World Indoor Trials Championship Milan, Italy
Round 4 Saturday 08/03/08
Dougie Lampkin finished in sixth position at the latest round
of the 2008 Indoor World championship held in Milan, Italy.
Lampkin put up a brave performance and looked at his strongest
in the series to date, but in the end had to rely on a quicker
time to defeat his younger compatriot Dabill for sixth place.
Lampkin begun well with a solid clean on the opening hazard
and appeared to be confident with the task ahead. Unfortunately
this intial high was soon lost as Dougie failed to crest the
final step in section two to record his first five of the
night.
This pattern was to continue throughout the lap as moments
of pure brilliance were cancelled out by two further mistakes
that saw Lampkin’s total begin to rise quickly. A five
on the log section and one more when he sumped out heavily
on yet another step, left Dougie with no chance of making
it through to the final, where just three riders would fight
it out for the top honours.
This result comes after an intense and successful week of
testing in Northern Italy for both Dougie and Beta, as the
team readies itself for the fast approaching outdoor World
championship. Unfortunately Lampkin’s latest performance
did not reflect the collective progress that has been made
over the last few days.
Dougie will now travel to Spain to complete further testing
ahead of next weekend’s indoor event in Madrid, Spain.
“Things are just not coming together for me at the
moment, despite all the hard work and effort that everyone
is putting in. After the trial in Bolzano on Thursday night
I felt really good and very positive about the changes we
had made to the bike.”
“As tonight has proved again, the indoor World championship
is not the most forgiving place to adapt to a new bike. However
despite the result I feel we are definitely moving in the
right direction and can be competitive once we move outdoors.”
“In the short term all we can continue to do is to
work as hard as we can, it’s as simple as that.”
Attendance: 8000
Results:
Final
1: Bou 9, 2: Raga 19, 3: Fujinami 33
Heat
Qualifiers:
1: Antonio Bou (SPA-Montesa-HRC) 0,
2: Adam Raga (SPA-Gas Gas) 2,
3: Takahisa Fujinami (JPN-Montesa-HRC) 7
(faster time),
Non-Qualifiers:
4: Albert Cabestany (SPA-Sherco) 7,
5: Jeroni Fajardo (SPA-Beta) 8,
6: Dougie Lampkin (GBR-Beta) 19 (faster time),
7: James Dabill (GBR-Montesa) 19
Current championship standings:
1: Bou 38, 2: Raga 29, 3: Cabestany 27,
4: Fujinami 22, 5: Fajardo 16,
6: Lampkin 11, 7:Dabill 9, 8: Bethune 1
Dougie Lampkin’s next event:
15/03/08 Saturday – Madrid, Spain
Rnd 5 World Indoor Chp
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