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Photo - Stefan Merriman. File photo:
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By Lexy Thorogood
Merriman continued in winning form on Day 2. The riders completed two loops of the same 125km course completed yesterday, although today it was a lot rougher and bumpier with incredible dust.
Merriman and Salminen were seperated by less than a second in the first two tests - then Juha failed to appear at the next time control within the allocated time. Rumour has it he ran into problems with engine failure on his KTM 450 and rushed to make repairs so he could continue the day and enable his score to be counted in the overall Trophy Teams results from tomorrow onwards. He was over 40 minutes late to the time check which means he is almost certainly out of the running for a place on the podium in the individual class honours. Merriman continued in his onslaught in the dust to win the Enduro 2 class by 35 seconds over Junior Finnish rider, Valteri Salonen.
Day 2- Enduro 2 Class
Place - Rider - Country Bike - Day 2
1st Stefan Merriman Australia WT YAM WR450F 34:22.96
2nd Valtteri Salonen Finland JT HON 250 2T 34:57.91
3rd Arnau Vilanova Spain JT HON 250 2T 35:06.76
4th Alessandro Botturi ITA WT KTM 450 4T 34.23.98
5th Kurt Caselli USA WT KTM 250 2T 35.27.27
6th Sebastian Guillaume France WT GasGAS 450 4T 35:37.70
7th Andrea Beconi Italian JT YAM 450 4T 35:44.63
8th Nicholas Deparrois France JT HUS 250 2T 35:51.49
9th Mika Saarenkoski Finland WT HUS 250 2T 35:53.62
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