4. Do rie no Romboni (l ;26.005); S. Lue a Cadalora
(1:26.247); 6. Car~ CIwa 0:26.269); 7. Nobuabu Aoki
(1:26.492); 8. Norifumt" Abe (1:26.538); 9. Jurgen Fuchs
0 :26.696); 10. Takuma Aoki (1:26.7431; 11. ScteGibcmau
0:26.155); 12. Daryl Bc.1ttie (l:26J78); 13. Kenny Roberts
Jr. 0:26.781); 14. Jcan-Mic:hcl Bayle (1:26.957>; 15. Juan
Borja (1:27.073); 16 . Regis l.KoN (l:27.Q92); 17. Alberto
Puig (1:27.3 19); 18. Pet er CooJda rd (1:27.551); 19. Kirk
McC.1rthy 0 :27 .637) ; 20. Alex a uras (1 :27.983) ; 21-
Lu ci o Pedercinl (1:28 .05 2); 22. J u rgen va n d en
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(1:28.126); 23. Launmt Naveau (129516); 24.
Fred eric Prou f (1:29.893).
!!xc CRAND PR[X: I. Valnltin o R~i (Apr): 2Kazuto 5llka ta (Apr); 3.}or~ M""
rtu",z (A pr): 4. :"foboru
Uede (Hon); 5. To mo mi Ma na ko (Hon) ; 6. Masak i
Tokudomc (Apr); 7. G~ nluigl Scl lvjni (Hon); 8. Yoichi
Ui (Ya m); 9. Carry McCo y (Apr); 10. Roberto Locatelli
(Hon); 11. Mtsao Azu m.1 (Hon): l2. Gino Borsoi (Yam);
13. Lucio Cecchindlo IHon): 14. Fred eric Pt'tit (Hon) ; 15.
Stev e lenke-r (Apr); 16. Angel N ieto Jr . (Apr) ; 17. Juan
En rique Mat uranol (Yam ); 18. Sha hmt Yuzi (Ho n); 19.
josep SUdol (Hon ); 20 . Iarce tav H al es (H on ); 2 1.
YO!Iohialc.i Katoh (Yam}; 22. Mi rko Gian~nti (Hon); 23.
Manfred Gri...kr (Apr); 24, Dir" Raudies (Han); 25. X.
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Sole r (Apr); 26 . I. O cldvic1nU'i (Ya m ); 27. A . Jayadi
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Timer 41 min.• 14 511 ~.
Dist.lncr: 261011'5. 63.915 milo.
Avrrolgr Sp«d: 92.986 mph..
M.a rgi n o f Victory: 3,0"'
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FilStcst up: Valen tino Rossi. 1:34,044 / 94.103 mph.
25Oa: GRAND PRIX: i. Ma ll Bi.aggi (Hon ); 2. Tohru
Ub wa (Hon ); 3. O livie r I aeq ce (Hen) : 4 . Tetsuya
Harada (Apr); 5 . Takcstu Tsu jim ura {H on}; 6. H.a.ru.c:hika
Aoki (Ho n); 7. Ralf Wa ldmann ( H o n ); 8. S te fa no
Perugini (A pr); 9. Sebastien Port o (Apr) ; 10. Jeremy
McWilliams (Han); 11. ChriM"idno Migliorati (H on ); 12.
Franco 8.ltuini (Yam); 13. Oti..Jmu Miyazaki (Yam); 14.
Lo ris Capil"O!OSi (A pr ); 15. l.uca Bo!icoscuro (Hon); 16.
Oliver Petrucdani (Apr); 17. William CO!>teo ; 23. Ale x
Barros (Ho n); 24. JUTgcn van den Goo rbcrgh (Hon).
Ti me: 43 min .• 22.010 sec.
Distance 30 1.11'5 73.749 m iles.
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Avenge- Speed: 102.034 mph.
Margin of Victory: OiJtl9 sec.
Fulrsl Lap: T.td.tyuki Obda. 1:26.141/102.737 mph.
