Taddy Blazusiak wins the Tough One
By TMX Archives on 19th Jan 09
KTM factory rider has launched his 2009 racing season in style with a convincing victory in the Tough One extreme hare scramble held this weekend in Oswestry, Wales.
The Polish rider who has in recent seasons made a name for himself in extremeevents came home ahead of Tom Sagar and Wayne Braybrook who took the minorpodium places. Blazusiak was runner up in the 2008 race.
Taddy was infifth place after the Le Mans-style start and made it his business to work hisway up to the leaders in the early part of the race. Riding his 250cc two-strokeKTM, Taddy then moved into the lead and rode an almost faultless remaining raceto take the glory at the chequered flag just short of the two hour mark.
"The Tough One was the one extreme event missing from my resume, so Iam really pleased to have won," Blazusiak told reporters after the race. "I hadquite a good start but some of the bigger riders pushed me back so I wasn't atthe front by the time we had run to our bikes. I was about fifth or sixth offthe start. I knew I had to push hard for the full two hours if I was going towin and that's what I did."
Blazusiak rounded up a perfect day with awin in The Boulder Dash - a short sprint across an unforgiving section of rocksthat allowed him to show the crowd his pallet of skills in extreme ridingsituations.
Results The Tough One '09
1. Taddy Blazusiak(KTM) 1.57.07, 11 laps
2. Tom Sagar (Husaberg) 1.59.46, 11 laps
3. WayneBraybrook (Gas Gas) 2.05.07, 11 laps
4. Dougie Lampkin (Beta) 1.59.17, 10laps
5. Edward Jones (KTM) 2.09.47, 10 laps