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Bernie Schreiber f in ished third.
World Champ-IonshlpObserved Trials SerIes:
Round 7
Lejeune
rolls on in
Austria
By Mike Rapley
HEINRICHS, AUSTRIA, JUNE 6
Eddy Lejeune continued his
almost total domination of the
trials world by winning round
seven of the championship series in Austria, his fifth win in this
year's series.
And just as the Honda mounted
Lejeune has proved so superior, the
second and third placed riders, Frenchman Gilles Bu rga t and Californian
Bern ie Schreiber once again established themselves as his closest rivals.
In yet another fairly easy trial held
at H einr ichs, not so far from the Czechos lova kian border, it was the swelterin g temperatures that made riders
falte r ra th er than the severity of the
sections.
Just before the start the organizers
mad e a change to m any of th e sectio ns in th e belief that th ey wou ld not
be di£ficu lt enough, a nd in maki ng
the change tu rn ed th em in to tight,
narrow o ne line hazards th at were not
popular with th e ride rs.
It seem ed to mak e littl e differen ce
to Lejeun e who sta rte d off as h e
meant to fini sh , p u tt ing in a first lap
score of 15 over th e sevent een sections . H e was m at ched by Bu rga t
whi le Sch rei ber was a lrea dy in third
pl ace.
Toni Gorgot from Spain on th e
Montesa pu t in the best seco nd lap of
13, but with Eddy o n ly o ne mark
adrift o f th is sco re a n d severa l ah ead
of th e others he had a lready p ut h imself almost out of reach . H e didn 't
make a ny mi stak es o n th e third circuit to fin ish with a co nvinc in g eigh t
mark win. Schreiber beat Bu rga r's
third lap sco re but hi s comparatively
poor firs t lap was just enoug h to cos t
h im the run ner-up spot to defe nding
champ Burgat.
.
Fren ch Fa nri c rider Adrien Pra to
h ad a good fir st lap in ninth p lace ,
bu t then bro ke h is h andlebars and
spent n ea rl y a n h ou r repl acing them ,
h aving tro u ble wi th a broken bo lt .
Scott Head , the yo ung Ca lifornian
who h as based h im self in Ita ly to ri de
th e factory Italj et , scored h is thi rd
cham p ions hi p poi nt w ith 10th place,
a nd every week looks more impressiv e as h is ta lent adju sts to the hi gh ly
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