Protot (2:08,832); 25, Sean Emmett (2:09,154); 26,
Andrew Stroud (2:09.749); 27. Lucio Pedercini
(2:09,861); 28, Scott Gray (2:10527); 29, Cees Doorakkers
(2:12,925); 30. Jimmy Filke (2:13.312).
12Scc GRAND PRIX: 1. Dirk Raudies (Han); 2.
Peter Oettl (Apr); 3. Akita Saito (Hon); 4. Kazuto Sakata
(Apr); 5. H;u:uch.ika Aold (Hon); 6. Hem Torrontegui
(Hon); 7, Stefano Perugini (Apr); 8, Hideyuki akajoh
CHon); 9, T, Manako (Hon); 10, Giovani Sealvini (Apr);
11. Tomolco 19ata (Hon); 12. Yoshiako Katoh (Yarn); 13,
Manfred Geissler (Apr); 14, Luigi Ancona CHonl; 15, J,
Sarda CHonl; 16. H, Kikuchi (Hon); 17. M, D'Agmmo
(Apr); 18. Gabriele Debbia (Yam); 19. Stefan Prein
(Yarn); 20. B, den Breejen CHon); 21. M, Nooren CHon);
22. R. Fila,d CHon); 23, P. den Heyer (Yarn); 24. Masaki
Tokudome (Apr); 25. K. Miyasaka (Han); 26. Stefan
Kur/iss (Yarn); 27, Y, Sugai {Honl; 28, Emilio Alzamora
(Honl; 29, Noboru Ueda CHon); 30, Oliver Koch (Apr);
31. Jorge Martinez. (Yam).
Time: 38 min., 50.272 sec.
Distance 17 laps, 63,756 miles:
Mugin of Victory: 4.878 sec.
F.....t Lap: Hideyuki Nakajoh, 2:15,629/99546 mph,
2SO<:c GRAND PRIX: 1, Max Biaggi (Ap'); 2, Ralf
Waldmann (Han); 3. Tadayuki Okada (Hon); 4. J.P.
.B'r·efl'I', .
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Ruggia (Hon); 5, Kenny Roberts J', (Yam); 6, J,von den
Goorbergh (Han); 7. Nobuatsu Aoki (Hon); 8.
Alessandro Gramigni (Han); 9. Luis d' Antin (Hon); 10.
Jurgen Fuchs CHonl; 11, Carles Checa CHon); 12. Niall
Mackenz;e (Apr); 13, Adi Stadler (Apr); 14. P, von den
Goorbergh (Apr); 15. Giovani Lavilta (Han); 16. Bernd
Kassner (Apr); 17, P, Riba (Apr); 18, M. Bolwerk CHon);
19. Manuel Castilla (Yarn); 20. R. Markunk (Yarn); 21. F.
Van Zutphen (Apr); 22. R. Mulder (Yam); 23. ]eanMichel Bayle (Apr); 24, Takeshi Tsujimura CHonl; 25,
Oliver Petrucciani (Apr); 26. Wilco Zeelenberg (Hon);
27. Renzo Laconi (Hon); 28. Jose Cardoso (Apr); 29.
Lu.is Maurel CHon); 30. S. Hikita (Han); 31. Oliver
Jacque (Hon); 32. Eski1 Suter (Apr); 33, Reno Locatelli
(Apr),
Time: 38 min., 24.532 sec.
Distan.,., 18 laps, 67.506 miles,
Average Speed: 105.455 mph.
MMgin of Victory: 4.522 sec.
F.....t Lap: Max Biaggi, 2.-Q6,078/I07.087 mph. Lap 2.
500« GRAND PRJ)(, 1. Michael Doohan (Hon); 2.
Alex Criville (Hon); 3. Alberto Puig (Ron); 4. Loris
Capirossi (Han); 5. Alex Barros (Han); 6. Norifumi Abe
(Yam); 7, Luca Cadalora (Yam); 8, Shinichi ltoh CHon); 9,
Loris Reggiani (Apr); 10, Juan Borja (Yam); 11, Bernard
much' on the corner exits, .Where power Is
ap'p!ied hist as. the line. carries' you over jhe'
..'
I
,ill '. .
crown', e.ffectively ihcre.a~ing ,your. angle of.
'.
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lean. ·"f reduple of comers; and I . looks so twitc~y - It .makes It more-nervous. Irs.
got past him ,into the hairpin. I was. a bit tighter not because 1m ·trylO~ hard. I. Just want to get
on the way in, ana I felt like I may'have leaned .. through the weekend.
.
the bike over more than usual." On th'e comer
exit, hard. on the pqwer, the LuCky Sirike Suzu: He also criticized' the safety, .echoing CQmment,s made by fellow front-row' qualifier Alber:
ki· suddenly 'slid and sent himl1ying. "It waS so
,
quick that when I was 'clbsing the throttle I was . to Pu19: "Th~re s pl~nty of TUn:off, but you
alread~.in the air," he. said later, He broke his ~e~ SomethlOg t~ stop y?U slodlOg. There
.left collarbone, 'in exactly the same plaCe as in .. s au d be I1'K!re ~ra el traps.
'.
n.at
Japan:in .l991.,· and'left the. rra"c,k .shortly ·to .'Doohim's view is personal, .~~d related dosely.
have..the.lflJ.ury, ~ated; In "~rItal~ . .I II. be ~Ie. to to his riding style. Assen still has many devo.ode In Franc~, he .said.. I ve .odden -with ,thke . tees, however, ·includi.ng s~rpn'se pole qUalifier
thiS before..It s a. bit pamful. out the ~teel plat~
Alex 'Crlvllle, ex-Superbike Champion Scott
means th!!. b0r:te IS compl!ltely stro~g, .'
