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Fabien Foret showed his true form at Sugo today when
he set a new lap record on his way to a third place finish.
Foret recovered from a poor start and an incident in
the chicane on the second lap to power his way through to the podium. On
lap two his bike touched Chris Vermeulen's in the chicane. Unfortunately
Vermeulen crashed, taking Bontempi down with him.
"It was a racing accident," said Team Manager Ronald
ten Kate after the race, "with twenty riders pouring through a tight
chicane early in the race it's just the sort of thing that can happen."
"The chicane cost me my chance of fighting for a race
win," said Foret. "I had a bad start and was battling my way back
through the field when it happened. I lost a bit of time and that
allowed the two Suzuki's to escape at the front. There was too much time
for me to make up after that."
After a weekend when the team struggled to find a
good race set up third, and the lap record, was a brilliant result. "We
took a little longer to find a good race set up than we would have hoped
for," admitted Ronald ten Kate. "But we studied the data really hard on
Saturday night and came up with a set up that worked very well in the
morning warm up, and subsequently in the race."
"The result keeps me in touch with the
championship leaders," said Foret. "Now we are going back to Europe and
to some of my favourite tracks, so I am very confident for the rest of
the season."
Foret's team mate Iain MacPherson didn't have such
a good weekend, crashing out of the race when he ran over dirt left on
the track by a previous crasher, "Iain must have had more than his share
of bad luck by now," commented Ronald ten Kate. "But hopefully it's all
behind him now and he'll have better luck on our return to Europe.
Despite all his misfortune in qualifying Iain was fast in the morning
warm up and that proves his real potential.
"We're all looking forward to the next race at
Monza. We have great race tyres from Pirelli, superb suspension from WP
and a very fast Honda CBR600FS. We are aiming to break the 300kph
barrier at Monza."
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- Chambon
- Fujiwara
- Foret
- Casoli
- Kellner
- Muggeridge
- Pitt
- Daemen
- Curtain
- Teuchert
- Corradi
- De Gea
- Ellison
- Cruciani
- Carlacci
- Willis
- Giugovaz
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- Chambon -
77
- Pitt -
70
- Foret -
59
- Kellner -
47
- Fujiwara - 33
- Whitham - 30
- Bontempi - 30
- Teuchert - 30
- Casoli - 30
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Transcript
from our live update page that was run during the race
Start from the bottom as
uppermost text is last
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Chambon takes
the win, Fujiwara 2nd
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Last lap -
Still Chambon from Fujiwara, but only just, Foret a clear 3rd,
Casoli 4th, Muggeridge trying to hold off a charging Kellner and
defend his 5th spot
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Fujiwara still
trying to put a move on Chambon but can't quite make it
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Lap 22 of 25 -
Race order - Chambon, Fujiwara, Foret, Casoli, Muggeridge,
Kellner, Pitt, Curtain, Daemen
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Curtain
through on Teuchert in a great move for 8th
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Fujiwara
looking for a way through on his team-mate at nearly every
corner, could end in tears
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Rob Frost
crashes out after losing the rear on the change of direction in
the middle of the chicane
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And there he
goes, Casoli through on Muggas for 4th
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Casoli right
on Muggeridge now, and will take him shortly
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Lap 17 of 25 -
Pitt 7th, Curtain 9th
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Casoli now has
the gap to 4th placed Muggeridge down to just over a second
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Still Chambon
and Fujiwara out in front, they have over 5 seconds on the 3rd
placed Foret
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Casoli nearly
3 seconds behind Muggeridge but may have enough speed to catch
Muggeridge for 4th before the end of the race
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Foret just
walked past Muggeridge on the straight, Foret's Ten Kate Honda
is so much faster than Karl's Honda in the straight line speed
stakes
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Muggeridge
running 3rd but quite a way behind the leading Suzuki duo.
Muggeridge being hassled by Foret now
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Casoli in 5th
now, after losing some 9 seconds in that off track excursion
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Casoli off the
track, Casoli off the track and out of the lead, Chambon
inherits the lead
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Lap 6 of 25 -
Race order - Casoli, Chambon, Fujiwara, Muggeridge, Foret,
Kellner, Teuchert, Curtain, Pitt, Daemen, De Gea , Corradi,
Cruciani, Frost, Carlacci , Ellison ,Giugovaz, Willis, Nannelli
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Casoli still
leading from Chambon and Fujiwara, but these leading three are
fairly much nose-to-tail
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Andrew Pitt in
10th
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Kevin Curtain
has come from way back on the grid up to 7th spot after 4 laps!
Awesome, go Kev' !
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Foret the new
lap record holder now, but quite a way back in 5th
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Casoli through
on Chambon for the lead
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Whitham out
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Muggeridge in
4th, but at least two seconds behind the leading trio but now
running quick lap times, setting a lap record in the process
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MacPherson out
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Casoli under
Fujiwara in to a right hander
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A couple down
in the pursuing pack, maybe Bontempi and Vermeulen, yes
Vermeulen is out
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Fujiwara tried
to outbrake Chambon but couldn't quite make it, the top 3 have
made a gap over the pack, Muggeridge leads that second pack
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Casoli got
Fujiwara for 2nd but half a lap later Fujiwara took that 2nd
spot back, Chambon in front
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Chambon got
the holeshot, Fujiwara 2nd, Casoli 3rd
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They are off
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600s off on
the warm up lap now
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