12Sce WORLD CHAMPIONSHI P PO INT ST ANI).
INCS (Atltor 14 ot 1.5 ro unds): 1. Valen tin o Ros si
0 11/11); 2. Noboru Ueda (213/3); 3. Tomomi Manako
(l7<1); 4. lGuuto Sakata (159); 5. Juru M.utina (U6); 6.
Masa ki Tok u do me (12); 7. Garry McCo y (l 02l; 8.
Robn1o l.ocatt41i (84) ; 9. Frederic Priit (83); 10. CTJE)
Yoichi Ui/ Mirka (".i"IIR"dnti (77); 12. Yo:"hiaki K.atoh (72);
13. Gia nluigi Salvini (70); 14. LucioCetthiM'11o (64 ); 15Masao Azuma (62).
2S0cc WORLD CH AMPIO NSH IP POINT STANDINGS (AftC'r 101 of 15 ro u nds): I. Max Biaggi (230/5
wins); 2. Tl"t5uya Harada (224/ 3); 3. lUtf Wa ldmann
(223/ 3); 4. Olivit.1'Jacqul/' (185); 5. Tohru. Ubwa (165); 6.
Lo ris C.apirosil (116); 7. H a ruch ik.a Aoki (l00); 8 .
Ta kesh! T~uiimu ra (%); 9. Stefano Pe rugin i (76); 10.
Jeremy McWilliams (67); 11. Noriyuw NUmilta (55); 12Sebast ien Poria (53) ; 13 . Osamu M iy a s.tk i (42); 14 ,
Franco 8.lttaini (40) ; 15. Cri!itia no Migliorati (32) .
500 cc WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP POINT
ST A N D IN GS (Aflrr 14 of 15 rounds): 1. Mi cha el
Dooha n (340 /1 2 wins); 2. Tadayu ki O kada (184/1); 3.
Nobuatsu Aoki (179); 4. Alex e n ville (147/0; 5. Luca
Ca dalora (129); b. Ta kurna Aoki (114); 7. Ca rlos Caeca
(113) ; 8. Nori fu m i Abe (110); 9. Alex Ba rros (93) ; 10.
Doriano Ro m bon i (83) ; 11. Da ryl Beattie (63) ; 12 .
Alberto Puig (62); 13, Seee C ib\.n'Iau (46); 14. Ant ho ny
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Eve r the jo kest er , 125cc GP w inne r
Valen tino Ross i suffered a concussion in
an automobile crash before the
Indones ian GP. Here he makes f u n of his
InJu ry by wearing a mock banda ge.
. V~twin team may .corne to nothin g'_ The deadline ·for.Fina liz"i ng
· 11 ' niill!on m~to~c1e.s registered. lrydonesia i~ the. world ;s thirdpro'posals and ordering bikes has passed . and it was suspiC
iously ' ,largest motorcycle mllr~et. be.hind.China 'and India.
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quiet at S entul. Orlginal 'proposals had openings for Garry McCoy
and possibly also Dary{ Beattie on V -twins., with 8 spare bike for 8 . Dunlop had to lean on Michelin · for help on the first day of prac.
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,wiil John Kocin ski return to GP racing? .Speculation mounted ·wild-card rider at each GP ; ·
.finally tUf!1'ed up late in the ·aft erno on . W e've helped them ' the
as .the rider market co ntinued to bubble over. ,W ith the key rider '
The futur e for Daryl Beattie in GP racing is now uncertain, after
same way in the past - it's not the sort of level we, compete on.,signing - thot of Michael Ooohcin - not yet in place . and most 'of
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confirmation that he will not be staying with Suzuki next season- ...said grateful Dunlop man. '.
the rest of the fie ld wait ing be for e .finaliZi ng the ir own plans.
