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it. I got a fairly good start and got<br />
through the pack. I kept my head<br />
together and stayed relaxed. It’s<br />
been a team effort.<br />
American rider Cody Webb caught<br />
Alfredo Gómez at Lazy Noon, the<br />
penultimate checkpoint of the 25<br />
stages the riders had to negotiate<br />
on a gruelling course, as the pair<br />
struggled to overcome a particularly<br />
difficult climb.<br />
Each rider had to make multiple<br />
attempts to conquer the steep rise,<br />
and it was Webb who managed to<br />
do so first. Gómez, under intense<br />
pressure and seeing his hopes of<br />
making the podium hang in the<br />
balance with the chasing riders<br />
breathing down his neck, dug deep<br />
and reached the summit. He brought<br />
his KTM home in third to round out<br />
the rostrum.<br />
With a four hour time limit on the<br />
race, there was still plenty of drama<br />
to be had as a handful of riders gave<br />
everything they had to make it to the<br />
chequered flag.<br />
Spaniard Mario Roman swept<br />
through to take fourth place,<br />
while British youngster Billy Bolt<br />
capitalised on the fact that Lazy<br />
Noon proved a stumbling block for<br />
others to rocket up the climb and<br />
secure fifth. The 18-year-old was<br />
something of a revelation at this<br />
year’s event.<br />
SA’s wunderkind Wade Young and<br />
UK’s Paul Bolton both got the better<br />
of five-time winner Taddy Blazusiak,<br />
who had a broken brake lever and<br />
damaged clutch to content with, but<br />
who still managed to finish within the<br />
allotted time.<br />
Philipp Scholz was the ninth and<br />
<strong>final</strong> finisher, as the Iron Giant again<br />
showed its unforgiving insanity.<br />
Red Bull Hare Scramble 2016<br />
finishers<br />
1. Graham Jarvis (GBR) 2h18m47s<br />
2. Cody Webb (USA) +33m07s<br />
3. Alfredo Gómez (ESP) +36m02s<br />
4. Mario Roman (ESP) +58m19s<br />
5. Billy Bolt (GBR) +1h08m46s<br />
6. Wade Young (RSA) +1h12m28s<br />
7. Paul Bolton (GBR) +1h19m35s<br />
8. Taddy Blazusiak (POL)<br />
+1h23m08s<br />
9. Philipp Scholz (DEU) +1h37m24s<br />
72 DIRT & TRAIL MAGAZINE JUNE 2016
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