Three in a row for Fujinami
Takahisa Fujinami – Repsol Montesa HRC continued his
run of victories with another top podium position at the Great
Britain Grand Prix today at the Hawkstone Park Motocross circuit.
Fujinami took a narrow win over Adam Raga – Gas Gas
with Albert Cabestany – Sherco in third place.
 After
the injury and illness that marred the start of his 2006 campaign,
Fujinami continued his return to form with his third consecutive
victory, and fourth of the year to date. A score of fourteen
at the end of the first lap saw him with a five mark advantage
over Cabestany at the half-way stage. Despite a higher score
of eighteen on the second lap, it was still sufficient to
give him a one-mark victory over Raga, who launched one of
his trademark comebacks in the second half of the competition,
dropping just twelve marks.
Having missed out on a podium position in Italy and settling
for second place in both Poland and now the UK, Raga still
leads the championship, but with a reduced margin of twelve
marks over Fujinami. Dougie Lampkin – Repsol Montesa
HRC remains in third place in the overall standings, after
finishing fourth at his home round.
Michael Brown – Beta pleased the British fans with
victory in the Junior Championship over Daniel Gibert –
Montesa with Daniel Oliveras – Gas Gas finishing in
third place. Gibert and Oliveras are now tied at the top of
the championship table with Brown just two points behind,
making for an interesting three-way battle as the championship
draws towards its close.
In the Youth championship, Alex Wigg – Gas Gas dropped
just four marks on the opening lap to set the early running.
Despite dropping a larger twenty seven points on the second
lap, his performance during the first half of the day was
sufficient to give him his fourth win of the season over Sam
Haslam – Gas Gas and Matteo Grattarola – Sherco.
Championship leader, Loris Gubian – Sherco finished
fourth.
Gubian now leads the championship by eighteen marks over
Grattarola with Wigg in third place. With ten of the twelve
possible days of competition counting, it’s still all
to play for when competition resumes in Andorra in September.
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