Round 12 , Magny Cours (France), Sunday 9th October 2005, Race
Circuit: 4,411 km., Crowd: 56.000 (3-day) Weather: Dry, sunny 23C

Troy bags a fifth and a fourth

Troy Corser concludes the season in style at Magny-Cours. He made a mockery of
his fourth row grid place to take a fifth and a fourth. A broken chain was all
that stood between Chris Vermeulen and two wins at the last round of the
Championship at Magny-Cours. The Australian Honda rider cruised to an easy
victory in race one and was fending off a hard-charging Caracchi Ducati’s
Lorenzo Lanzi in the second when his chain let go with more than half the race
run. Chris’s retirement then allowed Yukio Kagayama to add a second 2nd place to
the one he secured in the first encounter, with Toseland and Noriyuki Haga
gaining a 3rd each.

TROY - Race 1: 5th  Race 2: 4th

Obviously I was always going to have my work cut out starting from 16th on the
grid as it is very tricky to pass on this track unless you have a perfect
set-up. I made a few mistakes in the first race which meant I was always trying
to make up places again. I had a good start in the 2nd race but then at the
restart I got boxed in but had some great dicing along the way to fight my up to
4th. It’s not what I wanted but I feel I did as much as I could. I have to thank
Yukio for all the good work he did, particularly in testing, and the whole team
for making it a fantastic year.

Results:

Race 1:
 1 Vermeulen (AUS-Honda)
 2 Kagayama (J-Suzuki)
 3 Toseland (GB-Ducati)
 4 Muggeridge (AUS-Honda)
 5 CORSER (Aus-Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra)
 6 Pitt (AUS- Yamaha)
 7 Walker (GB-Kawasaki)
 8 Neukirchner (D-Honda)
 9 Lanzi (I- Ducati)
10 Abe (J-Yamaha)

Race 2:
 1 Lanzi
 2 Kagayama (J-Suzuki)
 3 Haga (J-Yamaha)
 4 CORSER (Aus-Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra)
 5 Walker
 6 Toseland
 7 Pitt
 8 Neukirchner
 9 Abe (J-Yamaha)
10 Chili (I-Honda)

Points

 1 TROY CORSER (Aus-Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra)  433
 2 Vermeulen                                      379
 3 Haga                                           271
 4 Toseland                                       254
 5 Kagayama                                       252
 6 Laconi                                         221
 7 Walker                                         160
 8 Pitt                                           156
 9 Lanzi                                          150
10 Chili                                          131

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