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Ans tie (Hon); 7. Dirkx; 8. Chris Jacobs (Hbg) ; 9. Giovanni Cavatorta (Hon ); 10. Pignotti; 11. Weustenraed; 12. Theybers; 13. ja mes Ma rsh (Hon); 14, Kuci rek; IS, Duchon, Olle 1. Billy Liles (Hon); 2. Da rryll King (Kaw) ; 3. Marcus Hansson (Hon ); 4. Joel Smets (Ve'C): S. Franco Rossi (Hon); 6. Peter Dirkx (Hon); 7. Jacky Martens (Hus); 8. Danny Theybers (H on); 9. Ronny Weus"""aed (Hon); 10. jeremy W1wtley (H on) . . WORLD C H A M PI ONSH I P 500« MX SE RIES POINTS STANDINGS: 1. Marcus H ansson (133); 2. Jo e l Smets (130); 3. Jac ky Ma rten s(124); 4. Ronny Weu stenraed (92); 5. Billy Lite (81); 6. Ge rt Jan Van Doom (78); 7. jo ha n Boonen (61); 8, jeremy Whatley (51); 9. Darryll King (50); 10. Sig g i Bauer (46); 11. Danny Tbeybers (44); 12. Pe ter Dirltx (43); 13, Franco Rossi (36); 14, Gerald o.l"';ne (36); 15. Mervyn Anstie (34); 16, Miroslav Kucirek (32); 17. Sha yne King (30); 18. Carlo H ulsen (25); 19, Avo Leek (22); 20. Georges jobe (15). Upcoming Rounds: Round 6 - Sverepec, Slovakia, June 5 Round 7 - Mill, Holland, June 19 were both in trouble. They gated ou tside the top 10 al on g with Hansson, but were m o v ing w ell until a 'si m p l e fall b y Martens put him down to 19th. A cou ple of laps later, th e champion was out : in agony . " I w ent to pas s a guy and he sto p p ed," said Martens. :'1 pulled in th e f r on t b rake ha rd an d wen t down. M y left knee go t cau ght be tween the triple clam p and th e radiator cowling." Sm ets ha d b een m ov ing forward grad ua lly, until h e ran w ide i n a tum, expl aining, " I go t stuck i n some m ud and stalled; and again the bike w ouldn ' t start fo r a long, lo ng time!" All this left W eustenraed heading for the overall as well as the moto win, but it was n o t to be . "I got a fla t rea r tire with four laps to go," said Weustenraed. " What a way to lose a GP! " Suddenly Darryll K i n g appea red to have th e mo to an d overall wins, with Liles still on ly sixth d espi te a fine charge from 22nd on lap o ne. Bu t fate to o k a hand, an d King started to drop back . " I just go t tired," said King. " My fi tness is nearly back , but not quite. I n eed ano t he r m onth ." H e wa s pa ssed b y Rossi, and then H ansson p assed both of them. "I sho u l d have hit the front earlier," said Hansson. " I fell the fi rst time 1 w ent to pa ss King, and had to do i t all " Y 8rIefl"\l,' , . I " I again. I w as stronger than th em . 1 knew I co uld w i n when W eu st enraed wen t out. " King was third g oing int o t he l ast lap, an d while Liles had p assed Whatley for fo u r th, th e gap was still l arge. Bu t the American was ch arging. "I g ues s 1 j u st f ound th e g roove o ut t h er e a n d n obod y el se di d," said Liles. "I h ad some really fine l ines at th e back of the track. I thought I might ev en ha ve got Rossi. 1 knew the GP was mine when we started th e las t lap ." An u p hill p ass o n a surprised King, who d idn't even know Liles was there u ntil he w as p ast, clinched it. Bi lly is back - but the battle for the title is already tinged with bitterness before t he strong men of world motocross have even reached t h e halfway stage of th ei r series! a Itali an GP Arco dl Trento, Italy Resu lts : May 29, 1994 (Round 5 of 12) (Above) Maicomounted Brla n Wheeler (10) leads Att lllo Plgnotti (18) over a long table-jump. (Right) Defending champion Jacky Mart ens was Involved in a bit of controversy when he wasn't penalized for being over the sound limit, desp ite losing his silencer