Fifth dimension!
By TMX Archives on 15th Nov 07
DUST, rocks, sand and sun were the order of the first day of the 2007 International Six Days Enduro, staged in La Serene, Chile, South America, where France topped the Trophy team competition, thanks in part to Johnny Aubert topping the Enduro 2 class ahead of Finn Juha Salminen. With France finishing just 11 seconds ahead of pre-event favourites Finland, Italy claimed third with Great Britain placing fifth behind Sweden.
In the Junior Trophy team competition, Spaintopped the opening day's result while Britain's Juniors claimed thesame position as their senior countrymen in fifth. France claimedsecond with Italy third.
For the British riders competing in La Serena itwas generally a good opening day. With most riders dealing with the dryand dusty condition well, Junior Trophy team rider Ashley Wood was theexception and had a disastrous day as his bike expired on the veryfirst test of the event. The malady was later diagnosed as main bearingfailure and the Junior Trophy team is now down to three riders withAshley obviously gutted that his event ended before it had a chance tobegin.
Of the six British Trophy team riders it wasWelshman Greg Evans who claimed the best in class' result with animpressive fourth in Enduro 1 aboard his KTM. Finishing just 35 secondsbehind class winner Cristobal Guerrero, Greg claimed fourth in class onthe day's opening test and ended the day one position ahead of formerworld champion Peter Bergvall from Sweden.
I had a great day, enthused the Welshman at theend of the day. It wasn't the most interesting of days but I didn'tmake too many mistakes on the tests. The course and tests wereextremely rough and dusty, it was really easy to make a mistake. It'sgoing to be a tough week because of the dust and sand.
Competing aboard a 250cc four-stroke for the firsttime, newly crowned British Enduro Champion Tom Sagar placed ninth inclass having had a steady day. Like Greg, Tom finished as high asfourth in class but saw a slow final test stop him from finishinghigher.
2007 ISDE La Serena, CHILE
DAY ONE RESULTS
WORLD TROPHY: 1 France 0.00, 2 Finland 13.95, 3Italy 1:23.80, 4 Sweden 2:02.01, 5 United Kingdom 5:02.21 Tom Sagar(E1), Paul Edmondson (E2), Edward Jones (E1), Euan Mcconnell (E3),Dylan Jones (E1), Chris Hockey (E2), 6 Holland 5:47.30, 7 Chile6:56.12, 8 Australia 7:37.48, 9 United States 9:01.12, 10 Germany9:26.18, 11 Czech Republic 10:23.95, 12 Canada 25:03.89, 13 Venezuela27:03.93, 14 Greece 28:53.12, 15 Japan 29:51.37, 16 Mexico 32:35.72, 17Ecuador 53:26.52, 18 Colombia 1:52:06.26, 19 Hungary 2:11:25.95, 20Uruguay 7:14:21.72.
JUNIOR TROPHY: 1 Spain 0.00, 2 France 1:29.28, 3Italy 2:14.52, 4 Australia 3:33.48, 5 United Kingdom 4:22.57 GregEvans (E1), Lee Edmondson (E1), Ollie Moyce (E2), Ashley Wood (E1), 6Finland 5:04.95, 7 Germany 5:31.10, 8 United States 6:09.80, 9 Chile6:32.58, 10 Argentina 7:46.57, 11 Sweden 8:01.31, 12 Czech Republic8:38.68, 13 New Zealand 11:48.71, 14 Mexico 35:59.00, 15 Colombia4:02:34.67.
INDIVIDUAL CLASS POSITIONS
E1 CLASS: 1 Cristbal Guerrero (Yam), 2 JariMattila (KTM), 3 Julien Gauthier (Hon), 4 Greg Evans (KTM), 5 PeterBergwall (KTM), 6 Thomas Oldrati (KTM), 7 Andreas Toresson (Suz), 8Oriol Mena (Yam), 9 Tom Sagar (KTM), 10 Alex Salvini (Yam),... 16Edward Jones (KTM),... 25 Dylan Jones (Yam),... 34 Lee Edmondson(Hon),... Rtd Ashley Wood (Hon).
E2 CLASS: 1 Johnny Aubert (Yam), 2 Juha Salminen(KTM), 3 Alessandro Belometti (KTM), 4 Joakim Ljunggren (Hbg), 5Fabrizio Dini (Yam), 6 Hans Vogel (Yam), 7 Paul Edmondson (Suz), 8Jeremias Israel (Hon), 9 Petri Pohjamo (Hon), 10 Nicolas Deparrois(Hva),... 35 Ollie Moyce (Yam),... 38 Chris Hockey (Hva).
E3 CLASS: 1 Kurt Caselli (KTM), 2 Marko Tarkkala(KTM), 3 Fabien Planet (KTM), 4 Bjorne Carlsson (Hsb), 5 AlessandroBotturi (Hon), 6 Christophe Nambotin (Gas), 7 David Cadek (KTM), 8Valtteri Salonen (Hsb), 9 Andrea Belotti (KTM), 10 Erwin Plekkenpol(Hon),... 13 Euan McConnell (TM).
C1 CLASS: 12 Kevin Murray (Yam),... 19 DarrenHughes (Yam),... 22 Darren Wilcock (Yam),... 45 Mark Houson (Hva),...62 Ciaran Hayes (Ire Yam).
C2 CLASS: 29 Justin Wilson (Yam).
C3 CLASS: 47 Julian Crimp (KTM).
See T+MX News, Friday, November 16, 2007 for full report and pictures.