Cycle News - Archive Issues - 2000's

FIM S upe r moto World C h a m p io n sh ip S e r ie s R o und 7 : GP of Austri a a superb performance. And o n Sun day , wi th the sun ou t ag ai n, it was obvious h e was a co ntende r for the wi n . He ro de well and collected sec ond place in both motos before the SuperFinal. Th ird place in the SuperFinal wen t t o Fre nch ro ck et Bo r is C h a mbon , who got the ho leshot in th e main and had taken third place in both m ot os as well. Jurg en Kunzel st ole th e w in from an on-fire Eddy Seel on the last lap of the GP of Austria. KTM was very pleased at its homeGP. MOTO ONE St art in g f ro m th e fr ont o f th e grid we re K unzel, Seel , K laus K in igadner and Frederic Fi orentino . Th e first corne r was owned by loc al st ar K inigadn er , b ut he was im m ed i at e l y c ha l lenged by Ku nzel on th e o utside and Seel in th e ins id e. Seel and his number 100 Husq varn a took the lead with no hesitation , w ith Kunzel going right w ith him and Ch am bon worki ng h is wa y to third in a fe w la ps. Kunzel t ried a co u pl e of ti mes to attac k Seel, bu t Seel answ ered right aw ay by cl os ing the door on Kunzel and tak ing his w i n w ith re a l agg ressive ne ss and sty le. Kun zel f i n ish ed s e c o n d, an d Ch am bon w as th ird . Satu rday 's rai n crea te d a lo t of problems fo r th e ri d ers not us e d t o t h e " d ee p water ." Some of the top -ca li ber ri ders , such as Iva n Lazzarini and Ma x Ma nzo , had to go into the first m oto with a poor grid position. Lazzarin i st arted sev enth and fi nished sixth. Manzo ca m e off the fifth ro w to end up ninth. MOTOTWO See' thwarted in his attempt for three straight wins . event Seel ha d to hafl g it out to ke ep I 36 O CTO BER 1 , 2003' cue I he felt that he still h ad a chance to l ap , See l at tac k ed Kun zel , o n ly t o MaK, AUSTRIA, SEPT. 13-14 n wh at w as probabl y t h e mo st ex ci ti ng GP of the Wo rl d Ch am pi on ship se rie s, KTM 's Jurgen Kunzel prev ail ed fo r his second v ic tory of th e seaso n and boosted his ser ies po ints lead at the Austrian GP in a battle of pu re a drenal i ne that saw t w o me n dom inati ng th e sc ene . Coming from st rong wi ns in th e last t w o rou nd s, Be lg ian Ed d y SeeI was on fi re in Au st ria, an d his plan of co llecting t op poi nt s in eve ry hea t see med p os sib l e a ft er he h ad t w o sol id wi ns in m ot o o ne and m oto tw o. Everyo ne wa s look ing fo rward to see in g the Husq varn a rid er dominate the SuperFin al as well , bu t to accomp lish th e sweep , SeeI had to dea l w ith a renewed K unze l, wh o got a co m fo rt able pole on Saturday and was reall y m oti v at ed by th e fa c t that th i s was K T M ' s hom e ra c e. So in th e m a in the checkered fla g; despite the cras h, p ac e w ith Kunze l. On t he ve ry la st S T O RY A ND P HOTOS BY M A RIO M A RINI pass Kunzel again. c ras h in the fa st uphill chica ne an d On the other hand, Kunzel was just throw his chances fo r a trip le crown as deserving of the GP win after get- awa y. Seel would remount and fi nish ting the pole by rid ing so smoothl y in eighth after being disappo inted t o see th e heavy rains tha t fell on Saturday , This rac e fini shed exactly as the fi rst . Seel got a goo d j ump off the grid and p inched off Ch ambon ' s lin e in th e first turn to run aw ay agai n. Ch ambon k ept second p la c e for a couple of l aps and then g o t passed b y his teamma t e , Kun zel , to creat e t he same top-three finish o rder as moto one. Fourth place looked to be Kini gadner's , b ut Manzo , i n an attem pt to gain a good sp ot fo r th e last starting grid o f the day. passed Kinigadner on the penultimate lap after coming up from t he sixth at the start. Lazzarini Boris Chambon {t51 got the holeshot in the main, f ollow ed by Kunzel (behind Chambonl, Max Manzo {41, Seel {tOOl and Davide Gozzini (221. e n e vv s

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