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Jean-Michel Bayle had a tough time in his road racing debut, finishing 24th. Switzerland's Rolf Biland and Kurt Waltisperg won the Sidecar GP by 3.4 seconds. Ezio Gianola won the l25a: GP, and is now only one point behind Ralf W~dmann. 16 gearbox failure. By now, Schmid had worked his way through to third, and had a little gap over Cadalora. He may have hung on to it, and he thought he could - but when they came up to lap Jean-Michel Bayle, Schmid lost enough time on the one-line corners for Cadalora to close right up and practice his familiar last-lap pounce tactics. "Maybe Bayle should stay in· motocross," said a disappointed Schmid. By the finish Cardus had faded to a respectable but lonely fifth, w.ith Alberto Puig (Aprilia) winning a fierce battle for sixth over Wilco Zeelenberg and his Lucky Strike Suzuki teammate Herri Torron:tegui. "1 changed the pads of my carbon brakes compared with yesterday's, and they were not so good," said Zeelenberg. "Otherwise I feel I would have been able to beat Puig." Another fierce Aprilia battle. for the last points saw Swiss rider Haengelli take ninth, but he was lucky, for European championship runner-up Jurgen van den Goorbergh had had a storming ride through from near last at the start to 10th, and probably would have had Haengelli too but for a last lap collision with 11th-placed Eskil" Suter. Among the retirements, J.P. Ruggia failed to finish after a strong start on his Gilera, until "the bike suddenly died just as it did at Budapest." Thus Cadalora will have to wait one more race before tying up the championship. He has 167 points, with Reggiani on 117 and a maximum of 60 left on the table. Chili has 87, with Puig displacing Bradl from fourth with 68 points to 67. 125(( GP Ezio Gianola's Honda was on pole, from the similar bikes of Noboyuki Wakai,' Noboru Veda and Fausto Gresini; and it was Gresini off in the lead from the start. It only took Gianola one lap to get ahead of him across the line, but it was a typical 125 race with bikes crawling all over one another, swapping positions over and again. But not Gianola, who held off Gresini until his countryman fell off unhurt on the eighth lap, then romped away to win by more than five seconds. It was his fourth win of a year when the Italian v.eteran is really showing his worth. The battle behind him was truly hectic, including Casanova (Aprilia), Debbia (Honda), Raudies (Honda) and Gramigni (Aprilia), with Wakai dropping off the back, Veda climbing through, and Sakata and Htle leader Ralf Waldmann both catching up fast. The German's charge carried him through to the thick of it, though only eighth place, and he seemed set to improve before his orange Marlboro Honda faded again with a broken reed valve, and he dropped back gradually from the battle. At the end, Veda and Martinez drew ahead of the pack in a fierce battle for second, with Sakata holding fourth, . Gramigni unable to close up on him in fifth, Casanova surviving a major moment to take sixth, just fractions ahead of Raudies. and Wakai out·of . touch in eighth. Meanwhile Hans Spaan had been coming through well from a poor start, and broke free from his own group to close up on Waldmann, displacing the German at the end to finish ninth, although unable to attack those ahead because of tire problems. Peter Galvin was satisfied with 22od, because he felt he was at last getting back Qn form. "1 was up to 19th, but I started getting sore towards the end," he said. Waldmann now has a distinctly unsafe-looking 102 points, with Gianola on 101, Gramigni on 95, GresiI1.i on 88 and Casanova on 78. Stand well back from the barriers for the next'three races, gentlemen. SidecarGP Pole qualifjer Rolf Biland got the holeshot at the start, and galloped away to make sure of the win by 3.4 seconds at the end. His