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2007 World Championship Round One |
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Having dominated the 2007 World Indoor championship, young Spaniard Antonio Bou – Repsol Montesa HRC today demonstrated his intention to do likewise in the 2007 outdoor series with a win at the opening round of the FIM SPEA Trial World Championship in Mancha Real, Spain. Second place went to reigning outdoor trials champion, Adam Raga – Gas Gas with Dougie Lampkin – Repsol Montesa HRC taking the remaining podium position.
In typical Spanish fashion, this was a tough event that was exacerbated by the torrential rain that fell overnight resulting in every section having to be modified prior to today’s competition. Despite these modifications the terrain was still extremely difficult and slippery – something that is reflected in the high scores.
Both Bou and Raga were evenly matched throughout the first lap with the lead changing hands back and fore between them several times. Bou finished the lap with the lowest score on observation, but two time penalties gave Raga a single mark advantage moving into the second half of the competition.
Raga maintained his lead on the second lap up until the fifth section where it all went disastrously wrong for him after he dropped five marks. A clean on the same section from Bou returned the lead to him and, despite the best efforts of Raga, it was a lead he was to retain until the end of the event.
Third place was finally decided after a tough battle between Lampkin and Takahisa Fujinami - Repsol Montesa HRC. Lampkin ended the first lap with a seven mark lead over his Montesa team mate, but fives on the fourth and fifth sections for the Brit where Fujinami dropped a total of one saw the gap closed and a fight that was to go to the wire. Both riders finished the trial on seventy-seven marks apiece forcing a most-cleans tie break. It was Lampkin who was to prevail in this with eight cleans compared to Fujinami’s six.
In the World Junior championship scores were also high due to the severity of the sections. Third place rider in the 2006 Junior championship, Michael Brown – Beta opened his account with a convincing win over his rivals. Second place was to go to French rider, Nicolas Gontard – Gas Gas with third place being occupied by Alexz Wigg – Gas Gas. The 2006 World Youth champion who has chosen to move up to the Junior championship despite being restricted by his age to a 125cc bike.
Over in the Youth championship, Spaniard Alfredo Gomez – Gas Gas took a narrow victory over French rider Alexis Cervantes – Sherco with Brit, Ross Danby – Gas Gas finishing third.
The championship now takes a three week break before travelling to South America for the second round which will be held in La Antigua, Guatemala on the 21st and 22nd of April.
Championship Results
1. Toni Bou - 60
2. Adam Raga - 65
3. Dougie Lampkin - 77 (8 cleans)
4. Takahisa Fujinami - 77 (6 cleans)
5. Albert Cabestany - 88
6. James Dabill - 109
7. Jeroni Fajardo - 111
8. Marc Freixa - 112
9. Jerome Bethune - 122
10. Jordi Pascuet - 125
11. Shaun Morris - 128
12. Tadeusz Blazusiak - 129
13. Daniel Oliveras - 130
14. Xavier Leon - 135
15. Christophe Bruand - 137
Junior Championship Results
1. Michael Brown - 57
2. Nicolas Gontard - 94
3. Alexz Wigg - 99
4. Sam Haslam - 100
5. Loris Gubian - 103
6. Lee Sampson - 105
7. Guillaume Laniel - 110
8. Julien Arnaud - 113
9. Matteo Grattarola - 114
10. Frederik Johannson - 116
11. Adam Thiger - 124
12. Andrea Vaccaretti - 124
13. Peter Goertz - 126
14. Jochen Schafer - 127
15. Laia Sanz - 127
Youth Championship Results
1. Alfredo Gomez - 52
2. Alexis Cervantes - 54
3. Ross Danby - 59
4, Adrian Pastoriza - 70
5. Antonio Alfonso - 72
6. Laurent Morell - 73
7. David millan - 77
8. Pau Botella - 84
9.Benoit Dagnicourt - 89
10. Thibault Martel - 90
11. Fredrik Larsen - 96
12. Alexandre Ferrer - 98
13. Robert Andrews - 102
14. Hector Molina - 104
15. Thomas Tandberg - 106
Full results to come
Photo Coverage
Worst Trial ever for photos. Dark, misty and in trees therefore most of the coverage is video.
Public Photos (10)
Trials Central Supporters Photos (60)
Video Coverage
With all video, please download and view offline. To do this, right click on the links and select "Save as..." or "Save target as..."
Free Video
Daniele Maurino - Section 1 (4.2MB)
Guillaume Laniel - Section 1 (6.4MB)
Additional Trials Central Supporters Video
These are presented in the order the riders came through. It's worth watching the Section 1 videos in that order to see how the top boys discovered the cheat line in the section.
Loris Gubian - Section 1 (4.5MB)
Alexz Wigg - Section 1 (5.5MB)
Laia Sanz - Section 1 (2.6MB)
Michael Brown - Section 1 (4.9MB)
Jordi Pascuet - Section 1 (5.5MB)
James Dabill - Section 1 (5.1MB)
Jerome Bethune - Section 1 (4.2MB)
Tsoyushi Ogawa - Section 1 (5.1MB)
Tadeusz Blazusiak - Section 1 (6.1MB)
Marc Freixa - Section 1 (3.8MB)
Christophe Bruand - Section 1 (3.8MB)
Jeroni Fajardo - Section 1 (7.2MB)
Toni Bou - Section 1 (6.5MB)
Dougie Lampkin - Section 1 (6.5MB)
Adam Raga - Section 1 (5.9MB)
Takahisa Fujinami - Section 1 (6.3MB)
Jerome Bethune - Section 4 (4.6MB)
Marc Freixa - Section 7 (6.8MB)
Tsoyushi Ogawa - Section 7 (6.3MB)
Jeroni Fajardo - Section 7 (5.8MB)
Toni Bou - Section 7 (5.1MB)
Dougie Lampkin - Section 7 (5.9MB)
Albert Cabestany - Section 7 5.7MB)
Adam Raga - Section 7 (5.5MB)
Takahisa Fujinami - Section 7 (5.7MB)
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