Motor Sport: World motor cycle trials champion Dougie Lampkin landed his fourth win in six Indoor World Cup events and is on the brink of taking the title

after his triumph at Bremen in Germany.

The 22-year-old Beta rider went straight through the qualifier without any faults but challenger Marc Colomer lost two penalties.

Spaniard Marcel Justribo upset the British run by getting through the first lap on a mere three marks, one less than Amos Bilbao and two better than Graham Jarvis.

Fiery Frenchman Bruno Camozzi also failed to make the grand final after dropping eight marks while local ace Andreas Lettenbichler picked up 30 penalties.

The atmosphere was electric in the final and Lampkin was the only one to get up the fifth section with all the rest failing.

That put Lampkin in the driving seat but Colomer cleared the rest of the course to finish on five.

Lampkin extended his championship points lead by three over former title holder Colomer.

There are just two more events to run so barring disaster the Yorkshireman is well on course for another world title.

The next round will be a tough test in Madrid on Saturday and 'The Spanish Armada' will be in full sail with a capacity crowd trying to lift the Colomer-Bilbao-Justribo attack.

Lampkin continued his weekend victory run in Valencia, Spain where he won a star studded indoor arena trial in front of a packed house of voluble, air horn blowing, Spaniards.

The tough Yorkshire rider crashed heavily in the qualifying runs which preceded the grand final but decided to continue despite bruising to his knee.

"I don't think I have broken any bones, just bruised the muscles above my knee joint, I'll fly home and have a full medical check" was Lampkin's immediate assessment .

Graham Jarvis won the qualifier from Spaniard Amos Bilbao and Lampkin with Marc Colomer a very poor fourth on home ground.

Lampkin and Bilbao went through the final on equal points and the end result was decided in a timed decider, won by the Yorkshireman in 34 seconds, with Bilbao crashing out, without injury, in his efforts to beat the British rider.

Pig breeder Ben Hemingway won the gale-hit, rain-lashed, Craven DMC trial at Cawder Hall Farm, Skipton where 118 riders and 13 observer teams withstood the brunt of the weather.

"We had to pull one section out of the trial, it just became impossible" said a relieved Mick Shorrock, one of the main officials of the Craven club.

The end result was in doubt all the time as Hemingway and his cousin James Lampkin headed the expert class results.

Skipton's Ben Naylor put in a cracking ride to win his youth class beating two of the top youth riders in the country in Sam Ludgate and Henry Moorhouse while Leeds lad James Dabill put pressure on top Sheffield youth Mathew Timperley for Class B honours.

Halifax teenager James Lovell just managed to win Saturday's Spen Valley MC trial at Cleckheaton from Leeds schoolboy James Dabill but only by the closest margin possible - one penalty mark.

Dabill, 12, and aiming to make an impact on the national Class B age group championship this year, won his class as did Lovell - as well as beating all the adult riders at the event at Cliffe Lane.

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