Martinez (Arr); 7. Masaki Tokudome (Apr); 8. Roberto
Locatelli (Ho n); 9. Fredertc Petit (H o n); 10. Ma sao
Azutnd (H on); 11. [areslav Hules (Hon); 12. Manfred
~!oler
(H on ); 13. Gianluigi Salvinl (Hon); 14. Jwn
MAturand (Yd.m ); 15. Ivan Coi (Apr); 16. Angel Nieto Jr.
Ard; 18. Rub FiL t (Hon); 19.
u
(Apr); 17. Steve [enkner C
Han!; Koopman (Hon).
T ime: 38 min ., 50264 'W'C.
Dista n cr. 1 7 1.1 ~, 63.9 mil"-
AYl'ra .~: 96.719 mph.
ge
M ugin of victory: 0.100.we.
Fastnt "IP: Tomomi Manako. 2:15.lH9 /100.199 m ph .
250« C RANO PRIX: 1. Testuya Harada (A pr); 2.
Roll! Waldmann (Ho n); 3. Loris Ca p irossi (A p r): 4.
Tohru Ukawa (H o n); S. Stefano Perugini (Ap r ); 6.
Talr.:e5hi Tsujimur.l (Ho n ); 7. William Costes (Hon); 8.
Osamu Miyazaki (Yam ); 9. Jeremy M cWillams (Hon);
10. lui!. D' Anlin (Yam); 11. Franoo Battaini (Yam); 12.
Oli\'in Pt"'tn.tcciani(Apr); 13. Cris tia no Migliorati (Hon);
14. Mdurice Bolwm CHon); 15. Eustaquio G.tvira (Apr);
16. Gcorard Ril e (H o n ): 17. J. Hoogeveen (Ya m ); 18,
Ham van de Lagmlaat (Ha n); 19. ~ J':i~ (Hon).
T imc:. 3lJean. 9.016 !iCC.
Distance: 18 laps, 67.b6 miles .
A venge speed: 100.409 m ph ,
M.argin of victory: 0.238 sec.
f ... ~t l.ap: Qlivi« J~cqUtt, 2:06.047/1fY7.355 mph,
500« GRANO PRI X: 1. Michad Drohan (Ha n); 2.
C a rlos C heca (H a n); 3. Doriano R"o m boni (A p r); 4.
No bcatsu Aoki (H a n); S. Alberto Puig (Ha n); 6. Alex
Barros (Han); 7. Dary l Beatti~ ; 17. Frederic
P rotat (Han); 18 , Lu cio Pedercin i (ROC) ; 19. Sete
Gibnnau (Yam).
Time 43 min ., 37.954 W'C.
Distance: 20 lay!-75,18 mikos.
ATcn gc sp«d: 103.377 mph.
Margin of victory: 10.560 sec.
Fastest lap: Carlos Checa,2:03.363/109.69 1 mph.
12See G RAND P RIX WORLD CS HI P POINT
STANDINGS (A 1m' 7 of 15 roundst: 1. Valentino Rossi
(l45/S winl ); 2. Noboru Ued.a (1 12/2); 3. Tomomi
Ma nako (9 1); 4. K..az uto Sakata (85); 5. Jorge Martinez
(67); 7. Coury McCoy (54); 8. (TI E) Mas.ao Azuma /
Frederic PO!"tit (41); 10 . You il::hi Vi (39); 11. Y~h i.a ki
Katoh (35); 12. Roberto Loca te lli (31) ; 13. G ianluigi
Sca lvini (29); 14, Mirko Gianwnti (26); 15, lv en Goi (18);
16. HAruc hi ka Na kajo (16); 17. Lucio Cecchinello OS);
HI. Iercstev H u lO!"S (12); 19. Peter Oettl (10); 20. Juan
STANDIN GS (A ll er 7 of 15 ro und s): 1. Ra il
Waldmann (118 /1 win ); 2. Max Bi-aggi (t 11 12) ; 3.
Tt'buya tidrad.t (106/2); 4. Tohru Ukawa (65); 5. Loris
CapiJ"O'O!oi (63); 6. Obvier JoIcqUt" (61/1); 7. Haruchika
Aoki (50); 8. T.aJ..r.;.hi T. ujimura (45); 9. Stt>fano Perugini
(40); 10, m E) Nonyuu Numata !Jcemy McWilliarm
OJ); 12. Lui~ 0' Antin (29) ; 13. 5t'ba.'Iotian Porto (26 ); 14.
Dai jiro Kat o (25 / 1); 15 . Osamu Miya za ki (24) ; 16 .
Marcellino LuC'chi (20) ; 17, (TIE) William Coste~1
Franco B.a ttai ni (19); 19. mE) Jamie Robinson /Oliver
Petrucciani (H ).
