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Road Race
careful at first ," he said . "Then my tires
were working well , so I cou ld push
hard er."
akano se ttled fo r a safe fo urth,
ad mitting, " I expected better."
A long way back Stefano Perugini's
Fila Ho nda had grad ua lly pu lled away
fro m Sebastian Porto, rid ing a pro totype
of next yea r's production Yamaha. Then
came Jay Vi ncent's Pa dgetts Honda,
shini ng once again, and well clea r of
Rossi's Ap rilia, now ru nnin g clean ly.
His last vict im had been An thonv
West Shell Adva nce Hond a's An thonv
West , safe in ninth . Anot her ten second's
back ris ing German Alex Hofmann won
out on a good mid field battl e from Luca
Boscoscuro, Lucas Oliver an d Rob erto
Rolfo.
Th ere w ere jus t 19 fini shers - n o t
am ong them Alfonso Nieto, Dani el Ribalta, Tomomi Manako, Johan Stigefelt ,
Da vid O rtega a nd Maurice Bolwerk,
who all crashed out.
Ukawa's win closed up the title battle
aga in. He has 192 points to Rossi's 218.
Capirossi moves closer too, on 172, with
Nakano on 162, Perugini on 112, and
Battaini one point ahead of Waldmann
on 107.
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125cc GRAND PRIX
The rain was falling good and prop er as
the first race on the new track go t und er
way, and conditions played havoc with
the race, with a high ra te of attri tion and .
the con tenders widely spaced out.
Arnaud Vincen t's CC Valencia Aprilia led from po le position, but not for
long , with Masao Az uma and Scalvini
bo th forging apart to ru n awa y up front.
Meland ri also summed up the possibilities quic kly to join them by the sixth lap ,
wi th points lead er Alzamo ra a couple of
seco n ds a d r if t in fou r t h as t he re s t
trailed behi nd in the spray .
At o ne- thir d d istance Azu ma started
to brea k away, and it looked prett y convincing, th oug h Meland ri wa s beginnin g to close aga in on the unlu cky 13th
lap. Then sud den ly both of them we re
gon e, tou ching the same white line and
cras hing. Azuma '-s prang was particularly spectacular, with the rid er thrown
off but the bike carrying on straig ht and
true into the'gravel.
T h is left Scal vini up fro n t, a n d
Alzam ora wo rking har d at closin g a ga p
of just less than a second . But everyone
else was so far beh in d th at soon both
rid ers' pit crews we re fra ntica lly waving
both men to slow d own, rat her than risk
the fate that had befallen so manv others. Th us Scalvi ni's firs t wi n was ultimately by almos t eight seconds.
A gang had been d isp uting the next
position, wi th teenag er Manual Poggiali's Kappa Aprilia and Nob bie Veda
breakin g away at th e fro nt jus t befor e
half distance, the youngster hold ing the
advantage un til Veda used a backma rker to reverse the positions. Then Poggiali s u dden ly s lowed, smashi ng hi s
scree n in fru strat ion at his engine failure, and leaving Veda to a safe rostrum
finis h.
Vince n t al so s u rv ived fo r fourt h ,
w ith Marlboro Aprilia' s Steve Jenkner
deligh ted wi th fifth, ahead of Gino Borsoi's Sem pru cci Apri lia.
In additi on to bo th De rbi rid er s,
Pablo Nieto and Youchi Vi, and the two
leaders, Ivan Goi, Lucio Cecchinell o,
Fred Petit, Max Sabbatani, Iva n Ma rtin e z and Bern hard Abs meie r a ll
crashed out.
Alzam ora has yet to Win a rac e this
year, b ut ex ten ded hi s tit le lead
nonetheless, wit h 190 poin ts to Azuma
on 167. Melandri lost third ov era ll to
Veda, 146 points to 140, while Vincent
has 132 and Roberto Locatelli 126 after
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Grand Pri x of
the season In
t he soakingw et con ditions.
finishing eighth today by han ging on in
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sp ite of an appalling sta rt.
Co mmunidad de Vale ncia GP
Valencia, Spa in
Results: September 19, 1999
12Sce QUALIFYING: 1. Arnaud Vincent (1:42.237);
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2. Mar co Mclandrt 0 :42.448}; 3. Pabl o Niet o (1:42.7"-5
4. Ma sa o A zuma (1 :42 .8 16); 5. Lu cio Cecch tnc t!o
(1:42.867); 6. Youic hi Ui (1:42.898); 7. Emilio Alzamora
(l :42.969 ); 8. Gi o van i Scal vin i 0 :43.024 ); 9. Si mone
Sa n na (1:43.033 ); 10. Roberto Loc atelli (1:43.056); 11.
