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