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He almost caught back up to an awesome fight between Winston Ten Kate
Honda's Chris Vermeulen and Klaffl
Honda's Max Neukirchner. who were
holding each other up - or trying to knock
each other down - on the last couple of
laps. Touching fairings around tum three.
the pair battled It out right to the wry
end. with Vermeulen scoring the podium.
by just a hair. but It was rookie
NeuIdtchner who had to cede the podi11m pIIce. albeit
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was not so bad. It was good to be the first
Honda in race two as well. Those who
risked too much were immediately out.
The crashes were impressive. And Phillip
Island? I really love it!"
In the second race. a harsh downpour
stopped the action for a while, and as the
contest had not yet
reached the rnegk:
two-thIrds . .
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