. ' Rll.seIl (wllO was at pne sta~ secol)d faste~I
In the afternoon.; .the, ~ictim was TetSuya ,Hara. in pra,c;tice, in· hIS second GP), and prE!tty Willi
..
all the 250 and 125 riders..The fanS'are in' little
da, sharing. the points lead witlJ Mw.<.Biaggi as .do,ubt, however, that As~en is one ,of the very
,t/ley, Ilrrived' in Hollarid, The 'Japanese ride.t . best places to watch bikes' in action;' racEl-day·.
was at. full speed on the sweeping,left-hander. crowds well exceeded 100,000,
· th'at concludeS'ltie kinked ."bac~ str~ighr. As '
· he sat ,up to ,ease i;>n the brakes for the foliow-' The meeting had started,on a high note with a
.,Ing $tekkenwal. stlJlleaned 9yer,.t~e,blke slm-·" double-boost to bike racing'from Lucky Strike,
ply, dropped from bel)9ath him, ~Ither fro~ 'a 'They announc'ed that they had renewed one
front'wheeJ tuck-under'oT pOSSibly a seize .. ,: coritraci wit!l Suzuki and'anoiher WIth 'Daryl
Th.!lre, followed a,text-booj( hlgh-sp.eed ,slide.
Beattie, both for the t\ext ~ years, tiOth with
But on the smooth grass and at that speed tIe, , aprons: for the ·futUre. By now the con~rmaron
covered many hundreds of,yards, and was stIli , was no surprise; but eanier in 'thll season lIlere
had lJeen widesprE!ad rumors that the .Amerl,traveling. fast when he, piled Into a hne 01 straw
bales laId across the law~ to' protect the exit .'Cll!1 tobacco company was planning to·quit.bike
from the· StekkenwaJ. :rh,s set,hlm. t.umbling
racing at the end' 01· 1995,'at th'e same time,.as
spectacularly b!lfore he c;ame.to rest'ln a crum- ,'the planned reti[ement, of the. ilrchetypal. Lucky
· 'pled heap. At·first It was reportedth~t Harad!i ,MilO Kevin Schw8lltz. The 'double c6ntract was
,!lad suffered seve",,1 fractured vertebraB', but . officially.confirmed at Assen, at the party of the
as lime passed thB' nllws Improved. .E!y evenlOg year.-.a massive and 'packed-<:>U! celebration of
it was clear that he had, suffered only a Single ·the career of Kevin Schwantz whO confirmed.
-minor fracfure to one, arm, and, ther.e was said his premature retirement two' weeks before.
,19 be ,a "3Q percent ch'anc~' thath!, would race .. ·Past and presE!f!t World' 9hampions- in attendance incluf fO,lIowing countryman Loris
·Capirossi ,010 the 5~c class, preferably on
Honda. But Pllmat broke the vow of si~nce
issued only tWQ races ago, telling' journalists:
'"Male has the opportunity te become ,a lifelong
figurehead ,for Aprilia' and, for Chesterfield, but
we: cannot pay such a high fee. We have
Locatelli and P'ei:ugini and theJe are other riders. We pr.efer maybe .to' lose 'the' champi-'
onship for one yellr."
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,The latest Assen, rumor, the hardening of an '
old one, was that John Kocinski will retum to
Team Roberts, his original home in GP racing,
and probably before the end of this year.
Kocinski, having fallen out with several teams
Ill' toe -Past;' was h.aving a fallow year, with no
ride for 19.95. He was known to be cOurting a
Honda .ride, but is fikely to accept a T~am
. Roberts ilJvitatlon with enthusiasm. Kocinski
.won the 250 tiile w1th the team 'at his first.
attempt in 1990, and came fourth and third In
,the. 500 class in the next two years, before
splitting acrimoniously with the .team to move to
Suzuki's 250 'in 1993 to continue his career
melldown. Now, :tIith top Marlboro Roberts'
'rider Luca.Caaalora continuing to fight with the
ream' Oiler 1he 'tire issue, and' to cruise' unimpressivetY on the race track;'the time'is ripe for
a reconciliation 'betwe~n 'racing's hyper-talerit~
ed Bad -Boy Kocinski anc;! his· former mentor
·Kenny' Robe,rts, .Insiders said that contact has'
not yet been o{ficialiy' established, but Roberts
, . admitted~ "I've been thinking a lot about John in,
the last few weeks." AsKed if he expected'to
·complete the season with Cadalora, he said: "II .
depends which hour you ask 'me," There were
·also' strong him.ors that another former AMA '
250cc Grand Prix Champion and now Yainaha
Superbike campaigner Colin Edwards II is' set
to test the' works· Yamaha. Roberts put in an
"infonmi, request" for a third rider for Assen,
The \J'aetl~ c~trQi" controversy took a new which was' declined by IRTA. It was widely
twist atAssen, as fresh' detaIls eme,rged. from
believed thai Edwards was the prime' candibehind a long-.stan.ding veil of secrecy. At
date,
'
Mugello, it was reported that Honda bad, intro, duced a primitive relative. of this sophisticated
~lectrQl)lc -control in a'"launch control' system , ,The second llilfian'GP, nam8d (aft~r the Italian
. engaged by lhe rider, before the start, and auto- GPs of old) "Grand Premlo della Nazlone,"
matically d,sengaging when third 'gear is was confirmed at Assen. to be held at Ir:n
