Day 4 Race Report
US club team rider Jordan Brandt crawls his way up a hill climb during Day-four. photo:Berkner
The Team USA trophy moved up to 5th place in the standings on day 4, moving ahead of Finland. The Finnish team lost Juha Salmenin yesterday and today Simo Kirssi’s slower pace dropped them almost 2 minutes behind the USA. Caselli and Abbott were the fastest for the USA. As they start thinking about day 5, the trophy team is still healthy and their bikes have no major problems. Nathan Kanney had to change an exhaust system to get through the sound test at the end of the day.
Jamie Lanza negotiates a rocky trial section. photo:Berkner
The USA Junior team remains in 3rd place and still intact while producing very good times. They are 2 minutes and 40 seconds behind France with two days to go.
Maria Forsberg rides a creek bottom. photo:Berkner
The Women’s Cup team is still in 4th place about a minute behind Australia. Maria Forsberg is third overall in this category and gaining on Sweden’s Jessica Jonsson. If she keeps this up she could move into second behind Ludivine Puy of France.
The JAFMAR club team with veterans Jeff Fredette, Chilly White, and Don Grahn is in 17th out of 91 three man club teams. This is Jeff Fredette’s 29th ISDE and he is hoping for a silver medal to add to his collection. Jeff did have some problems with a slipping clutch on his Kawasaki 450 so he did a 4 minute clutch change in the pits at the end of the day. Jeff loves the bike, and feels that the clutch change and the oil change is all he should need for tomorrow.
Chilly did some great on-board video on day 1 in test 1. Go here to see it.
KTM’s Samuli Aro, one of the most experienced riders on the track, maintained similar times to the two previous days when he held the lead in E3. But Aro lost time on Wednesday to Frenchman Christophe Nambotin and had to settle for fourth on the day and slipped to third in the progressive results. Meanwhile USA’s Kurt Caselli is making good progress in E3 with steady improvements each day. Given that he has not competed since last year’s ISDE, Kurt is looking increasingly confident. He is enjoying the bike and is well known as a strong performer in the deep sand.
Finland’s holds on to its hopes of taking the World Trophy and although they slipped in the standings, the team still benefited by the strong riding of KTM factory rider Eero Remes in E1. Although second behind Poland’s Michel Szuster on Wednesday, he is still in the overall lead.
Day 5 will be a new course it will be north east of the city and have as few elements from other days. All of the USA teams will work hard to move up in the standings.
The unofficial standings for Day 4 are:
TROPHY TEAM
- France
- Italy
- Australia
- Sweden
- USA
JR TROPHY
- Spain
- France
- USA
- Italy
- Sweden
WOMEN’S TROPHY
- France
- Sweden
- Australia
- USA
- Finland
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- US club team rider Jordan Brandt crawls his way up a hill climb during Day-four. photo:Berkner
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- Maria Forsberg rides a creek bottom. photo:Berkner
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- Damon Huffman pushes his bike up a steep uphill. photo:Berkner
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- Nathan Kanney rides the fist special test of Day-four. photo:Berkner
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- Jamie Lanza negotiates a rocky trial section. photo:Berkner
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- Rory Sullivan is currently in 2rd overall in the C3 class. photo:Berkner
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