{"id":39272,"date":"2017-10-22T10:58:57","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T08:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.enduro.nl\/?p=39272"},"modified":"2017-10-22T10:58:57","modified_gmt":"2017-10-22T08:58:57","slug":"steve-holcombe-crowned-2017-endurogp-world-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enduro.nl\/wordpress-enduronlnewsite\/39272\/steve-holcombe-crowned-2017-endurogp-world-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"STEVE HOLCOMBE CROWNED 2017 ENDUROGP WORLD CHAMPION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/enduro.nl\/wordpress-enduronlnewsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017pb10_steve-holcombe-Beta.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-39273\" src=\"https:\/\/enduro.nl\/wordpress-enduronlnewsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017pb10_steve-holcombe-Beta-235x157.jpg\" alt=\"steve-holcombe-Beta\" width=\"235\" height=\"157\" \/><\/a>Steve Holcombe has won the 2017 FIM EnduroGP World Championship title with victory on day one of the\u00a0series\u2019 final event in Zschopau, Germany. Entering the race with a 40-point advantage over his closest rival Loic\u00a0Larrieu, Steve put the finishing touches to what has been a stand-out season by wrapping up the title in the<br \/>\nbest way possible.<br \/>\nCautiously completing the event\u2019s Friday night super test to finish seventh in class, Steve made a winning start\u00a0to the first full day of competition in Germany<!--more-->, topping the opening enduro test by seven seconds. Going on to\u00a0win a total of five of the day\u2019s nine special tests he finished an eventual 20 seconds ahead of runner-up\u00a0Christophe Nambotin and a further eight seconds ahead of third placed Loic Larrieu.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Holcombe: \u201cIt feels so good to be able to call myself a double enduro world champion. Winning\u00a0my first title last year was incredible \u2013 something I will never forget \u2013 but claiming the EnduroGP title\u00a0this year means so, so much. I\u2019d hoped to wrap up the title in the UK, at my home round of the series,\u00a0but to win here in Germany with so many true enduro fans is incredible. I\u2019ve had such an enjoyable\u00a0season \u2013 battling with Matt Phillips, Loic Larrieu, Nathan Watson and Christophe Nambotin has been so\u00a0much fun. I always knew that to win this year I\u2019d have to be even better prepared than I was in 2016.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s been a lot of work, focus and preparation, but it\u2019s been so worth it. I felt confident coming into this\u00a0event, but also a little apprehensive. Knowing that I needed just a handful of points was a strange\u00a0feeling. I don&#8217;t feel like I rode at my best at all, but I was relaxed and didn&#8217;t make any mistakes. The\u00a0special tests and the trails here in Zschopau were really cool \u2013 real enduro. Winning the championship\u00a0by topping the EnduroGP podium makes this just that little bit more special. I want to say a huge thanks\u00a0to my Beta team and all of my sponsors and supporters, their encouragement has had a hugely positive\u00a0impact on my season. Now it\u2019s time to celebrate\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Results \u2013 EnduroGP of Germany (day one)<br \/>\n1. Steve Holcombe (Beta) 53:42.03 (WORLD CHAMPION)<br \/>\n2. Christophe Nambotin (KTM) 54:02.42<br \/>\n3. Loic Larrieu (Yamaha) 54:10.58<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Holcombe has won the 2017 FIM EnduroGP World Championship title with victory on day one of the\u00a0series\u2019 final event in Zschopau, Germany. Entering the race with a 40-point advantage over his closest rival Loic\u00a0Larrieu, Steve put the finishing touches to what has been a stand-out season by wrapping up the title in the best&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/enduro.nl\/wordpress-enduronlnewsite\/39272\/steve-holcombe-crowned-2017-endurogp-world-champion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Lees meer<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;STEVE HOLCOMBE CROWNED 2017 ENDUROGP WORLD CHAMPION&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-persberichten"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enduro.nl\/wordpress-enduronlnewsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enduro.nl\/wordpress-enduronlnewsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enduro.nl\/wordpress-enduronlnewsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enduro.nl\/wordpress-enduronlnewsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enduro.nl\/wordpress-enduronlnewsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/enduro.nl\/wordpress-enduronlnewsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enduro.nl\/wordpress-enduronlnewsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enduro.nl\/wordpress-enduronlnewsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enduro.nl\/wordpress-enduronlnewsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}