In a fi rst-moto crash. MOTO 1: 1. Joe l Smets (Ver); 2. Ja ck y Martens (H us) ; 3, Billy Liles (Hon); 4, Darryll King (Ka w) ; 5. Danny The ybers (Hon); 6, Ronny Weustenraed (Ho n); 7. Peter Dirkx (Hon); 8. Christian Burnham (Hon); 9. Brian Wheeler {Mal): 10. Rudi Van Lee uwen (H o n) ; 11. Miroslav Kucirek (Kaw ); 12. Mari an Duchon (Hon); 13. Atti lio Pig notti (Hon); 14. Christian Cha nton (Yam); 15. Franco Rossi (Hon) . MOTQ 2: 1. Ma rcu s Ha nsson (H on ); 2. Rossi; 3. Liles; 4. King ; 5. Jere my Wh atl ey (Hon) ; 6. Mervyn Ma~~s Hansso'n is ~Ire~~y'tj,~ n~wSw~iSh 'Open C~a'mpi~n: . " There'w~i~"p~i2e~ '~pleniY f~rth~ ~~i~k m~n 'in I;';I~: nie'~;s~st ' ' three qualifiers won expensive watches: 'while a one-kilogram , , . ,. ' . , ' .. . . ' , ,' son tally to five wins and a second, and he is 41 points ahead . bar .ol silver worth $4000 ,was ,w'aiting for the tastest .manen · Gert Jan Van Doorn will try to rejoin the 500C0 GP trail at his ,w~h only one round remaining. ,', " ' . ' Sunday moming: With prizes atse for the second and third. .Tille , home GP at Mill, Holland on June 19. Surgeons were unable to ' , : ' . ' ,' , ' : . ' .. chaserS, JackY M,art ens; Joel .S mets and Marcus ' Hans son ' , plate the hand bone he broke at tile British GP, 'as the fracture BelgIan J,oel Srnets could be racing a true Verternati engine by shared the win.ningson satUrday, but tt was Jlying-Iapspecialist was too close to the knuckle. " the end of the' series. (Now, the, Vertemati uses a piston, cylin- " Darryll Klng.who nipped them all for 'the big ,prize on Sunday . ' ,der and headfrom a Husaberg.),Team boss Guido Vertem atJ ' morning, Smets and Ronny Weustenraed .w ere' secimd and , The Kawasaki-mounted front-runners were decimated for the ttal-: . said at,Arco::'The toperid has now been completed, and we ~iII ' third fastest. In racing, th;lCewere trophies for the first three in Ian GP. Siegfried Bauer; wtlO had'been so optiniisticof challeng: be c:arrying out extensive tests over the next two months. If the each.moto, plus the ,rorsi six overall.. . ' , , ing for the win on'his favorite ltillianand Slovakian' tracks, wiU be ' engine proves reliable, then wemay use ~ in August" Vertemati '· , . , . · out oraction until at least ,the end 'of the, season '~fter shattering . added that the motor will be, ~ater-cooled~ thou ~h they had T he support class at Area was ',also 'a round of the Italian ' bones in Ihe ankle and lower leg at a minor race near his home in ' toyed WIth the posSibility of an eir-ccotec engine, while a revised ' , Women 's Motocross Championship ·Series. The leaders Austria. Bauer must'remain out of action' for some time Yet, follow: "frame with' more bolted joints (rather than welded) has already were setting times equivalent to the rear end of the GP field. . . i,ng aIour-hcur operation'. Jo han ,'B oonen will 'also miss the ' , been rnade.un ltaly, 'Smets' bike featured new pl astics which ' , ' · . .' . .. ' , " , • remaining'GPs after an operation on Thursday. The Belgian fell enhanced the appearance oft,his beautiful bik~ even more.' . Jac,ky Mart ens is curre ntly' using !i Showa Iront lo rk again, ' recurrence of back and hernia problems after the Kester Belgian . " , , ' . ' . , ' . " , .,. . . . ' , . , . ' . rather than the special Marzocchi Unit he started the season on, championship race. He had suffered similar problems last season ' W~lter Bart olini, the diminutive ltahan whose sparkhng pertor- . .white Bill y Ules was back on the ltaliar!'Marzocchl even though and again in March; an