In the second round of European Supermoto Championship, in Ottobiano (Italy), Marc Reiner Schmidt once again rode immaculately in S2 to extend his lead.
Before the start of the season you would have been hard pressed to pick a potential winner in S2, but after the first round of the European Championship in Spain, and after his dominant performance in timed training, there was no mistaking the intent of Marc Reiner Schmidt who once again proved why he will be the man to beat in 2015. He took full advantage of his pole position to take the holeshot before pulling away from his rivals for his third race win of the season.
Behind him Yuri Guardalà tried to keep the German rider in his sights but the pace was just too hot for the Italian who was happy to settle for second. Third place belonged to Giovanni Bussei, whose pass on Fabrizio Bartolini saw him take his first moto podium in a long time.
With Bussei into third, Bartolini started to fade backwards and eventually dropped back to seventh after being overtaken by Diego Monticelli, Mattia Martella and Petr Vorlicek who placed fourth, fifth and sixth respectively
Race two was much of the same for the race one winner Marc Reiner Schmidt. As he took off for an early lead he was soon almost ten seconds clear with ten laps to go, this time though it was Toni Klem who tried to give chase to the German, but unfortunately for the Finn he found just as Guardala did in race one that it’s going to take something special to solve a problem like Reiner Schmidt. Klem would eventually settle for second after starting fifth in what was a good positive performance.
It was a tough second race for Yuri Guardalà: after the start in second position the Italian made a mistake on lap three and fell back third briefly and then fourth. Eventually he would find himself falling again to tenth, and on the final lap went missing altogether.
Mattia Martella put in a solid performance and after starting seventh on lap one took just four laps to find third which is where he would remain until the end of the race. Vorlicek and Bussei rounded out the top five positions.
The overall victory belonged to Marc Reiner Schmidt with Mattia Martella taking second ahead of Giovanni Bussei.
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