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wasn't having any of it and on the final la p was r ig ht th e r e w hen Hara da slowed in the d own hill Cra ne r Cu rves, early in the lap. "Th is was a p erf ect race for me," Capirossi said . . Harad a sai d he ' d d ro pped be hi nd Capi rossi w hen he began to feel his tires go ing a way, op ting to save what was left of them for the late-race su rge. "I'd los t a bit of grip from the tires, bu t it see me d to ge t be tter aga in, an d that's why I took the lead again," Harad a said. "I do n' t know if 1 cou ld have won without the engine troubl e, but 1 am satisfied 1rod e a good race until that point." When Harad a crossed the line, he had over 32 secon ds o n the qu ar te t, w hic h Pe rug in i n o w h ead ed . Th r ee H onda -m oun t ed r id e r s h eld third Perugin i, Uka wa, a nd Ao ki. Vin cent , also on a Hond a, was just off the back a fter passi ng QUB Tea m Optimum ' s Jeremy Mcw ill iams on the 15th lap . Ho n d a- mo u n te d McWilliams wo uld la ter say th a t he was having such bad cha tte r th ro u g h s low co rners tha t he was losing time, and he chewed up his tires tryi ng to make up for it. The trio of third-place riders crossed th e lin e o n th e penu ltim ate lap with Uka wa fro n tin g Aoki a n d Pe ru gin i. P erug ini fir s t p a sse d Aok i o n th e s traigh t before the chicane, th en we nt a fter Uka wa. He a ttac ked in th e Melbourne Hairpi n on th e fina l lap, with Perugini for cing his way int o third and finishi ng .346 in fron t of Uk awa, who ran wid e on the exit. "During the firs t la ps , my rear tire was slidi ng a lot a nd 1 was clo se to cras hing ," Ukawa said . "In the middle of the race it w as a little better. I pushed hard and 1 was able to ge t third place. Unfortunately, on the last lap Perugini passed me on the straight. 1 tried to pass him again in the hairpin and we almost tou ched each other." Aoki was next, about six-tenths up on Vincent, wit h McWilliams another 12 seco nd s back. Team Se m p rucci Biesse' s Ta kes hi Tsu jimura was eight h, the firs t of three Yama has at th e bot tom of the top 10. A n te na 3 Ya m ah a teammat e s Lui s d ' An ti n and Jose Lu is Ca rdoso too k n ninth and 10th, resp ectively. Brit ish Grand Prix Donin gton Park Res ult s : July 5, 1998 (Rou nd 8 of 15) 12See Q UALI FYING: 1. K. 7.Oto Saka ta (1:39.294); 2. ' Yo uic h i Ui 0 :39 .311); 3. To mo mi Manakc (1:39.554); 4. Rob e rto Loc ate lli 0 :39 .9 17); 5 . Mi rko Gia nsan ti 0:39.962); 6. Mar co Mela nd ri 0 :40.114); 7. Fred eric Petit (1:40.114); 8. Steve jcnkner 0 :40.197); 9. [a ros lav Hu les ; (1;40.220); 10. Masaki Tokud o me 0:40.291> 11. Gino Bo rsoi (1:40.346); 12. Gia nlui gi Scalvini (1:40.549); 13. • Lu ci o Ce cch tncl lo 0 :40 .626) ; 14 . A ng e l N ie t o Jr . 0 :40,829); 15. Yosh iak! Ke tch (1:40.910); 16. Hiroyu ki Kikuchi (1:41.069 ); 17. A rnaud Vince n t (1:41.089); 18. Ivan Goi (1:41.093); 19. juan Maturana (1:41.340 ); 20 . Ma sa o A z uma 0 :4 1.3 48) ; 21. Emilio A lza mo ra 0 :41.470); 22. Fed eri co Ce rro ni 0 :41.687); 23. An d rea lummi (1 :42 .]1}0) ; 24. Je ronimo Vidn l (1:42.4 89); 25. Chri stian M .1Iln3 0:43.342); 26. Jo hn Pearson 0:43.507); 27. Ch ris Palmer (1:43,547); 28. Leo n Haslam 0 :44.132); 29. David Mateer 0 :44.602). 