Finland's Kallio wins 125cc race in China
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-05-14 13:43 Finn Mika Kallio emerged victorious from a
last-lap battle with Mattia Pasini and Alvaro Bautista to claim his first 125cc
win of the season at the China Grand Prix on Sunday.
The 23-year-old KTM rider, runner-up in the championship last year, grabbed
the lead back on the final corner of the race for his fifth career victory and
second place in the championship 28 points behind Spain's Bautista.
Aprilia rider Bautista, who won the first two races of the season and
finished second in the third, was third behind his Italian team mate Pasini, who
led for much of the latter stages of the race.
Swiss Thomas Luthi's miserable start to the defence of his world title
continued when he retired after four laps, while the only Chinese in the race,
Chow Ho Wan, crashed on lap seven and was disqualified six laps later.
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