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Italian
Grand Prix at Mugello 6/7/8 June 2003
A
3-way Domestic Dispute sees Rossi on top in Italy
Capirssi brings Ducati home 2nd ahead of Biaggi in a
Honda sandwich
Mugello,
Italy, Raceday Sunday June 8: A sun-baked crowd of 73,000 race
fans lined the Tuscan hills of the majestic Mugello track to see Valentino
Rossi (Repsol Honda RC211V) reign supreme in a thrilling race that was
typical of the superb action this 5.245km track usually provides. Loris
Capirossi (Ducati) was second finishing his team’s home GP in
a fighting second place, just 1.4 seconds down on winner Valentino Rossi.
It was a remarkably determined performance from Capirossi and his Desmosedici
V4 – the Italian factory competing in its first home GP in 31
years in front of 72,000 enthusiastic fans. And it was a major victory
for Ducati to place 2nd on its home track just 4 races into the season
with its first-ever MotoGP machine, soundly trouncing the 3 other major
and more experienced GP bike manufacturers from Japan. Max Biaggi (Camel
Pramac Pons RC211V) finished third in what was an exciting race long
3-way battle for the lead among Italy's top three MotoGP stars.
Temperatures
rocketed into the 35 degree range and the track tarmac was scorched
to 47 degrees by the beating heat as the grid lined up for a race where
the sense of anticipation was palpable. With the three Italian main
men on the front row headed by Rossi, and joined by Yamaha interloper
Shinya Nakano, the first turn action would be intense.
It
was Capirossi who launched his Ducati off the line best and he emerged
from turn one in the lead from Biaggi and the flying Nakano. Rossi was
down in seventh but in typical fashion he scythed his way through to
fourth in the space of the first lap. Capirissi maintain his lead position
for 6 laps as Rossi continued to move up and caught Max Biaggi for third.
The two Honda riders played a late breaking game from 200 mph at the
end of the main straight in an attempt to get the best of each other.
Rossi finally got by after 3 laps and set after leader Capirissi.
By
lap five Nakano had been dispensed with by the home trio and the stage
was set for some epic encounters along Mugello’s undulating series
of off-camber turns and blind approaches. Biaggi went through to lead
when Capirossi drifted wide at turn one, now approached from at least
328km/h (200mph) by the top men. Then Rossi squeezed past Capirossi
and the three knew they were in for a fight. The crowd knew it too and
every time a move was pulled the crowd went berserk – this was
epic stuff. So intense was the battle that no rider could accept being
overtaken without coming straight back at the overtaker – to the
extent that Biaggi and Capirossi were side by side bashing fairings
for at least half of lap 16. One incident shown on world TT saw the
two riders litterally crashing together in one corner and bouncing off
each other while never backing off the gas.
Rossi and Capirissi
try to outstuff each other for the inside line with fully body contact
at 100 mph!
Eventually Rossi pulled cleart to hold the lead, but Capirossi hounded
him all the way to the line and Rossi’s 1.4 second winning margin
at the flag hardly reflects the effort he had to put in to achieve it,
or the pressure he was under from two riders that never gave up the
chase. Biaggi would back off slightly in the closing laps as he found
himself a having to settle for third from the determined capirossi.
Rossi’s
53rd career win and his third this season was hard-earned. “That
was a great show for everybody,” he said. “We were all three
at the front and we had a great fight for the win. I would like to congratulate
Max and Loris because they rode very well. At about half way through
the race Max and Loris were fighting and it was possible to take some
advantage. And at the end I just concentrated and kept my rhythm.”
“This is fantastic – it feels as good as
a win,” said a sweat-drenched Capirossi. “It’s a great
day for Ducati, for all of us, and for the fans. I tried my best –
got into a good rhythm from the start, but then Max and Valentino came.
Valentino was so fast, then I had a big fight with Max. It was so difficult
to overtake him but my bike had fantastic top speed, so I was able to
do it. Then I gave 105 per cent over the last few laps. I caught Valentino
a little, but with one lap to go I saw the gap was too much, so I just
made sure I finished.”
