OFF ROAD
89TH FIM INTERNATIONAL SIX DAYS ENDURO
NOVEMBER 3-8, 2014
SAN JUAN, ARGENTINA
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ed to 10th at the end of the week—
still the best result of American
Club teams. (Schafer, Dorsey and
Ben Kelley filled the rest of the C2
top five with Sode ninth for a strong
American showing.)
"I overalled the entire Club
thing and overalled C2 so I
couldn't be happier with my first
experience at Six Days, [but] I'm
definitely ready to get home, get
back to see everybody and my
daughter," Sutherlin said.
Summary
"We've got to take what we got,
obviously," Kallonen said. "The
excitement is not the same that
we had last year when we fin-
ished second [for the first time
since 1982 in Czechoslovakia]
because we came here to win,
so second place for the Trophy
team is a very big disappoint-
ment, especially after a strong
first two days."
While calling second place "a
very big disappointment" might be
harsh, it also reveals a higher stan-
dard for a team that has shown
marked improvement in the last
three years with Kallonen and
Robert Pearce at the helm. And if
you remove any one of the three
incidents affecting the U.S. World
Trophy team in the first three days,
the potential of a first American tri-
umph in that most cherished cat-
egory is all the more likely. As it
was, the team flirted with the lead
for the first time since day five of
the 1982 ISDE in Czechoslovakia,
where it ended up second for the
first time, a feat not repeated until
last year.
After ending up with the third-
best score of the week overall
(the best American result indi-
vidually), Russell said, "I think
we had the winning team, for
sure, this year, but we had some
problems during the week. The
French were on it; they didn't
have any problems and they rode
really well so you can't be upset
with that. We tried our best and
there's always next year." CN
France captured the World Trophy
for the third year in a row, the U.S.
joining them on the podium with
a second consecutive runner-up,
and Spain claiming third.
