On The Pegs February 2018 - Volume 3 - Issue 2 | Page 61

On The Pegs
Vol. 3 Issue 1 - January 2018
P 61
JAIME BUSTO
automatic qualifier to the third round
of the Championship in Toulouse next
Friday. Jeroni Fajardo finished behind
his fellow countryman and last in the
second round after three failed sections
and with an eighteen-mark total.
In one of the biggest shocks of the
night Jaime Busto, who finished second
in the opening round in Vendée, had a
catastrophic night that saw him finish
at the bottom of the pile in Montpel-
lier. Having fallen to a five-mark score
in section three, he dropped to fiascos
in the last two sections of the lap and
to elimination. Home representative
Alexandre Ferrer (Sherco) and Japanese
legend Takahisa Fujinami (Hon) were
also eliminated in the opening round of
Heats.
MotoGP star Alex Rins was among
almost 5,000 spectators in the stands in
the Sud de France Arena.
With the victory, Bou extended his
lead in the championship standings to
13 points ahead of Raga.
“Victory was very important and
particularly hard, with both the second
round and the Final proving particu-
larly demanding,” said Bou. “In the first
section of the second round I tried
three times at the start and it cost me
physically, even though I wasn´t able