Dirt and Trail September 21

Day 3: Young takes control.
Wade Young set a machine-like pace to finish
first on day three… He caught the riders in front
and they spent much of the day pushing the
pace together out front to establish themselves
as the clear podium contenders.
“I made a good start and managed to catch
Mario and Billy quite early,” Wade said at the
finish. “We were back and forth all day until
I made a gap at the end. Overall I’m happy
with my riding and I felt fresh after the night
camping.”
• Manuel Lettenbichler started the day
with a 23 minute lead . He rode smart and made
no mistakes. A fourth place finish, 2:22s down
on Young maintained his comfortable 20+
minutes lead in the general classification.
• Second on the day by just half a
minute, Billy Bolt was on a roll and getting
better with each day. “I was still asleep at the
first few hills,” explained Billy, “after a while I felt
good and with Wade we pushed the pace pretty
hard for the whole day.”
• It was a good day for Teodor
Kabachiev who finished third and matched
the fastest riders on time through many of the
checks today. The Bulgarian moved up the
order the P8 overall behind best placed rookie,
Trystan Hart in seventh.
Day 4: Letti places his stamp on this event.
Letti took charge of the final day at the 2021
Romaniacs sealing, what was his easiest race
victory in the Carpathian mountains for many
years. Yes…Read that again…
Wade Young did the hard work on day three,
establishing a gap which he could manage. Billy
caught him on the track and the pair set a hell
of a pace opening the piste with Mani tagging
along… he made sure of the win by closing
down a six minute start time deficit to Wade in
the first half of the day to control his advantage
and with that secure an overall winning margin
of 27 minutes and 28 seconds.
• Behind Mani the dice was on between
Wade Young, Mario Roman and Billy Bolt who
started the day in second, third and fourth
respectively.
• The rogue element was Mario who
started further back and out of sight of his
teammate and importantly Billy who was doing
everything to close a gap to the Spaniard on the
time sheets.
• As the almost five hour day wore on,
Mario was impressive and ticked off faster
checkpoint times than everyone to secure
second on the day behind Mani and third overall
behind his Sherco teammate – giving Sherco
their best Romaniacs result with both factory
riders on the 2021 podium.
“We race for 20 hours and in the end it is so
close, anything can happen and you have to be
super-focused the whole time.” Explained Mario
at the finish.