Historic day for Riola Sardo and the whole of Sardinia, which for the first time will host a date of the motocross world championship. The 10th round of the world championship, after the tests this morning, includes two races in the cadet class, the Mx2, and two in the MxGp, the “queen”. And it was during the MxGp qualifying that the highly anticipated Tony Cairoli, nine times world champion, recovered from a fall during a jump, which forced him to carry out checks and give up race 2.
THE RACE
The cadet series Mx2 broke the ice, with 32 starters, including the Italians Mattia Guadagnini (Ktm), Andrea Adamo (Gasgas), Emilio Scuteri (Tm), and Gianluca Facchetti (Ktm), who in race 1, just finished , they ranked third, twentieth, twenty-second and twenty-fifth respectively. Guadagnini finished at 19 ”765 from the first, the Frenchman Tom Vialle (Ktm, in 34'04” 946), who was just ahead of his compatriot Maxime Renaux (Yamaha, at 1 ”117). Fast lap for Jago Geerts (1'48 "899), Belgian from Yamaha who finished eighth after a crash during the race.
The Mx2 will return to the gates at 3.10 pm for Race 2, a test interspersed with the two MxGp races, which will take place at 1.15 pm and 4.10 pm and will see, in addition to the reigning champion Gajser and the various Febvre, Herlings and Prado. Tony Cairoli, who in recent days announced his retirement at the end of the season, is a regular at Riola, where he has been preparing for years, but he was highly anticipated because he had also missed the last two editions of the Internazionali d'Italia, hosted eight times by injury. at “Le Dune”.
The hope is that the World appointment on the 1640-meter track of the Motoclub Motorschool Riola will be repeated in the future, as underlined by the promoter Infront and the Regional Tourism Department, whose contribution was decisive for the organization of the event that sees the best centaurs on the world scene are involved.
EUROPEAN - Yesterday the very young people of the European Championship (drivers between 8 and 12 years old) had thought to warm the environment. In Emx85 the Czech KTM Vitezslav Marek was the protagonist, who had won race1, finished second race2 and thus put the continental riders on the bulletin board. Same exact script followed, in Emx65, by Estonian Leok (Husqvarna), who won the European title after having triumphed in race1 and finished race2 in second position.