125ee G RAN D PRIX: 1. Ka zuto Sa ka ta (A p r); 2. Mirko Ciansenti (H e n): 3. Ycuichi Vi (Ya m); 4. Marco Melandri (Hon); 5. Masa ki Tok udome (Apr); 6. Luci o Cecchinello (Han); 7. Gino Borsoi (Apr); 8. Frederic Petit (Hon): 9. C tan lu igi Scalvini (Hon): 10. Iva n Go i (Ap r); 11. Arna ud Vincent (Apr) ; 12. An gel Nie to Jr. (Apr); 13. Fede rico Cerro ni (Apr) ; 14. Emilio Alzarnora (Apr); 15. Hiro vu ki Kiku chi (Hon); 16. Ju.1n Maturan a (Yam ); 17. Lt·(HlHasl.,m (H on) : 18. Andrea lommi (Han). Time: 43 mi n., 48.m sec . ' s Dis ta nc e: 27 laps , 67.5 mile Av era ge spe ed: ~9 .01 m p h Ma rgin of vic tory: 0.431 ~'C. Fastes l l.ap : L. p 7, K.lzutOSakata, 1:39.294/90.636 mph l USC, WO RLD C'SHIP POINT STANDINGS (MI., B of 15 ro unds): 1. Kazuto Sakata (156 /4 wins); 2. Mar co Mela nd ri 0 10 /]); 3. To mc mi Ma na ko (97/ )) ; 4. Lucio Cecch incllc (76 / 1); 5. Masa ki Tokudome (68); 6. Mirko Gian san t! (06); 7. Ma sac Azuma (61); 8. Fre deric Pe tit (61); q. G tanlutgi Scalvtni (55); 10. Yo uichi Ui (54); 11. Nobo ru Ve da (45 /)); 12. Roberto Locatelli (33 ); 13. Gino Borso i () 1); 14. Hir oyuki Kiku ch i/ Stl"vt' Ienkner (29); 16. A nge l N ieto Jr. (28); 17. Arn aud Vince nt (22); 18. Iva n Go ; (20); 19. Iarosla v Hul es ( 7 ); 20. Yoshia ki (A bove left) A swarm of 125s is led by T o moml Manako (3) and You lshi Ui (41). Th e 125cc Gra nd Pr ix w in , how ev er , w ent to Ka zuto Sak ata (4). (A bove) It w as a good day f or Yamaha In En gl and, Simon Cr afar c elebrates hi s win w ith t hi rd-placed Noric k Abe, Katob 11 5). 250cc Q UALIFYI NG: 1. Lori s Ca piro ssl 0:34 .085); 2. Vale n tino Ro ss i 0 :34 .44 0 ); 3. Tet suya H a rad a 0 :34.570 ); 4. Tohru U kaw a 0 :35.323 ); 5 . S tefa no Perug in i (1:35 .497) ; 6 . Sebastia n Porto 0 :35.4 98); 7. H aru ch ik a Ao ki 0 :35 .508 ); 8. Ta kes h i Tsujimura 0 :35.608); 9. Iurgen Fuch s 0 :35.694); 10. [ason Vin cent 0 : 35. 6 9 ~ ) ; 11. je re my McWilliams 0 :35.856); 12. Jose Luis Cardoso 0 :36 .000 ); 13 . No riyas u Nu ma ta (1:36.009); 14. l uis d'A ntin (1:36.534); 15. [ohan Stige felt 0 :37.198); 16. Luca BOS('OSCU TO 0 :37.233); 17. Willi am Cos tcs 0:37.249); 11:1. Yasu Hatakeyarna 0 ;37.292); 19. [ami e Ro bin son 0:37 .339); 20 . W ool se y C o u lte r 0 :37 .34 3); 21. Ivan C le me n ti (1:37.40 1); 22. Rob er to " Rolfo 0 :37.B 96); 23: D.w id t. Bulega {1:37.Q92); 24. Juli en Allemand 0 :38.036); 25. Gary May 0 :38.445); 26. Paul Jon es (1:.'\8.568); 27. Sha ne Norval 0 :38.621); 28. Callum Ramsa y 0;38.836). 2S0ce G RAND PRI X: 1. Lori s Capiros si (Ap r); 2. Tetsu ya Harada (A pr) ; 3. Stefa no Pe ru gin i (lion) ; 4. Tohru Ukawa (Hen): 5. Haruch ika Ao ki (Ho n): 6. Jason Vin cent (Hu n); 7. jeremy McWilliams (H on): B. Ta kes hi Tsujimura (Yam ); 9. Luis d ' Antin (Yam); 10. lose Luis Ca rdoso (Yam); 11. No rw asu N uma ta (Suz) ; 12. Roberto Rolfo (Hen): 13. [chen Stigefe lt (Suz); 14. Willia m Coste(Ho n): 15. Y.1SU Hatakeyama (He n); 16. Jami e Rob inson (Ya m); 17. Juli an Allema nd (Hen); 18. Shane No rval C Hon). T im e: 42 min ., 55.085 sec. Distan ce 27 1" ps . 