* Freestyle win for Roberto Mariani
Sunday, 21 June, ROSES, GIRONA (Spain): Nacho Armillas completed a magnificent double on home waters after a second start-to-finish win of the day in heat 2 in Ski GP1 to take overall victory, adding to the GP2 title he clinched earlier in the morning session.
Jennifer Menard hit back in Ladies GP2 taking the win and clawing back points to tie with heat 1 winner Beatriz Curtinhal who finished in third, Menard’s win giving her the title.
In the final race of the day Frenchman Jeremy Perez produced another virtuoso performance to complete a memorable win-double to remain unbeaten in the European Continental Championship and sits on top of the points table with a maximum 100 points.
The nerves were apparent before the start of Ski GP1, Armillas clearly not happy with something on his bike and looked to be making a switch then deciding not to. Mickael Poret was late out on the water, another unhappy with his bike, a jump start by Alex Barret adding to the tension.
With Barret going early, Armillas made the split second decision to go and from that point the race was his, pulling clear lap-by-lap with initially Martinez, then Mickael Poret and Raphael Maurin giving hopeless chase.
The young Spaniard cemented his second overall victory with sea to spare, completing the eight laps in 17:25.330s to win by over 12 seconds. “It’s great to win both but the important one is GP1,” said Armillas. “I saw Alex go early and I knew the officials would not go for a restart so I went. The race was good, just one time when the sea was a bit rough, otherwise no problems.”
Mickael Poret passed Martinez on lap six to secure second overall, and was chased all the way by Maurin who missed out on the final podium place to Martinez.
In GP2 pole-sitter Beatriz Curtinhal was on the back foot from the start, losing out to Menard and dropping to fourth before passing Virginie Morlaes on lap four of nine.
Out front Menard was in control and held off a race long chase by Emma-Nellie Ortendhal who took third overall.
Despite illness, Perez once again climbed out of bed to deliver a winning performance in Runabout GP1 and was never troubled, cruising home to win by over ten seconds, the duo chasing him a repeat of heat 1, with Jordi Tomas taking second overall ahead of Chistophe Agostinho.
In Freestyle Italians Roberto Mariani and Alberto Camerlengo traded tricks, Mariani coming out on top.
Round 3 of the UIM-ABP Aquabike European Continental Championship takes place in Mirandela, Portugal on 26-26 July.
Results:
http://aquabike.net/results/2015/spain-roses-girona