did not affect positions.
At the halfway mark, Spain led
with a total of 12 from the host
nation at 30 and Italy at 31 be-
fore a sizeable gap back to Great
Britain and Norway.
On lap two, focus shifted to
the battle between the French
trio of Benoit Bincaz (Sherco),
Hugo Dufrese (GasGas) and
Teeo Colairo (Beta) and the Ital
-
ian team of Matteo Grattarola
(Beta), Luca Petrella (GasGas)
and Gianluca Tournour (Sherco).
The two teams were incred
-
ibly evenly matched, and while
Spain cruised to victory on a
total of 23, France and Italy went
head-to-head on the second lap,
and with the final result still in
doubt until the last section of
the trial, the host nation's score
of 51 gave them second by two
marks.
"To be honest, it is a super-
good feeling," said Marcelli. "It
is my first TdN, but with such
a good team, things are easy. I
enjoyed the whole race from the
beginning to the end, and I think
we put in a pretty good perfor
-
mance."
Great Britain was the last
nation to defeat Spain in a TdN,
but the team this year was never
really in contention for a podium
finish, and their score of 84
placed them fourth.
In the three-rider Interna
-
tional competition, the U.S. team
fought to get on the podium but
missed out by four points. The
team, made up of Josh Roper
(GasGas) and Alex (Scorpa) and
Wil Myers (Sherco), dropped 29
points to the third-place-finishing
team of the Czech Republic, 29-
25. Germany was second with
seven points, and Japan took
the win with just one point lost.
Australia was fifth, seven points
behind the Americans.
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World Championship
1. Spain (23)
2. France (51)
3. Italy (53)
4. Great Britain (84)
5. Norway (92)
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Bou helped lead Team Spain
to a commanding win.
