Lord of the Twin Rings
By TMX Archives on 8th Jun 12
TONI Bou extended his 2012 World Trials Championship lead to almost 30 points with a double-win in Japan at the weekend.
The dominant Repsol Montesa rider easily won the opening day's event – staged as-ever at the Honda owned Motegi Twin Ring race track – from Beta's resurgent Jeroni Fajardo.
On the second day Bou just held on to win from a determined attack by Sherco's Albert Cabestany and his own team mate Takahisa Fujinami, who achieved his weekend's ambition to make it onto the podium in his home country.
While it was all smiles from Bou it was a disaster of a weekend for fellow Catalan Adam Raga, as the Gas Gas No.1 slumped to sixth on Saturday and only bettered this by one place on Sunday.
This dropped the current vice champion to fourth in the standings, overtaken by the vastly-improved Fajardo and the ever-consistent Cabestany.
As expected the Motegi trial was based on the periphery of the awesome race facility, which features some impressive steep rock climbs and steps, with a couple of man made obstacles thrown-in for the enthusiastic home spectators.
And as ever there was a good handful of keen Japanese contenders showing plenty of fighting spirit – former World Championship regulars Tomoyuki Ogawa on the Honda and Kenichi Kuroyama on the four-stroke Scorpa (badged as a Yamaha). Both featured in the top 10 over the two days.
It was a mixed weekend for the Brits, with James Dabill making a breakthrough into the top five on the opening day, ahead of Raga but then dropping to ninth on Sunday behind the usual five suspects plus Ossa's Dani Oliveras, Japanese wild-card Honda rider Tomoyuki Ogawa and Michael Brown.
Browny and Jack Challenor effectively traded places over the two days while Alexz Wigg showed flashes of his true ability, breaking into the top 10 with a promising eighth place before unfortunately lapsing back to 14th on day two.
FOR FULL REPORT AND PICTURES SEE TMX JUNE 8
WORLD TRIALS CHAMPIONSHIP
Rd 3 – Twin Ring Motegi, JAPAN
DAY ONE
1 Toni Bou (E - Montesa) 1 + 5 = 6
2 Jeroni Fajardo (E -Beta) 13 + 6 = 19
3 Albert Cabestany (E - Sherco) 11 + 11 = 22
4 Takahisa Fujinami (J - Montesa) 18 + 10 = 28
5 James DABILL (GB - Beta) 20 + 12 = 32
6 Adam Raga (E - Gas Gas) 14 + 21 = 35
7 Kenichi Kuroyama (J - Yamaha) 24 + 13 = 37
8 Alexz WIGG (GB - Gas Gas) 31 + 13 = 44
9 Tomoyuki Ogawa (J - Honda) 23 + 29 = 52
10 Jack CHALLONER (GB - Beta) 33 + 23 = 56
11 Michael BROWN (GB - Gas Gas) 29 + 30 = 59
12 Danny Oliveras (E - Ossa) 28 + 35 = 63
13 Loris Gubian (F - Gas Gas) 40 + 29 = 69
14 Tsuyoshi Ogawa (J - Beta) 42 + 30 = 72
15 Matteo Grattarola (I - Gas Gas) 38 + 36 = 74
DAY TWO
1 Toni Bou (E - Montesa) 9 + 11 = 20
2 Albert Cabestany (E - Sherco) 12 + 9 = 21
3 Takahisa Fujinami (J - Montesa) 16 + 9 = 25
4 Jeroni Fajardo (E -Beta) 19 + 12 = 31
5 Adam Raga (E - Gas Gas) 19 + 14 = 33
6 Danny Oliveras (E - Ossa) 27 + 18 = 45
7 Tomoyuki Ogawa (J - Honda) (17x0) 28 + 20 = 48
8 Michael BROWN (GB - Gas Gas) (15x0) 20 + 28 = 48
9 James DABILL (GB - Beta) 20 + 35 = 55
10 Fumitaka Nozaki (J - Yamaha) 39 + 24 = 63
11 Jack CHALLONER (GB - Beta) 36 + 30 = 66
12 Kenichi Kuroyama (J - Yamaha) 39 + 29 = 68
13 Loris Gubian (F - Gas Gas) 39 + 31 = 70
14 Alexz WIGG (GB - Gas Gas) 41 + 38 = 79
15 Matteo Grattarola (I - Gas Gas) 55 + 25 = 80
SERIES STANDINGS after 3 (of 7) rounds: 1 Bou 117 points, 2 Fajardo 88, 3 Cabestany 88, 4 Raga 82, 5 Fujinami 80, 6 DABILL 57, 7 CHALLONER 43, 8 Oliveras 41, 9 BROWN 40, 10 Gubian 34, 11 Grattarola 28, 12 WIGG 23, 13 Ogawa 16, 14 Borrellas 14, 15 Kuroyama 13, 16 Nozaki 6, 17 Eddie Karlsson 4, 18 Gianluca Tournour 3, 19 Ogawa 2.
NEXT ROUND: June 16/17 – Penarroya-Pueblonuevo, SPAIN.