biggest threat came from front-row starter Darren Dixon, who' displaced Klaus Klaffenbock from second on lap 10, and set fastest lap as they pegged the Swiss champion back. Then it was all over, with another mechanical failure for the Britons, and they retired. This left a cracking good battle for second place, with Klaffenbock's yellow outfit leading Egbert Streuer/Brown, with Webster hanging on behind. The first two gradually outdistanced the championship leader. "1 had carburetion problems, and I had to keep blipping the throttle in the bends," said Webster later, after finishing fourth. Streuer, displaying all his old forcefulness, made it past the Austrian with two laps to spare, and pulled away to secure his best finish of the season by a comfortable two seconds. "1 didn't drive any better than at the other GPs," said Streuer. "1 just got a good start with the right group." Japanese rider Kumagaya was fourth, with Abbott and Smith a distant sixth, narrowly ahead of the Guedel brothers. There were 13 finishers. Thus Webster's title lead shrank again. He now has 80 points to Klaffenbock's 66, with Biland very threatening after three successive wins on 63 points. Streuer is equal fourth with Kumagaya, on 35 points. CN Results 12Scc QUALIFYING: 1. Ezio Gianola (1:47.530); 2. Nobuyuki Wakai (1:47.7BJ); 3. Noburo Ueda (1:48.105); 4. Fausto Gresini (1:W.292); 5. Gabriele Debbia (1:48.317); 6. Dirk Raudies (1:48.546); 7. Kinya Sakata (1:48.683); 8. Jorge Martinez (1:48.703); 9. Carlos Giro (1:48.740); 10. Hans Spaan (1:48.740); 11. Alessandro Gramigni (1:48.882); 12. Bruno Casanova (1:48.942); 13. Michel Stief (1:49.278); 14. T. Shimizu (1:49.405); 15. Ralf Waldmann (1:49.434); 16. Oliver Koch (1:49.579); 17. K. Wada (1:49.602); 18. L. Bodelier (1:49.702); 19. Ari Molenaar (1:49.921); 20. Luis Alvaro (1:49.956); 21. Peter Detll (1:50.295); 22. Robin Appleyard (1:50.450); 23. Manuel Hernandez (1:50.463); 24. Julian Miralles (1:50.516)j 25. ,Oliver Petrucciani (1:50.548); 26. Alex Waibel (1:50.767); 27. 27. Steven Patrickson (1:50.%5); 28. Hans Abold (1:50.965); 29.. N. Ferro (1:51.273); 30. Alec Bronec (1:51.386); 31. Heinz Luethi (1:51.440); 32. H. Unemoto (1:51.638); 33. R. Laconi (1:51.711); 34. Peter Galvin (1:52.019); 35. G. Fiorillo (1:53.054); 36. Fausto Ricci (1 :54.188). . 2S0cc QUALIFYING: 1. Pier-Francesco Chili (1:41.215); 2. Jochen Schmid (1:41.764); 3. Loris Capirossi (1:41.770); 4. Loris Reggiani (1:41.841); 5. Luca Cadalora (1:41.909); 6. Carlos Cardus (1:42.056); 7. Doriano Romboni (1:42.090); 8. M;tssamiliano Biaggi (1:42.119); 9. J.V.D. Goorberg (1:43.178); 10. Masahiro Shimizu (1:1:42.289); 11. Helmut Bradl (1:42.664); 12. 'Andreas Preining (1:42.680); 13. Alberto Puig (1:42.744); 14. Wileo Zeelenberg (1:42.861); 15. J.P. Ruggia (1:43.004); 16. Herri Torrontegui (1:43.076); 17. P.V.D. Goorbergh (1:43.242); 18. Adrian Bosshard (1:43.230); 19. Carlos Lavado (1:43.270); 20. K. Kozono (1:43.418); 21. Jean Jeandat (1:43.491); 22. Eric Suter (1:43.663); 23. Bernd Haenggeli (1:43.792); 24. F. Protat (t:43.907); 25. Paolo Casoli (1:43.930); 26. Stefan Prein (1:44.019); 27. Errka Korpiaho (1:44.072);-:28. B. Ca~de (1:44.096); 29. Renzo Colfeom (1:44.120); 30. M. Galhna (1:44.176); 31. Harald Eckl (44.196); 32. L. D'Antin (1:44.341); 33. Bernd Kassner (1:44.473); 34. Adi Stadler (1:44.654); 35.·J. Kuhn (1:44.791); 36. M. Garcia (1:44.798); 37. Yve's Briguet (1:44.975); 38. Jean-Michel Bayle (1:46.089). SOOc<: QUALIFYING: 1. Doug Chandler (1:38.524); 2. Wayne Rainey (1:38.738); 3. John Kocinski (1:38.811); 4. Wayne Gardner (1:39.055); 5. Eddie Lawson (1:39.070); 6. Alex Cnville (1:39.167); 7. Kevin Schwantz (1:39.416); 8. Juan Garriga (1:39.543); 9. Randy Mamola (1:39.895); 10. Alex Barros (1:39.936); 11. Niall Mackenzie (1:40.580); 12. T. Arakaki (1:40.667); 13. Miguel DuHamel (1:40.841); 14.