Bou continues WTC domination
By TMX Archives on 6th Jul 07
TONI Bou continued his march towards his first SPEA World Trials Championship with a win in the Italian round, staged around the northern mountain town of Erba.
The Repsol Montesa star held-off arch-rival and reigning champ Adam Raga (Gas Gas) and now holds a handy 17 point Championship lead with five rounds still to go. Former champ Takahisa Fujinami made it two Repsol Monts on the podium in third place with Britain's Dougie Lampkin a distant fourth.
The trial, two laps of 15 sections, the last two staged Indoors at the finish, was staged in the mainly dry river-beds, which did contain some water, but most of the marks were lost on the loose, earth bankings that comprised many section exits.
The course length was such it was a full five miles uphill to the opening group of seven sections that an extra hour was added to the time limit.
RESULTS
WORLD TRIALS CHAMPIONSHIP
Rd 5 Erba, ITALY
1 Toni Bou (E - Repsol Montesa HRC) 12 + 21 + 2 = 35
2 Adam Raga (E - Raga Gas Gas) 26 + 14 + 2 = 42
3 Takahisa Fujinami (J - Repsol Montesa HRC) 34 + 10 + 1 = 45
4 Dougie LAMPKIN (GB - Repsol Montesa HRC) 40 + 28 + - = 68
5 Albert Cabestany (E - Tarragona Sherco) 42 + 27 + - = 69
6 Marc Freixa (E - 250F Scorpa) 31 + 43 + - = 74
7 James DABILL (GB - Future Montesa 4RT) 36 + 47 + - = 83
8 Jeroni Fajardo (E - Beta) 51 + 37 + - = 88
9 Daniel Oliveras (E - Oliveras Sherco) 51 + 35 + 4 = 90
10 Christophe Bruand (F - Sherco France) 55 + 52 + 2 = 109
SERIES STANDINGS: 1 Bou 137 points, 2 Raga 120, 3 Fujinami 103, 4 LAMPKIN 88, 5 Cabestany 79, 6 Fajardo 66, 7 DABILL 63, 8 Freixa 58, 9 Oliveras 35, 10 Bruand 26, 11 Bethune 22, 12 Kenichi Kuroyama 17, 13 Daniele Maurino 17, 14 Tomoyuki Ogawa 15, 15 Shaun MORRIS 13,...
WORLD JUNIOR TRIALS CHAMPIONSHIP
1 Michael BROWN (GB - TTT Beta) 11 + 2 + - = 13
2 Loris Gubian (F - Gas Gas) 19 + 14 + - = 33
3 A Vaccaretti (I - Future Montesa 4RT) 21 + 14 + - = 35
4 Alexz WIGG (GB - JST Gas Gas) 31 + 25 + - = 56
5 Guillaume Laniel (F - Camozzi Gas Gas) 35 + 24 + - = 59
6 Sam HASLAM (GB - Birkett Scorpa) 33 + 28 + - = 61
7 Lee SAMPSON (GB - ACE Sherco) 32 + 29 + - = 61
13 Richard ELLWOOD (GB - MRS Sherco) 44 + 58 + - = 102
SERIES STANDINGS: 1 BROWN 135 points, 2 WIGG 103, 3 Gubian 94, 4 Nicolas Gontard 92, 5 Grattarola 74, 6 SAMPSON 56, 7 HASLAM 51, 8 Sanz 44, 9 Guillaume Laniel 29, 10 Andrea Vaccaretti 26, 11 Akira Shibata 17, 12 Luis Aulestia 16, 13 Arnaud 16, 14 Johansson 16, 15 Schaefer 15,... 21 ELLWOOD 3,...
FIM YOUTH TRIALS CHAMPS
1 Patrick Smage (US - Sherco) 4 + 6 + 1 = 11
2 Alfredo Gomez (E - Gas Gas) 8 + 9 + - = 17
3 Ross DANBY (GB - JST Gas Gas) 11 + 22 + - = 33
4 Alexis Cervantes (F - Sherco France) 13 + 20 + - = 33
5 Laurent Morell (F - Beta France) 21 + 15 + - = 36
6 David Millan (E - Sherco) 19 + 20 + - = 39
7 Alexandre Ferrer (F - Beta) 26 + 18 + - = 44
8 Jack CHALLONER (GB - Repsol Beta) 29 + 18 + - = 47
SERIES STANDINGS: 1 Alfredo Gomez 137 points, 2 Ross DANBY 113, 3 Alexis Cervantes 103, 4 Patrick Smage 50, 5 David Millan 49, 6 Antonio Alfonso 42, 7 Laurent Morell 34, 8 Marijan Griebel 33, 9 Robert ANDREWS 29, 10 Adrian Pastoriza 23,... 16 Jack CHALLONER 8,...
NEXT ROUND: Jul 8 Myslenice, POLAND.
Full report, results and pictures in T+MX News, issue July 6, 2007.