67.5 mi le s Ave rage speed: 94.361 mph Ma rgin o f victory: 5.682 sec . Fastest lap: Lap 26, Loris Capir ossl, 1:34.085/ 95.55 mph 250" WOR LD C'S HIP POINT STANDI N GS (All.' B of 15 rounds) : 1. Tetsu va Harada 024 / 3 w ins); 2. Loris Capirossi {115/2); 3. To hru Uk a wa (86); 4. Valentino Ross i (85/ ]); 5. Haruchika Aok i (5); 6. Stefa no Perugini (6 1); 7. O liv ie r Jacque (56); 8. Lui s d ' A nt i n (5 2); 9. T e k e s h i Tsu jimu ra (5 1); 10 . Iurg en Fu ch s (4 5); 11. Jeremy McW illia ms (44); 12..[ose Lu is Ca rdoso (42); 13. Mauro Lucc hi (36 /1); 14. [ason Vincent (34); 15. (TIE) Deijiro Ka loh /Roberlo Rolfo (25 / 1) ; 17. N o riyasu N u ma ta (22) ; 18. Shin ya Na ka no (2 0 ); 19 . Lu ca Bosroscum (18); 20. Scb.ls tia n Porto (7). 'The Rider' s Health Day of C ha mpions . a multi-activi'ty day Repsol Honda's S et e Gibernau has been out of the poirits for and auction. set a,new fund-raising record of more than $8 3.000 two successive races follow ing his po'diuni in the Community of the day bef ore the start of the British GP at Donington Park. All of Ma~ rid , GP in Jarama.,Spain. This 'time he crashed while .in sixth the top 'riders and team owners took part 'in th~ activities. which place with less than 10 laps to go. - i think I was riding a really included track rides. autograph sess ions: an open house in the . good race. -, the 'Spaniard said. - Being sixth in front of Max Biaggi GP paddock. a world-record jump attempt. and a celebrity Soccer ' Is a pretty good showing. The bike improved all thro ugh the week -' mat ch : The be s t- seiling it e m at t he auction w as Marl bor o ' . end. and I was feeling confident enough to get a good result in Kanemoto ' Honda's Max Biaggi's .leathers. which sold fo r 3900 this race. It' s a shame that I crashed. but at least I didn' t really British pounds - about , $6 500 . The leathers of World Champion hurt myself too much. I ran over some bumps and I lost the fro nt Mic k Doohan sold for just less. with his Repsol Honda teammate of my bike." ' Alex Criville fetchi ng about '$ 1660 for his riding suit. The' best-sell' Kenny Roberts was noncom mittal when asked about the story ing ,helmet was one signed by Wayne Rainey, it went for nearly $1500. ' . , . in Britain's Motorcycle News that he'd met wit h Ducali to discuss , running a World Superbike team. T can't deny that I met wit h them ' Still hurting from injuries suffered when he 'crashed at the Dutch or confi rm that I met with them,'" the three-time World C hampion , n , Chesi erf ield Elf Tech 3's Olivier Jac que was replaced by . said. - It's that ' simple..The magazine took it' upon themselves to ' fellow Frenchman Julian A llemand In' Britain. Jacque bro ke fo ur think it's all done. I didn't lei on to that. A nd ,they said. 'We know bones in his right foot when he was hit by C ast rol' s ' S tef ano .' you have met with them.' And I said: ·Look. I meet with a lot of ,Perugini. Allemand: who .is currently third in the European250cc . peopl.e. i meet wiih Honda. ·1 meet wiih a lot of people,.' He, just series, qualified the Honda in 24th and finished the race in 17th in ' assumed that that's all. It' s just his assumption of what we nt on. his second-ever 250cc Grand Prix. This year., I have been saying that I'd like to look at the (World) superbike deal. I've said that for quite a while." As to why he'd ,Repsol' Honda 's Mick Doohan was n't shy about voicing his cons ider the move to suPerbikes. Roberts said, 'I'm an engineerdislike fo r the Donington Park circuit. tho ugh it was n't because ing company. If I can get into superbikes. it' s another branch of'my business. A nd superbike s . in my opinion. 