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World Day 1 - Saturday, June 19th It was interesting to see if Fuji could keep his winning streak and stretch his point gap over Lampkin in France. But competing 2 laps on Saturday, Fuji built up his penalty points with 5 fives and many small mistakes. He had to face his streak broken, and realize he wasn't in form to claim a victory that day. Still he managed to finish 3rd on the podium with small gap between himself and second place finisher Lampkin. Fuji thought he was lucky to finish 3rd on Saturday though. There were a number of French riders competing in the newly formed Youth Trial Cup-125cc class- at the round, and Fuji among other top riders found himself in a traffic jam for his lap1, 125 riders were back for their 2nd lap attempt. 125 riders had long time allowance and being cautious before their attempt. Top riders on the other hand needed to rush their way, and had to ask the riders to give a way. Having no time to waste, but at the end of the lap Fuji had his front tire punctured. He spent some time for fixing it, and together with the time being lost in a jam, Fuji found himself 3 minutes overtime-had to face 3 more penalty points. It was an unfortunate trouble for Fuji and the result: his championship lead was slimmed 2 points into 8 over Lampkin. However, the result inspired Fuji to concentrate more for Sunday. Day 2 - Sunday, June 20th Fuji Fuji continued to score clean and approached section 8, a step from the water, where many fived including Fuji in lap1. Top riders halted there to find the better line. Fuji found the line he believed to work well. Fuji wanted to wait until someone try the line to give him a hint, but being started early for the lap, he had no choice but try to line for the first time. It worked perfectly; in fact it was too good. Fuji climbed too easily and had to foot to stop as he climbed over the step. Lampkin was there and watched his rival showed both good and bad examples. Lampkin followed to attack the section and scored clean beautifully. Fuji and Lampkin were even in point up to the point, for Lampkin had added one point at the beginning of the lap, Fuji once again dropped one point down from the leader. Section 13 was another difficult section where most of the riders added 3 or 5. Again Fuji tried the section first and succeeded to score the lowest penalty point. Fuji thought it was a decisive, but Lampkin followed once again and score one point. Ironically, Raga was the only rider scored clean at the section on lap2, but it was too late or him to move up. It was Two days of hard and close battles were over, Fuji and Raga received 35 points and Lampkin 34. In the end, Fuji stretched his championship lead one more point, and kept himself in the right direction for the championship. For the next world championship round in Andorra, the Spanish championship will be held on Saturday. It will be a try-out event to study 1day competition of trial championship. Originally Fuji wasn't going to participate in the Saturday event, but it will be competed at the same sections as the world championship round on Sunday, Fuji are said to participate the Spanish round too. Quote from Fujigas:
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Official Results PDF- Saturday