Spanish Outdoor Trials Championship Cabanillas de la Sierra
(Madrid), Spain
Dougie Lampkin
Round 3 Sunday 14/05/06
Dougie Lampkin slumped to a disappointing sixth place at
today’s third round of the Spanish domestic championship
held near Madrid, Spain. Lampkin arrived in the region with
fond memories, having clinched his last World title at a venue
in the same area. Comprising of a course very similar to that
special day back in 2003, today’s trial featured fifteen
sections of a mainly dry nature.
With his number one machine already on route to the USA
ready for next weekend’s Grand Prix, Lampkin used today’s
event to give his second machine its debut shakedown under
competition conditions. Lampkin’s day begun badly when
he picked first man away in the ballot, and never got much
better as the trial progressed.
Riding up at the front of the field alongside Raga, who
had drawn an equally bad start time, Dougie never found his
rhythm and clocked up a series of marks to leave him on a
total of nineteen after the first lap. This score was the
same as Raga’s, but the pair of them were someway off
the pace with Bou leading the trial on seven marks for the
same period.
Whilst Raga improved during his closing lap, to nearly half
his first lap tally, Lampkin got slightly worse, his second
lap total being a hefty twenty one marks. This compared to
eight for Fajardo’s who posted the best performance
of the afternoon to finish as runner up to eventual winner
Bou.
Lampkin was disgusted at his own performance and was honest
in his post trial comments. “ People will look at the
results and the scores and will think that I have had some
kind of problem. But the only problem today was me. I simply
rode as bad as I have done for a long time and that is it.”
“I could try to blame my starting position and adjusting
to the new bike, which although they didn’t help matters,
were not the real problem today. My only consolation is that
it was a strange trial and has produced a result which wasn’t
expected by many of the top riders.”
Lampkin will return to his Barcelona base tonight before
beginning his journey to the USA via the UK tomorrow morning.
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