Biaggi
knew he’d made a major contribution to a storming race. “Third
is a decent result but I really want to win,” he said. “I
made a good start and I tried my best to hang on to the front but then
Rossi came and then Loris passed me at the end of the straight. We passed
and re-passed each other many times and had a good fight. Nobody crashed
and I think we put on a great show for the fans.”
Another
rider who never gave up was fourth-placed rookie Makoto Tamada (Pramac
Honda RC211V) who got an appalling start from the third row of the grid
and charged through the field respecting neither reputations nor conventional
corner lines as he bulldozed his way through. “I had a terrible,
terrible, terrible start,” he said. “And that was a terribly,
terribly, terribly tough race. I knew what the tyres could do and I
knew I’d made the right choice for the race. There was lots of
overtaking but no strategy from me. You don’t wonder whether to
squeeze past on the brakes or whatever – you just think about
stepping on it and pushing forward.”
Tohru
Ukawa (Camel Pramac Pons RC211V) was unhappy with sixth. “I almost
crashed passing Checa on the straight and I ran out of braking area,”
he said. “It was hard today but I can’t be satisfied with
the result, sixth is just not good enough and Catalunya can’t
come soon enough for me.”
Ducati MotoGP Team rider Troy Bayliss rode a typically
tough race at Mugello today – fighting back from a third-row start
to move into sixth place on lap nine. But two laps later he crashed.
“It’s not been a great weekend,” said the Aussie who
had struggled during practice to find the right set-up for this technically
challenging track. “The race was going okay, though the rear tyre
I’d chosen wasn’t going to plan. I thought I had it under
control, I was riding hard, trying to bridge the gap, had a few moments
with the front, then just crashed. I really hate not finishing races
and that’s two races in a row I’ve not.
Sete
Gibernau (Telefonica Movistar Honda RC211V) was another disappointed
rider, unhappy with seventh. And after his Le Mans win two weeks ago,
the Spaniard was never really in the running here. “We had one
problem after another,” he said. “We already knew that the
bike wasn’t accelerating as it should and we paid for that in
the race. In any case we could have done a lot better with what we had.
Luckily we’re in Barcelona next and we can sort it out there.”
American
rookie Nicky Hayden (Repsol Honda RC211V) had a torrid time on his first
visit to this demanding environment and finished 12th. “Not a
lot of fun really,” he said. “I never felt comfortable all
weekend and I’m not sure if it was just the fact that I was trying
to learn the place or we really needed to make some big changes here.”
 Maladin
fought off the Hondas of Duhamel and Roberts on Saturday.
AMA National Superbike Championship Round 6, Elkhart Lake
Honda's Roberts and DuHamel play second fiddle
Underdog Kawasaki takes the Championship points lead
Mladin
and Bostom trade wins at Road America
Elkhart Lake, WI, June 7-8th, 2003: Mat Maladin on
the Yoshimura Suzuki GSXR10000 dominated in the dry on the high-speed
four-mile Road America track, in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, taking the
win in Saturday’s first race of the AMA/Chevy Trucks U.S. Superbike
doubleheader. American Honda’s Miguel DuHamel was second, just
0.280 seconds behind the winner, with Erion Honda’s Kurtis Roberts
less than half a second behind in third, followed by American Honda’s
Ben Bostrom.Team Kawasaki’s Eric Bostrom took victory in Secend’s
event his second for the season, and finished 32.823 seconds clear
of Mladin’s teammate Aaron Yates, with Larry Pegram (Dream Team
Ducati) third.
Saturday
Race One
Mat Mladin not only returned to the winners podium today, but regained
the points lead in the 2003 AMA Chevy Trucks US Superbike Championship
after a titanic three-way battle saw Mladin take the chequered flag
in the first of the weekend’s double header Superbike races
at Road America in Wisconsin. Mladin’s 20th career AMA Superbike
win was also his sixth for the season and sees him regain the number
one position on the points table, fifteen points clear of Eric Bostrom
(Team Kawasaki). Point’s leader coming into the round, Aaron
Yates, was forced out of the race with mechanical problems and has
slipped back to fifth on the point’s table.
