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and Gozzini take red plate to first SuperMoto GP in
Valladolid
FUNCHAL (PORTUGAL), 18 June
2008 – (courtesy Youthstream)
A very hard
fought FIM SuperMoto World Championship will take to
the track again this weekend on the brand new
Spanish course in Valladolid, hosting the third
round of 2008.
Thierry Van Den Bosch
and Davide Gozzini lead the S1 and S2
standings with both runners up Bernd Hiemer
(S1) and Adrien Chareyre (S2) being
extremely close to the leaders.
Also for the UEM series it is
time for round three; Oliver Pope leads the S3
standings while Heino Meusburger is on top of
the Open series.
S1
The latest Grand Prix at a
newly modified Motodromo continued the harsh
battle in between archrivals Aprilia Off Road’s
Thierry Van Den Bosch and KTM Italia Miglio’s
Bernd Hiemer.
Both won one heat but VDB
took the eventual victory as he won the final
moto; after finishing twice runner up to the
Frenchman but being level in points with him,
Hiemer will be on fire this weekend in Spain as
he desperately wants to mount on the first step
of the podium.
Taking his second career
podium finish last May with third, Robinsons
KTM UK’s Matthew Winstanley stormed to third
in the Championship and looks forward to Spain,
the country where he collected his maiden podium
in 2004 at Finestrat.
French countrymen Thomas
Chareyre of Husqvarna CH Racing and Boris
Chambon of TM Factory Racing are battling it out
for fourth in the Championship, as 2005 World
Champion Chambon moved up to fifth after a solid
performance in Castelletto.
The highest placed home
Superider is GP winner Nestor Jorge, riding his
first season with the Yamaha Evolution squad.
The Tenerife born Superider is now ninth in the
points standings ahead of Ivan Lazzarini, who
rounds off the top ten after a bitter GP of
Europe.
S2
A superb TM Factory Racing’s
Davide Gozzini has left his mark on these first
two rounds, winning both in Torino and in
Castelletto onboard his 660cc TM machine to take
the red plate into Spain.
Husqvarna CH Racing’s Adrien
Chareyre sits second, two points adrift S2
expert Gozzini courtesy of two runner up overall
finishes; on the other hand 2007 S1 World
Champion Adrien Chareyre is at his first year in
the category but he is already battling it out
with the S2 top Superiders including team mate
and 2007 S2 World Champion Gerald Delepine.
After a tough opening round
at Torino, two time World Champion Delepine was
back on the podium of round two at Castelletto,
which was a confidence booster for the Belgian.
Finishing fourth at
Castelletto, Aprilia Off Road’s Christian Iddon
moved up to third in the standings ahead of
Italians Luca Minutilli of PMR H2O Aprilia Off
Road and Attilio Pignotti of KTM Italia Miglio;
the 2007 runner up has a fractured left scaphoid
from a crash at the GP of Europe and will not be
100% this weekend.
THE UEM
EUROPEAN SUPERMOTO CHAMPIONSHIP
Storming to a double moto
victory at Castelletto, Oliver Pope moved up to
first in the S3 points standings while Belgian
Olivier Scheen remained second at a five point
distance from the British leader. Early leader
Alessandro Asnicar took a step backwards in
Castelletto, dropping down to third in the
Championship. Raphael Storning and Kenneth
Dekindt are now battling it out for fourth in
the standings but the top three might be the
next target.
As Graziano Rispoli is out
since Castelletto due to an injury, Heino
Meusburger jumped up to first in the points
courtesy of the overall victory of round two.
Viktor Bolsek follows from a close second while
Italian countrymen Alessandro Tognaccini and
Alberto Dall’Era are respectively third and
fourth but they are level in points. Edgardo
Borella rounds off the top five.
THE
ESTADIO NUEVO ZORRILLA TRACK AND VALLADOLID
The first SuperMoto Grand
Prix in Valladolid will be held in the twisty
track built in the area of the important
football stadium “Estadio Nuevo Zorrilla”. The
1600 metre course is divided into 1400 metres of
slide section with the remaining 200 metres
reserved to the sky section; it has a very
technical and twisty layout, with 17 corners in
the slide zone and other four in the sky zone
while the longest straight will be about 300
metres; such characteristics make it a very
demanding course for the Dunlop tyres and the
bikes’ suspensions which have to be perfectly
set up in order to guarantee the endurance.
After the last month was characterized by rain,
Valladolid is expected to be sunny for the
forthcoming weekend of FIM and UEM SuperMoto
racing.
The Spanish city of
Valladolid is located 200 kilometres North West
of Madrid, the capital of the country; the city
has about 320.000 inhabitants and it is the
capital of the autonomous community of Castilla
y León. At the beginning of the 16th
century Valladolid was the Spanish capital of
the Empire of Charles V of Spain. The 20th
of May 1506 Christopher Columbus died in
Valladolid but his body was then transferred for
his burial. The city still features the house
where Columbus lived but also the famous Spanish
writer Miguel de Cervantes (author of the Don
Quixote de la Mancha) lived in Valladolid, where
his house is still one of the most interesting
buildings to see. The University of Valladolid
was founded in the 14th century and
it is the second oldest in Spain; together with
the many other historic buildings, it preserves
the ancient side of Valladolid which is now a
modern and highly developed city.
THE
EVENT’S SCHEDULE
Saturday June 21: EC
Open Free Practice 1 at 9:00 am; EC S3 Free
Practice 1 at 9:30 am; EC Open Pre Qualifying
Practice at 10:30 am; EC S3 Free Practice 2 at
11:00 am; S2 Free Practice 1 at 12:00 am; S1
Free Practice 1 at 12:40 am; EC Open Qualifying
Race 1 at 1:30 pm; S2 Free Practice 2 at 2:00
pm; S1 Free Practice 2 at 2:40 pm; EC Open
Qualifying Race 2 at 3:30 pm; S2 Time Practice
at 4:00 pm; S1 Time Practice at 4:50 pm; EC S3
Time Practice and EC Open Last Chance Qualifying
Practice at 5:40 pm
Sunday June 22: EC
Open Warm Up at 8:05 am; EC S3 Warm Up at 8:30
am; S2 Warm Up at 8:55 am with Superpole
immediately after; S1 Warm Up at 9:30 am with
Superpole immediately after; EC Open Race 1 at
10:50 am; EC S3 Race 1 at 11:35 am; S2 Race 1 at
12:25 am; S1 Race 1 at 1:25 pm; EC Open Race 2
at 2:25 pm; S2 Race 2 at 3:25 pm; S1 Race 2 at
4:25 pm; EC S3 Race 2 at 5:25 pm
LINKS
Information, photos and
results are online at http://www.supermotoS1.com,
the official website of the FIM SuperMoto World
Championships.
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