"I'd prefer to stay in GPs on a compe titive bike. but at the moment
in the· ring' at a 'crucia l time. FOrlller GP
·Kocinski's name is
there aren't a.nyoffers;" he said. -If not. I ~y go to World Super- .' To th~ reli·ef.of all, fears .that 'the newly laid surface. at S~ntul
bad boy Koci nski won the 25 0cc title in 1 9 90 . then spent two
bikes. and hope to come Ix ick to GPs. "
wou ld break up came to nothing. Although very dirty and slippery
years In Team Marlboro Roberts. winning two GPs but gradually
on the first day of ,practice, the surface stayed in one piece and
falling Out of favor. In t 993 he swi tched to a 250cc Suzuki, but
cleaned upquickJy enough on the racing line for Dooh an to be
expect to s tay put 'n~xt
In the 2SOcc class. ~~t of the· top
the relationsh ip ended abrup tly midseason. He sWitched 'to , the
inside the record on' the first day. Another reason for times to be
Cagiva team' and ' stayed until the Italians quit racing in 1995. tak- . year. with the exception of Max Biaggi.· who is bound .far the
500cc class . Takeshi TsujimurB is expected to move to Yamaha:
faster 'than last yea r was cooler temperatures. "It's still slipperY
·ing two mOre race w,~s. His' evowed aim wits..to race a HOn~,
who may field a Works bike for him next year in spite of top -level
off -line: said Doohan. "o"eita king will be a prob lem. There's not
and he eventually achteved it this year In the factory W orld Superdenials two wee ks -ago : Haruchika Aoki will move to the FCC
many places to overtake here. anyway. except a coupte of spots
bike team after racing a Oucati in the same series last year. NooN
under braking ,· The layout of the track was unrversally unpopular.
team i~ his p~e. probably On a Works 2SOcc Honda .'
he ·is .well .on the w ay t o winn j-ng the title. and his reward is
again : too simple to be tec hnically chaHenging and too slipbe(.ev ed to be a move. to the SOOce class next year. Koci nski has
said nothing officially. buttold a friend. ~ext.year. whatever I do
Dun lop ho pes to mak e a 500 cc·class co meback next yea r•. pery to ,allow creative comenng lines. -It's not really fun to 009
will be in the (Honda) family."
beYond their present supply of tires only for V -twins . One poten· he~e" said 25000 Pole quahfie< Max Biaggi.
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tial V-four customer will be Max Biaggi wi th the Kanemoto Honda:
Michael Doohan remains the kingpin. in an the speculation. another mIght be the Red Bull Yamaha t eam, although not if
Alex eriville 's team thought of a_way to ease· the burden on
Howe ver. Doo han's avenues we re few. aft er Je an-M ichel.Bayle
Cadalpra staYs wit h the m. Another potential D unlop customer
his recuperating left hand in practiCe. fitting an extra -long clutch
lever that projected beyond the fairing. 'The experim ent was not
signed to ride alongside Norrrum( Abe in Team Rainey Yamaha. : could be the three-eyflnder Team Roberts Modenas. . .
This left only Suzuki. end Dooha n wa~ ob liged again this week~
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. . succ essful. Not only, did it slow up the act ion. interferin g with
enc;1 to deny .he was co nsidering a move to Suzuki. But it seems ' P e t e r Goddard foiled a .dastardly plot by the" French Suzuki . back-shift s. but it also brOke the AM rules on' dimensions. Criville
the four ·ti me World Champion 's negotiations with HAC are not
enduranCe raCing team to wi·n the W orld Championship .at the Bol . . has ditched his thumb-operated rear brake while his hand recov - ,
proceeding smoothly, as they tig hten the .purse strings to exploit
d'Or . directly befor e flying to Jakarta to leap onto the Lucky Strike
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his lack of choices. It was thoug ht that he wanted to run an indeSuzuk i in pla'ce · of the dis-graced Ant hon y Gobert. He and his
pendent work s te am. to avoid sharing his settings and secr ets
end uran ce p':1rtner Doug Polen . could only be bea ten by their
Four-time W orld Champion and 3?.'time G P winner Jorge Ma r·
with . other Honda riders: However. Repsol firmly quashed that
teammate .Eric Gomez. The Frenchman had partnered the m to vic· · tinez exp ect s. to ret ire at th e end of thi S se ason. At 35. the
Span iard was still fa st eno ugh · to qualify' on pol e position ,at
idea , with the threat of putr.ng out of their Honda deal if Dooh" n . tory in the two earlier 24-hour races. 'but did not mee at Suzuka.
