World Indoor Trials Championship
Barcelona, Spain
Round 2
 Dougie
Lampkin endured another difficult night as he finished in
a lowly sixth place at the second round of the World indoor
series held in Barcelona, Spain. Although this result was
one place higher than his initial outing, Lampkin looked far
from his best aboard his new Italian two-stroke machine.
Two fives in the first three sections and a total of four
failures during the eight hazards that made up the qualifying
lap, was enough to quickly rule the multi World champion out
of the final.
Dougie was one of many riders who failed at the very first
step of the first section, but the Yorkshireman showed great
fighting spirit as he recovered momentarily with an emphatic
clean in the second hazard.
The mini revival was short lived as he then jumped short
at the opening part of section three, before sliding off the
large concrete tubes during the early part of the fourth section,
much to the disappointment of the large Spanish crowd.
Lampkin restored some level of pride with cleans in the next
three hazards, but the damage had already been done. The lap
finished with yet another five in the final section as Dougie
fell back off one of the large boulders into the waiting pool
of water.
“I rode with very little confidence tonight and I think
has shown both in my riding and in my result. Although I feel
that I am practising well outdoors, I am struggling to find
any reference on the indoor sections.”
“It is certainly a steep learning curve, and one that
we need to continue to fight. We made some changes after Marseille,
which seemed to work well in Nice on Friday night, but here
I never felt good from start to finish.”
“I knew that the transition was never going to be easy,
but I was hoping for a more positive start than has happened.
As a team we need to focus on the week ahead and work on the
areas that need attention, so hopefully we can produce a more
respectable result in Granada next weekend.”
Attendance: 9800
Results:
Final
1: Raga 15, 2: Bou 18, 3: Cabestany 32
Heat
Qualifiers:
1: Antonio Bou (SPA-Montesa-HRC) 1,
2: Adam Raga (SPA-Gas Gas) 7,
(faster time),
3: Albert Cabestany (SPA-Sherco) 7,
Non-Qualifiers:
4: Takahisa Fujinami (JPN-Montesa-HRC) 16,
5: Jeroni Fajardo (SPA-Beta) 18,
6: Dougie Lampkin (GBR-Beta) 20,
7: James Dabill (GBR-Montesa) 22
Current championship standings:
1: Bou 18, 2: Raga 16, 3: Cabestany 14,
4: Fujinami 10, 5: Fajardo 8, 6:Dabill 5,
7: Lampkin 5, 8: Bethune 1
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