Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1990's

.ROAD RACE. World ChaJllpionship Road ~ series . Round 10: Czech Republic Grand Prix Ralf Waldmann ceme back from this dramatic moment to finish third In the 250ccGP, though he wes a good distance behind the B1aggllHarada atruggle. Cadalora and Yamaha kee streak alive T he Honda riders don't like it much and neither do the Suzuki boys, But it suits the Yamaha team just fine and, for the fourth year in a row, a Yamaha took pole position at the end of qualifying for the Czech Republic Grand Prix. Plus, for the fust time this year, there were two Yamahas on the front row. Luca Cadalora (right), the embattled Italian whose results always seem to improve as the season nears its end and contracts are up for renewal, took his first pole position of 1995 by shattering Wayne Rainey's lap record in the final minutes of the second timed qualifying session on the 3,35-D'Iile Bmo circuit That he did it using a new generation of the Dunlop tires which he'd shunned for most of the season made it that much more interesting, More than most tracks, the i3-turn Czech circuit is hard on the front end, with a number of hard-braking downhill turns, and the new Dunlops were clearly up to the task. In the final 10 minutes of the second one-hour session, the 31-year-old from Modena leaped to the top of the leaderboard, clicking off a succession of record laps that firmly established his superiority. His best, a 2:02.180 (98.76 mph), was more than a second better than Rainey's record lap of 2:03,266 from 1993. Cadalora attributed his success to the new Dunlop, a front tire that was developed in tests in both Malaysia and Mugello, and further improved for Bmo, '1t gives me the kind of feeling to lean the bike like I did last year," he said after claiming his first pole position in 10 months. Confirming the importance of the front end over the back end, Cadalora said, "This track is not the right one to make a big slide. I did one yesterday and I crashed. We try not to slide so much." He also said that he did more than 20 laps on the tire which made him CDllfident it would last the entire 22-lap race, '1 think we have a good chance of fighting for the first two places with these two guys," Cadalora said confidently during a news conference for the front row riders. With less than five ~tes left in the session, all eyes were on Repsol Honda's World Champion Mick Doohan. He'd been fastest most of the session and had been on the pole eight times this year. He went out in the final session with a window of about two laps, at most, but came up 0,3(4 seconds short of Cada1ora. He was clearly perturbed in the news conference, taking exception to the questions put to him by the moderator, then adding that he expected the same sort of strident com~tion that has been tile hallmark of the season. Though that clearly isn't the case, he disagreed vehemently that it was and said he expected both Cadalora and Daryl Beattie to be in the hunt Brno Circuit Bmo, Czech Republic Re.ulta: August 20, 1995 USce QUALIFY1NG: 1. Kazuto Sakata (2:10.577); 2. Stefano Perugini (2:11.330); 3. Hideyuki Nakajoh (2:11.558); 4. Haruchika Aoki (2:11.613); 5. Masaru Tokudo... (2:11.741); 6. Alcira S;Uto (2:12.045); 7. Dirk Raucfies <2:12.267); 8. Peter 0ett1 (2:12.361); 9. oboru Ueda (2:12.404); 10. Oliver Koch (2:12.411); 11. Toku Manako (2:12.551); 12. K. M;yasaka (2:12.634); 13. Cianluigi Scalvini (2:13.118); 14. Herri Torrontegui (2:13.131); 15. J. Hules (2:13.184); 16. Emili Alzamora (2:13.429); 17. Y. Yamamoto (2013.648); 18. Gabriele Debbia (2:13.808); 19. Manfred Geissler (2:13.933); 20. D. Barton (2:14.145); 21. Luigi Ancona (2:2:14.194); 22. J. Sarda (2:14.228); 23. Tomoka Iga.. (2:14.328); 24. Stefan Prein (2:14.464); 25. Y. Sugai (2:14.585); 26. Jorge Martinez (2:14.m); 21. A. Ba1lerini (2:14.792); 28. A. Folger (2:14.847); 29. H. K;kuchi (2:15.154); 30. M. D'Agnano (2:16.670); 31. Angel Nieto (2:17.257); 32. B. Weiss <2:19.270); 33. V. Castka (2:19.594). 2SOce QUALIFYING: 1. Max Biaggi (2:04.682); 2. Rail Waldmann (2:06.315); 3. Tetsuya Harada (2:05.697); 4. J.P. Ruggia (2:05.939); 5. R. Locatelli (2.1)5.955); 6. Jean· Michel Bayle <2:05.976); 7. Doriano Romboni (2:06.173); 8. TadayuJci Okada <2:06.224); 9. Eskil Suter (2:06.330); 10. J. van den Goorberg (2:06.4m; 11. Jurgen Fuchs (2:06.505); 12. Luis d' Antin (2:06.578); 13. Kenny Roberts Jr. (2,06.592); 14. OUver Jacque (2:07.148); 15. Nobuatsu Aoki (2:07.219); 16. Jose-Luis Cardoso (2:07.484); 17. Niall Mackenzie (2:07.497); 18. Oliver Petrucciani (2:07.551); 19. P.V.D. Coorberg (2:07.655); 20. Ad; Stadler (2:08.065); 21. Jose Barresi (2:08.466); 22. Ciovani Lavilla (2:08.717); 23. Manuel Castilla (2:08.865); 24. Renzo Lacon; (2;09.002); 25. Luis Moure! (2.il9.412); 26. Bernd Kassner (2;009.826); 27. R. Xaus (2ffl.855); 28. B. Sta.. (2:10.262); 29. D. Bulega (2:10.400); 30. P. IUba (2:10.488); 31. U. Dolterauer (2:13.052); 32. O. KroUcek (2:16.584); 33. TabsIU Tsujimura <2:44284). 500ce QUALIFYlNG: 1. Luca Cadalora (2:02.180); 2. Michael Doohao (2;02.524); 3. Daryl Beattie <2:02.611); 4. Norifumi Abe (2:03.210); 5. Loris Capirossi <2:03.229); 6. Loris Reggiani (2:03.524); 7. ShWc/U Itoh (2:03.560); 8. Alex Criville (2:03.970); 9. Alex Barros (2:04.156); 10. Neil Hodgaon (2:04.562); 11. Carle, Chcea (2:04.653); 12. Scott Russell (2:04.867); 13. Juan Borja (2:05.328); 14. Adrien Bosshard (2:05.657); 15. Jay Haydon (2:05.775); 16. Bernard Carcia (2:06.031); 17. La'urent Naveau (2:06.277l; 18. Lucio Pedercini (2:07.070); 19. Sean Emmett (2:07.369); 20. Jeremy McWiIIWns (2:07.397); 21. Cristian Migliorati (2:07.550); 22. Frederic Protat (2:07.836); 23. Chris Walker (2:08.447); 24. Eugene McManus (2:08.733); 25. Bruno Donhuil (2:08.866); 26. Marc Garcia (2:09.033); 27. Jose Kuhn (2:09.328); 28. Bernard HaenggeU (2ffl.522); 29. Marco Papa (2:10.971); 30. Scott Gray (2:54.193). USce GRAND PRJ)(: 1. Kazuto Sakata (Apr); 2. Haruchika Aoki (Hon); 3. AJcira Saito (Hon); 4. Masaki Tokudome (Apr); 5. Hideyuki Nakajoh (Hon); 6. Giovani Scalvini (Apr); 7. Tomoko 19ata (Hon); 8. T. Manako (Hon); 9. Noboru Ueda (Hon); 10. EmiHo Alzamora (Hon); 11. Manfred Geissler (Apr); 12. Hem Tonontegui (Hon); 13. Ken Miyasalca (Hon); 14. Olivier Koch

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