Australia has finished second in the Trophy des Nations at the 2006 Trial des Nations in Breals Montfort, France.
The Australian team of Michael Byrne, Trevor Campbell, Dylan Rees and Colin Zarczynski put in a solid performance to end up 30 points behind eventual winners Ireland.
After finishing the first lap of the Trial in second place with a nine-point advantage over Belgium, the Aussies extended that gap through the second lap to end up 13-points clear of third.
The team was right in touch with the Irish through 12 sections of the first lap, however some heavy penalties on four of the final seven sections kept the Aussies out of reach.
They did manage to better their score on the second lap by two points, which was important in ensuring that they held the Belgian team off and finish 11th overall at the event.
The result mirrors Australia's finish at last year's Trial des Nations, when the same team came second in Group B - just managing to edge out the third and fourth placed teams in a tight encounter.
The result is just one spot off an all-time best which came in 1998 - finishing 10th overall and fourth in Group B.
The powerhouse team of Adam Raga, Antonio Bou, Albert Cabestany, Jeroni Fajardo won the Trial des Nations - World Championship - by a massive 44 points over Great Britian. Japan was third
Trophee des Nations
1. Ireland - 50 (Gareth Andrews, Michael Burton, Robert Crawford, Andy Perry)
2. Australia - 80 (Michael Byrne, Trever Campbell, Dylan Rees, Colin Zarczynski)
3. Belgium - 93 (Jan Cardinaels, Emmanuel Mathy, Jordane Vandekasteel, Roel Verpoorten)
4. Netherlands - 110 (Peter Goertz, Rodney Heijnams, Peter Van Der Sluis, Alex Van Den Broek)
5. Norway - 110 (Moi Mandon, Lars Mork, Thomas Schie, Steffen Solheim)
6. Switzerland - 138 (Laurent Daengeli, Pascal Geiser, Dominiquie Guillaume, Gilles Seuret)
7. Andorra - 182 (Marcel Albos, Albert Cabanes, Xavier Cristina, Pere Marti)
8. Poland - 289 (Przemylan Zakzmarczyk, Jakob Grauzowicz, Lukasz Lapka)
9. Portugal - 292 (Andre Garcis, Pedro Maia, Daniel Sousa, Joao Sousa)
10. Venezuela - 330 (Luis Aulestia, Joel Ortiz, Hernando Rivas, Jose Rivas)
11. Canada - 370 (Maxime Gobeil, Jordan Szoke, Andrew young, Matthew Zajac)
12. Luxembourg - 374 (Laurent Baatz, Christian Daleiden, Ken Mousty, Ben Stoffel)
13. Latvia - 385 (Renars Agarskis, Kaspars Kulikovs, Guntars Mateuss, Kaspars Verneiks)
Trial des Nations - World Championship
1. Spain - 18 (Adam Raga, Antonio Bou, Albert Cabestany, Jeroni Fajardo)
2. Great Britain - 62 (Dougie Lampkin, Shaun Morris, Graham Jarvis, James Dabill)
3. Japan - 121 (Takahisa Fujinami, Fumitaka Nozaki, Tsoyushi Ogawa)
4. Itay - 129 (Diego Bosis, Fabio Lenzi, Daniele Maurino, Michele Orizio)
5. France - 137 (Jerome Bethune, Christophe Bruand, Bruno Camozzi, Christophe Camozzi)
6. Sweden - 257 (Fredrik Johansson, Andres Nilsson, Jonas Riedel, Adam Thiger)
7. Czech Republic - 265 (Pavel Balas, Martin Kroustek, Petr Masek, Jiri Svoboda)
8. Germany - 273 (Christian Kregeloh, Timon Oster, Carsten Stranghoner, Jochen Schafer)
9. USA - 280 (Geoff Aaron, Chris Florin, Cody Webb, Keith Wineland)
