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Round 4: Spain
"This race
was harder than
the first one," Fogarty said afterwards. "Not only did the
tires move a lot more due to the higher
temperatures, but my lead was such that
I made a few mistakes. I had to kick
myself a few times to stay concentrated."
Exactly the same problem besieged
Slight. He said: "When I saw Scott crash,
I started thinking about the point standings . lf the FIM accepts our appeal, that
might have been the moment that I took
over th e championship lead. Then 1
noticed a hill around the circuit had
caught fire , which made me worry that
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the race would be ended prematurely
and that we would only get half of the
points. Fortunately, 1 succeeded in motivating myself again in the last couple of
laps, an d that earned me th is secon d
place."
Po len fini shed seventh, only one
tenth of a second behind Bontempi.
"I changed the gear ratio for this race
and als o chose a harder tir e. But that
seemed to be a mistake," Polen said.
"Right from the start, I got into trouble.
During the two laps 1 was leading, the
bike had already started sliding. That's
why 1 am happy about the result I got.
Plus, I shouldn't complain about the
four rounds we've done with the brandnew RC45 up to now . I've scored about
half of the maximum number of points. "
Carlos Cardus finished an honorable
eighth, after having disappointed with
13th place in the first hea t. For Pirovano,
a streak of bad luck continued. He never
go t near the top men, struggling the
whole race with Stephane Mertens and
Serafino Foti (both on 888s) and frenchman Adrien MoriIIas because of an electrical problem. His official 916 wouldn't
pull over 8000 rpm. Still, it was the first
race or session of the weekend that he
finished without having to run back to
the paddock.
The two Spanish races may have
lacked some suspense but, in any case,
they put back lots of thrills in the point
standings.
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Clrcuito Albacete
Albacete, Spain
Results: June 19, 1994
QUALIFYING: 1. Ca rl Fogarty (1:33.347); 2. Scali
Russell (1:33.542). 3. Jam es Whitham (1:33.864); 4. Aaron
SUgh. (1:34.109); S. Paol o
(1:34.449); 6. Piergio rgio
Boneempi (1:34.631); 7. Terry Rymer (1:34.654); 8. Carlos
Ca rdus (1:34.682); 9. Massimo Meregalli (1:34.723); 10.
Valerio Destefanis (1:34.779); 11. Doug Polen (1:34.856);
Casou
12. G ianm aria Liveran i (1:35.305); 13. Simon Cr afar
(1'l5.346); 14. Andreas Meklau (1:35.359); 15. Serafino
Foti (1'l5.428); 16. Brian Morrison (1'l5.510); 17. Mkhael
Paquay (1'l5.564); 18. Stephane Me rtens (1'l5.6S0); 19.
Fabrizio Pir ovano 0 :3,$.682); 20. Adrien Ma rillas
(1'l5.696); 21. Mauro Lucx:hiari (1:36.245); 22. Jose Kuhn
(1.36.381 ); 23 . Mauro M oroni (1:36.415); 24 . A ld eo
Presciutti (1.36.527); 25. Denis Boncris (1:36.604); 26.
Jean-Marc Dele tang (1:36.624); 27. Bernard Cazade
(1:36.842); 28. Stefano Caracchi (1:36.859); 29. Thierry
Crine (1:36.B97);30. G