ing seventh time overall since the
genesis of the category in 2017
when the Americans got the ball
rolling by winning the WWT debut.
With bottlenecks at the begin-
ning of the tests until organizers
inserted more time between rider
starts, losing time became a real-
ity for nearly everyone after the
faster WT and JWT riders. That
resulted in riders racing the trans-
fer sections and, in some cases,
elbowing their way to the front of
the line in the next test, causing
some heated tempers before
the FIM Jury annulled most of
those losses after reviewing the
evidence of lengthy bottlenecks.
Early in the week, Richards not-
ed, "It's been going pretty good.
It's like going smooth but chaotic
at the same time, which is kind of
this year but ended up second in
one test on day five to Australia's
Danielle McDonald and runner-up
in the final WWT moto by 0.99 of
a second to Lucy Barker of Great
Britain after a horrible start.
Though disappointing to some,
Richards could take solace in the
fact that she still owned every
other test throughout the very
demanding week, besting runner-
up McDonald by 5:39.63 in final
individual WWT standings. And
along with Steede and Gutish, who
went 3-4 behind the two leaders
in the final moto, the American
women stood atop the podium for
the fourth consecutive time, with
Steede third individually among the
women and Gutish seventh. Even
more, this made the U.S. WWT
team champion for a record-break-
Women's World Trophy
What Italy is to the WT and JWT,
the U.S. is to the Motorex Wom-
en's World Trophy (WWT) compe-
tition. Heading into the week tied
with Australia for six wins apiece,
the U.S. threw its seasoned trio
of 6Days veterans: Rachel Gut-
ish (who picked up her second
consecutive EnduroGP women's
championship earlier this year),
tough-as-nails Korie Steede and
Brandy Richards. Richards is the
queen of the category being the
only racer in one of the Trophy
divisions to win every test of every
day during a week, which she ac-
complished en route to the team's
victory five years ago in Italy with
Gutish also a member.
Richards was on the way to
achieving that individual feat again
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The Club team podium
was an all-American affair
featuring Team Rabaconda
the winner, Missouri
Mudders runner-up and
GTBN third.
