The unofficial results of the Day 2

Second day of 2013 FIM ISDE in Sardinia, second day in the name of France. The french team, after taking 1'15'' lead over the United States on Day 1, made a great team performance today increasing the advantage to + 4'56'' on the second team, Australia.

World Trophy Another almost perfect day for Antoine Meo. The french rider won three of the six Special Stages, leaving the first two to the australian Daniel Milner and the fourth to his teammate Johnny Aubert. The two transalpine currently occupy the first and the third position in the absolute standing, and between them there is just Milner. Today he best U.S. rider was Robert Taylor, whose team is third in the World Trophy classification. He always has been among the fourth and sixth position before recovering second in the last Special. Italy was very unlucky because its performance was affected by the bad luck that hit Alex Salvini: in the third round a stone hit its bike’s chain motion, then he suffered the rupture of a platform in the middle of the fifth Special. All this, after the rider was at hospital until late at night to remove a large thorn from his arm.

Now France leads the overall standings with 8h33'18'', followed by Australia  (+ 4'56'') and USA (+5'11''). Italy is 4th (+8'25’’).

Junior World Trophy In the category dedicated to young riders, the struggle between France and Italy is still open, with Britain ready to take advantage of their mistakes. Today the protagonists of the first two teams were Loic Larrieu and Giacomo Redondi, now 9th and 22nd in the absolute ranking. Mathias Bellino is 15th, Moroni 30th. The standing is headed by France, but the gap on Italy is only 66 seconds. The British, for their part, count on the 20th and 26th places of Jamie and Daniel McCanney and they try to remain attached to the first.

This is the ranking: 1st France  (5h15'31''), 2nd Italy  (+ 1'06''), Great Britain(+2'39'')

Women’s World Trophy Between women, Australia placed three riders in the first five places (1st Jessica Gardiner , 2nd Tayla Jones , 4th Jemma Wilson ), leaving the other two to the swedish Jessica Jonsson - third - and Emelie karlsson. In the general ranking, Australia leads the way (04h04‘17’’) followed by Sweden (+ 3’20’’) and France (+12’05’’).

The declaration At the end of the race Johnny Aubert was in the press room : “I had good sensations on the Special Tests –explains the french - and as a team we’re going very fast. Each of us  is giving the maximum. Our group? There are many good riders, but we don’t think as single riders, but as a team ”.