Round six of WEC strong for KTM

From KTM

Ivan Cervantes of the KTM Enduro Factory Team continued his battle of attrition with arch rival Mika Ahola in the sixth round of the Enduro 1 World Championship on Sunday coming in just 0.6 seconds behind his rival at the end of the day.

"Ivan raced very well today and it was very close between him and Ahola all the way. There was only a gap of about one second between them after each test," KTM team boss Fabio Farioli said after the race.

Cervantes, the reigning E2 champion again had the pleasure of riding in front of his enthusiastic home crowd at a race well attended by the Spanish motorcycle aficionados. He is second in the championship standings after six rounds with 132 points, training Ahola by just 10 points.

KTM Enduro Factory Team's Juha Salminen put the disappointment of a DNF on Saturday behind him on Sunday finishing in second place in the Sixth Round of the Enduro 2 World Championship for some valuable points.

The Enduro track offered riders hard surfaces, plenty of dust and some time riding an extreme test on the beach, Salminen said. "It is a very tight competition between me and Jonny Aubert at the moment," the Finnish rider and reigning E1 champion said. "I had a good start but I did have some black moments and made some small mistakes. It was extremely dusty especially in the MX test."

KTM Enduro Factory Team rider Samuli Aro of Finland made it a great day out at the beach on Sunday in the sixth round of the Enduro 3 World Championship at Sitges, south of Barcelona chalking up his second win for the weekend.

Aro has now won five from six races held so far and has a firm hold on the championship standings. "Today he went like a machine," said KTM team boss Fabio Farioli.

Teammate Marko Tarkkala, like Aro also from Finland was third behind French rider Christophe Nambotin, winning enough points to retain second place on the championship table. Tarkkala was unlucky on Sunday when his wheel got snarled in a timekeeper's cable at one of the checkpoints and he had to stop and free it, losing about 10 minutes in the process.