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Fourth Championship Win

Honda has won the 500cc world motorcycle racing championship for the second time in three years giving Honda its fourth world championship win this season. Australian Wayne Gardner's seventh grand prix victory this year for the Rothmans Honda team gave him an unbeatable 22 points lead in the championship, the premier world motorcycling series, even before competing in the final round in Argentina. After totally dominating the Brazilian Grand Prix on September 27, Gardner said his end-to-end win was the culmination of 10 years' work. "It's something I've always dreamed of achieving." Honda's 500cc win came after West German Toni Mang clinched the 250cc world championship with a superb win in the Portuguese Grand Ptix on his NSR250 Honda. The double was last achieved by Honda in 1985. Earlier this season Honda riders Georges Jobe and F.ric Geboerds won the world 500cc and 250cc motocross championships on Honda CR machines. The run of success for Honda has continued in two other premier events. Rothmans Honda team riders Dominique Sarron, Jean Louis Battistini and JeanMichel Mattioli carried off the 24-hour Bol d'Or race in the south of France, final round of the world endurance championship, with their Honda RVF750. Across the Tasman, offroad expert Steve Chapman, of Victoria, riding an almost stock Honda XR600,

took outright honours in the 6000km Wynn's Safari, the first motorcyclist to beat the cars in the gruelling nineday event through the Australian outback.

Chapman also won the motorcycle class last year. But this time he finished just 35 minutes ahead of another Honda XR600 ridden by Steve Riley.

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Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 5, Issue 28, 8 December 1987, Page 4 (Supplement)

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Fourth Championship Win Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 5, Issue 28, 8 December 1987, Page 4 (Supplement)

Fourth Championship Win Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 5, Issue 28, 8 December 1987, Page 4 (Supplement)

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