500ee CRAND fRIX WORLD CO S H I P POINT
STANDINCS (A ft .r 7 o f 15 ro und s) : 1. Michael
Doohan (170 /6 wind ; 2. A le x Criville (102 /1); 3.
Nobuat5u AoId (SO 4. Tadayuld Okada (78); 5, Drl06
);
Owa. (10 ); 6. Luca Cadalora (59 ); 7_Norifumi Ablt (57);
8 _ Ale x B.t1TO!o (52); 9 . T.kuma Aoki (48); 10, Alberto
Pui g (44); 11. Doriana Romboni (40); 12. lliryl 8t'attit(33); 13. Srir Gibrmau (24); 14. Anthony Gobert (21); 15.
Regi~ Lacc ni (20); 16_Jt>an-Micm-I Bayle (15); 17. Juan
Borja (141; 18. Troy Corser (11); 19. xenny Roberts j r. (8);
20. Norihiko FUJIwara (7) .
Upcoming Round s:
Round 8 - Imola , Ita ly, July 6
Round 9 - Nurburgrlng, Genn any, July 20
Ma tura l\o1 (9).
250ee G RAND PRIX WORLD CO S H IP PO INT
ran
Bayle' s spare bike in the race beca use It
be tter. and ended up · and time thi s year Biaggi has 'bee n in trouble fo r this infnngemen't:
, The fir st time was in M alaysia, whe re he was fined 10,000 Swi ss
equaling hIS teammate 's best-yet ~rtne team Wlt~ eighth" .
" francs after the sta rt was delayed because he made a c rucial tir e
': M i c k Doohan 't o Ya~ah~? ,The' story Is beco~ln~ 'a h~rdY -. change 'on the line; The Asse n problem was also caused .by his ·
ennuel; b ut once .again there is ' so me. subs tance, Doohan himself
de ci s ion for a last -minute t ire ,char. ge after th e ' sig ht ing lap. .
.
. Sper n SO
sh
Occ-class star ·A le x eriville sustai~ed serious bend
M echanics were still wo rking 'w hen, th e thre e-minut e , board wa s
injuries in a gruesome 'cmeh on the first day ofpractrce . fo r the , has reve aled that he is ready -to cons ider offe rs for next seaso n.
end has in seve ral ways indicated a co ntinuing interest in·'nding ·8 ' . show n: and he was ushered into pit lane whe re they co mpleted
Dutch Gr and Prix. The Repsol rtderthe only challenge r to defendthe swap . He start ed from pit lane at the back of the field.. wh ich
·Iog triple champion Michael Doobeo. is likely to be out fo r a t least · Yamaha..The sce nario put s Mi ck in W ayne Rainey 's team, possibly backed by Ma rlboro ; and Harney confirmed at Assen that he .. so me th ough t was , in itself, punishment enough. Howe ver, race'
three races. and possibly' for the rest of the seaso n. The cras h
'direc tor Robert o Nosetto said later, " I was oblige d by the regu lahappened on c ne of Aase n'e 'charactens tic' (and cheracter-butld- · wa s in discussion with th e Au st ralian rider . "We're t a l k in g, ~
Rainey said. ,M
There's
tions to impo se ' a stop-an d -go 'penalt y because ·thei had 'no t
, ing) high·speed flicks . This '
'.
."
no thing ·conf i rmed
cleared the grid vol~.lllt~rily , We did nC?t warn th~m , We expect the
one lies between the firSt
yet , and n oth ing · teams taking part to be professional and to know the rules . ~ Now
and sec ond co rners : and '
·c1o se . But we' re stm
the trouble started . HIs pit s. hung out a bo ard to ceil him in, but
goe s rig ht -le ft a t ab out
ta lking . It' s not j us t
said la ter that he had m isunderstood it: In any ca se . he w as
150 mph , har d o n t he
me
and
M lc k
engaged in a fine charge throug h the field. movin g up to seventh
power. C rivill e "":as .on a
involved , 't hou g h ,
fa'st lap. and lost the back
by lap six_ M rider is shown the signal for three laps . and if he
A
There ere political
whee l in t he left· hand
does not come in by the end of the next lap, the rules impos e the
decisions - from t he .black·f1ag penalty : Nos~tto saId. Thus. he was pulled outof the
part . A rapid !"Ughside saw
manufacturers and
the bike land on his .left
race , to de part in an angry mood, - I'v e finished ra ces in bad
the sponsors - that
shape . I raced in Japan w ith a shoulder injury, MBiaggi said . - To
hand and chase him down
we have to respect.- Ios,e a race through a misund erstanding is really bad , I thought the
the tra ck. Eve n be fo re
It w as no t h i s o n ly
he'd come to rest. C rtville
pit signal calling me in was because there was a problem w ith the
option for next year,
was clutch ing his left
bike as a result of the hurry to change the wheel . It felt fine , so I
he added . " W e have
hand . It was a bloody
d~ ided to stay out. My team had only one person hol ding the
some interesting sce,
mess , the th umb almost
board ou t. I can't unders tand why there weren't more guys wavi ng
nar i o s tha t we 're
at me . "
.
