It was a risky business, though — had the Yamaha duo wiped each other out in vying for the title, it would have been Katoh and Honda, not Yamaha, who won it. Nakano led this nail-biting two-wheeled game of poker until the two of them exited the last top-gear corner leading onto the Gardner Straight on the final lap, with the chequered flag awaiting them. Then, in a brilliantly judged slipstreaming maneuver, Olivier Jacque wafted past his fellow Yamaha rider to lead across the line by just 0.014sec, to snatch the world title from his teammate after a season in which the two of them had dominated the standings, with eight victories in the sixteen races (three for Jacque, five for Nakano), eight pole positions, 23 visits to the podium and first and second in the championship. Can’t ask for much more, can you?
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