CiuJUno Sortoni o;.
Mo= e.m.udo (!)ad.
TiJIW: )9 min.. Sl.bKl
Oioba«: 25 I.
&3..w..
A..-.ov5pft¢ 9U 8 mph
Too...
F _ 1.1" Aaron SIil:h~ 1:35.D42/95.34 mph. Lop 2
Il.ACE TWO: t. C.rl fosorty (Due); 2. Troy CceselDuct 3. AlCra y....l;II... (J(.aw); 4. "->n S1ighllHooU;
S. Crq;orio t..Wlo ojr
Tudm accelera ted the drying process. The second
st oppag e loo ked to be a lot more serious. P ie r ·France sco Chili,
pulling in a fast lap with only about 10 minutes left in the session. highsided exiting the last comer onto the start/finis h straight and went c1allering at full steam in 0 the traekside bamer. ChU banged his head hard
i
enough to destroy his helmet comprehensively. and he stayed down a
long time - miraculously without losing conSCiousness. HIS injuries included a bashed shoulder. tweaked ankle. cui shin and a sore head. Speaking
from a flat-<>ut position (on a bench. not a bikeJ 0liIi hoped that "Adrena ·
line wiD get me through the race. I wiD try my best. I try hard to get good
results in all races. not just because Iam in Italy."
The
The halfway poi of any championship is a good place to take stock of
any situation. and Chili finds himself happy with his first results so far and with the promise of more new parts to come. -We are expecting new
engine parts from Japan. but not now. In two 0< three races' time ."
Although he pofitely refused (0 be more candid . it is expected thaI the
parts will be used to help beef up the bike's midrange as weD as increase
outright power.
Colin Ed w a r d s · notable propens ity to us e what could b~ fairly
described as "bad language-at press conferences and in front of the TV
cameras has seen his nickname change from the "Texan Tornado" to
"Cussm' Cohn- in some of the more conservative areas of the paddock.
Lance Isaacs, he of much talent and inconsistent resu~s. has pulled off
one of the biggest moton:ycling public·relations coups.of.aU time by being
invited to appear on the Oprah WlOfrey show over the laguna Seca race
weekend . Pop s inger Haddaway and his manager were instrumental in
unity to promote himself
gelling Isaacs. a black South African. the
and the sport on American - and 'World • network TV. "GOOd exposure.
le
eh?" was the likab young privateer's massively understated comment. .
beca use I lost m y cha nce of a good
result a t th e urburg ring tw o weeks
ago when the track dried o ut. ow th e
rain has m ad e me happy. I don' t know
if m y h and wo ul d h a v e be en up to
going full ra ce distance. I th ink maybe I
would have d ropped back in the last
few la ps because it was becoming very
weak and painful."
Meregalli's Yamaha Belgarda team mate Piergiorgio Bontempi finished seventh after the first-corne r crash hel d hi m
up, but he retained his overall championship lead from Chambon a nd
Teuchert. Visibly annoyed a t not getting
away with the leaders, Bontempi now
leads the Frenchman by six points and
the German by 18.
t3
Aulodromo Santa mo nica
lsano Adriatico, Italy
Results: June 27, 1999 (Rou nd 6 of 11)
WO RLD SU PEKSPORT: 1. Ruben Xa us (Ya m); 2
Paolo Casoli (Du d ; 3. Mas~ imo Mrregalli (Ya m); 4.
Fcl rizio Piro va no (Suz); 5. Stcphane O\ambon (Suz); 6.
b
Jorg T("'Uchert (Yam ); 7. Nergiorgio Bontempi {Yam}; B.
Vittorio lannuzzo (Yam); 9. Camillo Mariottini (1(aw);
10. Wil co Zeele eberg (Ya m) ; 11. C h ri s ti.an Kellner
(Yam ); 12. William Ccstes (lion ); 13. Jamt"S Toselaed
(H on ); 14 . C r istia no Mi t=;liorat i (S uz ): 15. Walter
Tortoroglio (Suz); 16..Gil.b(.-P?l"Fioril lo (Suz); 17. David
0. Cea lHonl; 18. Prance
Monaro (Duel ; 19. Andrea
Ma zzali (Yam) ; 20. Igo r A ntonelli (Ya.m) ; 21. Wnner
o..m...
(Yam ~ 22. An~1o Con ti (Hun); llLua Pasini
(Dud; 24. Mich ele M.lla t ta (Ouc); 25. Da vid Checa
010 0..00. );38.746 / 91.769 mph. lap 3
WO RLD
SUrERSI'ORT
COSHIP PO INT
STANDI CS tAftrr 6 of 11 rou n d ): 1. Piergiorgio
Ilon'empi (82/1 win); 2. Stepha". Chambon (76~ J. )org
Teechert (M It); 4. Fabrizio Pirova.no (55) ; 5. Wi11i.un
Cosees (5Sl; " Christian ICrIlnet- (51); 7. I.n M.ad'I1er>an
(57/ 1); 8. Raben )(aus (45/ 1); 9. Wiko Zeel enberg
(41/1); 10.
Toseland (6) .
"'me
style. You can almost guarantee that if 1 pass anyone, I'll pass them on
the brakes. So maybe my problem is partly to do with my ndlllQ style. The
thing is . we've done temperature and pressure tests. and CorIO is some.
bmes Worse than me. but he doesn't have half the problems I have. The
rest of the machine is magic. The brake problem is losing me time through _
tum one. at the end of the back straight and through the chicane." Asked
about his feelings about the rest of the season now that he is almost ceriaiflly out of title contention. Slight' s answer was unequivocal. "I don't
give a luck about anything that far in the future. All Iwant to do is concentrate on getting rid of my problem and then I can start thinking about
championships."
.
Much experimentation was utiliied in the Castrol Honda p~ over practice. with Colin Edwards seeking out a better setup all weekend . "It's
taken us quite a whJ1e to get the whole bike set up for Misano." Edwards
said. "We started off with forks which were way too hard and I was running into corners ( 00 fast . Now we're using a lighter spring in the forks·
and I'm not running in so deep. Before Misano. I've been able to dlve in
and out of comers comfortably, but this race track is different from anywhere else we've been allyear.- His words were to ring very true on Sunday. when the consistently competitive Edwards struggled in both races, .
Aaron
Slight. like Fogarty. has a slightly dafferent view of the Nurbur-
gring oil debacle from some of.his colleagues. "I thought it was bad
the way they handled it an. and I feel sony for guys like l..avi Ia. who feD
when there were no Oil flags. But if I crashed when the oil flags were out,
then..: That·s why I waS taking a tighter hne in the comer. to keep a--NWy
from any oil that may be there."
Corn Edwards. particularly vociferous in his attack in the organization
at the Nurburgring, was equally sca thing about the wa(er-on·the-track
episode during the second timed session. "I said to them at the Thursday
press conference here in Misano that it was about time they got their
heads out of their asses and organized a meeting properly," he said.
-Here we are on Sunday with .zater all over the track. "
Aaron Slight's mashed little finger has almost completely healed, but
the horrendous injUf}' has left him with no gripping po;.....,.. in ~ at an. Proof
came from his right glove. which. although soiled and mari
