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By Geoff Meyer
CHATEAUDU LaIR, FRANCE, AUG. 9
" W
ith o ne rou n d re ma in ing ,
C hico is 19 po ints a head; I
need for him to have a problem - otherwise, I canno t win the World
Championship," said Yamaha France rider
David Vuillemin after winning the latest
round of the Wo rld 125cc MX Cha m pions hips in his home country of France.
Vu illern in is cor rect in sta ting 'that it
will take a miracl e to w in the series, yet
o n a ho t su m mer d ay in Cha te a u du
Loir, the brave Fren chman d id his best
to produce eno ugh to close the gap on
series leader Alessio "Chico" Chiod i. In
Fran ce, Vuillem in .won the first moto in
co n v in ci n g fas h io n , while C h io di
cras he d an d trailed nearly in last pl ace
ea rly o n . C hio d i, thou gh, is a fighter,
and by moto' s end he was in fifth pl ace.
. "The champion ship w as on the line,
and I had to attack," Chiod i said . "I was
the fast est on the tra ck today."
Th en, in th e second mot o, th e two
battled sid e by 's id e for th e en tire race,
wit h Chiodi e v e n tua ll y p assing
Vui ll emin , who later co m p laine d h is
cycle had a sick motor.
TI,e Fren ch 125cc GP was held in th e
northern part of France , som e 150 miles
sou th of Paris and 15 miles w est of th e
famous Le Man s road racing track; yo u
mi ght say that this is motor -racing cou ntry. Yet it came as a surprise that only
5000 people turned ou t to witne ss what
was ex pected to be a com pe titive gra nd
pr ix. Added to th e equa tio n wa s that the
's u m m er in Eu ro p e had turned fro m
being cold and w et to hot and d ry. Per-
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