Round 4
OFF-ROAD
avid Knight, from the Isle of
Man, claimed his fourth
consecutive Enduro 3-c1ass
victory of the '05 season at
the World Enduro Championship's second visit to Spain, where he
comfortably outpaced his E3 Championship rivals and finished as the event's
fastest rider on both days.
"It's been another great weekend for
me," Knight said. "With the three special
tests being quite short, I really thought that
there would only be a few seconds
between the top riders, so to win by just
over half a minute on day one was good.
"I found day two was a bit easier," he
said. "I think it was because I was getting
used to my four-stroke again, having raced
a two-stroke the weekend before in
Austria. The event got better as it went on
and the tests started to get a bit rougher."
With no other Enduro 3-c1ass rider posing any real danger to Knight during the
event, it was his Finnish teammate Marko
Tarkkala who placed as runner-up on both
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days. Finishing 32 seconds behind on day
one, the Finn found himself just under a
minute behind on day two.
Finishing third both days and, once
again, upholding two-stroke honors in the
E3 class was French Gas Gas rider Seb
Guillaume.
Matching Knight's double class win was
KTM rider Ivan Cervantes in the Enduro I
catagory. Battling all day long with Italian
Honda rider Simone Albergoni during the
opening day's competition, Cervantes
eventually placed eight seconds ahead.
"The weekend was perfect for me,"
Cervantes said. "I started the race really
wanting to win because I knew that another good result would help me extend my
championship lead. It is a very important
win for me. I really enjoyed the race. I
made one crash in the extreme test on the
first day, but day two went perfectly."
With the Spaniard haVing squeezed
ahead of Albergoni on day one, it was
French Yamaha rider Marc Germain who
placed in third on day one. But on day two,
CYCLE NEWS
Three weeks after having his spleen removed, Stefan Merriman won the
E2 (middleweight) class both days.
