Top 5 Overall:
1st Nambotin Christophe (France)
2nd Eero Remes (Finland)
3rd Samuli Aro (Finland)
4th Antoine Meo (France)
5th Rodrig Thain (France)
Top 8 Americans (Overall):
7th Kurt Caselli
25th Destry Abbott
33rd Russell Bobbitt
38th Nathan Kanney
43rd Timmy Weigand
54th Jamie Lanza
59th Damon Huffman
62nd Cory Buttrick
Trophy Team Results:
1st France
2nd Italy
3rd Finland
4th Australia
5th USA
Jr. Trophy Team Results:
1st Spain
2nd France
3rd USA
Other Notes:
Our Trophy Team finished a disappointing 5th overall, but with all the issues we had I was happy to finish as strong as we did. It was a huge loss to us when we lost RD on the first day too. We definitely could've been on the podium again, but I'm really not sure if we would've had anything for France. They were unbelievably fast all week!
I really need to give a huge thanks to Jonny for building me another awesome bike. I barely had to work on it the whole 6-days, besides changing tires, oil, filters, etc.
I know there's way too many people to thank, but there's quite a few that come to mind right away. Dr. McGee and his brother Spook were huge and helped all the US riders out. Then you had our team manager Jason Smigel, Jonny Weisman, Kit Kamo, David Kamo, Ashley Little, Nancy Caselli, Lanza family, Matt, Tanner, and all the volunteers that helped out at the checks.
Next year's ISDE is going to be down in Mexico and from what I'm hearing it's going to be on the dry, dusty side. It should be great since it's not that far and all the Euro's have to travel our way. I'd like to do the ISDE one more year, and then see what happens after that. If you've never been to an ISDE I would highly recommend going next year to watch or to try and qualify. It's one of my all time favorite types of racing.
There were a lot of US riders that had to tough it out this year and ride hurt. Timmy Weigand Damon Huffman, and Russell Bobbitt all stepped up and did everything they could to finish, which couldn't have been easy. I know there's a lot of other riders that did the same thing too.
Big congrats goes out to Maria Forsberg for finishing 2nd overall in the women's class. The US women finished 4th overall as a team too.
Thanks everyone for checking out my updates on my message board. I know there were a lot of sites that kept everyone updated too.
I attached some photos from Kato, Ashley Little, and Steve Berkner. Thanks for helping me out with those!
This weekend I have the last AMA H&H on Sunday in California.
Destry
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