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come to ex p ec t to see leading a race at the first co mer, but the re he w as ro m pin g in to turn one, followed by an even m ore unlikel y du o of Giovan n i Bussei a nd Goddard , w ho ha d co me fro m th e th ird a nd fifth rows, respectively . The ta lented Spaniard looked well up for the fray as he sped in to the near distance. God da r d 's m oment of g lo ry in th ird pla ce lo oke d li ke t h e s ta r t o f a g rea t r esult fo r th e Aprilia team, b ut then the A u ssie lock ed th e fro n t a little o n th e entra nce to [och en Rindt C urve. H e ran a little w id e a nd fin all y crashed o n th e g rass, p oppin g ou t his frequently d isl ocat ed sho u lder o nce again . Bu ssei' s turn in secon d la sted un til th e fas ter m en - Slig h t, H a ga , Ch ili, Vim a n d Co rse r (a n d G ua res c h i now) r eg a in ed th eir co m p osu re , a nd Bu ssei had momentarily lo st hi s, running off t h e tra ck a n d r e c overin g to join in eigh th . . Lavilla's pace lo o ked cool a n d cont r olle d i n one co rne r (of w ha t w as a fully wet seco n d ra ce ) th en suicid ally fast in ano ther. As Chili made his w a y ra p idl y and inexorably forward, Lavilla fin ally had to succumb on lap s ix . H e th en crashed o u t on lap eig h t, before he co u ld come und e r too much pressure from C orser. Ulm, passed by Guareschi o n lap s ix, wen t off into th e kitty litter on th e sa me lap as La villa. H e a lmost saved it, but h is fron t w heel fina llv su rren dered to the cloying gravel as he tri ed to regain th e track at so me speed . He remo un ted to finish 11th. Ha ga, just be hind Busse i, was next to tak e a n excursio n to obliv io n w hen he lost th e rear an d low-sided. By this s tage Ch ili was d oing 1:49s o n th e sodden circuit, hi s secret w ea pon rear tire w orking w ell in th e atrocious w eathe r co nditio ns. The most impressive improvement of the ra ce came from a priva teer - Kell e n b e r g er . Th e G erman . sc y thed th ro u gh th e rain and a w o rld-class field (Left) A Chili Sa uce : the s econd race wa s all Chili as the Italian ran awa y from his pursue rs to win easily. (Above) Lav illa (6) holds off Co rs er prior to crashing. Cors e r ended up finishin g second. to lead Fogarty until three laps from home, when th e s low-s ta r ting English m an threw caution to the w in d a n d sta r ted m at ch in g C h ili 's p a c e a t the front. Fifth w as Kell enberger's r i ch reward. Fo garty ' s in e x orable dri v e to the front w ould see him overhau l th e haple s s Bu s s ei w hen , lyin g in a we ll d eserved fourth, he dropped to six th as his Al p ha Tec hn ik Su zuki s lowly s ta r ted to ru n out of ju ice. C ruel, cruel fortune for th e p lucky Ita lian. T h en came t h e o ther c r ow d h ero A ndy Meklau, overco mi ng some p ro blern s for seventh, w ith Edwa rds a bitterly disappointed and d ejected eig hth . Mauro Lucchiari an d Brian Morrison took th eir Yamaha R7s to ninth and 10th a n d ha ve the h onor o f being th e o n ly riders not to be lapped . Ka tsuaki Fujiwa r a becam e the la st works m an to . crash out, o n lap 23, making it a double no-score for the Japanese rider. eN A-1 Ring Zeltwe g, Austria Results: August 29, 1999 (Ro und 10 of 13) SUPERB IKE QUALI FYIN G : 1. Colin Edward s (1:31.068); 2. Ca rl Fogarty 0 :31.209); 3. Ak ira Yana gawa 0:3 1.477); 4. Aa ron Sligh t (1:31.559); 5. And y Mekl au 0 :3 1.727); 6. Pie rfrancescc C hili 0 :31.738 ); 7. Tr oy Corser 0 :31.824); 8. Vitt ori an o G ua reschi 0 :31.983); 9. C regoric La ville 0:32137); 10. No riu ki Ha ga 0 :32.197); I I. Kat suak i Fujiwara 0 :32 .510); 12. Ro bert Vim 0 :32.73 2); 13. Peter Go dda rd 0 :32.813) ; 14. Luci o -, Pederci n i 0 :33.693) ; 15. Igo r Je rm an 0 :34 .276); 16. Frederic Pro tat (1 :35 .372 ); 17. Ma u ro Lu cch iar i 0 :33.647) ; 18. Gio va n ni Busse! (1:33.83 1); 19. Brian Mor rison 0 :33.83 1); 20. Ale x Gramign i 0:34.056); 21. Iohan Wolf steiner 0:34-.849); 22. Lance Isaa cs 0 :36.020; 23 . Ro ge r Ke ll enberg er (l :36.228) ; 2-1. C. Macia s 0 :37.054) ; 25. Jid Mrkvv ka 0 :37. 