With just one qualifying round to go, Dougie Lampkin is in the driving seat of the FIM World Arena Trial Championship after a brilliant victory in Vienna.

Marc Colomer - his most dangerous rival - slumped to fifth, copying Dougie's off-night seven days prior to the Austrian event.

Lampkin and fellow Brit Steve Colley stormed through six sections in the qualifying heats, which were watched by 5,000 fans, while Colomer threw away his title hopes with total failures on two sections.

Colley headed the British charge, winning the qualifier from Lampkin. Colomer was out of the run-off grabbing only 11 points for his efforts.

The points advantage gained the previous week was gone, swollen to 15 in favour of the Silsden rider who now has just to complete the course in Madrid on March 8 to retain the title.

Graham Jarvis had a fraught time getting to Austria after a delayed flight from Amsterdam, where his riding gear vanished.

The Scorpa rider appeared late in the proceedings, kitted out in hastily borrowed gear after the opening ceremonies had been completed.

He then charged through the sections with hardly time for a glance at the obstacles in a bid to remain in the programme and take some more points in the series.

As soon as the Vienna championship finished, Martin Lampkin drove straight to Chalon, 90km from Lyon, where his son dominated a two-pronged arena event watched by 2,000 spectators.

Colley completed a British one-two, leaving French brothers Bruno and Chris Camozzi to pick up the minor placings.

Ben Hemmingway won the Craven DMC West Yorkshire Group Trial at Cawder Hall, near Skipton where club officials accommodated record entry of 132.

Cullingworth's Keith Greenwood rode his 30-year-old Triumph to an unpenalised class win at the Yorkshire Classic MCC Trial at Glusburn, where 61 competitors brought out old British bikes on a ten-section, five-lap course.

Keighley's Jack Smith, and Haworth's Paul Howarth figured well in the awards on Matchless and Triumph machinery.

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