'are on their way up • and 'of grip, With the East Mid lands A irport next to the circ uit. it' s often been 's peculate'd that the planes leave je t fu me s on the they're doing' the i hings they need to do. It's not competing directsurface . -T he 'grip is ac t ually okay here. - D oohan said .. ' I .Iy with this class . It' s anoth er. : Wh at 'he has in mind 'is selling remember CDaryll Beatti.e the other ' year, he used to hate the parts. which his .company builds at their shop in Banbury, to World Superbike teams. " If I had a Ducat;' team. 'if I built a Ducati. I coula place on' the Honda., but ,he rod e another bike and he said it still build 'the chassis for it. You can still sell that chassis. If I made wasn't too bad. The Honda doesn 't real ly get a lot' of feel from some modifications. which you can make. I can sell that: If I make a this place . and perhaps -Assen is much the same · it's perhaps fairing. t' can sell 'that. If I made a wheel. I can sell ii . The re are why I don 't like the place . The grip's okay . bu t it' s Jus t that you things you can do . Here, ihere's nothing 'you can. So there's things don't get a lo t of feel from it. so yo u' re no t getting much feedyou can do there · there's nothing you can do here.- He also said back. W ith the track temp erature bei ng down. yo u don' t get much feel again. So that's the biggest thing . If yo u go for a , he, hasn't ruled o ut running a race team in the United States. and that there was no reason'he cou ldn't run all three series , GPs.· hard t ire w it h low gro und temperatu re it'll just tea r ,the tire apart. and vice versa. If you go to too soft. yo u' ll start spin- , Worl d Superbike and AMA. It wou ld give more exposure to potential spons ors , he said. He h as a sponsorship deal in p l ~ce wi th n i~g: SOOcc QUALIFYIN G: 1. Sim on Crafar (l :32.128); 2. Mick Doo hau 0 :3 2.] 73); 3. Ma x Bia ggi 0 :32.490); 4. Norick Ab e (1;3 2.613); 5. A le x C riville 0 :32.881); 6. Kenn y Roberts Jr. 0 :32.892); 7. Ale x Barros 0 :33.150); 8. No bua tsu Aoki (1:33.394); 9. Regis Laco n! 0 :33.437); 10. Set e Gibe rn a u 0 :33.713); 11. Juan Borja (1;34.079); 12. Ga rry McCoy (1:34370); 13. Jurgen van den Goo rber gh 0 :34 .452); 14. Sc o tt Sm a rt 0 :34.932); 15. Eski l Suter 0:35.287); 16. Matt Wa il 0 :36.025); 17. Berna rd Garcia ' 0 :36.064); 18. john McGu int.Ss 0 :36.(94) ; 19. Ferna ndo Cris tobal (1:38.067); 20. Fabio Ca rp ani 0 :38.300) 500cc G R AN D P R IX: 1. Simon C re fa r (Ya m) ; 2. Mid Do o han IH on ): 3. No ric k Abe (Ya m ); 4. A le . C ri vt lle (Hon) : 5. Ale x Barros (Hen): 6. Ma x Bi.l g gi (He n): 7. No b ua tsu Ao ki (Suz ); B. Reg is Laco n i (Yam); 9. [urgen va n der Ooorberg h (Han); 10. Scott Smart (Hen): tl . Berna rd Ga rcia (Hon) ; 12. Joh n McGui nness (H e n): 13. C arry McCoy (Hon): 14. Fran cisco Cri stobal (Hen ): 15. Fabio Carpani (H en ). Time: 46 min ., 45.662 St.'C. Distance: 30 