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Round 4: Monza Circuit
(Left ) Dur ing the fi rst race Corser suffered
brake troubles th at put him in co ntact with
Kawasaki -mounted Antho ny Gobert, and
the pair cras hed. Neither rider was
serio us ly hurt.
(Below) Colin Edwards II sm iles. Why? A
rostrum finish In race one behind Fogarty
and Aaron Slight.
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(Due) ; 16. An drea Pe r se lli (D ue); 17. Ru ss ell Wood
(Him) ; 18. Bruno Cira fici (5uz ); 19. Ald ec Pr es ciu tti
(Due) ; 20. Brun o Sca to le IKaw).
T ime: 32 m in., 5 1.383 St."C
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D is tance : 18 laps, 64.871 mil es
Average speed: 118.463 mph
Margin of victory: 1.949 sec .
Fastest lap: Fogarty, 1:48.330/119.765 m ph
RAC E TWO: 1. Pier-Francesco Chili (Du e); 2. Carl
Fogarty (Du e); 3. Aaron 5lif;ht (Hen): 4. Yasutomo N agai
(Ya m ); 5. Colin Ed wards II (Yam ); 6. Mau ro Luechi ari
(Due) ; 7. Sim o Crafar (Ho n): 8. Fabrizi o Piro vano (Dud;
9. An dreas Mekla u (Du e); to. John Reyn old s (Kaw): 11.
Mas sim o Me:rcgalli (Yam ); 12. Anthony Gobert (Kaw);
13. Paolo Ca so li (Yam); 14. satoshi Tsugimotc (Han); 15.
Ferd inanda Di Maso (Due); 16. Brun o Cir afict Two Superbike specialists made a ' comeback .'in MonZe. Terry
· is the case now. Ducati riders have sl.ightly improved their lap tions arisen by this, Neil Tuxworth atso had to admit that negoti-. Rymer showed up with two ex-Presciutti Ducatis (88B) after .ear-.
times on the different.circuits this year. Some Iour-cyllnderrid- : ations were still going on with other top riders who might fill the
lier attempts to get hold of a 916 had not succeeded. "It is better
erson the other hand, have gone backward. Maybe this isa
vacancy in the second half ot .tne. season. John Kocinski and. to trY and race these bikes than to .watch the races on televimatter 'of development. or also a result of the tires that are not 'Eddie Lawson are definitely. not ori the shopping list of HRC. : ·
sion," the' Londoner said. In the first i ace 'the iue l tank came '
.working welL.:" Most reactions in the four-cylinder camp ranged
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.loose and broke the fuel tine: inthe second race' the engine
from a diplomatic "step in the good direction" to a plain ·"that will '. Tal.king .about the tactcry Hondas, Team Rum ! was happy
ove rhea ted.. a problem which had occurred during ·practice
· not change anything on the track." According to Neil Tuxworth, dispose once again of one 'ot the Polen 'bikes for Monza, even
already. His place in the.Bimotatearn had been taken by Rus- .
Carl Fogarty adm itted that he does not even feel the extra : thouqh this deal was .made 'only a ·!ew days before 'the .race.
sell Woo d , who had already entered the factory Tesi in some
weight that is 'on the bike. And the Briton is one of the only facOne .week .earner, the Bergamo-based team had received the
WSC races three years ago,.gaining fame especially thanks to .
tory Ducati riders not' using the nine pound telemetry system on
speci al parts which had been promised to them from the begin- .. his "devoted" racing style . The South African will ·also ride in
.board. So he ·shoufd be one' of the first victims. Tuxwortti and
ning of the season on. .The crate ·from Japan included among Albacete, but then probably go back tohis own country..where
Oscar Burnladded: "We can lose three 'or for-more kilos (six to
other things:.camshafts; pistons; valves; and an ignition system .: he participates in·the national 250cc championship. Bimota also
· nine pounds) on our bikes, but that will cost us a lot of money: . that proves to be valuable especially between BOoo and 12,000
said that they had rnade conside rabte improvements on the
For the time being, ·we do not even bother.rThe fact that the rpm. Due to the different suspension systems used 'on both ' . throttle response: which seemed to be one of.lhe biggest prob· limits' are still 11 pounds a part.was another stumbling block for
bikes (Ohlins on the Rumi, and Showa on the factory machine), Iems in the beginning of the season, ' .
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Aaro~ Slight: "I do not understand . hy they have. not introduced
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SimonCrafar decid ed to ' concentrate 6n the factory Honda.
According to some journalists : Colin Edwa rds had been·invit>
' the same weight limit for all bikes: Maybe FIM will decide to give . Sund ay afte rnoon, Team Rumi li nally received co nfirmation
ed 'to do a test ride ·on the Yamaha 500cc GP bike .of Luca
us ·another 'advantage' as soon as they see that this first step ' from HRC to that they would have a' factory bike attheir .(jispos·has not changed anything:
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Cada lora ' a few days aft er tlie Mugello Grand ' Prix . "I don't '
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·know where that com es from ;" said the Texan : "p i oba bly
EverY extra mph counts 'on the fast circuit of Monza. Yamaha' somebody saw me talking with the .Yamaha team. at Mugello,
· The weight is· not the ;~IY asPect'the FIM '~nd the consti~cto~
· have been thinkirig about the last couple of.weeks. Accor9ing to was seen experimenting with s6mes ort of wax during the week- .where I spent the weekend, but a test ride was never mentioned· .I did stay at Mugellci the day after th.eGrarid Prix,.to ·
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