Slovenia hosted the first round of the EMX Open European Championship and the second round of EMX SW zone 65&85 European Championships. Qualifying races took place in a sunny, hot weather. Italian rider Brando Rispoli won the EMX 65 Qualifying race in front of Slovenian best rider Jaka Peklaj and of the winner of the first round, Italian Alessandro Gaspari.
Spanish riders were dominating in the EMX 85 Qualifying race. The pole position was taken by Raul Garcia Sanchez ahead of Antonio Gallego Ramos and Italian Andrea Viano.
Slovenian MXGP rider Klemen Gerčar snatched the pole position in the EMX Open Qualifying race.
The race day in Brežice started with 18°C and later in the day it was hotter with 28°C.
Race1 was won by Italian Brando Rispoli, 13 sec. ahead of Slovenian Jaka Peklaj and Italian Jas Janout.
Race1 was led again by Italian Brando Rispoli, who won 7,93 seconds ahead of Jaka Peklajand 17,10 sec ahead of Italian Alessandro Gaspari.
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The winner of the event was Brando Rispoli, ahead of Jaka Peklaj and Jan Janout.
Race1 in EMX 85 was lead by yesterday’s qualification leader Raul Sanchez Garcia ahead of Italian riders Andrea Viano and Valerio Lata.
Race2 was lead again by Spanish Raul Sanchez who won 8,29 sec ahead of Andrea Viano and of French Axel Louis.
The overall winner was Spanish Raul Sanchez Garcia ahead of Italian Andrea Viano and French Baptiste Bordes.
In the class EMX Open in Race1 the hole shot went to Slovenian rider Klemen Gercar. Second position for Czech Martin Michek 3,35 sec behind the leader and ahead of Russian Evgeniy Mikhaylov. In the race2 same podium with Gercar and Michek till the finish line.
The overall results saw at the first place Klemen Gercar, ahead of Martin Michek and ahead of Evgeniy Mikhaylov.
The next SW Zone EMX 65/85 Championship race will be held at Brou, France, in the weekend of 19-20 May.
The next EMX Open Championship race will be held at Kishkunlachaza, Hungary, in the weekend of 28-29 April.
