Mario Román achieved a double victory in Andorra that places him only four points behind the leader, while Eero Remes reduces by 22 points Salminen’s advantage and will fight until the last round at Mende. Cristóbal Guerrero took his second victory of the year on Sunday.

With Antoine Meo (Husqvarna) as the first 2011 Enduro World Champion in the E2 class, the Acerbis riders of Team Farioli achieved brilliant results. The most prominent was the young and each time faster Mario Román (KTM) in the Junior category, as he showed that his adaptation to the 4-stroke engine has been progressing and is placed in an excepcionally good position to take the last fifty points up for grabs. This next round in Mende (next October 1st and 2nd) will be a race where Jérémy Joly will suffer the pressure from Román. In both days, the rider from Madrid demonstrated that the trial abilities from his beginnings in the two-wheel world helped him to be one of the fastest in one of the toughest extreme stages of the last years, with a very long and tough climb full of obstacles, steps and slippery areas. There, Roman showed that he is in better form than men that are experts in this type of stages, such as Taddy Blasuziak himself.
In Enduro 1, Eero Remes (KTM) won on Saturday, taking advantage of Salminen’s absence, who had broken his Husqvarna’s engine in the second stage of the day. Unfortunately, Remes was not able to beat the multiple Champion on Sunday and so he was only able to reduce the difference in the overall standings by 22 points. Despite that, the KTM rider is now very close to his goal, which is to be the number one of the class. In this moment, they are separated by 24 points, a distance that can be covered as there are still fifty points available. The fight is not over yet in E1.
About Enduro 2, the highlight was the second consecutive World Championship won by Antoine Meo (Husqvarna) and the great performance by Cristóbal Guerrero, who achieved an excellent first position on Sunday, keeping Iván Cervantes (Gas Gas) at bay in the overall standings.
In Enduro 3, victory went to Cristophe Nambotin (Gas Gas) on Saturday and Mika Ahola (HM-Honda) on Sunday, both followed by an inspired Joakim Ljunggren (Husaberg). Ahola has some margin in the overall classification, but he has to keep being focused as Nambotin has shown a great consistency this 2011.
The next WEC Grand Prix will take place in Mende, France, next October 1 and 2.