The 1988 Dutch TT was the eighth round of the

1988 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season The 1988 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 40th F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season. Season summary Eddie Lawson would recapture the championship from Wayne Gardner in a season that witnessed several fierce duels. Two newcomer ...

. It took place on the weekend of 23–25 June 1988 at the

TT Circuit Assen The TT Circuit Assen is a motorsport race track built in 1955 and located in Assen, Netherlands. Host of the Dutch TT, it is popularly referred to as "The Cathedral of Speed" by motorcycle racing fans. The venue has the distinction of holding th ...

located in

Assen Assen () is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Northeastern Netherlands, and is the capital (politics), capital of the province of Drenthe. It received City rights in ...

Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...

500 cc race report

Christian Sarron Christian Sarron (born 27 March 1955 in Clermont-Ferrand, France) is a French former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. __TOC__ Motorcycle racing career He began his career on a Kawasaki when he met French Grand Prix racer Patrick Pons. Pons h ...

on pole, but dropped to the back after a terrible start. Through the first turn it was

Eddie Lawson Eddie Ray Lawson (born March 11, 1958) is an American former professional motorcycle racer. He competed in the Grand Prix motorcycle racing world championships from to . A four-time FIM 500cc road racing world champion, Lawson is prominent f ...

Pierfrancesco Chili Pierfrancesco 'Frankie' Chili, (born 20 June 1964 in Bologna, Italy) is a former motorcycle racer who competed in the Superbike World Championship and the 250 cc and 500 cc classes in Grand Prix. In September 2020 he confirmed he was su ...

Ron Haslam Ronald Haslam (born 22 June 1956) is an English former Grand Prix motorcycle racing, Grand Prix motorcycle road racing, road racer who had been racing for over thirty years, winning two World titles, four British championships and having ridde ...

, Didier De Radiguès,

Wayne Gardner Wayne Michael Gardner (born 11 October 1959) is an Australian former professional motorcycle and touring car racer. He competed in the Grand Prix motorcycle racing world championships from to , most prominently as a member of the Honda factor ...

, et al. Haslam ran wide and rode off into the grass. Through the chicane at the end of the first lap, it was Lawson, De Radiguès, Chili, Gardner, Kevin Magee, Rob McElnea,

Randy Mamola Randy Mamola (born November 10, 1959) is an American former professional motorcycle racer and television sports presenter. He competed in Grand Prix motorcycle racing between and . A 13-time Premier Class race winner, Mamola was one of the mos ...

, Patrick Igoa, Sarron and

Wayne Rainey Wayne Wesley Rainey (born October 23, 1960) is an American former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He competed in the FIM Grand Prix motorcycle racing world championships in 1984 and from 1988 to 1993. He won the 500cc World Championship th ...

. There was a small gap from Lawson to De Radiguès to Gardner. Gardner caught De Radiguès and started to bridge up to Lawson. De Radiguès slid out but remounted. Sarron and Magee fought for 3rd. Approaching back markers, Gardner passed Lawson.

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References

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Dutch TT The Dutch Tourist Trophy, also known as the ''TT Assen'', and also sometimes known as the Dutch Motorcycle Grand Prix, is an annual Dutch motorsport event established in 1925 for road racing motorcycles held on the TT Circuit Assen, also known ...

, Year_of_race = 1988 , Previous_race_in_season = 1988 Austrian Grand Prix , Next_race_in_season = 1988 Belgian Grand Prix , Previous_year's_race =

1987 Dutch TT The 1987 Dutch TT was the seventh round of the 1987 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 22–27 June 1987 at the TT Circuit Assen located in Assen, Netherlands. Classification 500 cc References {{MotoGP_race_ ...

, Next_year's_race = 1989 Dutch TT Dutch TT

Dutch Dutch or Nederlands commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands ** Dutch people as an ethnic group () ** Dutch nationality law, history and regulations of Dutch citizenship () ** Dutch language () * In specific terms, i ...

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