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2000 North American Archive of International Speedway
Message Section
June 4, 2000
From: anthonymcguire@dingoblue.net.au
To: "Internet Speedway Fan Club List"
Subject: RE: overseas final
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 07:20:34 +1000
Thanks for the correction on the location Andrea, I was about to repost it
actually after it was pointed out to me by some of my illustrious colleagues
down under, much appreciated anyway, sorry about that!!!......Cheers Anthony
-----Original Message-----
From: Maiser@ksinet.univ.gda.pl [mailto:Maiser@ksinet.univ.gda.pl]On
Behalf Of a.geatti@xnet.it
Sent: Saturday, 3 June 2000 5:47 AM
To: Internet Speedway Fan Club List
Subject: R: overseas final
a small correction.
The Grand Prix Challenge will be held at Abensberg (Germany) on 8th october
(not at Lonigo)
Regards.
Andrea
-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: Anthony McGuire anthonymcguire@dingoblue.net.au
A: Internet Speedway Fan Club List
Data: venerd=EC 2 giugno 2000 14.12
Oggetto: overseas final
>The riders list for the 2000 Overseas final has been released and their is
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>Australian riders with a real chance of progression through to the
>Intercontinental Final. The winner of that meeting progresses automatically
>to the G.P. for 2001, whilst the other qualified riders go through to the
>final stage of qualification the toughest of them all, The G.P. Challenge
>held in Lonigo, Italy later this year.
>
>1. David Howe
>2. Nathan Murray
>3. Paul Hurry
>4. Mark Lemon
>5. Sean Wilson
>6. Mike Faria
>7. Scott Nicholls
>8. Josh Larsen
>9. Jason Lyons
>10. Sam Ermolenko
>11. Lee Richardson
>12. John Cook
>13. Craig Watson
>14. Steve Johnston
>15. Shaun Tacey
>16. Martin Dugard
>
>At a look, one would have to say that the Aussie band should all qualify
>going on current form. But Craig Watson who is returning from serious
injury
>could struggle. He has been practising at Newport in recent weeks in
>preparation and what he may lack in fitness he may get through on his
>natural skill alone. Out of the Englishmen, Martin Dugard has been in
>sparkling form for his Yang Eastbourne Eagles and he could do a "Stoney"
>this year and go all the way. Scott Nicholls, Lee Richardson and perhaps
>Sean Wilson should be specials as well to progress. Out of the Americans,
>Sudden Sam Ermolenko and Josh Larson could force their way through. A
>sentimental favourite, Sam Ermolenko at 40 would be a popular fans choice
to
>force his way back to G.P. qualification status.
>This years meeting should prove to be another cracker event as usual as the
>European speedway calendar starts to really swing into action with the
>G.P.'s already underway and the world under 21 final, World Team Cup
Finals,
>Golden Helmet and G.P. Qualifiers to come, a spectacular feast of topflight
>speedway for fans across Europe and the rest of the Speedway world is
>assured.
>Anthony McGuire
From: anthonymcguire@dingoblue.net.au
To: "Internet Speedway Fan Club List"
Subject:
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 10:52:03 +1000
In what must go down as Australian's speedway greatest triumph in the G.P
series since its inception in 1995, Australia's riders led by an emphatic
victory to Mildura's Jason Crump, followed home by Brit Mark Loram and
Hunter Valleys own Todd Wiltshire finishing an impressive 3rd place. Ryan
Sullivan finished a creditable 7th with Leigh Adams not far behind in 8th
overall. Crump after a disastrous start in his first heat came back and
reeled off a string of impressive heat wins to book his place in the final
along side Todd Wiltshire after a brilliants 1,2 victory in the semi-final
over Polish rider Tomaz Gollob who was relegated to yet another Consolation
Final. Nth Arm's Ryan Sullivan had one of his normal consistent nights
without being to enterprising finishing 3rd in the consolation final and
Leigh Adams was having his usual slow start, but gained momentum as the
night when on and to finish 4th in the consolation final. In a night of
mixed fortunes for alot of the riders, Swedish rider and current no.3, Jimmy
Nilsen bounced back to form with a win in the consolation final and improved
his chances in the G.P. listing. Swedish World No.1, Tony Rickardsson
looked impressive going into the A-final only to crash with Brit Mark Loram