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They we re thus ahead of him on points. and i f . as they expected Indones ia. .his' third pole this season : However; the daunting co mwas not part of it. Unless Doohan 'exercises his Option to retire.
pany of 'hot-hea ded yo ungsters .has kept. him ,from winning any
as he said lie might a fevv weeks ago , it seemS Honda ·holds all ' . from their co ntracts · he had partnered t hem again at the Bot, they
the trump cards . After all, their V·four NSR Is clearly 'the' doml wo uld have maintained the points lead.' Instead. they discovered
races , ·"Grand Piix racmg has changed D lot since I started. and I
nant machine , and top C!f the. current ·wish-li st o~ every fider and
th.at he' wa s in a' separate te.am. and they had been anotte d a
have had to change with it." ·he said after pract ice . -I'- can still 'go
sponsor. The current betting puts 'the following ·riders·and te ams ' . much le ss experienced and slower ' rider. Ostensibly this was' to , fast . but I think next yei::lr.l will 'probably quit .. lt is very importa nt
give SU2uki'a ~oUbleshot 'at scorin g Points for th e c~nstructars' ."for me to have a'good final yea r." Di rk Raudies. c hampion in
,together. Honda .. Aep sol !",!onda :H AC : Daahan to stay . also
Alex ·Crivilie and V·twin rlderTakuma Aokl.· Tadayuki Okada Is
title . but it also gave t~e Fre'."c
hman a chance to win out ~er the
1~3 . al~~ e~peet.s to 'retire ~t th~ end ~of-this year.
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n:3:por,tedly being mci"ed , ·asi ~e. p.resumablY to make' way fo r . other two . ~rf we' d had Eric' or anothe r fast rider. we'd have had a ,
There was' an' air of ~na'c'e o~er the Indonesian ·GP . conduc t' Kocin s~ . MoviStar Honda Pons: : Carlos Checa to stay'. but Alberchance .of winn ing the Bol and taking all three 24-hour event s.. "
t6 PUig's future is uncertain as HRC put s the .pressure on t o
said qodd~rd . l.nste<;ld .' he haC;i t~ ride for almos t 12 of the 24 . ed only' 100 'or 200 m'~es 'south of r a gin g fo rest .fi res tha t
we~e causing a natural di s~ster in so ut heas t Asia . An ,aircraft
hou rs to fi nis h sixth. This wa s o ne,p lace beh ind Gom ez. but
' make a pla ce for ' Oka'da with the ,satelli te team : M arlboro
ex'pected to move ,up to the
enough to beat .him on p.oints. Footnote': Goddard was not the . crashed north of Jakarta on th~ first day of practic e: with more
Kanem ot o Honda: Max B iaggi
than 200 casualtie s. ·and there were also shipping collisions in the
500cc class with his curre nt 250cc team..Honda Brazil : Alex Baronly GP rider to race at 'the Bol and then take the tiring run. to
ros is in line for a'V-four next year. after: a V-tWin season. Koein ., . Indonesia. Chesterfield Honda 250 cc rider Wilt.am Costes also . straits between Malaysia and Indo'nesia, with .tWo' tankers Colliding
and a' ferry re pOrted sunk. M~nwhile. nitlny airports were closed
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raced at France. finishingsecoricl. ·
due to pOor viSlb~ity•.includlng .Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. coin, .
Yamaha , Team Rainey Yamaha: Jean.Michel Bayle and Non fu'
Tadayuki Okada swftched back to' the ' B ig Bang' engine in plicating air travel to the 'Austral ian GP, which is only one week
miAbe already signed up. but ,no' sponsor con firmed yet. Red
Ma laysia .aft er his unhappy experimeryt with the Doohan-styl e
away. LUckily for 'the GP. the wind was blowing the other way.
