ISDE Update:
Team USA
Fifth After
Day Two
I
taly continued to capitalize on
its home-field advantage on the
second day (Monday, August 25)
of the 99th FIM International Six
Days Enduro (ISDE).
A much drier day saw Italy
atop both the FIM World Trophy
(WT) and Junior World Trophy
(JWT) team standings, with the
U.S. remaining fifth (WT) and
fourth (JWT), respectively.
However, the American team
in the Motorex Women's World
Trophy (WWT) category more
than doubled its lead to 16
minutes, 17.91 seconds over the
new second-place team, France,
with Australia slipping to third.
Josep Garcia of Spain contin
-
ued to dominate as the fastest
individual as well as the E1
leader for the second day in a
row, with Italy's Andrea Verona
now the second-fastest individu-
al and the E2 leader.
Dante Oliveira felt more at
home in the drier conditions and
led the American contingent at
10th overall individual and third in
E2, while teammate Jonny Girroir
was 12th overall and fourth in E2.
Cody Barnes and Josh Toth
were both disappointed with
their days, which saw them slip
in the overall classification to
26th and 37th, respectively. Toth
was hurting after crashes the
previous day and was sick, so he
was less than 100 percent both
physically and mentally.
Italy leads France by 1:47.33,
and Sweden is still third, 2:26.11
behind. Australia sits fourth,
4:22.29 behind, with the U.S.
4:33.91 in back.
Grant Davis turned things
around on day two and ended
up second-fastest Junior for the
day behind Australia's Kyron Ba
-
con. That puts him fourth after
two days, 43.22 seconds behind
Bacon's aggregate time.
Mateo Oliveira also saw
improvement and was eighth-
fastest Junior on the day to sit
10th overall Junior followed by
Cooper Jones, 15th after two
days in his ISDE debut.
While Italy leads over Austra
-
lia and France, the U.S. Juniors
are just over a minute behind the
French trio with four days left.
In the Club team standings,
MC Italia A remained atop the
charts, but Team Rabaconda (Jo
-
seph Cunningham, Thorn Devlin,
Cole Whitmer) has now moved
into second, 3:42.10 behind.
Missouri Mudders (Chase
Landers, Will Sievenpiper, Lane
Whitmer) holds fourth place,
and GTBN (Jaden Dahners, Lane
Lorenzo, Layton Smail) moved
into fifth.
Randy Mastin Memorial
(Ashlee Gage, Ava Silvestri, El
-
lie Winland) leads the Motorex
Women's Club team by almost
five hours since FIM Latin Ameri-
can Women have just two riders.
After two days of essentially
the same loop and tests, day
three sees a new loop with favor-
able weather in the forecast.
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detailed information for this
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Mark Kariya
WIND
IN THE
P28
Dante Oliveira (pictured) and
crew are holding down fifth
at the ISDE in Italy. The U.S.
Women's team, however, is
leading.
PHOTO: MARK KARIYA
