SIDI ENDURO WORLD CHAMPIONS WITH JUHA SALMINEN

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"World Champions!"

SIDI ENDURO WORLD CHAMPIONS WITH JUHA SALMINEN
It's the eighth career world title for the Finn rider

Sidi continues collecting important titles in the off-road sector.  After success in motocross with Tony Cairoli, who has just won his fifth world championship title, now it's the Enduro field that is carrying Sidi to the top step of the podium, on top of the world in this specialty. On Saturday, October 1st, in the French Grand Prix in Mende, which marked the last 2011 World Title test, Finland's Juha Salminen once again latched on to his direct rival, Eero Remes, without letting up, for a completely Finnish final podium which saw Salminen on top of the E1 World Title standings in front of his fellow countrymen Remes and Seistola. This victory was built up, race after race, in yet another exceptional crowning season for the Finnish ace from team Husqvarna. Success was already in the air after the Andorra Grand Prix, the second-to-last test in the World series, but to be mathematically certain Salminen had to wait for the French trial, the final act in the World Championship title.

These are record numbers for Sidi and Salminen; in fact, with this victory the Finn rider has taken his total career world titles to eight, thus beating the record of seven titles he had been holding, together with another two great Enduro riders like Anders Eriksson and Kari Tiainen. And Juha Salminen seems to have no intention of stopping here...

Salminen was not the only one holding the Sidi colours high in the Enduro Championships. There's also Frenchman Christophe Nambotin, who took second place in the E3 class rankings at the end of a nice season which saw him in the race for the World Championship rainbow title. Unfortunately, Nambotin is still being healed up and he's not completely at 100% due to the recent fall he suffered in the final of the French Championship. However this placing has a special taste for Nambotin and for Sidi, because it was obtained on the back of another ace in the specialty like Finland's Mika Ahola, who earned his fifth career World Title in 2011.

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2011 Enduro World Championship

E1 final classification

1)Juha Salminen (Fin) 358

2) Eero Remes (Fin) 329

3) Matti Seistola (Fin) 308

E3 final classification

1) Mika Ahola (Fin) 369

2) Christophe Nambotin (Fra) 312

3) Joakim Ljunggren (Swe) 298