World Outdoor Trials Championship Myslenice, Poland - Lampkin
Round 7 Day 1 Sunday (1 day event) 09/07/06
 Dougie
Lampkin could only manage fourth place today at the Polish
Grand Prix held in the town of Myslenice, with sits approximately
thirty kilometres South of the city of Krakow. Lampkin never
recovered from a poor first lap showing, and despite a much-improved
performance during the afternoon session the British rider
could not climb any further up the leader board.
Lampkin’s latest results sees him drop to third place
in the overall standings, his Repsol Montesa HRC team mate
Takahisa Fujinami now having moved one point ahead of him
after the Japanese rider won his second Grand Prix in a row.
Dougie now sits eight points ahead of Cabestany, after the
Sherco rider moved up a place following Antonio Bou’s
shocking seventh place today.
With Poland having been absent from the World series for
over a decade, the return was always going to show if this
was a worthy re-appointment and if it will be a regular Grand
Prix in the future. The organising club did little to help
their chances in this respect as they first refused to alter
several sections on the advice both of the riders and the
jury members. Eventually adjustments were made to the hazards,
so as to create a reasonable competition.
Extremely hot weather was the order of the day for the third
Grand Prix in a row, temperatures of thirty five degrees Celsius
were recorded throughout the trial. With the exception of
the final man made section, the other hazards were all housed
in a dark and dense woodland just outside of the town. Steep
climbs from a slow running stream created a theme that was
repeated for the entire course.
Whilst Lampkin played down the injury he suffered to his
ribs during a practice crash in Italy earlier in the week,
the lasting effects obviously were a factor in his result
today. “It’s been another disappointing day, where
a bad first lap performance has cost me dearly. I hit my ribs
again in section two and this put me in a lot of discomfort.
Wearing the body support helped to take away some of the pain,
but the downside to this was that it made breathing quite
difficult, which was hard to cope with in the heat. All I
can do now is look forward to my home GP in a few weeks, and
hope that it will mark the start of a strong close to the
championship for me.”
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