and then have the misfortune of being disqualified after a brave decision by
the match referee considering it was the home G.P.of the the triple world
champion. Mr Excitement, Mark Loram of Great Britain failed to repeat his
victory last year in Sweden but still finished 2nd ahead of Todd Wiltshire
to still stake his claim for a world title, the last Brit being Poole's Gary
Havelock back in 1992. British surprise packet Carl Stonehewer still managed
to finish 9th against his more fancied opponents and continues to outshine
some of his more illustrious opponents. Chris Louis had a disappointing
night finishing 11th and Joe Screen continues to struggle finishing 15th. As
for G.P.1 winner Billy Hamill, his bullet was definitely astray tonight and
finished a dismal 13th place, but all is not lost and a strong showing will
be needed in Poland to ensure his navigation for his 2nd world title stays
on course. Greg Hancock has also seen better nights and continues to
struggle after finishing 16th, one would hope that better things are to come
for the 1997 world champion. Norway's Rune Holta had a good night finishing
10th overall, this rider continues to be one of the most under-rated riders
in Europe and he has the majority of Elite League clubs lining up for his
signature. When he was riding in the last Tapp series, for my mind he was
one of the most exciting riders in the troupe. As we look forward to G.P. 3
in Poland all eyes once again as will be on Polish hero Tomaz Gollob he must
win here to ensure his claim for a world title and the Patriotic and
volatile Polish crowd will let him forget it if he fails. Tony Rikkardson
will need to win as well in order to get his world title defence going and
march onto a 4th world title. Mark Loram perhaps the most consistent rider
to date in the G.P. should with a win in Poland set up a maiden world title,
he is for my mind still the firm favourite for this year. Out of the
Aussies, Todd still looks the best chance out of the Aussies. He will need
to though string together a few wins in the remaining G.P.'s to enure a
world title or at least finish in the top 3. Jason Crump, he knows what he
has got to do win and win again to have any sort of hope of resting the
world title from Rikko. He can do it, there is know doubting his world class
status, its just a matter of consistency for this hard charging Aussie.
Leigh Adams will continue to improve as he gains momentum as the series
progresses and perhaps a G.P. win or 2 is all he needs to really fulfil his
potential. Ryan Suvillan is another Aussie who needs the taste of a G.P. win
to really kick on. Either way this years G.P. is the most wide open since
its inception and one really can not pick a clear winner until the final
heat is run at G.P. 6 at Bydgoszcz. Aussie speedway devotees will know doubt
be waiting impatiently to see their handlebar heroes go around yet again and
perhaps for the first in time in decades an Aussie will stand on the top
step at Bydgoszcz and be crowned World Champion.
Anthony MCGUIRE
From: marianb@amedec.amg.gda.pl
To: "Internet Speedway Fan Club List"
Subject: Correction: 03.06.2000, Linkoeping SWE, Grand Prix of Sweden
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 10:29:23 +0200 (MET DST)
Heat winner runner-up third fourth
20: 21 Todd Wiltshire 3 Jimmy Nilsen 12 M.Karlsson 13 C.Stonehewer
Final standings
Pos No Rider GP Classic scoring
9 12 Mikael Karlsson SWE 7 201
10 24 Rune Holta NOR 8 22021
11 10 Chris Louis GBR 7 200
12 13 Carl Stonehewer GBR 8 210
Current GP standings
Pos Rider 1 2 3 4 5 6 Tot.
1 16 Mark Loram GBR 20 20 40
2 21 Todd Wiltshire AUS 16 18 34
3 11 Billy Hamill USA 25 6 31
4 1 Tony Rickardsson SWE 14 16 30
5 6 Jason Crump AUS 5 25 30
6 2 Tomasz Gollob POL 15 14 29
7 10 Chris Louis GBR 18 7 25
8 3 Jimmy Nilsen SWE 6 15 21
9 8 Ryan Sullivan AUS 8 12 20
10 12 Mikael Karlsson SWE 12 7 19
11 13 Carl Stonehewer GBR 10 8 18
12 5 Leigh Adams AUS 6 10 16
13 18 Antonin Kasper CZE 7 6 13
14 7 Greg Hancock USA 7 5 12
15 15 Henrik Gustafsson SWE 8 4 12
16 4 Joe Screen GBR 5 5 10
17 WC Rune Holta NOR - 8 8
18 9 Stefan Danno SWE 3 4 7
19 22 Rafal Dobrucki POL 4 3 7
20 20 Brian Andersen DEN 4 2 6
21 14 Brian Karger DEN 2 3 5
22 19 Peter Karlsson SWE 3 2 5
23 17 Andy Smith GBR 2 1 3
24 WC Michal Makovsky CZE 1 - 1
WC Nicki Pedersen DEN - 1 1
WC Bohumil Brhel CZE 1 - 1
Pos Rider 1 2 3 4 5 6 Tot.
