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RQ\D RACE, World Championship Road Race Series Round 7: Dutch Grand Prix I By'Henny Ray Abrams ASSEN, HOLLAND, JUNE 29 t was team day at the Dutch TT in Assen, with the top two spots in each of the three solo races being won by teammates for the first time ever at a Grand Prix. The 500cc result was the least surprising of them all, Repsol Honda's Mick Doohan enduring a rain interruption and the persistence of his teammate Alex Criville to take his fourth win in a row before a wet and cold crowd of 101,000. Like some of his other wins, this one was calculated, the two-time World Champion waiting until the final stages before stamping his authority on the race at the Circuit van Drenthe in northern Holland. The lead changed hands three times on the final lap and it was nearly four when Criville tried a desperate maneuver in the final chicane. Instead of making the pass he overshot the comer and had to slow dramatically just to get his NSRSOO turned. Doohan's ~ win was made to look more convincing, 0\ though he was ahead on aggregate time rl for the last three laps and could have 0' finished second on the traCk and still r l won. ~ "I'm always happy when 1 win," the ;:l broadly smiling Doohan said. "1 thought ~ it was going to be difficult today. 1 don't like this place. It's common knowledge. When 1 do win here it gratifies me. This I ~ m 4 place worries me. The last two weeks I've been thinking about this place a lot. To come here and win, I'm just ecstatic." "1 made a couple of mistakes and paid for them," Criville said. "To win . the race 1 had to make up the threetenths advantage Doohan had over me when it was stopped after eight laps. 1 tried as hard as 1 could, but made the first mistake when he was in my slipstream and it allowed him to pass me on the straight. 1 got ahead, but again he went by me, and although 1 never gave up, it was impossible for me to catch him again." The race had been stopped on the ninth of 20 laps by heavy rain in one part of the course. After about a halfhour delay, the race began again and the final 12 laps were run. Doohan completed the combined 20-lap, n.2-mile race in 41 minutes, 29.912 seconds at an average speed of 108.693 mph. His margin of victory on aggregate time was 1.496 seconds. Honda Pileri's Alex Barros finished third on time and fourth on the track. He was passed at the very end by Lucky Strike Suzuki's Scott Russell who admitted that he'd forgotten that he was behind on aggregate time, hadn't been watching his pit signals, and waited too late to pass Barros, who was slowed at the end of the race with misting problems on his visor. Though Russell crossed the lin!! in third, he was more than 2.5 seconds behind on combined time on a machine that was clearly down on top speed. Most humiliating of all was that, thinking he was third, he went to the podium ceremony only to be told the harsh truth. Behind him came the Marlboro Yamaha Roberts ·teammates Kenny Roberts Jr. and Norifumi Abe, the pair finishing in the opposit!! order on the track, but Roberts taking his career-best fifth-place finish by nearly five seconds after the times were added. Lucky Strike Suzuki pinch-hitter Terry Rymer came seventh, the Daryl Beattie stand-in less than half a second behind Abe after not being able to match the pace he'd set in the first part of the race. Juan Borja gave the Elf its best finish, bringing it home ninth, one better than a 'quartet of factory Hondas. Repsol Honda's Shinichi Itoh was 10th, then the Fortuna Honda Pons pair, Carlos Checa and Alberto Puig, and Repsol Honda's Tadayuki Okada. Doohan's fifth win in seven tries this year not only extends his points lead to 53 over Criville, who moves into second today, but also moves him into a tie for third in career GP wins with Eddie Lawson. Both have 31 and Doohan will certainly add to that total. Only Giacomo Agostini and Mike Hailwood have more. Doohan leads Criville, 146-93, with Barros moving into third at 83, two Alex CrJvllle (4) gets the Jump on the field at the stsrt of the Dutoh Grand Prix. Scott Russell (11), Michael Doohan (1), Loris Capirossl (65) and Alex Barros (7) give chase. in front of Kanemoto Honda's Luca Cadalora. Cadalora was a non-finisher for the second time this year, pulling off the track again when he didn't like the way his Kanemoto Honda was steering. Whatever he'd done to the machine overnigh t to affect the setup certain!y didn't work, since he wasn't able to come within three seconds of his qualifying time. Racing in his 100th GP, HB Honda Germany's Ralf Waldmann won a crashmarred 250cc GP, sensibly slowing when a light rain began to fall in the early going. The rain took out a numb.er of the front-runners including Waldmann's closest pursuer, the pole-sitter Olivier Jacque of the Chesterfield Elf Tech 3 team, on the 12th of 20 laps, allowing Waldmann to cruise to a definitive win. "Of course 1 am ever so happy," Waldmann said after beating his HB Honda Germany teammate Jurgen Fuchs by 16.598 seconds. "To win my 100th Grand Prix is a very spedal gift for me." But Walqmann later admitted that "it was a little bit easier today than