8. Pit."r~Fr.m Cl"'oClI C hili 0 :32.OfIU; 9. G n-gorio La,,; II.a
(1:323 AA); 10. Sco tt Ru,,~ll 0:32522); 11. M ik~ Hdl~
(1:.32.981); 12. JdlTtC5 Wh itham 0 :32.998); 13 . Chri s
Walkeor 0:33.(83); 14. Pere Kiba Ca ba na O ;33.2t1O); 15.
Iocb cn Sch m id (1:33.415 ); lb . Udo Mr (Du e); 22. O nd re j Lelck (Hon): 23. Vladim i r
Karvan (Suz).
TIm e: 40 min ., 21.958 'ot'C .
D ilOt
748 . A1stare t~ m -owne r Francis ' Bana officially 'denied thiS report
Bontempi see ms to be the hotter candi dat e for Andre& Merloni.
M ike Hale is set to te st' the Suzuki 500cc Grand Prix racer at
• obviously still Inspired by the chance to get a (supposedlY more
"'W e ~hould be .spea king to -Ducab . t -tt'8 M ilan motor show thIS
a
lucrative) deal with Suzuki to run their'factory bikes. Ferrari admit Pt:JiIlip Isl~ in Austraha b:etween the Japanese ' and ·th e Ind~e
sian World Superbike rounds in October.
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weekend. ~ SDtd one 'of the team's spokes men. " There is 'still a
ted on. Friday that Corser has signed
contract with ·Duccio. but
· he ·was n·t sure If he wOuld run in his team . - Ducati is also trying
chanc e that Dueati will provide us with new off icial bikes it'l 1998 .
but we will have to know before IcOg now' . as otherwise it will be
The World S~per.porl Seri.'. · ra ce w a s. o nc e aga in . 8
to keep Cart Fogarty and Pier-Francesco Ch'i1i. - Said Ferran . - For
Carl , that means that We.will need to llod an extra spOnsor to help . very diffi Cult for us to start negotiating 'with riders and Sponsors:- . thri ller. With the ,DuCBti riders playtng only minor roles . French.
- man S tephane Chambon got ,aw ay well and set th·e pace for four
~ his · salary . A co Uple of weeks ago. we offered him the same
·deal as' this year. but apparently Suzuki offured more and Cart has
Rather unexpectedly, the second .~ saki seat .ls .up for grabs
laps', but was pas sed by Massimo M eretj allf. For most of the
for 1998. In the week p receding the A1bacete- round . S i m o n
race , a leading group of- four . men ( Merega ll i , C ha m b o rt,
come back to us 'with a coun teroffer ":.·which is probably the aver Crafar signed a one ·year contract with the WCM .Red ,Bull team
Guareschi ,and ,Paquayl battled it out fo,- the rostrum positions
age of ours and S uzuki 's deal . " Fog arty was haVing talks with
Suzuki during the _
AlbaCete weekend;.bu t admitted that he wOuld
to ride factory YamMas'jn next yea'r'g 500cc Gmnds Prix: - It was but, with five laps t,o go: the two Yamaha riders got away.. lettl ng
almost cert ainly stay with Ducati. " Francis Batta. has one -o f the
an o ffer I couk:In't tum down. -. explalned t he ~ . -I started think~ ' C hambon and Paquay figh t over third place . GUDreschi took
best team s in the four-stroke paddock, and with the -extra ,backing
ing abou t it when M ike Webb, a fornier mechanic of mine who Is
over from his teammate tw o laps before the end and was n't
·froni DIesel for next year. the financial side of the story should be
in the Wayne Rainey team. asked me 'in Ju ly if I would be ' headed again. Thing s are closing up a bit at the top of 1he cham.
coVered for me as well , - Fog artY said . The Brit ·then confirmed on
intere sted in riding a factory'-Yamahain the Grands Prix next year ,
pionshippoints standings .- albeit be hind leader-Casali, Who h8d
Sunday .that he would be riding on an A1stare-Dueati in 1998. Chili
After'the J apanese gUaranteed tha t rwould have 8 full fae'tory 'bike
to se tt le fo r sixt h in A lb a c et e .- He is 14 ' points ahead o f
had also med~ up hiS:mmd on 'Saturday night ; after haVing told
at my. dispo sal. I decided to have a ' go at It. I have been qiJite
Guar.esch i and .17 ·ahead o f Chambor\; Brig uet and ' Paqua y also
·Le ster Hams on Fnday ' th at he wa s going to stay with Dueat i.
happy at Kawasaki. Dnd I ha.d hoped that they 'would have. ma~ a
the?retica"y have a chance to take the ti~ e.The Supersport rid·.
-The .contraCt that has bee n offe~ to me ~II a.utornatically be
.c oun~ero~er. but appare~tly th~r-budget for next .year .w es .pretty,. ers ha~e two mOfe round s.to go , .
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