JAMES Dabill won the Scott Trial for the second time in Swaledale on Saturday.
The Cookridge rider held off the challenge of his Scarborough rival Michael Brown to claim the title he last won in 2010.
Dabill finished the 76 sections with 43 penalties, four less than Brown with Silsden's former world trials champion Dougie Lampkin a further two points back.
Skipton's John Sunter set a searing pace along with Skeeby's Jonathan Richardson but as the survivors of the moorland battle climbed Reels Head, the 68th section, 38-year-old Lampkin was on course for a third victory.
He was riding the sections better than his rivals and his observation scores were better than either Dabill or Brown.
Fate though was going to intervene at the 11th hour. After the final petrol halt the multi-world trials champion hit a deep pool and drowned the engine of his machine.
The delay and damage to the engine slowed the Silsden rider down in the last crucial miles.
The time penalties mounted to 15 so any hopes of victory vanished leaving Dabill to almost cruise home, albeit with Brown and Richardson circulating at exactly the same pace.
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