It was a good day for Mladin and his Yoshimura Suzuki GSX-R1000. Prior
to the 16-lap Superbike race, he had scored his 28th career AMA Superbike
pole position with a time of 2-min 15.159-secs for the 6.44km (4.00miles)
Wisconsin circuit during the morning’s final qualifying session.
Second fastest was Mladin’s teammate Aaron Yates (2:15.710),
followed by Kurtis Roberts (Erion Honda, 2:15.825) and Eric Bostrom
(Team Kawasaki, 2:16.030).
The 16-lap Superbike race quickly turned into a furious high-speed
battle between Suzuki mounted Mladin and the Honda’s of Miguel
DuHamel and Kurtis Roberts, with each taking turn at holding the race
lead. Mladin kept his best for last as his final lap produced an amazing
new lap record of 2:14.740 which saw him pass DuHamel at Turn Five
on his way to his sixth race victory of the season. At the end, just
0.79 of a second separated Mladin from DuHamel and Roberts.
“That was probably the best race that I’ve had for a long
time,” said Mladin. “This year we’ve either won
races by a long margin or have had tyre problems that have kept us
out of it, so it was nice to go out there and race against a few guys.
Mind you I wouldn’t want that every race, but every now and
then would be good.
About half way round the final lap I was able to get by Miguel, then
after that I just put my head down and did the fastest lap of the
race,” added Mladin. “Obviously from the time we set on
the last lap, the bike is working well. We took a few measures before
the race to make sure the tyre was going to be OK, we didn’t
have the best grip that we could have had and definitely didn’t
have the ultimate set up with the bike, but it was the best we could
do to get the bike and the tyres to last the race distance.”
“Honda do well here, so we were expecting a bit of a race from
them, but we’ll see how we go when we get to a track with a
few more corners in them. It did show however that the horsepower
between the Honda and the Suzuki is quite similar which at the end
is all good for the series.”
Miguel DuHamel
talked about his Second Plac ein Race One: “I just made a few
mistakes. I made a mistake going into turn three when I had 0.2 of
a lead, which is pretty significant when you’re running at that
pace. And then Mat (Mladin) got on me, then he was all over me and
it was pretty tough. It’s kind of strange to say, but I’m
still riding a little cautious. Not a lot. But on the brakes, where
you need to be assertive to make a pass, you could see where the lapped
riders were, I was cautious. Even passing lapped riders I had trouble.
Passing Mat Mladin is a bigger trouble. At the end that was just my
plan, that kind of backfired on me because I went so hard for four
laps, I burned up a bit of my tire. It was still good, but I burned
it up just enough to give Mat that breathing room that he got at the
end and he was able to go out and do that really fast lap there.”
Kurtis Roberts,
Third Place, Race One: “Mat (Mladin) and Miguel (DuHamel) and
I rode every lap as hard as I think we could. It was definitely a
hard race. I just had a few little things that prevented us from winning.
But no excuses. The guys were awesome today and we just did the best
we could.
Heading into
tomorrow’s second 16-lap Superbike race, Mladin holds a fifteen-point
lead (272 – 257) in the championship over Eric Bostrom who finished
thirteenth today after he made a late race pit stop. Roberts holds
down third with 250; followed by Ben Bostrom (248), Yates (244) and
DuHamel (219).