From: r.blackwell@virgin.net
To: "Internet Speedway Fan Club List"
Subject: A Final
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 12:56:16 +0100
To raise a slightly different point from the A final debacle, without taking
anything at all away from Jimmy Nilsen who I assume was the riders
representative in the situation and did a very good job without being seen
or heard to be shouting and swearing. Would it not be a good idea to
approach Hans Nielsen to be the riders representative in the GP's after all
for example Jason Crump did an awful lot of moaning and yelping, now was
that because he thought it was wrong to overturn the referee's decision or
was it because he had a good idea that had Tony been reinstated there was a
good chance that Tony would not have made the same mistake twice and won the
A final, now if Hans had been arguing the point with Ole Olsen then no one
would have been able to accuse Hans of doing anything to his own ends. Hans
has been there seen it done it and owns the t- shirt factory :-) and if as
it is quite possible something like this occurs again then the riders would
know that Hans would be able to argue the point without trying to benefit
himself and therefore and go for the right decision instead of for example
Mr Crump arguing to make life easier for himself and stuff what is right or
wrong.
Bye 4 Now
Ray
From: anthonymcguire@dingoblue.net.au
To: "Internet Speedway Fan Club List"
Subject: reply to Ray Blackwell
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 23:41:46 +1000
Ray Blackwell wrote: To raise a slightly different point from the A final
debacle, without taking anything at all away from Jimmy Nilsen who I assume
was the riders representative in the situation and did a very good job
without being seen or heard to be shouting and swearing. Would it not be a
good idea to approach Hans Nielsen to be the riders representative in the
GP's after all for example Jason Crump did an awful lot of moaning and
yelping, now was that because he thought it was wrong to overturn the
referee's decision or was it because he had a good idea that had Tony been
reinstated there was a good chance that Tony would not have made the same
mistake twice and won the A final, now if Hans had been arguing the point
with Ole Olsen then no one would have been able to accuse Hans of doing
anything to his own ends. Hans has been there seen it done it and owns the
t- shirt factory :-) and if as it is quite possible something like this
occurs again then the riders would know that Hans would be able to argue the
point without trying to benefit himself and therefore and go for the right
decision instead of for example Mr Crump arguing to make life easier for
himself and stuff what is right or wrong.
To raise a different point of view???. Hey man, if Jason was so supposed to
be out of line where the hell does race director Ole Olsen get off
interjecting yet again this time on behalf of Tony Rikko who i agree should
not have been disqualified after being chopped by Mark. But the point is
Wolfgang Blass is the match referee and right or wrong his decision must
stand or Whats the point of having him their in the first place if race
directors, riders representatives and aunty Marge sitting in the stands have
the right of trying to undermine the sole authority of the F.I.M. referee.
F.I.M. are running this at the end of the day remember not Ole Olsen, or
William Hill The Bookie, Benfield or even LECH. This is not the first time
that Ole Olsen has interjected on behalf of a rider when it surrounded
controversy. The last time being at Coventry when Ole once again interjected
on behalf of Gollob and yet again Crump was also involved. There was some
talk then it had something to do with one time major sponsor LECH who also
happened to be Gollobs major sponsor as well. This time he has interjected
on behalf of the Swedish world champion held in home country and also
remember this is the first G.P. where booking is allowed by William Hill who
has the naming rights for G.P. and also Tony Rikko was short listed at 9/4
favourite. If Ole Olsen wishes to keep trying to overturn a sanctioned
F.I.M. referee at G.P. meetings he is going to find himself and also the
entire G.P. concept open to criticism and scrutiny. As they say CHUM, "its
just not cricket" and lets hope it does not go down that same path. Oh yes
as for your little quip about Jason, Crumpie would have still wiped the
floor with Rikko regardless if he was reinstated to A-Final or not. Either
way it was a great race, best in years and lets try and focus on that shall
we.....
