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Day 5 - International Six Days of Enduro, Czech Republic
By- Lexy Thorogood:
Merriman remains the undisputed leader of the 125cc class after the fifth day leading over Husky teammate, Silvan by more than 4 minutes.
The 125cc class start first everyday at the ISDE. Which is not always a good thing as this morning the trail was very wet and slippery and the time to the first time check was totally unrealistic.
All the trophy team 125cc riders and some of the 250cc 2 stroke riders got penalty minutes at the first time check. The other riders were warned and by the time the later classes got there it dried out. Hopefully they will take those penalties away at this evenings' jury meeting, as they were obviously unrealistic, if none of the first class could make it on time.
The weather dried up today and the sun made an appearance after 10am, but it was cloudy until then. The rain from the past few days made the tests (same as Day 1 and 2) very slippery.
The track seemed to get better as each rider went through. Stefan did really well today, beating Petteri Silvan by 30secs in the first test and 1min 3secs(!!!) in the second test. He had a small crash in the third test, but did not lose more than 10 secs.
He finished the Day 5 in 1st place in the 125cc class, beating Silvan in second place by a massive 1min 35secs and Australian, Damien Smith who finished 5th in the class.
At the end of Day 4, Stefan was placed 5th in the overall results behind Ahola, Eriksson, Knight and Aro.
Yesterday, 125 Finnish rider, Pohjamo retired due to clutch problems and GP motocrosser, Erik Eggens also retired due to his KTM breaking down.
Tomorrow will be the last day of racing consisting of a short trail ride to the final motocross.
