Raga Storms Second Day in USA
Following his win in the first of the two days of competition
at the third round of the 2006 World championship in Tennessee,
USA, reigning indoor and outdoor champion, Adam Raga –
Gas Gas further extended his lead in the overall standings
with another victory today. Runner-up yesterday, Dougie Lampkin
– Repsol Montesa HRC repeated his second place of yesterday
with Jeroni Fajardo – Gas Gas taking the remaining podium
position.
Lampkin launched a strong attack on Raga’s dominance
of the weekend being just one mark adrift after the first
seven sections. However, a combination of a five in section
eight – the only rider to do so – and the continued
steady riding of Raga saw Lampkin’s chances of entering
the second lap in the lead slip away with Raga ending the
first lap with a four mark cushion over Lampkin.
It was during the second lap, however that Raga differentiated
himself dropping a mere nine marks for the entire lap –
less than half that of his closest rivals.
Raga now has a ten point margin in the championship standings
over second place Lampkin who has jumped two places up the
table this weekend with his two runner-up places accompanied
by poor performances from both Antonio Bou – Beta and
Takahisa Fujinami – Montesa.
In the Junior championship, Michael Brown – Beta returned
to his winning ways after his third place yesterday by taking
victory over Daniel Gibert – Montesa and Daniel Oliveras
– Gas Gas. Despite being three marks adrift of Gibert
at the end of the first lap, Brown recovered to take his third
victory of the season and now leads the junior championship
by eight points over Oliveras.
Alexz Wigg – Gas Gas made it two wins out of two days
in the Youth 125cc championship with a slim two mark victory
over Loris Gubian – Sherco with Matteo Grattarola –
Sherco in third place. Wigg now leads the championship by
nine points over Gubian.
The championship will rest for just one week, before making
it second long haul journey to the Japanese Grand Prix at
the superb Twin Ring circuit in Motegi.
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