WORLD JUNIOR TRIALS CHAMPIONSHIP
Rd 3 – Twin Ring Motegi, JAPAN
DAY ONE
1 Pol Tarres (E - JTG) 8 + 3 + - = 11
2 Francesc Moret (E - Montesa) 7 + 6 + - = 13
3 Alexandre Ferrer (F - Sherco) 4 + 11 + - = 15
4 Giacomo Saleri (I - Beta) 10 + 6 + - = 16
5 Jack SHEPPARD (GB - Beta) 10 + 10 + - = 20
6 Matteo Poli (I - Ossa) 14 + 8 + - = 22
7 Benoit Dagnicourt (F - Beta) 16 + 7 + - = 23
8 Tanguy Mottin (F - Montesa) 7 + 17 + 2 = 26
9 Cedric Tempier (F - Sherco) 19 + 10 + - = 29
10 Kyle Middleton (AUS - Gas Gas) (Time1) 22 + 11 + - = 33
11 Yoshiaki Nomoto (J - Beta) (Time2) 19 + 14 + - = 33
12 Hakon Pedersen (N - Sherco) (17x0,6x1) 19 + 14 + - = 33
13 Hikaru Takiguchi (J - Scorpa) 34 + 27 + - = 61
14 Yuya Kira (J - Gas Gas) 38 + 28 + - = 66
15 Shinya Fujiwara (J - Honda) 44 + 31 + - = 75
DAY TWO
1 Alexandre Ferrer (F - Sherco) 6 + 0 = 6
2 Pol Tarres (E - JTG) 6 + 6 = 12
3 Cedric Tempier (F - Sherco) 12 + 10 = 22
4 Giacomo Saleri (I - Beta) 17 + 8 = 25
5 Tanguy Mottin (F - Montesa) 18 + 9 = 27
6 Hakon Pedersen (N - Sherco) 17 + 11 = 28
7 Francesc Moret (E - Montesa) (21x0) 16 + 13 = 29
8 Benoit Dagnicourt (F - Beta) (17x0) 22 + 7 = 29
9 Jack SHEPPARD (GB - Beta) 19 + 12 = 31
10 Yoshiaki Nomoto (J - Beta) 25 + 13 = 38
11 Kyle Middleton (AUS - Gas Gas) 38 + 24 = 62
12 Matteo Poli (I - Ossa) 40 + 25 = 65
13 Hikaru Takiguchi (J - Scorpa) 42 + 28 = 70
14 Shinya Fujiwara (J - Honda) 47 + 31 = 78
15 Yuki Sato (J - Honda) 44 + 35 = 79
SERIES STANDINGS after 3 (of 7) rounds: 1 Ferrer 115 points, 2 Tarres 85, 3 Moret 90, 4 Dagnicourt 67, 5 SHEPPARD 57, 6 Tempier 52, 7 Pedersen 41, 8 Saleri 39, 9 Mottin 34, 10 Middleton 27, 11 Maxime Warenghien 23, 12 Jake Whittaker 20, 13 Jorge Casales 17, 14 Poli 16, 15 Timothy Coleman 14, 16 Boyd Willcocks 12, 17 Nomoto 11.
FIM YOUTH TRIALS CHAMPIONSHIP
DAY ONE
1 Steven Coquelin (F - Gas Gas) 1 + 5 = 6
2 Sverre Lundevold (N - Beta) 5 + 1 = 6
3 Bradley COX (GB - Beta) 7 + 6 = 13
4 Pietro Petrangeli (I - Beta) 8 + 11 = 19
5 Francesco Cabrini (I - Beta) 12 + 9 = 21
6 Akira Isogaya (J - Beta) 23 + 29 = 52
7 Kazuki Ogami (J - Gas Gas) 46 + 52 = 98
8 Kazuto Sato (J - Gas Gas) 53 + 57 = 110
DAY TWO
1 Sverre Lundevold (N - Beta) 14 + 4 = 18
2 Steven Coquelin (F - Gas Gas) 10 + 13 = 23
3 Bradley COX (GB - Beta) 27 + 6 = 33
4 Pietro Petrangeli (I - Beta) 24 + 10 = 34
5 Francesco Cabrini (I - Beta) 20 + 16 = 36
6 Akira Isogaya (J - Beta) 41 + 33 = 74
7 Kazuki Ogami (J - Gas Gas) 55 + 47 = 102
8 Kazuto Sato (J - Gas Gas) 61 + 55 = 116
SERIES STANDINGS after 3 (of 7) rounds: 1 Coquelin 112 points, 2 COX 98, 3 Lundevold 94, 4 Cabrini 46, 5 Petrangeli 40, 6 Oriol Noguera 28, 7 John Hayes 24, 8 Blake Fox 22, 9 Jonathan Chellas 20, 10 Sam King 20, 11 Akira Isogaya 20, 12 Kazuki Ogami 18, 13 Carles De Caudemberg Quentin 18, 14 Kazuto Sato 16, 15 Martin Pochez 16, 16 Luke WALKER 15, 17 Martin Matejicek 13, 18 Timo Myohanen 10, 19 Michel Schulte 10, 20 Tom DEXTER 7,...
NEXT ROUND: June 16/17 – Penarroya-Pueblonuevo, SPAIN.
