World Indoor Trials Championship Milan, Italy Round 6
Dougie Lampkin finished in a lowly and distant sixth place
at the latest round of the 2007 World Indoor championship
held in Milan, Italy late last night. This is Lampkin’s
worst result in his campaign to date, and leaves him trailing
his team mate Fujinami by five points, and just one point
ahead of Fajardo, as he clings on to fifth place in the overall
standings.
After having made it on to the podium at the third round
in Marseille, France, Dougie has struggled to find the same
kind of form, with a run of three poor results that have seen
him slip further and further away from his goal of being on
the rostrum at each round.
Lampkin begun the evening well in Milan, with a clean on
the opening section, a feat only matched by Raga and Fujinami,
and where eventual winner and runner up, Cabestany and Bou
both recorded maximums. However Dougie’s delight was
short lived and from that point forward his night fell apart
with a series of errors that were to leave him some thirteen
marks off of qualifying.
As was the case in both of the previous two rounds, held
in Barcelona and Lisbon, Lampkin’s tally included no
less than four maximums that quickly took his total to twenty
marks, and left him with no chance of making his way through
to the final.
Whilst Raga dominated the heat with a clean round, it was
Cabestany who took the all important victory in the final
after a close three way, all-Spanish scrap. Championship leader
Bou further extended his advantage at the top of the table
with a runners’ up position ahead of his main challenger
Raga. Bou now leads the series by ten points with just three
rounds remaining.
With little to show for his night’s work Lampkin offered
no excuses. “ With the exception of the first section,
it was a poor performance all round, and one that I want to
move on from immediately.”
Heat
Qualifiers:
1: Adam Raga (SPA-Gas Gas) 0,
2: Antonio Bou (SPA-Montesa-HRC) 7,
3: Albert Cabestany (SPA-Sherco) 8,
Non Qualifiers:
4: Takahisa Fujinami (JPN-Montesa-HRC) 9,
5: Jeroni Fajardo (SPA-Beta) 17,
6: Dougie Lampkin (GBR-Montesa-HRC) 21,
7: Tadeusz Blazusiak (POL-Beta) 31,
8: Fabio Lenzi (ITAL-Montesa) 35
Current championship standings:
1: Bou 51, 2: Raga 41, 3: Cabestany 39, 4: Fujinami 32, 5:
Lampkin 27, 6: Fajardo 26
Dougie Lampkin’s next event:
24/02/07 Saturday – Minorca, Spain Rnd 7 World Indoor
Chp
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