Two English brothers won in the main classes in the second round of the FIM Europe Trial Championship, held in Bréal sous Montfort, Bretagne, France. Dan and Jack Peace both triumphed by one single point in Europe class and Junior class, respectively. Worried for possible rain, the organizers kept the level of the 15 sections quite low. Rain did not arrive and all the riders had to ride in high concentration because one single mistake would be fatal.
Unfortunately during the inspection of the sections the day before, one of the favorites, Spanish Francesc Moret, crashed and broke a metacarpus of his right hand. Moret was not able to race.
His first rival and leader of championship, the compatriot Miquel Gelabert (Sherco) started soon very well, but Dan Peace (Gas Gas) was very close, dropping only 2 marks. In third position another English rider, Iwan Roberts (Beta) whose score was 7.
In the second loop, dramatic turn of events. Gelabert made a mistake in section 8, that costed him 3 heavy points, and one in section 11, meant a total of 4. Cool and focused in each section, Peace lost only one point in this loop and overtook Gelabert. Good loop for Roberts, too (1 point) who enforced his third place.
On the contrary in Junior class Jack Peace (Gas Gas) started soon very strong completed a cliean first lap. But he was not the only one. Also French Arthur Rovery (Sherco) did the same. Italian Sergio Piardi (Beta) and Luca Corvi (Scorpa) were just behind with 2 points each. Jack Peace was not able to repeat his superb performance in the second loop and scoring 2 marks he risked to be reached by the two Italians. Disaster for Rovery, who threw away a podium position, scoring 6 points. In the end, same podium of Pietramurata with only second and third places inverted.
In the Over 40 class the leader German Markus Kipp (Beta) scored just one single point in the whole competition. Behind him, very near after the first loop, Dutch John Van Veelen (Scorpa) and Slovakian Vladimir Kothay (Beta), who scored 2 points. The second part was decisive to assign the runner-up position. Van Veelen scored 3, against the “4” of Kothay, and finished in second place.
French Adrien Vergnant (Gas Gas) and German Timmy Hippel (Beta) won quite easily the International class 1 and 2, respectively.
Tomorrow there will be an other round on the same sections, probably a bit modified.
In the photos, from the top, Dan Peace, Jack Peace and Markus Kipp (@Candellone)
