(Left)' After fighting
his way to 7-2
moto finishes, Gert
Jan Van Doom
ended the day
second overall.
(Right) Italian
Andrea Bartolini
kept his head
during the first
moto to finish
second but
crashed on every
lap during moto
two. He finished
seventh overall.
(Below) Michigan'S
Keith Bowen
scored the first GP
_ points of his
career with a pair
of 13th-place
finishes.
12See WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP MX SERrES
POlNI'S STANDINGS (AfWo 3 01 12rounds): 1. Chicco
Chiodi (96/1 win); 2. Frederic Vialle (78/1); 3. Sandro
Puzar (73); 4, Bob Moore (72/1); S. Claudio Federici (54);
6. Michel Maschio (53); 7. Xavier Colomer (41); 8.
Nicolas Charlier (35); 9, Luigi ~y (35); 10. Michele
Fanton (31); 11. David VuillemlO (30); 12. Thomas
Traversini (28); 13. Alex BeJometti (26); 14. Ph.ilippe
Dupasquier (24); IS, Erik Camerlengo (20); 16, Jerome
Hemery (16); 17, Erik Eggens (16); 18, Bader Manneh
(11); 19. Brian Kjaer Jorgensen (9); 20. Marcel Van
Dronen(8},
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World Championship 125cc MX Series
Round 3: Spanish GP
Upcoming Rounds:
Round 4 - Schwanenstadt, Austria, May 4
Round 5 - Maggiora, Italy, May 11
BELLPUIG, SPAIN, APR, 20
ncessant rain from Friday morning
hit the Spanish plain 60 miles west of
Barcelona but could not prevent the
third round of the 125cc World MX
Championship series from going ahead
- and the result was a win for 1994
champ Bob Moore ahead of his successor Sandro Puzar,
Each ex-champ took a moto win and
in the process lopped off at least 10
points from the margin between them
and the series leaders Chicco Chiodi and
Frederic Vialle, The quartet now forms
fairly tight breakaway group in the
standings,
,Moore had moved masterfully from
an initial 10th to take the lead of the first
moto before half distance, but a rare
mistake in race two after he had
holeshot dropped him to third,
Bader Manneh failed to score after
finishing 20-17.
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Spanish 125cc GP
Bellpuig, Spain
Results: April 20, 1997 (Round 3 of 12)
MOTQ 1: 1. Bob Moore: (Yam); 2. ehiceQ Ch,iodi
(Yam); 3, Frederic ViaJlle (Yam); 4, Sandro Puzar (TM);
S. Xavier Colomel' O'M); 6. Thomas Traversini (Hus); 7.
Erik Eggens (Hon); 8. Nicolas Charlier Oe.y ,then finished seVenth' c)verall, in
Spain la,st Weekend: but those points are safe, '
Heme,y's sec,ond-r:noto holesho't at Pemes now
takes on a whole new significance, The ~iders
have 10 'days to' appeal to have their counte'r'samples, tested but fhis seems unlikely. th'e ltalc
,ian had a 'Ieadconteni thr!'e times over .the f"'r,,
. missible limit (itself at' least 10 times over the
e,q,ected figure from legal "'lead-free:: pump fuell', while the lead arid
, octane ,figures from the 125cc doo, indica~ed that readings appropriate to
t.he outlaw.ed but fJ:~ely,availa!>le Avgas ,G,e.' motllr octane.norm of iust
CYVer 100; 90 is the AM limit> and ,lead content o~ 0,3. g/l (0,1'3 is permissi.
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ble). lazzarini's reading is appropriate for: leaded super,
Th'e situation in ,the Vertemati team has been growing increasingly
tense with team rider Trampas Parner a lillie unhappy With his situa~lln, '
-The bike ran a lot better.on Sunaay moming in 'Austria once we had ,And[E\8 Bartolini's VZM400F appeared with ) alre'ady suPPlY the Yamaha'250cc
engine with n:>agnesium casings. -,
GP team in preference to tlie Y\,maba-owned Ohlins. are c1eany taking'
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l'.l~n Vohla"d hopes: to be able to race in the French 250co GP ,on
Bartolini. Although Shiphara has now retumed to ~apan, development
MaY: 11, "The' break to'TiliLon's shoulder blade at the Italian GP .was, a" ,engineer Ken SUZUki, who' spent fly,e years working with former 2!?Occ
clean arie,"' II Yamaha spokesman said: "Il.is not possibl!, to plate, or " road race World Champio'n Tetsuya Harada. 'arrived in Europe, on Tilurs- '
'screw the break so' we can o'n1y hope, forit to knit together naturally: His' day'and 'viII remain with the team for the rest of the season,
sHoulder has been put in a Cast and that will come 'off on Thursday: May'
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, time.. just a frilcti,6n 'of a second behind'Bartolini. confirmed, his claim that
,Keith BO,w,!n lias new ,mec~anic,,' After Doug HaNey, decided to
the, tests had b~en beneficial. KTM, competition' chief Heinz Kinigadne,
also said ~~at Shayni> King, still using orthodox WP suspension', ,,\,ould:be,
, ret~rri home, the, 30·year'0Id ~owen, riding ,for the Silent Sport:tea'l'
,which helped Snayn,e' King to tbe, world title last· yea,. has 'b"l'n joiryed ' . testing the PDS, system thoro~ghly during the, month-long break, in the
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,cated my' sh<>ulder two weeks a.go,· Thums!'r said. -When Keith',' GP winner Avo,Leok was eli[1'linated on SallJrday in',Siuendorf after
called it seemed \.ike a nice way to see Europe and let my shoulder 'posting only the 30th time {20 qualify) in:his gr-oup, A week ,later in
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