alongside the home team, the world champion is also on the enduro track of motorsport / Article

In a conversation with Latvian television’s “Sport studio”, Homa admitted that he felt a lot of stress on competition day and doesn’t even know why, because it wasn’t his first time competing in a competition.

“When I started, I put down a log and walked over it. I drove for half an hour or an hour,” Homa said. “You do it once, a hundred or two hundred times. It’s like the first time you take two out of a hundred, but the other 98 don’t.”

On the island of Riga, in the middle of the Daugava, the masterful Josep Garcia also competed: the 25-year-old Spanish rider is the motocross enduro world champion.

In Latvia, he tested his strength at the foot of the TV tower thanks to the collaboration with a sponsor.

“It’s my second time here. To be honest, I was surprised last year why the TV tower is so tall,” Garcia said. “The place is so beautiful – with grass and even stretches of road. It’s fun to compete here.”

It is important to hit the track before the race to find the right driving trajectories, and then you just have to be fast in the race.

14 different obstacles were installed on the 1,200-meter runway: a great test for Ingum, but a tip for experienced men. European enduro runner-up Edgars Siliņš admitted that the fun on the track usually begins when strength runs out and pain is pushed and pushed. “That’s why you need a slow, long, cold head and go all the way,” Siliņš said.

On the other hand, the European superenduro runner-up Andris Grínfelds stressed that the important thing in the competition is not to suppress the appetite for driving with heavy falls and flying crazy moche in the air. Do everything calmly and with your feet on the ground: this is Greenfeld’s advice.

In the amateur class, rarely did anyone jump on the trampoline because the risk compared to the advantage is too great,

admitted Homa. “Better not to risk and lose about 10 meters than to jump and maybe go with a yellow [ātrās palīdzības] machine, “explained Homa.

Each track has a key place, and it was obvious in Zaķusala, a water bath with logs inside, which was also confirmed by all the interviewees from “Sporta studija”.

“When the trunk is wet, you can’t steer us sideways, you can easily fall over,” explained world champion Garcia.

Homa made no mistakes in the pool, he passed the quarter-finals and the semifinals. On his debut he took 10th place in the final, where Ingum ran out of energy on the second lap, but was very pleased to enter the decisive race. “The important thing is not to be afraid, because you can’t live an experience like nowhere else”, explained the enduro rider.

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