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M8X Bi8gg1 (left)
celebrates his clinching
of the 1995 250cc World
Championship while
Darlano Aombonl
(center) and Tadayukl
Okada (right) talk about
their first and third place
finishes In the 250cc
Brazilian Grand Prix.
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befo!'e th~y coUid ~';-ve GP t1)ere?", The iid- . berieams away and (oim 'a ne;'" series with
ers 1he'n had a mfijeting wilh "!lce directpr . ,other. organiZerS: Doma ~ th'e..P9S$ibiiity to
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Roberto Noseno, rnaking,ll)eir feelings plain,
dispense with IAl'A al)d make contracts direCl- .
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but lealling thedecisioirlo him,.
. . . ' . Iy'with'the teams "especially Ihe.cl'lJ\:ialfaclo-.
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AI.~rt ,l'Ulg, who was seriouiily injured·.in, a '. ". ' . ' '. . .... ,. . .. ' . ' . '.' '.' rY teams.' . '
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'practice crltsh lI't 'Le' Mans has now beEln . Footnot8: There were only eIght-crashes. in'
.released ,ftOm the ho~pital a~ hqpes .Ip be' fit ...practice , ~·.Ijlasl "al.~y 'track this ya.ar" Ihe.· . Racin'g:s CHnice llIoill~ is io be dOnaled 10 .
=-----~-1IIlIIII enough .to t~fa' .Hcir:lda N$RSOO in November,. m9st·were at the .s!lfe: fIluF~urg~ng, ~he~e. ~EideCins Sans 'FForitiereS' fOr' use 'in,·the war '
:His left leg -was saved after fears: that n WOUld :' mel re Ihan !!O people fell, incll,/dlng Michael' z~nes; of ttle former' Yugoslavia The 'Clinic
~ave 10. be amputaled, but'n remains stiff, He. Dooh,a~, ~ho l:!rok~, his firiger, In Br¥il, the' . vehicle and its medicilJ ,staff ~i11 gp there "lIlilry
Haenggeu (2,02.685); 29, Marco Papa (2:04.530); 30, Scott
G..y (2.os,610),
.would need 10 fifa,right-hend'side.geal'Shift·to , only Intunes were'ln Jhe 1,2SCC·.class, V\(here;, soon,",aecording',to 8,statemen!.issl!ed.by Dr,
t2Scx GIlAND PRIX; I, Masaki Tokudome (Apr~ 2,
Noboru Ueda; Oliver f>etru~~iaq;and K"n ,Claudio Costa's organi;zation, But lATA was,
.the bike, !lnd pOssibfy. a. thumfl,-oper'atSd
Cianluigi Salvini (Apr); 3. HarucNka Aoki (Hon); 4.
brak&.. "M¥ spirits are high after listening to ltle . ',M.yesa,ka, all suffered h~nd on,uro~s, Only, . quick to issue' a' follow.up' slalllmeni tIlal'll1e
Hem Torrontegui (Hon); S. Nabaru Ueda (Han); 6.
' Pelrucclanl,was e~ed to be u~telO race, 'medical ~re ,m the,paddock ,will riol be affectposnive Iorecast of the dOCtors;" he Said,:: '
Akira Saito (Hon): 7. Darren Barton (Yam); 8. Dirk
Raudies (Hon); 9. Tomomi Manako (Hon); 10. Emilio
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. e<;1. The current. vehKfle is. to· ~ pen$kKled' OIl
Alzamora (Hon); 11. Jorge Martinez (Yam); 12.
JeM,.Mlc'!81 :BaYle.is l:!eirig coi.Jf~ed n;;r a,nllw' IRTA' ,voled tel re~ain IhE!, OfMl-blke-per.rlder . :to World Superbi,kes, and the.vet!icle currently'
Hideyuki Nakajoh (Hon); 13. Takehiro Yamamoto
'5OQCc Horn:lii team 10 be run by 1i1l!limail'Jim ' .rule'for n'e>rt year,ln the 250 and 12SCC class· used there will be dOnated 10 Medecins Sans
(Hon); 14, Stefan Prein (Hon); IS, Yo,hiaki Katoh (Yam);
McArdle', Other' rl(jers' in the /rame are lucio' es; to the 'open ,di~may Of the'major filctories' . Fronlieres, ' .'
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16. Juan Sarda (Hon); 17. Tomoko 19ata (Hon); 18. Peter
Oettl (Apr); 19. Manfred Geissler (Apr); 20. Ken
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Involved lri the classes, The vote warit'40:20 1 0 ' .
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Miyasalca (Hon); 21. Yoshiyuki Sugai (Hon); 22. Kazuto
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,etain the nile,' wiitr the greatest'm8jorfty,com- 'Thirty·four. nuirshali1 were flOwn' 10 B~if tr~ '
Sakata (Apr): 23. Stefano Perugini (Apr); 24. Luigi
The expe\:ted. L~'I.in"Arner'lcari problems. 'ing)n the 25OCcclass: The ,125cd learns v6led' ASsen .to, po:ovide expert control and :assist the
Ancona (Hon); 25. Gabriele Debbia (Yam); 26. Oliver
Koch (Apr); 27. M. 0' Agnano (Apr); 28. Andrea
arriv8d On ,cue in' Brazil, with threats of a riders: .bnly, 14:,13,to stic~ with, one bikl!;.teams With :in~xperienced Ioc8ls, ,When the i'ain beg;in on
Ballerini (Apr); 29, Hiroyuki Kilo:uchi (Hon~
bOY,eon of the slippery "greeri" track. surface ori
enlnes In,bolh ,classes 5:3, WIth ·250 teams, ',the first day: they were astonished to
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Time': 41 min., 29.864 sec.
