Blaz'ing saddles
By TMX Archives on 10th Dec 09
TADDY Blazusiak claimed his second consecutive World Indoor Enduro Cup overall victory on Saturday evening as the Polish KTM star secured three convincing race wins at the Genoa Indoor Enduro. Just missing out on a podium result, Dougie Lampkin put his disappointing Sheffield performances behind him to perform well at the Italian event, while Graham Jarvis endured a tough night finishing sixth overall.
Joining Dougie and Graham in delivering impressive results were UEM Junior Cup category riders Richard Ellwood and Lee Sampson. After making light work of their qualifying races they claimed a respective one-two result in the class final with Ellwood dominating the five-lap race.
Repeating his performances at the opening round of the Indoor Enduro World Cup in Sheffield, KTM's Taddy Blazusiak has once again put his name at the top of the series, this time dominating the second round staged at the Palexpo in Genoa, Italy.
Handicapped by a knee injury off track, on it there was no stopping the championship leader as he won every race he contested. Faster than all other riders during qualifying the opening race saw the Polish star claim a comfortable win, leading from start to finish.
Race two was a very different story as a less than perfect start was followed by a small fall on the opening lap.
This meant Taddy lost a lot of ground on race leader Ivan Cervantes. Steadily working his way past five riders during the second and third laps, the Pole finally overhauled Cervantes to claim his most impressive win of the night.
WORLD INDOOR ENDURO CUP SERIES
Rd 2 – Palasport, Genoa, ITALY
1 Tadeusz Blazusiak (POL - 250 KTM) 15 + 15 + 15 = 45
2 Ivan Cervantes (F - 250 KTM) 12 + 12 + 12 = 36
3 Joakim Ljunggren (S - 390F H'berg) 8 + 10 + 8 = 26
4 Dougie LAMPKIN (GB - 250F Beta) 10 + 8 + 6 = 24
5 Mika Ahola (SF - 450F HM Honda) 5 + 4 + 10 = 19
6 Graham JARVIS (GB - 250F Sherco) 0 + 6 + 5 = 11
7 Daniel Gibert (E - 450F BMW) 2+5+3=10, 8 Alessandro Botturi (I - KTM) 0+3+4=7, 9 Antoine Meo (F - 250F Husqvarna) 6+1+0=7, 10 Simone Albergoni (I - KTM) 3+2+0=5, 11 Fabio Mossini (I - Honda) 4+0+0=4, 12 Xavier Galindo (E - 250 KTM) 1+0+2=3, 13 Fabrizio Dini (I - 450F Beta) 0+0+1=1.
RACE ONE: 1 Blazusiak, 2 Cervantes, 3 LAMPKIN, 4 Ljunggren, 5 Meo, 6 Ahola, 7 Mossini, 8 Albergoni, 9 Gibert, 10 Galindo.
RACE TWO: 1 Blazusiak, 2 Cervantes, 3 Ljunggren, 4 LAMPKIN, 5 JARVIS, 6 Gibert, 7 Ahola, 8 Botturi, 9 Albergoni, 10 Meo.
RACE THREE: 1 Blazusiak, 2 Cervantes, 3 Ahola, 4 Ljunggren, 5 LAMPKIN, 6 JARVIS, 7 Botturi, 8 Gibert, 9 Galindo, 10 Dini.
SERIES STANDINGS after 2 (of 5) rounds: 1 Blazusiak 90 points, 2 Cervantes 58, 3 Ljunggren 44, 4 JARVIS 36, 5 Brown 32, 6 LAMPKIN 32, 7 Meo 27, 8 Ahola 19, 9 Gibert 18, 10 KNIGHT 8, 11 Botturi 7, 12 Nambotin 6, 13 CROCKARD 5, 14 Albergoni 5, 15 Mossini 4, 16 Galindo 3, 17 Dini 1, 18 SAGAR 1.
UEM Junior Cup – Final: 1 Richard Ellwood (GB - KTM), 2 Lee Sampson (GB - Gas Gas), 3 Jacopo Cerutti (I - KTM), 4 Elie Vecchi (I - Gas Gas), 5 Julian Cotton (I - KTM), 6 Edoardo D'Ambrosio (I - Husaberg), 7 Diego Nicoletti (I - Beta), 8 Andrea Fossati (I - Honda), 9 Niccolo Mori (I - KTM), 10 Zene Compalati (I - KTM),...
NEXT ROUND: January 17 – Vigo, SPAIN.
FOR FULL REPORT SEE T+MX NEWS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2009
Despite narrowly missing out on a podium finish, Dougie Lampkin was pleased with his performance on the night.