On Sun, 8 Jun 2003 17:57:01 +0200, "Rune \(Bandit600R\)"
<REMOVETHISRune.Romdal@tdcadsl.dk> wrote:
>Ja. Det var godt nok en ringe præstation fra Suzuki's side i dag, eller...
>det var da meget godt klaret at lave et simultan styrt
Ja,det er søreme rigtig flot.....
"Suzuki’s John Hopkins suffered a strained neck after teammate Kenny
Roberts Jr. took him out on the third lap of the Italian Grand Prix at
Mugello.
Hopkins was running just ahead of his teammate when the pair collided,
Hopkins sliding along and digging his head into the gravel trap.
"It's very frustrating," said Hopkins after crashing out for the
second GP in a row. "I was going along riding my own race and never
saw Kenny. I turned in for turn 12 or 13- I don't know for sure what
they call it-and I got T-boned. I saved it from the initial impact but
then Kenny's bike slid into me and took me down."
Hopkins said he didn’t speak with Roberts Jr. after the accident, so
he didn’t know what caused the accident. Early speculation was a
clutch problem on the Suzuki GSV-R.
"He just walked away from the crash," Hopkins said. "I'm sure he knew
I was in no mood to talk and he probably wasn't either."
Hopkins estimated that his speed was between 80 to 90 miles per hour
when the two riders collided.
"The team is working too hard for this kind of thing to happen,"
Hopkins said."
--
-Michael