European Mini Road Racing Championship, promoted by FIM Europe and for this year organized in two calendar events, have the best Italian return. During this weekend at Pomposa Circuit, the opening round organized by FMI, young Italian motorcycling talents monopolized the Minimoto scene and won all scheduled races.
Alex Venturini (Junior A), Emiliano Ercolani (Junior B) and Michael Carbonera (Senior Open 50) shone at Race 3, while Czech rider Ondrej Vostatek shone in NSF100.
European Minimoto
Nine races, nine victories and six podiums for Italian riders in Junior A, Junior B and Senior Open 50 classes. The best Italian talents monopolized the scene in every race at Pomposa Circuit, confirmeing with remarkable results the potential of a briliant future. To celebrate a memorable weekend for FMI, Italian talents won everything during this triumphal Sunday “Race Day”. Starting from “Junior A” class the very young rider Alex Venturini (8 years old) confirmed again his lap-times of the two races of yesterday. Venturini made a prodigious “triplet” struggling with the current Italian Minimoto ‘Cadetti’ Championship frontrunner Luca Lunetta, who placed himself second with a gap of 2″5 from the rider of Cesena. For the third time we have another Italian podium with Jacopo Tatoli (3rd) and Lorenzo Frasca (4nd) who completed the “Italian poker”. Venturini now leads the Championship with 75 points, followed by Lunetta (60) and Frasca (45).
Emiliano Ercolani (Phantom) subverted “Junior B” forecasts beating for the first time during this weekend Andrea Natali (DM), who had won the first two races yesterday. The rider from Pesaro, who became 10 years old last February, reduced at 5 points his gap from AC Racing Team rider who is the championship leader with 70 points. Dutch rider Collin Veijer, grown agonistically in Italian CIV Junior, was 3rd in Race 3 and in Championship ranking. Veijer’s steadiness is rewarded with 48 points which will be useful during the second European appointment scheduled at Assen in two weeks.
It was a very good weekend for Italian colours also in Senior Open 50 ranking, where the Saturday lap-times were confirmed again in Race 3. Michael Carbonera (DM), current European champion, won for the third time with an inapproachable race time and struggled with Luigi Nespoli (Blata) and the Italian Open A Minimoto 2014 Champion Roberta Ponziani who was on the podium again after 3rd and 2nd place that she conqueered during the first two rounds. The Championship ranking shows Carbonera leader with 75 points, followed by Nespoli (56) and Ponziani (52).
European MiniGP/NSF100
The third European MiniGP 50cc/NSF100 race at Pomposa was featured from a great plot twist. Romenian rider Andrei Filimon (Metrakit) was the only rider in MiniGP 50cc and he rode in the NFS100 race, with no points, just to make experience.
In NFS100 the winner of the first two races, German Aaron Schafer was forced to retire at third lap and Czech rider Ondrej Vostatek gained the victory, with a gap of 6″ on Dutch rider Loran Faber and of 9″ on Czech David Kuban. After this amazing victory Vostatek leads general ranking with 65 points, 15 points ahead Schafer.
Full results on FIM Europe website: http://www.fim-europe.eu/events/107
The European Mini Road Racing Championship promoted by FIM Europe will face the second date of the season from 12th to 14th August at TT Assen Circuit (The Netherlands).
