in baking temperatures at the track and yet as spain fabio kuantan who took the lead from the outset and held on throughout the race perhaps more interesting was the battle for 2nd for a while it looked like francesco bug team promised dukakis would get on the podium for the 1st time ever he got past yamaha teammates valentino rossi and maverick the knowledge only to see his bike start trailing smoke forcing him to retire then it was up to the 2 yamaha drivers to battle it out for 2nd italian rushy was impressive here but his spanish teammate banal has passed him on the penultimate lap to take 2nd and hand the italian 3rd winner court tomorrow said the heat played havoc on the track sort of because you know to make 25 laps in front of these temperature i think was the hottest. race of my life honestly it was so hot. in 04 so my head and my feet was so hot so really difficult but honestly i felt really good on the bike toronto now claims his 2nd successive win and disc or on a virus steal a championship after taking the spanish g.p. at the same get as track last weekend. while basebal