another weekend of muddy slippery racing has Robert fastest of the E2 guys, good for a AZ desert guy, but he did mess up and get penalized for a timekeeping violation (inexperience?) dropping him from the E2 leaderboard. Its a matter of time, he is in the game big time.
Too bad as he would have won E2 the first day. I didn't look at times, but you said he would have made Enduro GP/Scratch podium if he had not lost the 1 minute? Start/Finish and two Time Controls, besides the Special Test Start Controls for three laps. If he was late to any of these, the penalty is 1 minute. With the weather as it was, it could have happened. Farioli KTM is top notch team though, usually watching their riders closely, so errors like this don't happen.