Pic: Mihai Stetcu
as quickly as possible. Anxiously waiting for Gomez to
arrive, the KTM rider kept one eye on the clock and one
on his rival as the seconds ticked by.
The nerves soon turned to joy and with Lettenbichler
declared the winner, the celebrations could begin. For
Gomez it was a case of close, but not close enough. Des-
pite giving his best effort on arguably the toughest day
of this year’s race it was not to be and he had to settle for
the runnerup result. Putting hopes of another victory in
this year’s championship on hold. Graham Jarvis from
Great Britain ended his week on the third step of the po-
dium, after fighting his way through to overtake Walker
and hold off a fast charging Taddy Blazusiak.
“I’m over the moon right now, I really can’t believe it,"
Lettenbichler grinned after the race results were annou-
nced.
"This race is really something special and to win here
feels amazing. The event is so long and so hard and
anything can happen, so I’m so pumped to take the win,"
ten years ago Lettenbichler's father won the very same
event.
"It’s been an incredible five days and so gnarly, espe-
cially with all the rain we’ve had ... the Lettenbichlers
are definitely going to celebrate tonight!”
With the top three proving themselves the main
Pic: Predrag Vuckovic
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