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hill I couldn't see at all; the dust
was so bad I couldn't see my
front fender pretty much! I went
completely the wrong direction
up the hill and ended up getting
stuck because I was way off to
the side. I lost 30, 40 seconds
there and that pretty much cost
us the race," last year's top
American Junior confessed. "I
made more mistakes later on
through the week, but nothing
that huge. Trevor [Bollinger]
got stuck on a hill twice so we
handed it to those guys the first
two days. After three days they
had almost a two-minute lead
and on the fourth day we brought
it down to 24 seconds."
Going into the final moto, the
hard-charging Grant Baylor/
Steward Baylor/Trevor Bollinger
FIM JUNIOR WORLD TROPHY
As in the senior division, the FIM
Junior World Trophy saw one
team jump out front at the start
and stay there. In this case, it
was Sweden leading from start
to finish, successfully repelling
all attacks.
The Juniors from America
started off fourth at the end of
the first day, with Grant Baylor
laying the blame on a time-con-
suming spill on a dusty climb that
he charged into when maybe
he should've taken a moment to
study it.
"We started out in the back
of the pack just because of last
year's results (where they were
last due to losing two riders) and
I was passing guys all day long,"
he said. "I got dusted out on one
(Right) Given less
than 24 hours to
get ready and on
a plane to Spain,
Layne Michael
filled in ably for the
injured Ryan Sipes.
(Below) Grant
Baylor blamed
himself for losing
time after getting
stuck on a dusty hill
the first day-time
that the U.S. Junior
World Trophy team
couldn't pull back.
