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Rounds 11/12: VenezuelanIPolish GPs
MOTO 2: 1. Marnicq Bervoets (Suz); 2. Pedro
Tragter (Suz); 3. Stefan Everts (Kaw); 4. Miska Aaltonen
(han); 5. Kurt Nicoll (Han); 6. Paul Cooper (Han); 7.
Frederic Bolley (Yam); 8. Peter Beirer Qion); 9. Peter
Iven (Kaw); 10. Jaimy 5cevenels (Han); 11. Jussi-Pekka
Veh,'ilamen (Hon); 12. Thomas Paisan (Han); 13. Mark
Eastwood (Hon); 14. Mats Nilsson (Kaw); 15. Oscar
Vromans (Hon).
O/A;. 1. Mamicq Bervoets (Suz); 2. Stefan Everts
(J(aw); 3. Pedro Tragter (Suz); 4. Kurt ••coll (Han); 5.
Miska Aaltonen (Han); 6. Paul Cooper (Han); 7. Joakim
Karlsson (Hon); 8. Tallon Vohland (Kaw); 9. Frederic
Bolley (Yam); 10. Remy Van Rees (Kaw).
WORLD CHAMPIONSHlP 2SOcc MX SERlES POINT
5TANDJNGS {Alter U of 15 round.h 1. Stdan Everts
(338/4 wins); 2. Mamicq 8ervoets (312/3 wins); 3.
Tallon Vohland ()1l6/ I win); 4. Kurt icoll (275/1 win);
5. Peter Beirer (234); 6. Pedro Trag'er (184); 7. Bobby
Moore (182); 8. Werner Dewit (179); 9. Andrea Bartohni
068/1 win); 13. Frederic BoUey (95); 14. Paul Cooper
(78); 15. Jaimy Scevenels (73); 16. Leon Giesbers (72); 17.
M;aka Aaltonen (69); 1 . Danny Theyber< (59); 19 Remy
Van Rees (43); 20. Rob Herring (38).
Upcoming Rounds:
Round 13 - Reisersberg, Germany, August 6
Round 14 - Suzuka, Japan, August 20
Wortd Championship 125cc MX Series
Round 11: Indonesian GP
TorteUi .takes it
YOCYAKARTA, INDONESIA, JULY 30
ebastien Tortelli finally scored his
first career GP win with an over•
whelming double victory in the
penultimate round of the World 125cc
MX Series in Indonesia. He had celebrated his 17th birthday 11 days earlier.
Only fellow Frenchman Frederic
Vialle, second in moto one, could tay
anywhere near Totrelli on the supercross-style track at Yogyakarta, as a
massive crowd witnessed the first Asian
motocross GP outside Japan.
The win secured the championship
bronze medal for Tortelli as the title
struggte between Alessio Chiodi and
Alessandro Puzar became even more
intense.
Chiodi, the man on form at recent
rounds, took over the championship
lead but he tensed up and could only
manage 6-5 moto finishes.
Puzar, who had thrown away a 50point lead at the two previous rounds,
had DNFed the first moto to surrender
the lead in the standings but fought back
to narrow the gap back to two points
with a hard-fought third in race two.
Sole American Jimmy Button, no
stranger to the tracks in Southeast Asia,
was third in the opening moto but did
not finish race two. He must now fight
off Frenchman Mikael Mashio and Italian Claudio Federici at the series finale
in Germany if he is to secure the number-four plate for 1996.
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MARACAY, VENEZUELA,JULY16
GDYNlA, POLAND, JULY 30
allon Vohland suffered a bittersweet July as he ,registered his
maiden MX GP victory at the
Venezuelan 250 GP, but then two weeks
later saw his final hopes of the title effectively disappear with a second moto
DNF at the Polish GP, the 12th of 15
rounds in the World Motocross Series.
The Californian now trails JHK
Kawasaki teammate Stefan Everts by 52
points with just two rounds left on the
circuit.
Everts, though, is coming under
renewed attack from fellow Belgian
Mamicq Bervoets.
While the series leader went 4-3-3-3
through the July motos, the lone Johnson Bieffe Suzuki teamster won three
motos out of four on sandy terrain in
hot conditions and has narrowed the
gap on the pacesetter to 26.
While Everts proved consistent
through the month, Bervoets started
with an eight-second win ahead of Vohland in Venezuela but lost all chance of
an unbeaten month when his motor
started to sputter due to a vacuum
buildup in the tank in race two. He salvaged fifth in the moto.
Vohland, meanwhile, had chased
Peter Beirer for most of the moto, but
was quick to pounce when the German
Honda rider jumped off the track. From
tit
that moment, the moto win and, with it,
the overall were never in doubt.
Kurt Nicoll, fourth in the championship, saw his title hopes wrecked in
race one when the factory Honda came
to a halt, battered by the low-grade local
. gas which the team had elected to use.
Nicoll got a fifth in race two, but teammate Jaimy Scevenels was eliminated
each time. Yves Demaria's much-heralded comeback brought little joy, and he
had to quit after just 15 minutes of the
first moto, due to pain in the leg he had
broken in Italy. Demaria did not ride in
Poland.
Bervoets took a double win at Gdynia with Everts twice third, as Vohland's
challenge wilted.
Sixth in the opener after a poor start,
Tallon fought his way through to third
after another poor gate in race two, only
to be pit-boarded to l~t teammate Everts
pass him back as Kawasaki decided to
put all of their title hopes in one basket.
VohIand obeyed, but then lost concentration and crashed, sustaining a
shoulder injury which put him out of
the moto but will not prevent him riding
the remainder of the .series.
The Polish race was the cutoff for free
travel to the Japanese GP and the decision of Paul Cooper's sponsors, the
British So-C.a1 Leisure Oothing distributors, to finance his trip to Venezuela,
paid off as the South African leapt to
Tallon Vohland recorded hla flm GP MX
victory In Vanezuala but a DNF In Poland
two weeks later hurt his chance tor the
250cc title.
14th in the standings after finishing
eighth overall in South America and
sixth in Poland.
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Results: July 16, 1995
MOTO 1: Marnicq BervMt5 (Suz); 2. Tallon
Vohland (J(aw); 3. Peter Beirer (Hon); 4. Stefan Everts
(Kaw); 5. Pedro Tra_ster (Suz); 6. Andrea Bartolini
(Yam); 7. Frederic BolJ