The 2014 Enduro World Championship finally got underway in anger. Here’s the breakdown of day one…
Christophe Nambotin is now faster than his teammate Cristobal Guerrero. He’s no longer ‘just a two-stroke rider’ either.
Guerrero is back to being fast. Injury free, the guy that fought for the 2012 E2 title is on it!
Jamue Betrieu likes his 250f better than the 450f he rode last year. The Spaniard is fast and a new name in E1 – fourth on day one.
Meo for the E2 title? Place your bets now. The guy won by 20 seconds even after backing it off on the final lap.
Johnny Aubert and Pela Renet have some work to do.
Sixth for Alex Salvini.
Many tipped Ivan Cervantes to win E3 – and he did – but Matt Phillips! Hands up who saw that coming?
That final gap between them was 11 seconds but that came after Phillips lost his rear brake, hit a tree and bust his nose.
Random fact – that was Ivan’s first EWC win on a two-stroke.
Enduro 3 was tight across the class. Cervantes and Phillips out front then Mathias Bellino, Luis Correia, Jeremy Joly, Matti Seistola and Aigar Leok scraping it for third. Only 11 seconds between third and seventh.
Seems Joly and Seistola can ride a two-stroke too.
Joakim Ljunggren in 15th – wasn’t expecting that.
By the way 300 two-strokes are popular these days.
Danny McCanney is better on the Beta. A 27-second win in the Juniors and second to Meo on the opening Enduro Test – he’s on the gas.
Larrieu is tougher than he looks. Sporting an actual neck brace he scraped himself off the SuperTest floor and up to second position in the Junior class.
Giacomo Redondi got beat by a guy wearing a neck brace – damn it!
