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A prilia love affair goi ng sou r and an obvio us lac k o f und e r stand in g of exactl y wha t is actuall y not running sm ooth ly as it w as even two or three m eet ing s ago , were rife in Germ any , w hile the co m ments from Corser and hi s team were suspicio usly vagu e and sugar -c oat ed. "My line wa s good in the sec ond ra c e and th at g ot me in to t h e fi rst c o rn er we ll , but then the feel of the front tire d ro pped so I c ouldn 't keep u p the p ac e of the leader s," Co rser s a i d. " I al most fe ll a f e w t i mes . I asked for some ext ra cuts o n m y ch o sen rain tire for race two and the perfo rmance was go od . I m ad e a f ew sm a ll mod ifications to th e setu p of the m a ch in e t oda y aft er qu a li fy ing , but not enough to exp lain our difficu lt situati o n . T he drop in m y cha mpion ship standing makes th ings worse and I am sorry for tha t. " So when does a g reat ri de r and a great b ik e not ma ke great result s? If it's painted black and o ra ng e, ri g ht h ere an d no w . (Ti res? Ma ybe , and esp ec iall y in race one , wh en all th e Dunlop runners were red uc ed to some form of rubber -conserv ing shuffle.) If t h e b i k e ' s p a i n t e d b l u e a nd orang e, ho wev er , then greatness m ay be right ar ou nd the c orner, especia ll y for Hodgson and his priva t eer Du cati. An ex c ellent second-plac e fi n ish was j ust reward for a good weeke nd , and was m ayb e even less than Hodg son sh o ul d have had , com ing as h e d id from the pole position and run ning at " A ll th e rain t ires we h ave are of th e profile made in Eng lan d and they the fro nt in both outings . An oth e r Dunl o p r i d er , Pi er Fra nc es c o Ch ili had a great pa ir of make the bik e m ore d ifficult to steer. " Chili Said . "T hat made m e no t wan t rac es, the best of the Du nlop men in fact, fourth in race one and a strong bad and it wasn't so good. Race one was not so bad and I k no w I wou ld ' ve fifth in rac e t w o. H e w a sn 't up se t had a better resul t if I had been able about it all though. (Above ) James Toseland (5 2 ) le ad s Akira Yanagaw a 1 ) early in race two, 5 whic h was ru n In w et conditions. Toseland fi nish e d 17th while Ya nagawa carded a 1Oth"plac e finish. (Be low) Troy Bayl iss (21) was on e of th e few riders who had a great weekend. He fi ni shed second in race one and won race two in the ra in. Here Bayliss lead s Co rser (3), who had a mediocre weeke nd, and Tadayuki Okada (8 ). to push my rear tire harder. Bec aus e I to push too much . W ell it wasn 't so cue I e n e _ S • J UNE 20, 2001 25