lAbove) America's Bernie Schreiber won his fourth World Trials round.
(Below) Vesterinen attacks a section - ~ Yrjo, _
but younger bi od _ Anthoni.
By Dave Wilcock
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PINEROLO , ITALY,JULY 16
Bernie Schreiber, the first man to successfully
combine trick riding with trials, had the stage
to himself again in Sunday's eighth round of
.the World Trials Championship in Italy.
America' s favori te son left
Martin
La mp k in ,
Yrj o
Vesterinen and the rest of his
ch ampionshi p rivals wondering
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j ust wha t they m ust do to match the
stunning brilliance of this 19-year-old
Californian who has now won four of
the last five title rounds to go second in
the table, 17 points behind Lampkin.
Bio n ic Bernie not only scored
Bultaco's eighth straight win in the
1978 series· bu t he di d it with a club
tr ial score, leading a posse of Bul taco
riders into the top five places.
Losing just eight ma rks on the
second of the two 40 km 22-section
laps of mostly rock -based nadgery, he
came to the finish with a total of 22 leaving Lampkin the impossib le task
of riding the second la p clean to win .
Anthonio Gorgot - remember the
name . lost second place to Lampkin
by three marks - but his high placing
in the final order was no surprise to
followers of the World Championship
scene. The powerful six-foot Spaniard ,
signed by Bultaco from Ossa last yea r,
is one of the new generation of title
contenders. We'll be hearing more of
this talented 19-year-old.
W ith Ma nuel Soler and reigning
ch ampion Yrjo Vesterinen taking the
next two places, it was left to Swed ish
cham pion UIt Karlsson , on a fu rt her
modified 550 pro to type . to save some
grace for Mon tesa, who has made a
less than impressive ma rk on the
championship this year_
. Karlsson, using a new frame com prising large-bore tu bing and extra long travel forks led a Montesa quartet
into the next four places.
U.S. Champion Marland Whaley,
making his European debut with
another of the. big-engined Montesas,
might well have figured higher than
his eventual eighth place, but his
machine was scarcely run in . and
refused to rev out cleanly at low speed.
The woes that have befallen
Malcolm Ra thm ell and the Beamish
Suzuki cam p showed no signs of disappearing. The scorching heat that burned down on the beautiful foothills of
the Cozie Alps close to the French bo rder sent temperatures soaring into the
eighties (Fahrenheit) by nine in the
morning - and the Su zu ki's carburation was playing hell.
