World Indoor Trials Championship Lisbon, Portugal Round
5
Dougie Lampkin marked the mid point in the 2007 World Indoor
series with a below par fifth place at round five of the championship
held in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon late last night.
Lampkin’s total of twenty two marks was the same score
that had netted him a more satisfying fourth position in Barcelona
last Sunday, but this time it left him some way off the pace.
With his Japanese team mate having out placed Dougie once
again, Fujinami now leads his British rival by three points
in the overall standings.
Lampkin’s evening was defined by a series of failures
on the step part of the sections, with Dougie recording no
less than four maximums in the seven observed hazards. One
more mark on observation and a defeat in the head to head
race added two more marks to a score that was six marks too
many to take him through to the final.
Whilst Dougie had little to smile about, there was cheers
of other sorts in the Repsol Montesa HRC team as the newly
recruited Toni Bou took his fourth win of the season to put
himself eight points clear at the head of the championship
with just four rounds remaining. The series moves on to Milan
next Saturday, then to Minorca the following weekend, with
a short break before the long trip to Argentina, and then
back to Europe for the final event in Madrid in mid March.
Although not having enjoyed the best of results in the first
half of the campaign, Lampkin will be looking for a better
run of fortune in the closing competitions, with third place
in the championship still being very much within reach.
Slightly down beat, Lampkin summed up his evening with a
brief comment. “ I was poor on the steps tonight, it
wasn’t that they were massive, but with the short run
ups I was just not on it. In the first section where everyone,
but Bou fived it, I was so close, but ended up slipping backwards
off the sump guard. If that had gone the other way who knows
what would have happened, but it didn’t and from that
point forward things went steadily down hill.”
Attendance: 6,000
Results: Final 1: Bou 14, 2: Raga 18, 3: Cabestany 22
Heat
Qualifiers:
1: Antonio Bou (SPA-Montesa-HRC) 7,
2: Adam Raga (SPA-Gas Gas) 7,
3: Albert Cabestany (SPA-Sherco) 16,
Non Qualifiers:
4: Takahisa Fujinami (JPN-Montesa-HRC) 17,
5: Dougie Lampkin (GBR-Montesa-HRC) 22,
6: Jeroni Fajardo (SPA-Beta) 29,
7: Shaun Morris (GBR-Gas Gas) 34
Current championship standings:
1: Bou 43, 2: Raga 35, 3: Cabestany 29, 4: Fujinami 27, 5:
Lampkin 24, 6: Fajardo 22
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