Anthony McGuire
From: esseciem@tin.it
To: "Internet Speedway Fan Club List"
Subject: WTC : QF Lonigo 03.06.00
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 17:47:47 +0200
Hi all,
results from Lonigo
World Team Chanpionship - Quarter Final
1st ITALY 50 points
6 Andrea MAIDA 3 3 3 2 2 3 16
7 Stefano ALFONSO 2'2'0 1' 0 2' 7+4
8 Alex DALLA VALLE 3 3 1' 3 3 1 14+1
9 Simone TADIELLO 2'2' 4+2
10 Armando CASTAGNA 2'2 2'3 9+2
2nd SLOWENJA 39 + 3
11 Ales DOLINAR 0 2 1 0 3
12 Gerhard LEKSE 2'E R 2+1
13 Izak SANTEJ 1 2 3 3 2' 2 13+1
14 Jernej KOLENKO 0 1 3 0 4
15 Matej FERJAN 3 3 X 3 2' 3 3 17+1
3rd HUNGARY 39 + F
1 Sandor TIHANYI 1 1 3 3 0 8
2 Zoltan ADORJAN Fx 3 2' 0 1' 6+2
3 Attila STEFANI 2'1' 2 1 2' 8+3
4 Robert NAGY 3 2 1'0 1 3 10+1
5 Laszlo SZATAMARI 3 2'2 7+1
4th FRANCE 16
16 Sebast. TRESSARIEU R 1 2 3 0 F 6
17 Steph. TRESSARIEU 1 0 1 1 1 4
18 Jeremy BARRAUD 1 1 1 0 1 4
19 Fabrice OSTYN 0 F 1 0 1
20 Christop. DUBERNARD 0 M 1 0 1
Matej Ferjan beat Robert Nagy in run-off for second place.
Regards
Mauro Cavazzana
From: r.blackwell@virgin.net
To: "Internet Speedway Fan Club List"
Subject: Re: reply to Ray Blackwell
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 19:31:16 +0100
You TOTALLY miss the point, No where in my mail did I say that Crump, Jimmy
Nilsen or anyone was out of line. From the tone of your mail you are
obviously a Crump fan and I suppose someone has to be :-). BUT the point I
was making was that if someone along the lines of Hans Nielsen or another
none GP competitor was to be the riders voice in these matters then no one
could level an accusation to Crump or anyone else that their argument was
solely aimed at their own advantage, as for What you term my little quip
again try reading the point fully before jumping out of your pram I said
"Hans would be able to argue the point without trying to benefit himself and
therefore go for the right decision instead of for example Mr Crump arguing
to make life easier for himself".... meaning some people could say that
Crump only did it for that reason, if I wanted to accuse Crumpy of that I
would not skirt the issue I would come right out and say it!
I agree that someone has to be alert to Ole Olsen's power trips and if the
ref makes a decision whether it is right or wrong then the only person who
should be able to change the refs decision is the ref himself if for
instance he used video playback and saw that he had made the wrong decision,
better still make the decision after viewing the video if there is any
doubt, So as I say "CHUM" try reading the whole thing and think first before
spouting your C**P at me. the point was LET SOMEONE UNCONNECTED WITH THE GP
BUT WHO KNOWS WHAT OLSEN IS CAPABLE OF BE THE SPOKESMAN AND BE ABLE TO STAND
UP TO HIM WITHOUT BEING ACCUSED OF SERVING ONLY HIMSELF and prevent people
like you jumping to unfounded conclusions!!!!!!
Bye 4 Now
Ray
----- Original Message -----
From: Anthony McGuire anthonymcguire@dingoblue.net.au
To: Internet Speedway Fan Club List
Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2000 2:41 PM
Subject: reply to Ray Blackwell
> Ray Blackwell wrote: To raise a slightly different point from the A final
> debacle, without taking anything at all away from Jimmy Nilsen who I
assume
> was the riders representative in the situation and did a very good job
> without being seen or heard to be shouting and swearing. Would it not be a
> good idea to approach Hans Nielsen to be the riders representative in the
> GP's after all for example Jason Crump did an awful lot of moaning and
> yelping, now was that because he thought it was wrong to overturn the
> referee's decision or was it because he had a good idea that had Tony been
> reinstated there was a good chance that Tony would not have made the same
> mistake twice and won the A final, now if Hans had been arguing the point
> with Ole Olsen then no one would have been able to accuse Hans of doing
> anything to his own ends. Hans has been there seen it done it and owns the
> t- shirt factory :-) and if as it is quite possible something like this
> occurs again then the riders would know that Hans would be able to argue
the
> point without trying to benefit himself and therefore and go for the right
> decision instead of for example Mr Crump arguing to make life easier for
> himself and stuff what is right or wrong.
