World Outdoor Trials Championship Myslenice, Poland - Dabill
 James
Dabill’s ongoing battle with Polish rider Tadeusz Blazusiak
for eighth place in the World championship continued in Myslenice,
Poland earlier today. Dabill placed a reasonable ninth position
at this the seventh round of the series, but had no answer
to Balzusiak as he took full advantage at his home GP to finish
eighth today. Tadeusz now moves back into eight spot in the
overall standings, just one point ahead of James.
A victory at yesterday’s European event held at the
same venue, put Dabill in a confident mood as he went into
today’s World competition. With a starting position
ahead of his main rivals, James had to adopt the role as trail
blazer, as he became the furthest rider through many of the
early sections, and recorded the first cleans in some of the
other difficult hazards.
Although the dense and dark wood, that was home to fourteen
out of the fifteen sections, shielded the riders from the
direct sun light, there was no way of reducing the temperature
that sat at thirty five degrees Celsius for most of the day.
The final section was a man made affair, whilst the remainder
of the sections all featured steep climbs and descents from
the same slippery stream-bed.
Dabill’s second lap performance benefited from being
able to use the now established lines, with him reducing his
lap score from forty eight marks down to a very respectable
thirty nine marks given the difficult conditions.
Although slightly disappointed at being beaten by his close
rival Balzusiak, Dabill realised it was always going to be
an up hill task to defeat the Polish rider on home soil.
“Ninth is not a disaster, but it would have been nice
to have beaten Tadeusz at his home round, although that was
never going to be easy. He has had his home GP and I have
still got mine to come, so I will be looking to make full
advantage of riding at Hawkstone Park in front of my home
fans.”
“But before I can really look forward to that, I need
to win the European title in the Czech Republic next weekend
first”
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