Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1990's

(Left) Miska Aa ltonen gave the home crowd someth ing to chee r a bout after winning the first moto. He ended up taking runner-up honors. (Above) Hus qvarna's Ales sio Chiod i wrapped up his th ird-straight 125cc World Championship. to pass Bartolini, and was never headed again. Not that he wasn't pressured. Van Wessel stormed onto Aaltonen's rear wheel and despe rate ly sought an opening for 20 minutes , before a mi nor e rror lost him contact , and S mets kept the r a ce alive un til the checkered flag with his cha rge from an initial 10th. Bartolini, meanwhile, had offered little res is ta nce to any of the trio. "They were not a danger to me, and , after the ra in, the track is very dangerous," Bartoli ni said. "It would be so easy to m a ke a mistake." Down to fou r th by half d is ta nce, h e was 200 vards ahead of Jo hansson in fifth - and des pite a ll the Sw ede's efforts, tha t was how it would s tay. "The race seemed to la st foreve r," admitt ed th e new cha mp lat er . Ind eed it did, as Aalt on en just beat the 40 m inute b oard a n d m ad e th e race 40 minutes plus th ree laps. A ndre ass on w a s o u t w i thi n half a la p . "C hris Burnham los t co ntrol, shot across the tra c k and to o k m y front wheel," Andreasson said. Burnham was, once again , in rampag ing form and was even tracking Smets for half the race. "T h e n the s ho ck faded," Burnham said . "It always does on tracks as rough as this." He w as p assed for sixth on the last lap by Shayne King. If Bartolini had ridden wi th the title in mind in race one, he went out in the second to show he is a true champ. Af ter a first-lap pass on Aaltonen, no one saw him again, a nd th e on ly threa t to his victo r y came 10 minu tes fr o m the end when th e Ita lia n got cross-rutted on a table top a n d s pen t two laps burni n g ta p e ou t of h is rea r bra ke after goi ng off the side. Firs t King a nd th en Joh ansson ca ug h t up to the leader in a fru itless a tte m p t to reta in KTM hopes of the manufacturers' cro w n, their fina l order en di ng in fav or of the Kiwi , still b attling for fifth in th e standing. The team's silver medal was sa fe. Yves Demaria had ridden only a few laps all day after landing on his injured knee in the morni ng , while Smets ha d go ne down in a hea p with, among o thers, Burnham at turn three. Without a clutch , the deposed champ, Smets, recovered to ninth, one behi nd Willie Van Wessel , who had ea rlier crashed in turn two. The big race then was for the fe but not many of the riders made it. eN Tykkima en Moottoriradalla Kouvola, Finland Res ults: August 29, 1999 (Round 12 of 13) M OTO 1: 1. Mi ~~l Aa lton e n (Yam); 2. Joel Smcls' (HbS); 3. WiIIil' va n Wessel IH us ): 4. Andree Bartolini (Ya m ); 5 . Pe te r Jo ha nsso n ( KT M); 6. Sha yn e Kin g (KTM); 7. C h r is Burnham (Hon) : 8. Ioc be n J.u:.in s l...i (Ho n ): 9. And rea s Dygd (Ya rn): 10. Francisco Garcia Vieo (Ya m ); 11. Dann y Th e yb ers {H bg I: 12. Jo nas Ed berg (He n): 13. Max Bartolini (Yam ); 14. Jet janssen (K.1W); 15. A vo Leok (KTM). MOTO 2: I. And rea Bar toli ni (Ya m ); 2. Sh .' YIll' Kin g ( KT M ); 3 . Pe ter Jo h a n s so n (KTM) ; 4. Misk.l Aaltonen (Ya m ); 5. Francis co Garcia Vico (Ya m); 6. [och en Jasin sk i (Hen): 7. Da nn y The ybers IHbg): g. Willie Va n Wessel (H us): 9. [oc l Smcts (Hbg): 10. Rob H c rr ing (Ho u): 11, Mat s Aud reasson (He n): 12. Erwi n BrieflVn. Doom in the factory VOR team. Incidentally. the name " Vert ernati " can no longer be used for the bikes. as Alvaro and Guido have now brought out their own new creation. and the family name' is protected ' for their products . Pen has yet to.be put to pape r. but S tefan Everts and the Radson/L&M team are poised to switch to the 500cc GPs next year on factory fourstroke Husqvarnas. No official announcement can be expected before the Yves Dem~ria has ' now run out ~f optto ns