laps, 75 m ile s Aver age spe ed: % .229 m ph M a rgin of vict ory: 1] .530 sec . Fasle sl lap : Lap 14, Simon Crafar, 1:32.661/ 97.124 mph 500« WOR LD C"SHIP POI NT ST ANDING S (A ftee B of 15 ro u nds ): 1. M ick Doo he n 0 35 / 3 wins); 2. Ma x Biaggi (128 /)); 3. Alex Crivillc 0 26/ 2); 4. Ca rlos Ch eca 006/1); 5. Simon Crafa r (75/1); 6. Nori ck Abe (67); 7. Nob uat su Auk i (65 ); 8. Al e x Bar r o s (58) ; 9 . J o h n Kocins ki (43); 10. (TIE) Teda y uki Okada /Regis Laco ni (37); 12. Sete Gibcrnau (34); 13. Ralf waldmann (28); 14. Kenn y Robert s Jr. (24); 15. Carry McCoy (23); 16. JUrgC Il van der Goorbe rg h (22); 17. Noriy u ki Ha ga (16); 18. Kyoji Nanba (15); 19. Scott Sma rt (10); 20. (TIE) Yukio Kagayama / Luca Cad alo ra/Ma tt Wait (0). Upcom ing Rounds: ' Round 9 - Sachsenrin g, Germ any, July 19 Round 10 - Bmo, Czech Repub lic, August 23 Petronas and, Modenas for next year. and wants to see his sec· · ond-generation engine run and be competi tive. Roberts himself will be testing it later this mont h at ThunderhiJl Raceway in Nort hem California . Financial co nsideratio ns ' hav·e . also . caused him to con· sider closing his dirt track school north of Barcelona. He said he'd contacted a number of companies that had both been involved wi th and sent rider s to the school. telling them that if he didn't get some help: he'd close it at the end of the year.,Look ,for a full Robert s inte.rview in an upcoming issue of Cycle News. . ., · Repsol Honda's M ick Doohan spoke more highly of the Y amaha YZRSOO than almost anyone at the track, including the Yamaha runners. - As I've been saying. when somebody' s on the thing wanting to win. that' s all it takes. You loo k bac k to th e year W ayne Rainey was racing.. the year he was injured · he still wo n , four races in that season and i hen all or a sudden the bikes died. , W e haven't done a loi to ou r bike . Sure'. they've refined our , machine between last year and this year. I think the biggest ingre· di,mt thai 's been missin'g for the past 'few seasons is somebody wanting to win on it. W e've seen Luca,(Cadalora) change brands and he actua lly we nt beller on the 'Y amaha than he did on the Honda. Then he came back and Luca was Luca.: Even though most of the 500cc teams need ,riders, none seem inte rested in hiring the mercurial Luca Cadalora . A fter wal king away from the Suzuki t~am afte r the,Dutch GP . in the middle of a two-race deal, Cadalor.a approached Wayne Rainey 'at As sen ask; ing to ride the Yamaha which hE,d ridden for, Rahley in the two races prior to A sse n:, " It's a' bit late : Rainey told him before · deciding to bring back veteran Yamaha tes t rider Kyoji Nanba for the Ge rman Grand Prix in two weeks' time.. ObViously: Cadalora has no place at Suzuki. And Repsol Honda. whic h .has to do without Taday uki Okada until the' CZ,ech Grand Prix in August. and M oviStar Honda Pons. which has ,three injured riders, probably . wo n't touch him because of how he treated Honda a few years ago . In 1996 . when Cadalora rode for Erv Kanemoto , Cadaiora came up short on a budg et promise for the lease d NSR 50 0s. Be~au se of that. HRC is not .likely to hire hi';' in the near future. 17

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