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(Above) Karl Truchsess (69) and Peter Rubalto (l) lead the way as the Macau
Grand Prix gets underway. (Left) The top American fin isher was Michael Barnes
(5), who ended up fifth overall. Barnes is shown here leading Rubatto and
Canadian Michael Taylor, who suffered serious inj uries in the race.
Hislop wins, Barnes
fourth in streets of Macau
By Chris Carter
Photos by Sutton Photographic
MACAU, NOV. 20
cotsman Steve Hislop destroyed
th e competition with a recordbreaking performance on h is
Roc Yamaha YZRSOO at the Macau
G ra n d Prix , t o p p in g te amm a t e
Rob ert Dunlop after two dramatic
races around the Macau street circuit.
En route to his seco nd overall
Macau GP victory, the 31-year-old
Hislop broke Carl Fogarty's 1992 lap
record to beat Dunlop by 4.51 seconds on aggregate time from the two
legs. Hislop finished third in the redflag sho rte ne d fi rst race an d th en
w on the second leg by over seven
seconds .
Florida's Michael Barnes emerged
as the top American finisher. The 25year-old finished fourth overall, the
best American performance since
Ke vin Schwantz won th e race in
1988.
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The event was marred by a threerider crash a t the notorious Lisboa corner in the first race. The accident put
Canadian first-timer Michael Taylor in
the hospital with multiple injuries.
The 28-year-old from Toronto broke
his arm and leg in several places, and
also broke a shoulder blade, colla rbone
and three ribs on the right side of his
body. Taylor crashed and then was run
over by Austrian Karl Truchsess and his
Kawasaki superbike.
O ther rid ers managed to a voi d the
m angl ed mess of m en a nd mach ines,
b u t Da vid Jefferies ran in to Taylor's
machine and also crashed . Like Tru chsess, Jefferies was unhurt, but his 750cc
Yamaha w as b adly d am a ged by th e
im pact and he w as una ble to race in the
seco nd leg of the eve nt, held later in the
day.
" I couldn' t believe how m uch damage you could do just ru n ni ng into
ano ther b ike:' Je ff e ri e s said . "It
destroyed the front forks. "
Grand Prix medical man Dr. Cla udio
Cos ta was in volved in a seven and a
