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.ROAD RACE ..... . WQrId 'ChaI'npiOn$hip Ro8!t ~ Series Round 8: French Grand Prix (Left) Winner Hllruchlkll AoId (mlcklle) ceIebrlItes with fellow rostrum flnishers Stefano Perugini, who flnillhecl second (right), lind Dirk Reudles (left). Aold streched his points IelId to 69 points over Perugini. (Below) Kenny Roberts Jr. IelIds JelIn-Mlchel Bayle (8) who suffered e loss of power end faded to 11th piece When en exheust cracked; Roberts tlnillhecl sixth. lap the exhaust blew apart and it was difficult just to finish." The former Supercross star ended up 11th. Behind Harada his teammate, Roberts, was fighting his way through a pack of four riders. First he took on French Olivier Jacque, that on the 14th lap, moving into ninth. For six laps he hounded eighth place, first Luis D' Antin, then Jean-Philippe Ruggia. Roberts made his pass with five laps to run, getting both riders and setting out after Bayle, who dropped back with three laps left. '1 just kept pushing and the bike was sliding around, but I never gave up," Roberts said. "Everyone in the team put so much into getting the bike right this weekend. AU things considered, this was a good finish for us:' D' Antin was less than a second behind Roberts in eighth, then carne Ruggia. "When 1 was behind Luis D' Antin 1 simply couId not get past him. I was also with Harada, Checa, and Okada earlier in the race but had no answer for the speed of their machines," Ruggia said. His teammate, Jacques, said that Roberts' factory Yamaha was better in the comers and he found Roberts to be an aggressive braker. . "1 thought there would be some crashes ahead of me because the circuit is slippery, so I settled down and rode at my own pace," Jacques said. Eskil Suter was 10th on the Mohag Aprilia, just in front of the fading Bayle and the HB Honda Germany bike of Jurgen Fuchs. {N Bugattl Circuit Le Mans, France Results: July 9, 1995 (Round 8 of 14) 125« QUALIFYING: 1. Haruchilta Aoki 0 :49.6(5); 2. Masaki Tokudome 0:50.(62); 3. Peter 0ettJ 0:50.445); 4. Emilio Alzamol"~ (1:50.490); 5. Dirk Raudjcs (1:50.597); 6. Gianhrigi ScaJvini 0 :50.712); 7. Akira Saito (1:50.735); 8. HeTTi Torrontegui (1:50.942); 9. Ken Miyasaka 0:51.204); 10. Kazuto Sabta 0:51.207); n. Stefano Perugini (1:51.220); 12. Hideyuki Nakajoh (1:51.332); 13. Noboru Ueda (1:51.418); 14. Gabrielle Debbla (1:51519); 15. Yshiaki Katoh 0:51..533); 16. Jorge Martinez (I:SI.629); 17. Tomoko Igata (1:51.537); 18. Tomomi Manako (1:51.684); 19. Yoshiyuki Sugai 0:51.960); 20. Luigi Ancona 0:52.058); 21. Josep Sardo 0:52.188); 22. Takehiro Yamamoto (152.20]); 23. Olivier Koch (1:52.333); 24. Manfred Geissler (1:52.498); 25. Vittorio Lopez (1:52516); 26. Stefan Prcin 0:52.671); 27. Hiroyuki Kikuchi (1:52.696'; 28. Frederic Petil 11:52.798); 29. Stefan Kurlis 0:53.659); 30. Massimiliano lYAgnano (l:53.800); 31. Eric Mizera (1:53.801); 32. Stefano