110 ); 26. Vladimi r Karba n 0 :37.614); 27. Giu liano Sa rtoni 0 :37.780); 28. Ali Gue ttouc he 0:38.-150); 29. An ton Rechberger (1:38.802); 30. Thierry Mu lot 0 :38.971). RACE 1: 1. Colin Edwards (Hon ); 2. Ca rl Foga rty (Due ): 3. Vittorian o Guareschi (Ya m); 4. Ro bert Vim (Ka w ); 5. G regorio La ville (Kaw): 6. Brian Morrison (Ya m); 7, M.1Uro Lucchiari (Ya m); 8. Alex G ra mi gn i (Ya m ); 9. Fred e ric Pr ot at ( Due) ; 10. Lu cio Ped e rcin i (DuC); 11. Jiri M rk yv ka (Due ): 12. Anton Rechberger (Suz) ; 13. C. Macias (Due). Tim e: 43 min.• 03.055 sec. Dista nce: 66.75 mites Average S peed: 93.30 mp h Margin of Victory: 20.6-1 sec . what appeared to be a' premature race developing between Carl felt -weird and made me crash. Four laps or sornethinq a~d I had . · Fogarty andColin Edwards as the Ducat i rider went to go past the just crashe d at' the fastest comer of the track," . ' " Amer ican . What look ed like a tu s sle fo r psycholog ical ·supremacy was , acco rding to Fogarty at least, merely a case of . The long gap between Brands Hatch arid Austri may or may not a Edwards beinq unaware that Fogarty" - or 'anyone .:was behind . have had anything to do with the traditional Italian fondness for month-. him. "tie never looked behind himat all: and he was just getting in . long holidays in Augu'st: but to a lot of people, the.four-week gap',.fol, my way." Fogarty loo ked to be ' perhaps on for a repeat of his lowed bY three race weekends in a row, was a pain. -After Brands ·Brands .Hatch tire woes in the early portions of qualifying. In' the Hatch Iwas really fed up,"'Carl Fogarty sai·d. "To hang around for four fi rst session on Friday rnornmqhe entered the pits after a few laps weeks felt like a long time. Still, maybe this Weekend will be our tum 's hakinq h'is head and complaining about the almost complete lack . because we 've had two bad results in a row . .The bike's still not 100 of grip from his rear tire; Convinced it !'Vas shredded, he couldn't percent, but I'm wo rried about the problems we're having at the rear be lieve it was no t o nly in one. piece , but almost co mplete ly of the machine, but up till now it's been not too bad," unmarked after Its ordeal. . With the prospect of only ei!;lht races left to go in the run up to . .. J an Witteveen. Apri lia' s rac ing bo ss. was an unexp ected visito r the Austrian race, Fogarty believes it will be COlin Ed w a rd s . at the A' I Ring. paying a call on World Superbike boys on Satur- and .not TroyCorser, who will pose a s tronger threat to his title ·day.. He declared himself pleas ed with the developme nt of the ambitions. "Even though Troy's right behind me, Colin's ' harder to RSV project in so me ways. and a little less so in others . - I feel beat. An the pressu re 's off him. so all he has to do is go out and very positive about the development of the RSV this year.