Ihe revised circiJit soulh of Aio de Jan'eiro: ,ma~rng up the b~lance of :21;4; This was, Iocais nin for'cover, :even mough'.
in the'
om.u.c.: 20 lap', 63,091 miles.
Avenge Speed: 91.221 mphThough ,the.lil-You,t of, ttiE! circuit 'was 'praised"
ex~ed, ,sin<:e the ,majority of lATA m,embers" middle of, an' official practice s,esslon,. "
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Margin of Victory; 0.204 sec.
,and there Was m shortage of runoff !lreia, the ,are ,priV~le leams;.a:nd each'leam lias .one
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Futest LAp: Hem Torrontegui, 2:02.946, 92.368 mph.
riewiy laid' and tolaily unusEid surface proved
vole pet rider, Bul the'factories were nonethe.' Honda 'has :l)e80 testing' a ,V-t\;..in'liglitwejght
2SOcc GRAND PRIX: 1. Dorlano Romboni (Hon); 2.
dirty and slippery In IhEl first dry session, and ,lass, horrified, "Thl)la il ' i,s wagging',tlie' dog.;~. 'machl.ne for the pOOcc Class, a.nd spy 'reports
Max Biaggi (Apr); 3, Tadayuki Okada (Hon); 4, Ralf
Waldmann (Han); 5. Tetsuya Harada (Yam); 6. Jeanvirtually, u'nridable.in!l)e rain If) the'afteFF)oon" . said J'ain Mackayofl,AC: :rhe decis'ion:is . ,from SU,ZUKa say \hat'thdugh 'Iow-lewing"ttie
Philippe Ruggia (Han); 7. Oliver Jacque (Hon); 8.
Max. 'Blagglled the protests, but-.there 'were' ,oppo~ed.not only on' safety .grounds, 'beCause ' machine "'?s' set lap tinies Ci~se'10 'those of
Nobuatsu Aoki (Hon); 9, Renzo Locatelli (Apr); 10, Lui,
very few dissenting vpic.es .in the Initfal yom-: of th~, eXtra pressure:n p.u,ts' on riders' I.0 qUalify' . th'e works V-four, It HAC enters' the bike (pas· ,
d'Antin (Hon); 11. Jurgen Fuchs (Hon); 12, Eskil Suter
(Apr); 13, Kenny Roberts Jr. (Yarn); 14, Jose Cardoso
:plaintS, "We a,lI want a gcipd'race here: said .~n one bike or mectia,r:"cs
rush!h& rebuild- '. sibty f9r'current 250,rii:ter :radayu~,Okada>,:n
(Apr); 15. Luis Maurel (Han); 16. R. Xaus (Hon); 17.
Michael Doohan:,"But,you have to think about ' Il)g of a c~hed mach.ne, but. a1so:~use n' ,will -be f~lIowing Ihe lead .of Aprilfa. whose
Takeshi Tsujimura (Han); 18. P. van den Goorbergh
safety, Nagai's dealh ,a1 Assen proved you ,:PFElvents factories f.roitJ raC9'-testing and devel~, 4OOci: V·twjn ~ bilen clQse to,aChievlng soc(Apr~ 19, Niall Madcenzie (Apr~ 20. Adi Stadler (Apr~
don'l have t6 M. a bilrrie(, Ybu need 10 mirii-, oping,new machine,s. or modifications" Wltli :cess,in its, second y'ear.~f cOmpetition, ,
21, Be=d Kassner (Apr~ 22, Jean·Michel Bayle (Apr);
23. Manuel Castilla (Han);. 24. Gregorio Lavilla (Han);
mize,lhe ChanCes of falling off, In the :,yet.the 'only Onll;bike allowed. .nobody ean risk trying,
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25. Jose Barresi (Han); 26. Davide Bul~a (Hon); 27. Pere
,rear wheeUs,sp'lnning unconlrollably Irom' nll':" eqUipmenl· a '~ynd~me:that partfcul&r1y 'Me~while: K;enny RC!befts'led rimew.ed calls,
Riba (Apr); 28, J, van den Goorbergh (Hon); 29, Regi'
,8006 'rpm 'al any speed, The englne:s'hardly 'afflicted Team Marlboro RaIney Yaffi!l.ha and,: for the 13Okg'(286-pqund) weight,liOli! lor'fourLaconi (Hon),
Time: 43 min., 4S.463,sec.
making ·any .power l!'lere." Of:Iidal rideFll' Safety' rider .Tetsuya Harada, whos~:riew, disc,-valve ,'cylioder machines to be diopped.t\gein, ."1.\ was
Oi,tance: 22 laps, 69.40 miles.
" reptes!lntative .Franco Uncinl ~as oil. the tiot . '·bike, was reluctanllyshelved before the end ,of· .. .introduced, four, years ago to· help 'the' priva~
Average Speed: 95,160 mph,
· seal. after:t1avirig. ruled out bolh'Aqild',America
the ~eason.
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!eers and, Cagiva, ,but' Cagi\la has g006. now,
Margin of Victory; 1.345 sec.
'in' th'e LiSA. and ,Imol