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Round 3: Sugar Loaf Mountain (Above) Brit Dougie lampkin finally found his form In Ireland. Had It not been for a flat tire near the end of the event, lampkin might have won the second World Round of his career . By John Dickinson SUGAR WAFMOUNTAIN, IRElAND, APR 22-23 arc Colomer, the 20-year-old Montesa factory ' rider, edged into the lead of th e Wor ld Championshi p Trials Series , thanks to a timely and not unexpected win at the Irish World Round. In a mainly rocky trial, Colomer proved to have the vital throttle contro l neces sary when the goin g got slippery - as itdid on Sunday - that just gav e him the edge over a ban g-back-to-form Dou g Lampkin who threatened to win all weekend long an d in the end only lost out by a single mark in a thrilling finish . "I was riding the sections just in fron t of Marc, and I had a puncture just before go in g in to the ver y las t secti on," said Lampkin. "He just managed to squeeze past me and rid e the section first. If he hadn't, h e wou ld defin itely ha ve lost marks on time!" Colomer only grinned as he happily conceded that Lampkin was right. "Sure I was running a little late, when I checked in I had only 20 secon ds left, I think," said Colomer . "But I rode well and am happy to win - and very hap py for Montesa. We h ave worked hard to make this bike good an d I think it is close now." World Champion Jord i Tarres w as (Above) Marc Colomer balanced his way to his first win of the '95 season In Ireland. It was the Montesa factory 's first . World Round win In over a yea r. (Right) Jord i Tarres had an off-day , finish ing a distant third. The six-time World Champion made severa l rare mistakes on Sunday. third, following a weekend w hen he never seemed happy with what he was doing. He even had a rare loss of temper in a section and shouted at his minde r, Selva, before recomposing him self to resume the section. Tarres held a narrow lead after Saturday's dry opening loop of 13 sections and w as aware that, following Sunday's overnigh t rain which dra matically altered the way the sections rode, he really should have let h is experience and skill tal k to w alk away with th e trial. Instead, he appeare d to figh t an inner battle with himself and in the end was secretly hap py to come ho me third. "I had some problems today, bu t basically I didn't ride well," said Tarres. "My last lap was bad. I forgo t to collect a new punch card and reached the first section before realizing, and h ad to go back . From then on I was always rushing and never got my head together - not like the others who were riding well." Tomrni Ahvala finis he d strongly on Sunday to take fourth, following a terrible opening day while Joa n Po ns was again steady, rather than spec tacular in fifth . The big surprise of the trial, how ever, came home in six th . Japanese whiz kid Kenichi Kuro yama sim ply left the trials world open-mouthed as he followed up a truly stunning opening day with a steady , controlled ride in difficult conditions on Sunday to leav e.a host of experi enced runners red -faced . None more so than his countryman Takumi Narit a, who could only manage 12th, a full 21 marks behind 16-year-old Kuroyama. Flushed with his arrival in the points in only his third World Championship tr ial, Kuroyam a sai d, "Tod ay was very difficult for me. I don't understand how to ri de when it is so slippery, so I am very happy to finish so high. I don't real- ' Iy kno w what to say ." The Irish round runs alternate years in the north and so u th of th e country, an d ' 95 saw the trial staged in the picturesque Wicklow Hills to the sout h of Dublin, th e capital of Eire . Conditions can only be described as rocky and the 13 sectio ns contained many big ro ck