- he win races. When the Hondas are ndden wen: they're very good. sa id. -With a new motorcycle it is always a challenge to make it Some times they haven't bee n ridden that well in the past. Yeah. fully competitive from the first"race'. but. the base we have in the I'm much mo re 'concemedabou~ him' than Troy." RSV is' veri good. A four-stroke e ngine may be new for Aprilia. Colin Edwa rds , talking slowly. but making the punches co unt. but we are experienced with the chassis from all our success es in Grands Prix. and thai helped us very much in our entrance to . s ummed up 'his feelings about the run into the last few races World Su perbike . We know very 'well whai it mea ns to race . before the A-1 Ring ra ce. - II's the perfect situation fo'r me. II's World Superbike is increasingly compet itive. SO it's necessary to terrible if so meone gets injured at this point withthree race s backto-back. Asse n's the most important race now. Right afte r Brands co mpe te aqamstother s gauge how well yo u are doing. Now we .have to wo rk to make our deve lopment better than the other Hatch (where Edwards took a double win) I.sa id that if we can team s . We .have to take the projec t to.an even higher level:" beat Carl at Assen we can win th e title. Momentum is 'important As ked if the Aprifia project would indee d swe ll to include a two- and it' d ' be nice to go into the race with so me. But I had no . momentum going into Brands Hatch, and .I still won both race s. rider team for the 1ggg season, he was a little more circumspect. Carl does n't handle .pressure too well. Apart from winning races, fuelinqrumors about a reorqamzation and rationalization o f Apri lwhat else can I do to apply pressure? No ,British papers 'quote ia' s racing operatio ns in ' general. . "We must seehowthe rest of . the' seas on goe s before we dec ide ' what we will be doing next anything' I say anyway." to ~~ " '. .' Br i an . Morris.on . ,a Ge'rma n Pr o -S uperbike a nd Wor ld ·Endurance regular, had a busy A-I .weekend - before it even s tarted. "I was test ing at Paul Ricard with the Yamaha Motor France guys 'on Thursday. I hopped on the bike after all the other guys had come in and said how grea t I! felt..I did two or three laps and I ·felt like it was running-on in a co uple of places. butl put it down to the ·diffe.rences betwe en my Alpha-Teoh nik bike ' and the irs . I ·wound it on fulldown the Mist ral straight. left It late on the brakes, tipped it in, and as soon as .1gol to the apex the bike just folded . · th ~ fron t. It turned out that it had a slow puncture: 's o tha t's why it Edwards, strongly linked with numerous Grand Prix rides, believes that World S uperbike will be his home for at leasi another year. And, unless things change in his favor. soon, they could be for mos t of the foreseeable future as well. "I think l'rnqcnna be on superbikesnext year;" he sa id: "If I'm ever gonna go to GPs, l'rn £lonna have to go soon. I think 1"11 be on a s upe rbike next year.' The World ·S u p e rs po rt· race was. won by :.lo rg Teuc hert over his Yamaha teammate , Ch arlie Ke llner. A third Yamaha.' ridden by Wilco Zeelenberg . finished third as the R6s complet. e d a sw~ep of the podium positions. Fastest lap: Ca rl Fogarty. 1:37.957/165.29 mph. Lap 9 RA CE 2: 1. Pier-Frances co C h ili (Su z): 2, Tr oy Co rs e r {Du d; 3, Aa ron Slight (Ha n ); -l.Ca r l Foga r ty (Due); 5, Roge r Kellenberger (Ho n); e. Gio vanni Busse! (Suz ); 7, Andy Meklau (Due); Reoli n Ed wards (Ha n); 9. Mau ro Lucchiari (Ya m); 10. Bria n Morrison (Yam); 11. Roger Ulm (Ka w): 12, Igor jcrm an IKaw) : 13. Frede ric J'r ot a t (Du e); 14 . Vladimir Karban (Suz) : 15 , Lan ce Isaa cs (Due); 16, Ant on Re chbcrger (Suz ): 17. C. Macias ( Due) . Time: 46 min., 40.235 sec. Dista nce: 66.75 mi les Average Speed : 86.064 mph Margin of Vic tory: 17.746 sec. Fast est Lap : Pier -Fran cesco Chili, 1:49.537/155.00 mph. lap 22 FlM WO RLD SUP ERBIKE CHAM PIO NSHIP POINT STANDINGS (After 10 of 13 rounds): 1. Carl Fogarty (363/8 wins); 2, Tro y Corse r (302/ 2); 3, Co lin Edwards (301/ 5); 4. Aaron Slight (252); 5. Akita Yanagawa (215); 6. Pier-Fran cesco Chili 085 /1); 7. Nori uki Ha ge (144); 8, G regorio Lavill e (120); 9. Ka tsu a ki Fu jiwa ra (96); 10, Vitto ria no G uaresc ht (86); 11. Peter Goddard (76); 12. And ..' Mek lau (69); 13. Robert Ulm (54); 14. Ben Bostro m (45 /1>; 15. Dorio Rombon i (44). SUPERSrORT: 1. jorg Teuch ert (Ya m); 2. Christian Ke ll n e r (Ya m) ; 3. W . Zee le n be rg (Yam ); 4. Ia n Macpherson (Kaw); 5. Piergi orgio Bon tempi (Yam); 6. Werner Daemen (Yam ); 7. Pen.' Rib" (Hon): 8. Andre C achin o (Suz); 9. Ma u ro San chini (Suz ); 10. Seba stien Ch arpenti er ( H o rn : 11. M icha el w ohner (Ya m) ; 12. Michele Malatesta (Du e): 13. Larry Pegram (Due ): 14 . Igor Antonelli (Yam ); 15. Cnstta nc Migliorati (Suz ): 16, Vittorio Iann uzzi (Yam ); 17. Franz Haslmger (Yam). Ti me: 44 min .. 52.385 sec. Dis ta nce: 61.41 mi les Average S peed: 82.35 mph Ma rgi n of Victory: 8.992 sec. Fastes t up: [e rg Teu chert , 1:54.452/1 37.21 mph. lap 4 WOR LD SUPE RSPO RT C HA M PIONS H I P POIST ST ANDING S (Afte r 10 of 12 ro un ds) : 1. Stepha ne C h a m bo n 0 26 / 2 wi ns ); 2. P ie rg io rgio Bontempi (116 / 1); 3. Iorg Teuc he rt (89 / 2); 4. C hri stia n Kellne r (88) ; 5. Ia n Macphers on (8011); 6. Fab rizi o Piro va no (74); 7. Wileo Zeelenbe rg (66ft); 8, Rube n Xaus (65/ 1); 9, Willi,l m Cost es (65); 10. Mas..imo Me regalli (53); 11. . C risti ano Mlgl ic rati (52); 12. James Tose land (50); 13. Pa olo Casol i (45); 1-1, Pere Riba (32); 15, J. Whitham (25 /1). · Paolo Cas;'li , still injured fro~ 'his: tes t ing accident in' Rijeka. was a late withdrawal for the A:1. Ring roundof the World Super- . s port Series. ' His replaceme nt. .' was Fast By Fer raccis Larry Pegram . P eg ra m found the.. . we t-and-wildconditions at Aostria a little difficult".:not to mention the white hot pace of the · us ually co mbative Su pe rsp ort . 60 0 c rew. Pe g ra m qua lified 29th and was a controll d' 13th e in th e ra ce , The AMA ride r blame d 'hims e lf a nd not the bike for the r e lativ ely poor times. until the race .itself. "No proble ms with t he bike , " Pegram said. "Every. time I ask for a mod to be ' made. I get back on the track and the prob-: lem is resolved . It' s me who needs to ge t to know the bike and the track bett er, and that takes time. In this class if you improve a second a lap you 're at the front." Dunlop arrived 'in Aust ria Wltli their new D20SGP-derived tires · for all its s upported teams. The tire looks very similar in bas ic.pattern to the" regular D20Ss, but has much less actual tread mark: inqs , making 'it look like an artistically sc ulpted cut-s lick. Jorg Teu che rt, one of the main Dunlop runne rs . co mmen tedt hat, : Dunlop say that the tires could he.anything up to a second a lap faster than the previous ones at certain tracks. With the cha'nging weather it has been ve ry difficult here, but the feel f ron1'the tires is much-improved.... Steve Webster and Da vid James once,agai dominated the n Sidecar World Cup race , this .time. in wet conditions. Early. chal- . lemgers Schlossera nd Hauser suffered the ultimate S idecar team nightmare by spinning and tuminqupside down. gett ing trapped under their outfit. Schloser was carried to the medical center with a bruised pelvis, but that was the' main exten t of his injuries . Despite his tire problems, Webster and James took the win from KlaffenbocKand Hanni, with Muldoon and Woodhead third-'. Klaf· fenbock and Hanni st ill lead the se ries standings, 147-140, over . Webster. . . 0> en en 23

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