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(Left) Eddy Lejeune was th,e picture of concentration as he rode to the overall win. (Top right) Scott Head was the second American in the standings at ninth. (Above right) Runner-up Gilles Burgat. , World Observed Trials Championship Series: Rount;l9 Lejeune scores solid win in tough Wagner ·Cup By Dale Brown NORDEN, CA, JUNE 26-27 Belgian Eddy Lejeune tied the existing record of six wins in a single season and increased his lead in the point standings as he turned in an excellent performance to win the American round of the series the annual Wagner Cup a triai . h 'd' charactenzed b y ten. ers as one of the toughest this year. 14 Lejeune, ridi ng a 36Occfour-stroke Honda prototype, dropped ll~points over 54 sections. Runner-up was Fantic-mounted World Trials Champ Gilles Burgat, with a score of 129. American Bernie Schreiber . winner of the preceeding round in Canada, turned in a score of 135 on his SWM. However that score was good enough lor an easy,win in the concurrently- run second round of theAMAINATC National T!ials Championship. The runner-up 10 that competition, Morgan Kavanaugh (Bul), finished 78 points behind Schreiber. With three rounds rema in ing in the World Champi onsh ip Seri es, Schreiber finds hi mself 16 po ints behind Lejeune, 124-108. If Schreiber win s the three rema ining ro unds, Lejeune needs on ly to fin ish third or better in each to assure himself the title. The Pacific International Trials Society. led by organizer.and Clerk of the Course Tom Cullen, presented the event at Donner Ski Ranch near Truckee. Donner has been the site of past National Trials as well as numerous local trials and trials schools. This event was. put on with spectators in mind and sections ranged from intense to spectacular and above. World Trials Both World and National class riders found themselves facing the same task: a six-mile loop with 18 sections, to be run three times. Per FIM rules riders had seven hours to complete the event ; 18 minutes for each of the 18 sections, and an hour and a half for riding the loop based on a 12 mph average. The sections tended to reflect the Donner site: Plenty of granite outcroppi ngs and boulders, with several streams running at a hea lthy rate due to the melting snowpack at higher elevations. The altitude at the s~t;t(.£inisb ~a,s ,7..~Q(He~~ .. : .,:, .: .:. ~ C. , The first section, dubbed "Numero Uno, " was an upstream journey through a rock-strewn and burbling brook. Two steep rock steps just past the halfway point made life difficult for most. Schreiber posted the first clean, with most of the other top championship contenders making It through without points. The second section, " Don n er Falls," was the spectator favorite among the six laid out within easy walking distance of the start. After a quick venture up a rock face, riders entered a stream and headed for a very steep waterfall. The route required that they go up a vertical wall on one side, immediatel y tum and come back down the falls , and then make an offcamber 180 degree left in the middle of the stream. Then a long climb up the waterfall led to a right tum with a six-foot granite wall in the middle. That would be responsible for mos t of the fives in the section: Riders who