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,M T C O S Beaucaire,F OO R S rance , Beaucaire C lassic • (Above) Jimmy Button, who will campaign the 125cc GP series on the Magic Bike Honda team managed by Danny laPorte , placed as high as fifth in the third moto. (Left) For the second year in a row, Tallon Vohland, of the JHK Silkolene Kawasaki team,!'Ion the Beaucaire Classic MX in France. The event is the first major warm-up race for the upcom ing GP season. Vohland won two out of three motos. (Below) Belgian Stefan Everts finished third in both the first and second motos but crashed out of the third. By Alex Hodg kinson BEAUCAIRE, FRANCE, FEB. 12 t took just 10 days for Tallon Vohland to get well enough acquai nted with his new steed - th e factory 250 GP Kawasaki - to repea t his 1994 , win at the firs t major race of th e Eu rop ean ou tdoor motocross sea son - the Beau caire Classic . "I never expected to w in here again this yea r: ' admitted the American newcome r to th e JH K Silko lene Kaw asaki team. "I've see me d to fade a little ph ysically later in the season in past years, so I mad e a cons ciou s effort not to do too much too early th is year. i d idn't race th e Go ld en Sta te o r anything b a ck home, and I only got on a bike again 10 days ago when we came down here to the south 'of France to test." , , Onl ookers could have been forgiven for thinking otherwise as the American won the first two motos and cruised to a final moto sixth to clinch matters. Vohland's first win came with a first lap inside pass on a drop-off on Sandro Puzar; the 1990 250cc World champ from Italy refu sed to be shaken off but could find no way back,to the front. It was again Pu za r wh o holesh ot in moto two, but he surr endered the lead before the 10 lapper was halfw ay when he oversho t a com er int o the fence. • Vohlan dhad already leapt past Kurt Nicoll but the Brit gave him his hardest race: " Hey, he was qu ick ou t there. I thought I w as goi ng fast. ib ut he was find in g lin es all around th e tra ck and showing me his front wheel." N ic oll, m a kin g hi s official HR C debut, was not unduly wo rried at h is defe at in this race. "Tallon passed me on the first lap at the step-up jump: ' said Nicoll . "I don 't like the look of it and I'm not going to jump it in a race like this. I tried to com e ba ck to him a few tim es but he kept shu tting the door hard and it wasn 't worth a collision." 'N icoll' s chances of the overall had been spoiled by a first mot o mishap. "I was concentrating on wh ere I could try a pass and was a little careless and that le t Demaria jump ins id e m e o n the uphill triple," Nicoll said. "We touched and I went down." There we rethree thr eats to Vohland goi ng into the final mot o: Puzar, who had remo unted to finis h fourth in race " tw o ; Kawa saki team leader Stefan Everts, who had looked impressively smoo th in rides through to 3-3 finishes