Saturday Superbike
Race One
Pos. No. Rider name Hometown Bike
1 66 MATHEW MLADIN
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA SUZ AMERICAN SUZUKI
2 17 MIGUEL DUHAMEL LAS VEGAS, NV HON AMERICAN HONDA
3 80 KURTIS L ROBERTS HICKMAN, CA HON AMERICAN HONDA
4 155 BEN D BOSTROM LAS VEGAS, NV HON HONDA
5 16 ANTHONY GOBERT LAKE ELSINORE, CA DUC
6 43 JASON R PRIDMORE VENTURA, CA SUZ SUZUKI / ATTACK
7 114 SHAWN M HIGBEE BIG BEND, WI SUZ
8 101 JORDAN M SZOKE BRANTFORD, ON SUZ CORONA EXTRA SUZ
9 13 MIKE D CICCOTTO SEBASTIAN, FL SUZ HOOTERS SUZUKI
10 199 GEOFF MAY ALPHARETTA, GA SUZ TEAM EMBRY
11 72 LARRY PEGRAM BALTIMORE, OH DUC DREAM TEAM RACING
12 33 VINCENT HASKOVEC LAKE ELSINORE, CA SUZ HOOTERS
13 32 ERIC BOSTROM LAS VEGAS, NV KAW KAWASAKI
14 86 JIMMY MOORE EUGENE, OR SUZ CORONA SUZUKI
15 57 JEREMY TOYE SAN DIEGO, CA SUZ LEES CYCLES
16 49 JOHN R JACOBI CARMEL, IN SUZ
17 61 SCOTT JENSEN PHOENIX, AZ SUZWEST VALLEY MACHINE
18 74 MIKE SULLIVAN CENTRALIA, WA SUZ
19 341 BRIAN STOKES KINGSTON, GA SUZ TEAM EMBRY
20 940 J J ROETLIN KALONA, IA SUZ TWIN CNTY DAIRY
Drag Slayer, Eric
Bostom on the little 802cc Kawasaki ZX7RR trounced the big 1000cc
Superbikes on Sunday for his 2nd win of the season after winning last
week at Pikes Peak.
Sunday
RaceTwo: Run-away for Eric and the little Kawasaki ZX7RR
Eric
Bostrom won on Sunday to clich his 2nd AMA Superbike win in as many
weeks.The track was half wet and half dry from an earlier rain and
tire choice was critical. Eric made the best choise with his wet tire
combination on the under engined 802cc Kawasaki ZX7RR against the
other full 1000cc Superbikes on the high speed Road America course
which left him way down in 13th the day before. But today Eric disappeared
off into the distance from the start, pulling out a huge 20 second
lead as his persuers had to tip toe around the semi wet track which
did dry out in the latter stages, but too late for anyone to catch
him.
No one else was
totally happy with their choice as the track continued to dry out,
except Miguel DuHamel, whose experience and savvy nearly paid off
with a podium finish. DuHamel chose cut slicks front and rear, the
choice tenuous in the beginning, but certain at the end. Rushing towards
the podium, he finished fourth after turning in most of the fastest
laps of the race. Ben Bostrom and Kurtis Roberts chose full wets,
Bostrom taking the spot behind DuHamel with Roberts in ninth.
Miguel DuHamel,
Fourth Place, Race Two
It was pretty dry out there. I said, ‘OK we’ll take intermediates
and go real slow at the beginning.’ Not 500 yards off the start
line it started raining. I said on my radio to (crew chief) Al Luddington,
“It’s raining here.” For a while it was pretty sad,
I was pretty far back. I was getting passed by a lot of guys, but
my hat’s off to those guys to be honest with you. They didn’t
do nothing crazy around me. I just put my head down when it started
drying, but don’t forget there’s a line. And you get off
that line, you’re off. A few times I just hit the water and
trying to catch Ben (Bostrom) on the last lap when he caught a slower
rider in Canada Corner, I went a little wide and I touched the water
and I got the thing all sideways. It was a big risk.”
Just little things
that weren’t as good as I’d want them for the race. No
excuses. The guys rode really well. I think that just by looking at
the race pace we were definitely riding 105% the whole race. The tires
were great. I think the last lap was my fastest lap of the race for
me. So they obviously hung in for me.”
Kurtis Roberts,
Ninth Place, Race Two
“They (Dunlop) had new rain tires here that we tried and I actually
thought the old ones were a bit better. The new ones were cold when
I tried it, so I thought that could be it. With the weather, I didn’t
want to go with a gamble on tire choice. I had to go with what Mat
(Mladin) and Aaron (Yates) are running because we all three are close
enough in the points. I could have gone with the gamble and who knows?
