Text: todotrial.com

The Spanish Adam Raga tonight obtained an historical victory in the first edition of the Trial Indoor de Hong Kong, second puntuable test of the Championship of World 2004. The Gas pilot Gas, that defends the harvested title the last season, added his first triumph in the contest and combined with the second position obtained for one week in Monza, Italy, he has been tying to 18 points with Dougie Lampkin in the head of the general classification. The Montesa-HRC Briton had to be satisfied to the second seat after committing fiasco in the third zone of the final route, that turned out decisive to praise/pour off the triumph in favor of Raga. The third position of the drawer occupied Albert Cabestany, that raises podio for the first time in the season.

The best pilot of the six in the qualifying return was indeed Cabestany. The Beta pilot finished with a single penalty and the first ticket for the second return was adjudged with clarity. Behind the tightr results marched something, due to the low scores fruit of technical but little selective a circuit of obstacles and I lack of hardness. Adam Raga underwent in útimas zones although he obtained the second position with five points of penalty, and Lampkin, that added one more after letting fall a strip in the jump and in front of be complicated the life in the parallel one of speed its Jarvis compatriot, would complete the trio of pilots for the end, with six.

The third Spanish, Freixa, fell eliminated after two serious fiascos that punished to him in excess by the simplicity of the layout, next to the English Graham Jarvis and the Japanese Takahisa Fujinami, whom pinchazo in the back wheel after zone four forced to him to commit some errors.

The third obstacle of the final return turned out determining to decide the winner. Lampkin and Cabestany would add five, whereas Raga only added to its marker a point by excess of time. From, the Gas pilot Gas it was conserving the advantage here, whereas Cabestany fell of the fight by the second position after leaving two innocent feet in last the two zones of the route. The Briton dominated itself Raga in the parallel one of speed, but it was not sufficient to snatch the triumph to him to the Spanish.

After the Trial Indoor de Hong Kong, the World-wide one takes a rest until the first Saturday from the month from January, when the competition returns with the celebration in Sheffield (Great Britain) of the third appointment of the twelve that composes the calendar.