Trials champion Dougie Lampkin, his father Martin, cousin James, and uncle Alan will be settled in Japan preparing for the seventh round of the F.I.M. world trials championship this weekend.

After the gruelling fourteen hour flight, Dougie aims to please his Honda paymasters on home ground by finishing on the top step of the podium, preferably with fellow Honda Montesa team riders Marc Colomer and Takahisa Fujinami.

Last weekend Lampkin dodged the rain in on Sunday and cruised to his third victory in the A.C.U. Talon backed British trials championship at sunny, breezy Aberdulais, near Neath in South Wales where again Adam Raga got the better of the other national riders. The teenage Spaniard performing well on sections made treacherous by heavy rain on Saturday.

Lampkin made a mockery of the rocky Welsh sections loosing just two marks on each lap while Raga was the next best on five penalties.

James Lampkin lost out on a family double by going down , by one single penalty, to local ace and former Welsh champion Lee Sargent but for Lampkin it was another seventeen points in the bag and an increased lead in the Expert series. Cowling builder Nathan Wrigglesworth missed the points cut in the Expert class by one mark.

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