Photos by Herman Jakolic
The city of Sentvid, in Slovenia, hosted the last round of European Motocross Open Championship. In MX2 red plate holder and local hero Tim Gajser won after holeshot at start in front of a great number of spectators.
At his shoulders, there was a strong battle among top 4 riders: Bartos, Michalec, Michek and Tyletski, who where reached by Molnar. After half race Bartos made a mistake and fell back to 10th position. He will finish in 8th. At the same time the other Czech rider Michek finished second before local Molnar, Belarusian Tyletski and Czech Michalec. After this result, at the start of the last heat, the championship had a new leader: Michek, 3 points ahead of Bartos. For the 3rd place it will be a fight between Michalec and Tyletski with only 3 points of difference, too.
The second heat started again with a holeshot for Tim Gajser. The first 4 riders of the championship were all in the top 10. Michek in second place had already a big option on the title because Bartos was only in 9th position. The same for Tyletski in 3th and Michalec in 8th. Half the race the situation changed between Tyletski and Michalec. Czech rider Michalec really wanted to be on the podium because and he fought up to the 3th position behind Tim Gajser and Martin Michek. At the of the race Bartos managed to finish in 4th position.
For the European Championship, the complete podium is from Czech Republic with Martin Michek in first position, and new European Champion, before Petr Bartos and Petr Michalec.
