage. Cardus stru ng together a very consis tent seaso n in '90, winning four races, finishing second three tim es, third twice, fourth twice and fifth once . His worst finish came at the U.S. GP where he finished sixth. The 31-year-old is hoping to make 1991 his year C and he's star ted it by fini shing second to Lu ca Cadal ora at the·season opener in japan , ending any speculation th at a post-season broken leg would slow his progress. Cardus returns in '91 wit h Repsol backing, but ha s added crew chief Kel Carruthers to his team. Luca Cadalora 1990 R esu lts: 3rd in 250cc championship R othm ans H on da Kanemoto he former 125cc Worl d Cha mp ion has mad e th e jump to Erv Kanemoto 's Honda team for 1991 after fin ishing behind Kocinski and Cardus last year on Giacom o Agostin i's Marlboro Yamahas. T Martin Wimmer 1990 R esults: 6th in 250cc championship Tea m Lu cky Strike Su zuki immer has long been kn own as a technician, and he will get the chance to prove wheth er or not th at 's a worthy label in 1991 as he runs a team using the all-new V-twin Suzuki. Wimmer fin ished sixth last season on a factory Aprilia, but he will spend '91 developing the new Suzuki. It would be liard to find a better man for the task. The West German finished 14th in his debut rid e on the new bike in japan. 01 W 23