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Bacau for the Juniors at the first day At the first day of the second round of the European Enduro Championship in Bacau, Romania, the Frenchman Hugo Blanjoue won on his KTM: At 23 years of age, he is still just a junior and is thus leading the Young Wilds in the overall standings: With second place it was the Swede Erik Appelqvist and third place overall in the standings of the Czech Krystof Kouble, who all come from the junior class of the large-capacity E2/E3 motorcycles. After his overall victory at the first round in his home country, the Italian Alessandro Battig spontaneously decided to compete in the other rounds of the European Championship too. Battig won his class, but in the overall classification the Kawasaki rider took the sixth place "only", but keept his lead in the championship.
In the two-stroke class up to 250 cc Maurizio Micheluz won on the Husqvarna and in the four-stroke class up to 250 cc the KTM mounted Tommaso Montanari. Only in the two-stroke class over 250 cc was not an Italian fastest on the day, but the Czech Jiri Hadek on his KTM. In the women's competition, the Dutch rider Nina Klink clinched her days victory in the first round: She was the only one to climb the difficult uphill in the special stage with almost no problems. Their rivals had to push and fight and lost so much time that the best oft hem got a quarter of an hour penalty time. With this lead in her back, the KTM rider was unstoppable. But this demanding uphill was also a problem for the men, so that the organizer took this section off for the second day.
But the clerk of the course promised that this would only bind the dust and the track would be in even better condition for Sunday. Battig strikes back in Bacau on the second day The leader in the overall championship, the Italian Alessandro Battig took revenge at the second day in the second round of the European Enduro Championship in Bacau, Romania. While he lost a lot of time in the difficult uphill, where he had to push and fight on the first day, things went smoothly for the Kawasaki pilot on Sunday: Already in the first special-test of the day he was able to ride the fastest time of all participants. In the new modified enduro test, in which the increasingly difficult uphill was taken out, he had to admit defeat from time to time, but it was enough for overall victory in the end of the day. However, the young Swede Erik Appelqvist even came dangerously close to him, except for one second, in the last lap. Appelqvist won the Junior class E2/E3 on his Yamaha ahead of yesterday's overall winner Hugo Blanjoue. Thus this frenchman became the winner over both days, in front of Appelqvist and Battig (see photo of the pricegiving ceremony) With this results Blanjoue moves up to second place behind Battig in the championship. Maurizio Micheluz repaired his suspension problems on his Husqvarna under control during the day and improved to fifth overall and won the two-stroke class up to 250 cc. The Czech Jiri Hadek won again on the KTM in the larger-capacity two-stroke class over 250 cc: In the small four-stroke class up to 250 cc the Frenchman Thomas Dubost won on the KTM ahead of the Swiss Jonathan Rosse on Yamaha. With his overall victory Alessandro Battig naturally also won his 4-stroke class over 250 cc, ahead of the two Swedes Oliver Nelson and Rikard Hansson. Like yesterday, the ladies only had to complete three instead of four laps of 50 km each, as the men did. The day's victory went to the Finnish rider Sanna Kärkkäinen on the KTM ahead of the previous day's winner Nina Klink from the Netherlands. Despite the rain at night, the track was probably even better to drive than the day before. In addition, there was not so much dust, which had partly led to visual problems on the first day and the ground was partly more handy. The next competition will be on August 11th and 12th in Skövde. There, the Swedes, who have been successful so far, are reaping an additional home advantage that the Italians have had already in their home country at the first round of the year. Find the live-timing for the competition directly: www.casomeric.cz/enduroonline More information and schedules, results and links, there are always up to
date and right on the official website: Dates 2018 14th/15th April Fabriano / Italy www.motoclubartiglio.it/
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more class victories went to his Italian compatriots:
The
riders were particularly lucky, because the sky opened its locks and released
a storm with heavy rainfall as soon as the last rider crossed the finish line.