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Dabill wins BTC7

03/08/2009

James Dabill, Team JST GAS GAS UK has just won Round 7 of the British Trials Championship yesterday at the Yeadon & Guisley ‘Brimham Rocks’ venue.

Dibs now has a 12 point lead over his pal Micheal Brown with one round to go. However it is not over yet and although Dibs only needs a top 7 finish at the last round to win the Championship we know that anything can happen in motorsport.

We all watched Doug crash out on the practice lap which was not nice to see. James has a massive amount of respect for Doug and we all hope he gets fit in time for the next WTC in Spain in a month’s time.

This was probably the hardest win of James’ career because a mystery sickness bug landed on him on Saturday to spoil his preparation for the event. Most top riders get the ‘excuse’ book out from time to time but I can honestly say that he was not well yesterday. Unable to eat anything his energy levels disappeared after the first lap and he really started to struggle. His second lap was poor because he just had no energy. Browny took the lead and I then thought we would have to settle for second. After we forced some food into him before the last lap and plenty of encouragement from his dad and sis he dug deep and battled on. We soon learned that Browny had fived the first two sections behind us so I guess that boosted Dibs’ ‘belief’ he could still win. He rode each section without looking at them to save his energy and he focused on the job in hand.

Yes, it was a Team effort yesterday but the guy holding the Renthals was ‘James Dabill’ and for me I was a very proud Team boss to see my No.1 rider give me 110%.