Jarvis leads the way at Tong
By Team TMX on 16th Jan 17
The first round of the European Extreme Enduro Cup was held at Tong, Leeds, in Great Britain.
Extreme Enduro specialist Graham Jarvis took the lead from the start. The expected challenge from David Knight, multi-world champion and multi-winner of this event did not happen because Knight crashed heavily on lap one and was forced to retire.
Ex-trial star Billy Bolt, now concentrating on Extreme Enduro, challenged Jarvis in the early stages, but then Graham started racing with his normal, smooth style he gained a good gap.
Paul Bolton, coming back after injury, had a really good race, struggling with Bolt. Jarvis had never won this event and was determined to do so.
He finally took a well deserved victory, commenting that in this very tough event the most important thing was to not crash nor make mistakes.
Bolt kept the second place with Bolton finishing third. Keelan Hancock was consistent and earned the fourth position with World Enduro star Danny McCanney finishing fifth.
Another UK trial star on show was Iwan Roberts who dipped his toe into the Enduro scene for first time and finished an excellent sixth overall. It was good to see the Romanian riders Nicusor Botoaca and Dumitrescu rewarded for their long trip by gaining European points.
In the end, it was a tough event providing a good start to both British and European titles.