operation was unavoidable. Estonian Avo mances on the Vert,emati Husabergin 1991 sparked the fOurhe' had a set 01 the expensive-Japanese factory ' forks in the Leak turned up to try to ride at Arco, but was severely handi- stroke revival; isto race the Vertemati motcrosser again in the' , back' of his truck. ':'The Showas are besttor sand tracks, but the' capped by a knee injury sustained at Brou, France, on Monday. ltalian championship this autumn. Bartolini Is 'currently.road rae- .' MarzocCnis are best on hard-pack trilcks like this; explained the He WIthdrew after two slow practice laps, .. ' . 'ing in Italy and the European championships" but contacted ,the . American. "I'm not contracted to,anyone'for Sus pensiori, sot win' ..' . . " , ', . , , ' Ve rte~ati brothers recently. 'Walter 'said that he, had,been out " ,use W\1ichever is' best week by week." Ules actually started ,the Estonian Juri Ruul was an absentee due to ,a broken leg from , practicing 0 1) a 250 Yamaha, and felt tile urge to race motocross . season .on WP and still 'has that fork In his truck, as well. The the sa me French race as, Leok , while Ander s Sve ns son again; said Vertemati. ~He asked if he could ride one' of ou ~ , Jobe team plans frame' geometry adjustments in the near future , missed the Italian round after a severetumble attheSwadish · 'bikes, We are concentrating on our GPeffort at present, and he ' and this could also affect future f orkchoice. The Husqvama championship race, but will be back in Slovakia.. " has his road race' commitments, so I suggested that he ride for. team was due to test a ,revised Marzocclii fork ,(as well as the , . us again in September: Vertemati added that he wants to' add a ' 'prototype' 1995 GP Husky) on,Monday a t' Arco, but it seems ' Shayne King expects ,to return:to action at the -Dutch GP on good Italian rider to his team neXt year. " " , : ' likely that Mart,ens \,Viii stay 'with' the Showaunit for therestot June 19. In Italy, his bike was being 'ridden by, fellow New ' ' , .. ' " , " , ' . ". , " , ' tneseason . The Belgian' felt happier with t he Japanese fork, ' Zealander Camero n Negus ,'in his final European outing before -The ,Geneva Supercross. scheduled as the final round ,of the ' and it ,is suspected that they 'are,not the same internally 'as' returning home. ' . ' ' . World Championship Supsrcross Series , has been cancelled . those sold to the Jobe team: ' , , ,after the ,organizers failed ' to find :a 'major sponsor 'to replace " " .. ,. Fermer c hampion Georg es Jobe finally'started a GP again for , Lucky s trike. There must now be a major questionmark over :' The,Platini team w ill quit the 2~ w orld Motocros~ ChBmpl: ,the first time since the Swiss series opener. "I have got all of the the series. There has been no word on the proposed -American onship next year, Italian 'Alessandro Puzar will return to the, feeling back in mY arm again: .'said the Billgian. "The only probround since promotor,World Sports indicated last December that ' , 125cc GPs with'an as-yet,unnamed young Italian' teammate, lem which still remains' is the muscle wastage 'in the shoulder, they were not willing to pay start money, so presumably the only while Michele Fanton will swttch to the SOOs. The team will stay : which has built up during the break from'racing." .' '. " , races remaining are Paris, Barcelona and Tokyo. on 'Kawasakis. ' · ' I •• ' ' A double.wIn II) the third,round at W hitsuntide br:ou9ht tl is sea-, , < .' ,': .', ", ,. , ' a

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