On The Pegs July 2018 - Volume 3 - Issue 7 | Page 142

On The Pegs P 142 Victory in Trial2 Women went to sixteen- year-old Italian Alex Brancati - Beta by a comfortable nine-mark margin with her final total of sixteen too good for even America’s Maddie Hoover - Gas Gas who had topped Friday’s Qualification session. Mona Pekarek - Sherco from Germany was two marks behind the American in third to snatch a podium finish from her compatriot Sophia Ter Jung - Beta who led at the halfway stage before suffering a disastrous second lap. DAY TWO The sensational shake-up at the very top of the sport continued today on the sec- ond day of TrialGP Japan - round two of the 2018 FIM Trial World Championship - at the Twin Ring Motegi circuit. In his fourth year in top-flight Trial, Jaime Busto - Gas Gas finally claimed a career-first victory. At an event where HRC were looking to celebrate one hundred TrialGP wins for Toni Bou - Repsol Honda in their own backyard, instead it was Gas Gas who did the double with their two new signings for 2018 as Busto replicated his team-mate Jeroni Fajardo’s victory the day before. Busto got off to a shaky start with the only maximum on section two on the opening lap, but the twenty-year-old made amends with a superb single-mark score on section thirteen which, along with five other sections, had been made harder after yesterday’s Trial. Comprising a series of huge black, polished rocks with a monster step to finish, the awkward ap- TAKAHISA FUJINAMI