Ste ve Ienkner (1:43.139); 12. Noboru Ued a 0 :43.158); 13.
Gi no Bcrsoi 0 :43.187); 14. Mirk o Ct ansanti (1:43.513) ;
15. Jeronimo Vidal (1:43.835); 16. Ivan Goi (1:43.840); 17.
A .A ra u jo 0 :44.(63) ; 18. ~1. Poggi al i O :44 .147 }; 19.
Angel Ni eto Jr. (l ~44 .3 16); 2O.'A. Brannctti 0 :44.318); 21.
Fred eric Petit (1:44.397); 22. Kazuto Sakata 0 :4-1 .4671; 23.
I. Martinez 0 :44.623); 24. M. Sabbatani 0:44.b80J: 25.
Rand y d e Pu niet (I :44.7 9 1); 26 . Reinhold St ol z
(1:45.115); 27. A. Elias 0:45.39 41; 28. Bernd Absmcicr
(lAS A58 ); 29 . D. Mi c e (1 :46 .39 0 ); 3 0. E. D e lg ad o
(1:48.322),
2SCkcQUAUFYINC: 1. Shinva Nakano 0 :37.258);
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2. Lori . Capirossi 0 :37.484); 3. Ol ivier Jacque (l ~7.520);
4. Valentino Rossi 0 :37596); 5. Tohru Ukawa (1~7.809);
6. Ra lf Wa ld ma nn 0 :38.21 1); 7. Ie rcm v M c W ill ia m ~
0:38.242); 8. Luca Boscos cu ro 0 :38. 6(0); 9. franco
Batta in t 0 :38.605) ; to. Sebastien Porto 0 :38.7&4); 11.
Robecrto Rolfo (1:38.825); 12. Ste fa no Pe rugi ni (t:.JR.N
28);
13. j a son V in cen t (1 :38. 9 12 ); 14. Tom o n i Ma na ko
(l :39. 0 20) ; 15 . A n tony Wes t (t :39. 288 ); 16 . Ju li e n
Allemand 0 :39.534}; 17. And reas Ho fma nn 0 :39.785);
18 . M aurin" Bol w er k (1 :4 0.25 9 ); 19. Lu cas O liver
(1 :40.348 ); 20 . S COIl S ma rt 0 :40 .356); 21. J. [anss e n
O :40. 3H9); 22 . Ma sak i Toku d om e 0 :40 .750); 23 . D.
Ribalta (1;40 .922); 24 . Marcelino Rios (1:41.090) 25 .
Davide Carda 0 :41.128); 26. Davide O rtega 0 :41.201);
27. 1. Bonilla 0 :41.349); 28. Io han Stige felt (1:41.510); 29.
A. Dcbon 0 :41.640); 30. Fonz! Nieto (1:41.702); 31. A.
Molina (1:42.158 ).
SOOcc QUA LIFYING: 1. Regis Lacc n i O :Jn.132 ); 2.
Ma x Bia g g i (1:36.293 ); 3. Alex Cri ville 0 :36.304); 4.
Tadayuki Okada (1:36.314); 5. Carlos Checa (I :36.34-1); 6,
Norick Abc (1:36.426); 7. John Kocinski 0 :36.433); 8.
Carry McC oy 0:36A93); 9. Kenny Robe rts Jr. 0 :36.505);
10. Alex Barros (1:36511) ; 11. No buatsu Aoki 0 :311.636);
12. Juan Borja 0 :36.782); 13. [urven va n den Coorbergh
0 :36 .83 4); 14. Ser e Gi be r na u 0 :36.944 ); 15 . Tc tsu ya
Harada 0 :37.025); 16. Mark Willis 0:37.363); 17. Mik e
Ha le (1:37.622); 18. Davidc de Gea 0 :37.791); 19. IoseLu is Ca rdoso 0:37.996); 20 . Seba stien Gi m be r t
(1:38.346); 21. Michael Rut ter 0 :40.414); 22 Ma rc Ga rcia
(1:41.307) .
125<:c GRAND PRI X: 1. 1. C i.mJ ui~i Scalvini