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',*,ROAD RACE· ";:' Round 9: British Grand Prix
. World Championship Road Ra~ SerieS
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lever broke off; and crashers Manako,
Falls, Katoh, and the luckless Peter
Oettl, challenging Alzamora at the time,
Aoki's championship lead was hardly dented. He has 161, Perugini 112,
Sakata 102, Raudies 895 and Saito 79,
SIDECAR GRAND PRIX
Nobuatso Aoki and Luis d'Antin, the RS
Hondas of Jurgen Fuchs and Takeshi
Tsujimura. Locatelli also caught up to
the back of this gang in the last laps, to
finish 14th,
Patrick van den Goorbergh had been
well up with this group when he suddenly ran on straight at the chicane, his
clutch failed,
Regis Laconi (Honda) took the last
point for 15th; Walker was 21st, and
Scott Smart 24th and last
Kenny Roberts Jr, and Jean-Michel
Bayle were notable among eight nonfinishers, Both were among the leaders
on the fourth lap when Roberts collided
with the Frenchman going into the chicane,
.
Biaggi's fifth win took him to 188
points to 149 of Harada, Waldmann
dropped back to third, just one point
,behind; Okada has 93, Ruggia 81, and
Aoki 50, Jurgen van den Goorbergh lies
10th overall, top privateer, with 41
points to Jacque's 35,
.
125cc GRAND PRIX
The die was cast on the first lap for
title leader Harachuki Aoki, As the front
men swept through the final hairpin,
Akira Saito fell right in the BlumexRheos rider's path, and he ran right over
him, Both Honda riders were out
this obligingly opened a little gap for
the front two, Stephano Perugini and
Sakata, who made the most of it, drawing ahead in a private battle that went
back and forth until the closing laps,
when Sakata stamped his authority on
the younger man to win by three seconds, Perugini had the consolation of
the only lap record of the day,
They were followed by another pair:
Alzamora fending off Raudies steadfastly, and drawing away by two seconds at
the end, Raudies blamed his own bad
start, which left him too much work to
do and too little tire adhesion with
which to do it,
Nakajoh was a lone fifth, and then
came the gang, a brawling group of
eight swapping places all around the
track, and running into the comers two
or three abreast Good news for Tokudome, who caught up with them from a
slow start, "There were some good riders there but they were slowing each
other up, so I was able to get ahead," he
said, He was sixth, Manfred Geissler
(Aprilia) seventh; and charging young
British wild card Darren Barton (Yamaha) a strong ninth behind super-late
braker Jorge Martinez (Yamaha),
Yamamoto (Honda), Oliver Koch (Aprilia) and Hem Torrontegui (Honda) concluded the group,
Retirements included early front-runner Nobbie Veda, whose Honda's gear-
(From left to right) Tetsuya Harada, Aprllla
team manager Carlo Pemat, Max Blaggl
and Ralf Waldmann celebrate on the
250cc podium,
Biland is definitely back After three
non-finishes he claimed his second successive clear race win at Donington
Park, starting from pole position and
leading every lap except the first one,
That saw Derek Brindley briefly in
front, but Biland's BRM-powered outfit
moved smoothly past and from then on
the Swiss veteran could control the race
at will, '1t's never easy to win a GP," he
said later, "But that one was easy,"
quipped his long-time passenger Kurt
Waltisperg.
,
He was pursued until five laps from
the end by the Guedel brothers, only for
their chain to hop the sprockets, causing
premature retirement.
This promoted the battle for third to
one for second, with Marcus Boes1ger
forcing his way past Ralph Bohnhorst,
Klaus Klaffenboek and Steve Abbott in
the last laps, The last three were covered
by barely two seconds,
either of the two faseeIIt
znen had anything
good to say about the
track. bat it dicta't do IDlIIdl
to slow them dowD.
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top ill Ibe SOOa: da8I. but by
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....ai.'llJlllple of laps." Mille _
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fast_lID iutpow ' - daye:- to a wiDdy clay two, .....I:iug
his way dlnragh tile tires ancIlISing _ Kayaba frouIt ids fou'
the first time apart &om testiRg.
Alongside him, OIl tile front J'CJW in OII1y his fourth GP, was
leamD. . Scott RusseB. full of lJeans lit a track he loves, in spite
of a tumble on the second day, lowsidiug at the uphiD thirdgear Macleans bend. ,Nit seems this track tells me where 1
should be, where I see some other riders who've been here fou'
years who just don't know the lines: he said. More Rgnificantly, he was now a big step further ahead at adapting to the UDfa.
miliar two-stroke racer, and to the carbon brakes - AP had
switched back from experimental compounds used by
Schwantz to more basic carbon equipment, with good results.
"When I started, the hardest thing was how quicIcly the bike
stopped. Now I find it easier to ride the GP bike than the Saperbike because it stops so welL especially Oft the downhill comers
here. I guess that means I'm getting used to it," he said.
.
Luca Cadalora completed the row, but denied this indicated
a continuing revivaI. "My time came on the first day, but the
bike wasn't right- We changed it for Saturday, and it was
worse. Now I have a lot of different things to try in the m0rning. I've used Dunlop rear tires aDd Michelin and Dunlop
fronts. I don't know what I wiD cboolIe ~. It wiJI be a
lottery.N
Row two _ led by Alelt CriviBe, who bad iuaplO'Ved his
lap times in spill! of 5etuIday's wiD, IIat act Ilia IIIDod: ., ......
Points leader Darren Dixon had been
as high as third early on, but gradually
lost ground with persistent brake trouble, He ended up a distant sixth, still
well clear of Barry Brindley and the
Wyssen brothers, There were only 13
finishers,
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Donlngton Park
Donlngton, Engl8ncl
Results: July 23, 1995
l25cc QUALIFYING: 1. Stefano
P~ni (1040.640);
2. Kazuto Sakata (1:40.641); 3. Emilio Alzamora
0:40.647); 4, Harochilca Aoki 0:40.749); 5. Dirlc Raudies
(1:40.759); 6. Akira Saito (1:40,857); 7, Peter Oeltl
(1:41.067); 8. Oliver Koch (1:41.085); 9. Noboru Veda
0:41.106); 10. O. Barton (1:41,244); 11. Ciovani Scalvini
(1:41,245); 12, ·Cabriele Oebbia (1:41,275); 13, T.
Yamamoto (1:41.399); 14. Masaki Tolcudome (1:41.401);
15. Yoshiako Katoh (1:41.413); 16. Hem Torrontegui
0:41.440); 17, ManITed Geissler (1:41.450); 18, HideyulO
Nakajoh (1:41.520); 19. Luigi Ancona 0:41,541); 20, T.
Manako (1:41. 670); 21. Jorge Martinez (1:411318); 22: K.
Miyasaka (1:42.135); 23. J. Fans (1:42.271); 24. Villorio
Lope. (1:42.292); 25, J, Sarda (1:42.316); 26. Y. Su~ai
(1:42.542); 27. H. Kikuchi (1:42,698); 28. Stefan Kurfiss
(1:43,220); 29, Tomoko rgata (1:43.320); 30. Steven
Pahickson (1:43,352); 31, Peter Jennings (1:43.670); 32,
M. D'Agnano (J :44.294); 33. A, Ballerini (1:44.296); 34, C.
Kellner (1:45.079).
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