> To raise a different point of view???. Hey man, if Jason was so supposed
to
> be out of line where the hell does race director Ole Olsen get off
> interjecting yet again this time on behalf of Tony Rikko who i agree
should
> not have been disqualified after being chopped by Mark. But the point is
> Wolfgang Blass is the match referee and right or wrong his decision must
> stand or Whats the point of having him their in the first place if race
> directors, riders representatives and aunty Marge sitting in the stands
have
> the right of trying to undermine the sole authority of the F.I.M. referee.
> F.I.M. are running this at the end of the day remember not Ole Olsen, or
> William Hill The Bookie, Benfield or even LECH. This is not the first time
> that Ole Olsen has interjected on behalf of a rider when it surrounded
> controversy. The last time being at Coventry when Ole once again
interjected
> on behalf of Gollob and yet again Crump was also involved. There was some
> talk then it had something to do with one time major sponsor LECH who also
> happened to be Gollobs major sponsor as well. This time he has interjected
> on behalf of the Swedish world champion held in home country and also
> remember this is the first G.P. where booking is allowed by William Hill
who
> has the naming rights for G.P. and also Tony Rikko was short listed at 9/4
> favourite. If Ole Olsen wishes to keep trying to overturn a sanctioned
> F.I.M. referee at G.P. meetings he is going to find himself and also the
> entire G.P. concept open to criticism and scrutiny. As they say CHUM, "its
> just not cricket" and lets hope it does not go down that same path. Oh yes
> as for your little quip about Jason, Crumpie would have still wiped the
> floor with Rikko regardless if he was reinstated to A-Final or not. Either
> way it was a great race, best in years and lets try and focus on that
shall
> we.....
> Anthony McGuire
From: swaalen@online.no
To: "Internet Speedway Fan Club List"
Subject: =?Windows-1252?Q?Lindk=F6ping_exclusions?
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 21:50:00 +0200
Safely back from Lindkoping after watching a good meeting and consuming a lot of
beers afterwards, I would like to send this message before I even start reading
through my mails, and not having the benefit of TV-replays, only on-site view.
Exclusions:
Heat 1: Jason Crump wrongly excluded. Rune Holta moved slightly, causing Brian
Andersen to go into the tapes.
Heat 15: Jimmy Nilsen should have been excluded bringing down Billy Hamill. I was
standing just where it happened, and it was a desperate move by Jimmy, and he should
have been out.
Heat Heat 22: Veeeeery difficult to judge as it all happened very fast, and right in
front of me, but it looked to me that Tomasz just took Jasons line, giving him
no-where to go.
Final: Wrong decision. Mark took Tony`s front-wheel away going way off his line.
Now onto my messages...........
Stein
From: Sideways31@aol.com
To: "Internet Speedway Fan Club List"
Subject: Costa Mesa Results - June 3, 2000
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 16:27:48 EDT
Charlie "The Edge" Venegas benefited from Josh Larsen's misfortune to win his
second consecutive Scratch Main at Costa Mesa in front of a large crowd at
the annual Orange County Harley Davidson/Buell Blowout.
Larsen, just one week removed from his qualification into the Overseas Final,
took the lead from the pole. Larsen had Venegas planted on his back tire for
the first lap. As he exited turn two, Larsen found too much grip and the
front wheel lifted the entire length of the back straight. Larsen managed to
save it, but Venegas went underneath as they entered turn three. Larsen went
down in turn four as the rest of the pack went by. Venegas was then chased
by 16 year old former Junior National Champion Ryan Fisher, but he couldn't
close the gap as Venegas was victorious for the third time at Costa Mesa this
year. Fisher finished second in his first Scratch Main appearance of 2000,
Chris Manchester, who is beginning to rediscover his form at Costa Mesa,
finished third, Dukie Ermolenko was fourth, and Larsen was fifth.
Robbie Sauer led the charge into turn one of the eight-man Handicap Main from
his position on the 20 yard line. However, Shawn McConnell and Brad Oxley
came together in turn one forcing a red flag. Before the rest of the riders
could see the red flag, though, there was a four rider pileup in turn three
involving Larsen, Fisher, Randy DiFrancesco, Eddie Castro, with Venegas
barely avoiding the mishap. Venegas was so excited about getting around the
crash that he got off his bike and playfully did a cartwheel, much to the
delight of the turn one crowd. McConnell was banished to the penalty line,
but was so displeased with the decision that he didn't take part in the
restart.
On the restart, Sauer took the lead and Larsen was hot after him. As they
exited turn four on the second lap, Larsen lifted and Castro was able to get
by for second. Sauer held Castro at bay for two laps before "Fast Eddie" as
able to get underneath for the lead. Castro held Larsen off until the
seventh lap when DiFrancesco knocked down Sauer as they entered turn three.