detac hed and bone clearly
wo rking on, - Rainey
visible where it had been
continued . "I have a
gro und agamst t he tarTobacco' s p o nsors we re in a dIlemma over the Sit uation in
lIst of15 riders : I've
m ac , A
GP medic
Italy , There is leg islation in place to prevent cigarette advertising '
been looking in t he
descrlbed the inj ury as
at.sporting eve nts, but it has neve r been enforced . Now, howevUnited S t at e s , a t
very serio·us . -His hand
er, there are clear signs that it may become a pro blem . During the
Superbike flIces and in the 250cc class . Yamaha needs to have
was mut Ilated. Mhe said , The shockednder wa s taken to a hos pilast visit to .Italy, to M ug eJlo last mont h, rep re sentatives of .th e
their plans in place by th e end of Aug ust so there 's a btt of time
tal in Groningen for Immedia te su rgery ; wh ere the thumb was
financial police were on hond and asking aw kwa rd question s. The
left."
.
reattached and plated . Alth ough e nville lost a lot of blOod and ti sImola GP, in Italy next wee kend, now po ses a problem . At .tne
sue from the heel ,,?f his. han<:i, the tendons and major blood v estime of wri ting , M arlbor o had decided to defy the threats and run
sels remained in tac t , and the progn o sis for recOve ry was good.. · Mick Doohan to stay with Honda for two more yean?
wi th 'its machines , rider s and Paddock vehicles, et c.• fully branded,
This was ano ther sc enario , aft er Doohan told report ers that he
.Howe ver, he also req uired extensive skin grpfts from his thigh on
but Lucky St rike had de cided to treat It as an '- alibi" race ,·wi th full
his wri st and hand , and the risk o f infec tion wa s also cause for ,. had also a p p roa~ hed Honda wit h his proposal for next year. " I'v e
branding re~oved .
.
.
~o ld t~m what I want ; and they 're looking at it now, Mhe said: He
concem. ,Dr., C laudi o· Costa ,optimisti cally intima ted that Criville '
added that he might be prepared to sign for two more 'yea r s,
could be fit forthe Ge rirlfln GP, bare ly three weeks hence . but a
, Classic 'b ikes ~ere· on the pre·race bill at Assen . racing· i·n the
mo~e realist icsugge stic w~s that he w(; uld likely b~ out for two . ,hough t his wa s not neces sarily a condition on eit her side:
;m
.
.
·eve ning of the firs t day of pract ice , havin g a lre~dy been ,out to
month s. and proba bly for the remainder of the GP seaso n. Criv·.
practice themselVes . Naturally, whe n a piece of aluminlfm ~ possiIn' addi tio n.' to the pe rennial Doohan ·q u~stion : the rumor mill
iIIe's comments were gloomy, M T~i s is the' bad sid e of racing, Mthe
bly a cylinder fin or part of a c hain guard · was found on the track ,
went into turbo mode at As sen , traditiona lly· the time tha t the .firs t.
S pa ni~rd said , MI. was shoc ked when.' I saw my hand . I knew ~m
they were, blamed for- having dropp ed it : And ' how should this ,
of the new contracts start to fall into pla ce for next year. If yOI,J
the pain, I.'d done something serious ..Asse n Can catch yo u out,
believed aUyou heard,·there 'would be some shift s olready before , piece of meta l a good 4 by 2 inches -' come to light? Inslde 'Mick
and at that sort of speed y ou have little chance of savi ng the
Doohan's tire , giving the World C hampion a notable moment as
the season ends : with Juan Bo~a plucked out of the Elf team to
' bike;"
h~ ,lo st pressure.' abruptly and une xpe ctedly . The shard stayed
ta~e over injured co untrYman Alex Criville's fact ory Repsol Honda :
Daryl Beattie qUitting after th!s m<:e o'r th~ next, to be replaced by ·inside. the cover, to be discovered by Mi chelin men when they disCri ville 's c ras h wa s a t ypica l .Asse" ac~ident; said M ick
mounted the ruined tire.
'
Doohan, a longtime foe of the track. which he reg ards as to o old · . Troy Corser; and Carl Fogarty' po ached from World Superb lkes to
take his place on the R.ed Bull Yamaha. Some o f the 'ab ove may
fashioned for ·mod em SOOccrclass racing . Mltcaught Ale x in exact,
Fancy cereb rating yo ur .hundredth birt hday now , rather than waiteve n have a grain o f truth ; though it woul d involve a consi derab le
ly the way it catches mo st people out: It' s the' crowns in the road .
