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.\ '.i.,'- • .. la PinSqueekS Spanish trial mk By Lane Campbell q'ARRASA, SPAIN, MARCH 7 " hough VIf Karlson (Mon) had ~won the 10th Trial Sant Lorenc o del Munt on observation by one :point, Martin Lampkin (Bul) ~ . squeezed into first place by 'of fewer marks lost on 'D u n ca n MacLeish -d . d h M' h t e otor - an -carne virtue .time. wh o Club U T arrasa's computer-generated results ba ck to -m ake this report possible , reported a fantastic trial among terrain features reminiscent of Northern . California; with some sections being virtually sheer rock w alls. (D un can ac tu al ly had to walk through 'so m ebody 's house to ge t from section to section - the ground was that steep and the trails th at narrow.) Malcolm Rathmell (Mon) kep t the champ ions h ip points lead with a fourth place fin ish, Sole American in the round Martin Belair (Mon) was started with the ' -,u p p o sed ly second-division riders, but worked his way to 22nd overall (am on g th e 30 first-stringers) out of the 96 international entrants. • ; One interesting feature of the club's results printout was a calculated "coefficient of difficulty" fo r each of the trial 's 24 tr aps; basically the average points per rider that were dropped in ea ch . The worst, according to the tally , W ere fo ur (4.21) and seven (4 .12) whose coefficients indicate more fives' than anything. • The leaders both one-dabbed four in • .' th e fi t roun d , b u t ....mp ki fi d seven Irs In rve while Karlson p addled through . Next tinne aroun dv I was K arI son ' s t urn t 0 it t paddle four while La m p kin one- p rodd ed it; t hen Martin cleaned ' seven while . Karl son pad dl ed again fo r a three . Fo r Lamp kin , it w as a giant second loo p e ffor t , as h e 'd d roppe d 26 t 0 K arIson ' s 18 the first round. Both rid er s got hot and clicked off a nearly unbroken string of cleansIn the last twelve traps for a r?using fini~h that was to be decided on time penalties. The A mencan presence th at ' d was an tn 't wasn a. change, the p!"'ceeds from AT A s T n al de Espana did not send a group o.f riders to Spain. Instead, the money IS to be used to send top SoCai riders t l? the Scotti sh Six Da ys Trial la t er this year. Marland Whaley and Mark E~ar are known to be a m o ng the group gomg. . . Th~ left Martin B~I:nr the lo,;,e American, as Lane Leavitt, wh,? has In the past had a Bultaco factory ride, was co m m itted elsewhere. Martin 's way over had been paid ~y Mon~e~ Motl?rs "by way of .than ks for sticking WIth the ~arque m the face of fact?ry offers to ride other brands. [Mart in has been outspoken crit!~ of ~ome. f~ct0r!es' t!,ndency to professionalize trials riders.] • Results Martin 'LamPkin 36.7 (Bui): 2. Ulf Karlson 37.2 (Man) ; 3. Manuel Soler Alegre 37.3 (Bul); 4. Malcolm Ralhmell 49.4 (Man); 5. Vrjo Vester lnen '4 9 . 8 (Bul); 6 . Charles Coutard 52.2 (Bul): 7. Mlck Andrews 53.9 1. (Yam); 8. Jaime Sublra 56.5 (Mon} ; ·g . Javier cucureua 6 2.7 (B ul); 10 . Ro b Shepherd 65 .0 (Ma n); 11. Bo Nilsson 68.3 ( 055) ; 12. Jea n M. 70 .6 (Mon) ; 13. Robert Edwards 72.0 (Man): 14. Alfonso Soler Perarnau 73.0 (Bul), 15. Alan Larrmk tn 75.8 (Bul); 16. Felix Lejeune Krahnstover 76.0 (Man); 1 7. Benny Sellman 76.4 (Mon) ; 18 . Martin Terra 77 .8 (Bul) ; 19. Thore Evertsson 81.1 (055) ; 20. Alberto Juvanl en y 83.0 (0 55) • ST'1~~I~~S A~lt R~PANc;~~~~3~5~1r. M al co lm Ra tnme ll 29 Cou ta rd 2 7 (Bul) : 3. ( M an ) ; 2. Cha rles rjo Ve ster Manuel (Bul): 4. Martin Lampkinv 24 (Bul): 5.lnen 2 5 Soler 20 .(Bul). 9