This brought out a red flag and the race was declared complete and the
referee made a bad decision by deeming Sauer as the cause of the incident.
Castro was credited with his first Handicap Main Event victory of the season,
Larsen second, Venegas third, and Oxley fourth.
The Support Class reverted back to a system that was used for several
meetings last season in which the Support riders competed in scratch races
with the winner qualifying for a spot in a First Division Handicap Heat,
while second and third qualify for a Support Scratch Semi, where first and
second qualify for the Support Main. Gerry Duttweiler took the start of the
Support Main and never looked back to get the victory. Mark Hitchcock took
second, Billy Lyons finished third, and Frank Pecce finished fourth.
Pat Dwyer grabbed the lead at the start of the Support B Main and rode a very
smooth four laps to win his first-ever main event in his first year of
speedway. Hector Quevado finished second, and Johnny Lupo finished third.
There was a very large crowd at Costa Mesa no doubt helped by the fact that
it was Harley Night which features people racing on their street legal
Harleys as well as some flattrack bikes. This year the main event featured
10 riders on Harleys of different varieties. The crowd was thoroughly
entertained as a couple of riders highsided their beloved machines. In the
main event, former speedway rider Jimmy Raymond, who has reached Harley Night
icon status, thrilled the crowd with another victory aboard his Harley
chopper. Support B rider Mike Boyle, who was victorious last year, finished
second.
RESULTS
Support B Consolation
160 - Jeremy Toepfer 10
178 - Eloy Medellin 20
143n - Kevin Fereira 10
269 - Ed Martinez 20
293 - Rick Valdez 10
148 - Chris Metoyer 20
Support B Main
231 - Pat Dwyer 10
161 - Hector Quevado 20
125 - Johnny Lupo 10
336 - Bill Green 20
147 - Winston Williams 20
123 - Chad Newlee 20 (fell, remounted)
Support Main
200 - Gerry Duttweiler
177 - Mark Hitchcock
321 - Billy Lyons
234 - Frank Pecce (fell)
Handicap Main
14 - Eddie Castro 40
4 - Josh Larsen 40
43 - Charlie Venegas 60
1 - Brad Oxley 60
36 - Ryan Fisher 40
12 - Randy DiFrancesco 50
23 - Robbie Sauer 20 (fell, excluded)
6 - Shawn McConnell 60 (non-starter)
Scratch Main
43 - Charlie Venegas
36 - Ryan Fisher
130 - Chris Manchester
15 - Dukie Ermolenko
4 - Josh Larsen (fell)
Ryan Evans
sideways31@aol.com
From: a.geatti@xnet.it
To: "Internet Speedway Fan Club List"
Subject: WTC Q.Round 2 - Lonigo 3.6.2000
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 23:03:56 +0200
Lonigo 3rd June 2000
Italy joined Norway as second qualifier for the World Team championship
semi-finals after winning round 2 held at Lonigo on Saturday.
The home team, captained by Armando Castagna was the pre-meeting favourite
but had to wait until heat 21 to be certain of the top spot on the rostrum
and consequently qualify, with 50 points, for one of the two semi-finals
scheduled at Czestochowa (PL) and Lanshut (D) later in July.
A run-off between Slovenia and Hungary both on 39, was needed to decide the
finishing order on the rostrum while the French team was never in contention
collecting ten 1-5 defeats in twelve outings.
For the winners Andrea Maida was in brilliant form and top scored with 16
out of 18 dropping his only points to Tihany and Ferjan. But it was the
Slovenian champion the real hero of the meeting, never beaten by an opponent
and stopped only once by an engine failure during heat 8. After his 6 wins
(5 full and 1 paid, behind team mate Santej) he went on to win the run-off
for second place against Hungarian Roby Nagy.
In such scintillating form, given he qualifies for the continental final,
Ferjan will certainly be one of the main contenders for a top place in the
Lonigo meeting on 8ht July.
Scorers
Italy 50 (Maida 16, Alfonso 7, Dalla Valle 14, Tadiello 4, Castagna 9)
Slovenia 39 (Dolinar 3, Leksé 2, Santej 13, Kolenko 4, Ferjan 17)
Hungary 39 (Tihany 8, Adorjan 6, Stefani 7, Nagy 11, Szatmari 7)
France 16 (Seb. Resarrieu 6, Step. Tresarrieu 4, Barraud 4, Ostyn 1,
Dubernard 1)
Regards.
Andrea Geatti
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