,n9 unl,!'i!'. too late . Wh y not7 At .least, that is the philosophy 01
re arra nge me nt of co ntracts . C e rtai nly. Corser had not yet
It isn't camber ed like norm al tracks, and yo u're alwil YS 90 in·9 from
the organizers of the - Cen t e n n ia l C l a s sic TT: .'an amb itious
reached an agreement w ith the Red Bull Ya ma ha tea m · the
. positive to negativ e camber as you cro ss the crown . Wh ere Alex
plan ,for a massive .clasa:ic·rncing .celebrotion at Assen next y ear,
phoe nix that arose out of the ashes of the Promo tor Pow er Horse
feU, you 're wide oPen infourth, going fro m one side to the o ther.
However, the TT is less than 75 years old, eve n if yo u ignore the
team - although teamm ate Luca Cadalora signed before the last
Whe n you go over the crest, the bike goes light and starts w heelfour y ears lost to the Second W orl d Wa r, and any cen tenoilries are
race . Team Lucky Strike Suzuki manager Garry Taylor edmitted
spinning, then it loads the suspension whe n you go down into,the
largely imaginary . The organizers hope to bring both mem and
that he had bee n in contact wilh Corser, and 'said, ~If we we re to
dip. At other tracks, you 'd back off the throttle 10 cope with the
machines ou t of retirement from the '50s. '60 s and '70s. and lay
lo se the services of either of our existing riders '"(Beattie and
increase of grip: but at Assen, there's so much camber"that's,not
on authentic races rather tha n parades . The target is to att ract
Anthony Gobert), Corser would be one of those I wo uld talk to
enough . The 2505 and 125s don 't have the problem , and I guess
250 to 300 former GP riders to race their own machines in.a twofust of all. Apart fro m ailything else . he does not have a co ntract
you woul dn't have it on a single -cylinder BSA. On a V -four, It can
day spectacular in M ay next year , The man behind the scheme is
at the moment. H i~ lack of good results so far is a' bit confuSing,
be lethal.·
.
Ferry Brouw er, once mechanic to W ond Champion ' Phil Read,
~ause there's .no doubt that he can ride a motorcycle, - M eannow a succe~sful bUSinessman. He said that he has already had a
wh ile , Red B ull was s till M
neg o t iating- with its second rid er.
Modena s ' awaited M st ep forward- ca me in the fonn of subbig
' very encouraging res ponse fro m Honda , and hope s to get seve ral
stantial wei ght -saving at Assen. Bu t ·the res ults were disappomt -. -We'd hoped to have It all sort ed out by Ass en, - team manager
rare machines , including a V ·four fo ur·stroke NRSOO, to be ridden
Pe~er O iffo rd said. ." Obvi ously it hasn't been yet." but we will be
.ing , Although a lighter crankshaft, magnesium cases. and oth er
by Fred die Spe ncer. as well as the ex-HailwocxJ six-eylinder 250 ,
faXIng some proposals to Troy this week, whic h we hope means it
measures had given a saving of mor.e than 17_ ~nds, briAglng
5
M V Agustas have been !ined .up. including ~ikes from .cha mpio n
can 81" be sorted ou t for the next race in lmota next wee kend."
the triple to Within 6.6 po unds of the minim um, pe rsistent misfire
-John Surtees: and he hoped to have the M ot a Guzzi V 8s , as well
problems meant there was no mirac le on the track. 'Jean -Michel
as a large number of oth er exot ic machines. The retrospe cttve
The controversy o~er ~a ir. Bia'ggi' s infamou's block Rag rnged
Bayle qualified a lowl y 18th . with Kenny Robe rts Jr. even further
rule s win ex tend also to spec tators and paddoc k people. Large
back . -Th e proble m's ";"'orst betw een 10,000. and 12,000 rpm ," . late into the night at As sen, long after the ·rider' himself had left .
modem ·transporters and motomornes w ill be banned , in favor of
He wa s punjs~ed becau~e his mechani cs had nOt cleared t he grid
Bayle explained . -It makes the bike unstable , because whe n you
at the three -minute board. as specifically r eq uired by the regula · . caravans and tents: the paddock will be open to the · public, and
need the power out of the com er, y ou don 't get any. " Junior' s
stat e s·ubsidies will . a1l6~ the entry pnces to be kept to then- contion s; b"!t there were many w ho th ought that the deci sion had
co m·ment. w as terse . - I've not had one lap w ithoUt the bike misfir been unnece ssarily hars h; since ' he had already started the race
te'!'porary leve ls , at .some 15 guilders rather tnan the 55 that
ing: he sa id after placing 22nd in pra c t,ice. He sw it ched to
from the back of the field, in pit lane . How ever, this 'was the 'sec- ·w0 l!ld be more appropriate to~ay,
'
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