MOTOCR'OSS
Co ntinued fro m p age 17
Hansson was getting tited. "I think it
must've taken a little bit too much out
of me to come back in race one," said
fifth-place finisher Hansson. He just held
off Jerem y Wh atl ey (sixth ), J o rgen
Nilsson (seventh) and Dirck Geukens
(eighth).
First race leaderboard riders Weustenraed and Boonen were well down in moto
two. Weustenraed led Smets past Sulzer
for ninth and 10th, respectively, in the
closing laps, whi le Boonan failed to
finish.
The KTM domi nation conti nued in
race three.
Nicoll, again, took the holeshot from
the inside gate, but Rossi was already all
over him during the first lap .
The Ausman machines pulled relentlessly away from the opposition, as thirdplaced Jobe fell on lap two, and Rossi
launched attack after attack on ' leader
Nicoll.
On the second lap, Rossi dove inside
at the bottom of the main hill only for
N icoll to force his way back past at the
top. Three laps later, Rossi made an
outside pass in front of the main gallery
and Nicoll had no answer.
"I tried to keep up , but after three laps
Franco was five seconds ahead I was
pu lling away from the rest, but it was
pointlessto contin ue to chase . Franco was
just too fast for me today," admitted
Nicoll.
Liles was a lonely third until he bent
the rear brake pedal around tile footpeg
late in the race.
" I stopped to try to repair it, but it
broke off so I had to ride to the finish
without the rear brake."
Hansson, who was running near the
front, again, got tited in the second half
of the race and dropped back to ninth,
wh ile third-place Jorgen Nilsson fended
off the renewed challenge of Jobe, who
had ri dden back from eigh th af ter
remo unting.
" I was keeping him (jobe) back un til
this guy on a Kawasaki (Gerard Delepine )
who had been sitting at the side of the
track suddenly pu lled back into the race
and ran straight across my line," said an
angry Nilsson.
That move helped Jobe take third
place.
Finn Joban Boonen rode a magnificent
race to advance from I I th to fifth, having
picked up sixth -place J oel Smets on his
charge up the leaderboard Holland 's
Karl Sulzer slipped by Liles' crippled
Kawasaki on the last lap for seventh; Liles
was eighth. Hansson finished ninth. CN
Results
TIMED P RACTICE: 1. Georges Job< (2 min.. 16.11
); 2. France Rossi (2:16.53); 3. Billy Li les (2:16.70);
4. Karl Sulzer (2:17.71); 5. Ronny w eustenr.>
