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Former Yamaha man Alb erto Pui g has sw i tc hed to Ap r i l ia , joining a mon g others last yea r' s top p rivateer An dy Preining in a stro ng force, a nd they've been p romised more sophisti cated en g ine parts. Giler a 's effort is th e b ig quest ion. ' The revi ta lized Italian co m p a n y has p ro m ised to h ave a full go a t th e job , a nd th eir V-rwin engin e was alr ea dy well advan ced last sea so n : when th ey recruited vetera n tuner H ara ld Bartol to join th e team. They ha ve also a ttracted a worthy pair o f rid er s - doub le cha m p io n Carlos Lavado, now a seasoned vete ra n; a n d th e redoubtable J ean -Ph illipe Ru ggi a , after a n unsuccessful a ttem p t a t the 500cc cla ss. It is a goo d recipe for a batch o f fireworks entirely appropria te to a class th a t has never cea sed to be exci tin g, no matter what ch a nges have struck o the r cle me nts o f G P racing. 125cc • T he sa me co u ld be sai d o f th e 125s - a t least since th e int ro d uc tio n o f th e single-cylinde r class in 1988. This year, th er e h as been a maj or reshuffle in th e ranks, as well a s th e departure o f th e two -time ch am p Capirossi , for tw o yea rs th e dominant force. It is hard to predict who will now emerge from th e seething mass o f H ondas, but my money would go on Ralf Wa ldmann, who produced in th e end a more im p ressi ve a nd co n sisten t performance th an th e other .bright sta r o f the season, Noboru Ueda. Then agai n , th e Japanese rider wa s a GP novice, a n d th is year joins th e tw icevictoriou s Pil eri Corse. One hopes that hi s teamma te Fa u sto G resini will be as helpful a nd fri end ly to him as h e was to Ca p iro ssi. Gabriele Debb ia , who was co nsisten tly im pressiv e last year on th e Aprilia , h as also switch ed ' to Honda; while o the r notables who have sworn a lle g ia n ce to th e RSl25 a re Jorge Martinez, Dirk Raudies, Nobo yuki Wak a i, Kazu to Sakata and Ezio Gia nola , back a fter a dreadfu l co u p le o f years with Derb i. Hisashi Unernot o a n d Kinya Wada a re a lso Hondamounted , a nd Peter Ga lvin is down for another year on his RS. But it may not all go Honda 's way . The injury-prone Peter Oettl won a ra ce last yea r, a n d retu rn s o n the Rotax; Alessandro Gramigni also took th e checkered flag on the Aprilia, an d he's back o n th e same machine. Former Honda men Hans Spaan a n d Bruno Casanova have als o switched to Aprilia , along with a handful of o the rs, as th e Italian bikes co me on strea m to privat eer s. 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