I could have fallen off. We made it through and got a point or so
back, not as much as we’d like for the day. The way the thing
was working, we did everything we could.”
Sunday
Superbike Race 2
Pos. No. Rider name Hometown Bike Lap Pts Sponsors
1 32 ERIC BOSTROM LAS VEGAS, NV KAW KAWASAKI
2 20 AARON W YATES MILLEDGEVILLE, GA SUZAMERICAN SUZUKI
3 72 LARRY PEGRAM BALTIMORE, OH DUC DREAM TEAM RACING
4 17 MIGUEL DUHAMEL LAS VEGAS, NV HON AMERICAN HONDA
5 155 BEN D BOSTROM LAS VEGAS, NV HON HONDA
6 43 JASON R PRIDMORE VENTURA, CA SUZ SUZUKI / ATTACK
7 114 SHAWN M HIGBEE BIG BEND, WI SUZ MILLENIUM
8 34 MICHAEL F BARNES BOCA RATON, FL SUZ PRIETO RACING
9 80 KURTIS L ROBERTS HICKMAN, CA HON AMERICAN HONDA
10 66 MATHEW MLADIN RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA SUZ AMERICAN SUZUKI
11 38 DEAN MIZDAL HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA SUZ STAR SCHOOL
12 194 TOM WERTMAN PUYALLUP, WA SUZ EDR PERF
13 199 GEOFF MAY ALPHARETTA, GA SUZ TEAM EMBRY
14 61 SCOTT JENSEN PHOENIX, AZ SUZ WEST VALLEY MACHINE
15 57 JEREMY TOYE SAN DIEGO, CA SUZ LEES CYCLES
16 215 MONTE D NICHOLS YORKVILLE, IL SUZ CITGO
17 128 JEFF BOSTROM CEDAR RIDGE, CA SUZ GP TECH
18 94 JASON KNUPP CHICAGO, IL SUZ
19 471 ROGER M HENDRICKS HAM LAKE, MN SUZ LUCKY DOG RAC
20 940 J J ROETLIN KALONA, IA SUZ TWIN CNTY DAIRY
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Ducati
posts fastet speed times at Mugello
“I
can hardly believe the way Loris rode – he never gave up,”
said a delighted Claudio Domenicali, Ducati Corse CEO. “He
kept trying so hard because he wanted to be in a position to take
advantage if Rossi made a mistake. I think he knew it was possible
to win today with our bike, but Valentino and Max (Biaggi) rode
brilliantly. Our straight-line speed is fantastic, now we just
need to make some improvements to the handling. Anyway, second
in our first home GP in more than thirty years is a really great
result. Troy was one of the fastest men on the track when he crashed,
which proved he had found a good set-up after two difficult days
of practice. Once again we had two of the quickest riders out
there, which shows the project is heading in the right direction.”
During the race Capirossi set a new GP top-speed record at 332.4kmh,
with Bayliss second at 331.2kmh.
205.7
mph!
Capirossi takes the Speed Record from Bayliss!
Well, in yesterday’s report we challenged Loris to break
Troy’s top speed record of 331.1 km/h (205.7 mph) and he
rose to that challenge. Set during the race as he fought to close
the gap on the race leader, Capirossi broke the record with a
speed of 332.4 km/h (206.5 mph). The Ducati MotoGP Team have broken
the record on each day of the three-day Mugello Grand Prix event
with Capirossi also setting the fastest lap of the race with a
1'52.623 on lap 20 of 23.
New Seat Vents for
Desmosedici on Race Day
Producing 220+ bhp also has its disadvantages, the biggest of
which is the incredible heat produced by such a powerful power
unit. On race day the Ducati MotoGP Team used extra cooling around
the rear end of the Desmosedici in the form aerodynamic slots
on the top and rear of the rear seat unit. The design improved
the airflow around the rear tail pipes and allowed the stale air
under the unit to rejoin the air flow.
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