in the 500cc Class. and Team Wirtz hopes to take him back to the 250s on semi-factory Yamaha. ' CurrentlyYamahaonly has Claudio Federici lined up for Hia! class. Mi lan show -in mid -Sep tember, to obtain ~e maximum promotion expo - sure for,the Cagiva Group. and the odds are that the four-time World champ will enter the hall on the company's flagship,.the new MV Agusta road bike. Believed to be a three -y ear deal. the move will mean that all three leading Belgians - Everts. Joel Smets and Mamicq Bervoets - will race in the:500cc class next season . Radson team owner Dave Grant has gone as far as meeting KTM team manager Kurt Nicoll and father.Dave, the industry group (MIAGl represen tative ·in the big class. to .discuss the future of the 500cc GPs . The introduction Of many 01 the ideas seen in the 250cc GPs: s uch as the use of transponders to free the area currentlyused for side numbers lor sponsors emblems. is an obvious concern. Darryll King, 'who has a year to run 'on his Husky contract, could be drafted into the Radson squad. but the' slqnatureof another class newcom~r cannot be ruled o~t. Conflrmatio~ that the Swiss Pamo team will be the official HRC 250cc GP next year was given by,Paul Kasper at Gai/dort. He 'could not, howey- . er. ' confirm his riders. This is known to be because of contractual prob- , lems surrounding Frederic Boll y. The other unnamed nderS are expected . e to be Ryan Hughes , who already has a Pamo contract for 2000. and Mark J ones. while PhilippeDupasquier will continue in a satellite role., '. Kurt Nicoll admitted in Finland that he had been approached' for assis tance on the KTM four-stroke by 18 of the 'current top 20. The factory already' has 'firm 'dealer orders for the entire 7000 production run of the SX520. Hot 125 property Grant Lan gsto n is expected to .stay on KTM. Team manager Kurt Nicoll said, - Provided the champ team stays V!'th us, then I would like him to,stay there for another season in familiar surroundings. If that is not ,possible I have promised l can fit him into our plans else where.: Patrick Caps is Nicoll"s other leading candidate .to join James ,Dobb. Sandro Puzar withdrew before qualification in Finland because of his ankle injury from Sweden and will also miss Holland.' Trampas Parke r struggled to qualify with his injured right knee and did not race , . . . Kurt Nicoll had .e busy week between the Scandinavian GPs. • t rode a 380 ,in a 'KTM team alongside Heinz Kinigadnenind triple World ski cham pion Luc Alphand in a three-day rally-type event in Lappland,· Nicoll said. ' Ma m lc q Be~oets has finally p~t pen to paper for Rinaldi Yamaha in a : which-was specially organized forEurosport's Off-Road Magazine., We .one-year deal to line up.alongside Aridrea' Bartolini. He replaces Sandre got. los t on the 'first day and nearlyended up' in Russia. then Kinl"s chain Puzar: who is already .poised to 'ret rect hrs retirement 'p lan's to ' return to . s napped and wrecked the front sprocket and drive shalt. Then we ran out . the .125s 'in a fac tory tea m' run on behalf of,Rinaldi with Puza r as of fuel. and finally it was 1':00 a.rn. when'we found 'an isolated farmhouse rider/ manager in the first year. The e~-cha mp also has an offer to stay ,in where we could pitch our tents for the night. It was the first building we had seen allday. and we couldn't ca'mp in the open ~cause 01 the c;!anger the 500cc class withthe Swiss KS.team: . of bears: We actually had to miss the second day's riding . we were too . . . ' . Chris Bumham has agreed to terms ,to line up:alongside Gert J an Van busy fi nding all of our gear and bikes agarn.- Macht linger (Hun); 13. Dami en King (KTM); 14. Limes Marsh (KTM ); 15. Filip Van Di jck (H u..). O /A : 1. Andrea Bar tol in i (Yam): 2. Miska Aalto nen (Ya m) ; 3. Shay ne Kin ); ( KT M); 4. Pet e r Johan!« ..o n (KTM); 5. JOl..'I Smc ts (Hbg): 6. W ilIil' V.lO Wes!'

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