Bull Yameha; an ell~new tineup PoSSible. with Sim on ·Crefar co nfirmed and the second slot for Colin Edwards II, or rising French . "Screamer- in Ca talunya. ~ Big Bang is better for my style: he - and skies were relatively clear ewer the track during practice,'and
said. Meanwhile. Doohary enlarged on his surprise sUltemen t two
only a little hazier on race
sta r Regis Lacon l.. On the other hand. press ure from Yamaha
week s ago that he hSd only sWlt ched to the 180-degrce engIne to
may oblig e the team .to keep luca Cadalora. Ya maha's only
Proven race ..,..qnner, Suzuki,- Team Suzuki:' N obuat9u Aoki has mess with the other Honda rtders . -All the riders are the same.. The Inck,,;esian GP' marked a mile~tone for Donano Romboni .
myself included. VVhen .you .see that somebody else has somehis.100th GP start.
signed. with an optio n for a furth er two years. Curren t AlI-Japan
thing diff ere nt, then 'yo u want it for yourself. Al ex COville was'
· star Katsuaki Fujiwara al so expected. Pos sible three-rider team:
smart .enough ....men he tested the Screame~ to reo lize thot the Big ·Yamaha onlY has one race Jeft to prevent ·an awful statistic -' so
with a We stern rider on board. Curient rumoi-s include Dariano
Bang is superiOr... but he stil tested It again a few races nto the far thiS year, it has have not won a single race In any class. for the
Romboni: The team IS te stlng the day after,the Austra han GP at
first .time for 34 years . So far this year. Only April ia and Honda
ph illip Island. and Suzu ki World Superbike ilder M ik e Hale is . season." Was the Screa mer inferior, or . was this Just II do uble
bluff? W ell. I've not been fastes t on top speed once all ye8<',".sa;d . have Won
ex~e cted to join N obuat su Aok l. Peter Goddard and fa ct ory
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tester vUkio Kagayama at the tests_ Modena. - Team Marl bOro .Doohan"
Olivier .Ja~ue is to fly directly back fn;m
Australian GP for ·
·Modenas: Aft er the def ection of Bayle . Roberts promptly clo sed
su,.gery to tus plated .left collarbone. It was broken in pr8ct tce in
down on any optron .for Roberts Jr. to depari.-He ·will stly. The . Practice was supposed to start
on Friday mornIng.
ma ke
other· prime suspect is Luc·a Cadalora : HoWever. t he..team's
space in the middle of the day 'for- prayers in a~cordance .with.the
Japan . the ~ round ·of the seeSon: lin d 'p1at~ directly after Moslem Sabbath.l h e 125cc nders . the first class of the day .
backing ' is not p..esently certa in. ~adboro may be pulling back .
ward . Now the plate .has started to shift . and wa s causing him ,
pain dUring practice in Indonesia. .
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and Roberts 5<, - who wants'; complete engine redesign -,has , tumed up early .., only to find that the.ambulance crewS had not' all
'.said. We either do thiS thing. property. or not at air." EH 500 •
followed suit. In the end . the .sessions started .Iat e·r than .they
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The future of the othor alternative to Japan Is also in doubt. WIth . would on a normal day . and religIOUS observances were ·aban. . _ lentin o Ros$1 was a 'doubtful' start~.for ~the" lndones;an GP '
proje ct leader M ic hel M et ra ux terminating· co nt rac t s w ith ' . doned. .
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accident the ~ous 'week mechanics end not renew ing rider c:ontr e¢ts .after s ponso rs~ i p . . :
. .' .end. Rossi woos in the b03ck of Loris C apirossi's Porsche 92 8: '
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launch 'o f a· n~' lndonesia~ ~oi~rcyd~
deals f~J1 thrOugh. .' "
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bY his father; GrazianO. After winrung the race. he put a mock ba n'
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