The circuit of Jerez de la Frontera hosted in this weekend the first round of the European Supermoto Championship.
S2 Race 1
After storming to his first career pole on Saturday Marc Reiner Schmidt (in the photo) wasted no time in taking his place at the head of the pack as he grabbed the all-important holeshot to lead from lap one, and from there went on to record his first ever S2 European Championship race victory by the comfortable margin of almost nine seconds.
Italian Yuri Guardalà started in second place but had no answer to the pace of Reiner Schmidt, instead having to deal with the pressure from Toni Klem who chased the Italian all the way from flag-to-flag to come home third.
Behind the top three, the race was pretty static apart from the hard charging performance from Diego Monticelli; the Italian started in seventh and looked content to stay there, but with three laps to go managed to move past Mattia Martella and Fabrizio Bartolini to take a well deserved fourth position.
S2 Race 1 top ten: 1. Schmidt Marc Reiner (GER-TM) 20:33.157; 2. Guardalà Yuri (ITA-Honda) 20:41.571; 3. Klem Toni (FIN-TM) 20:42.694; 4. Monticelli Diego (ITA-Honda) 20:48.201; 5. Bartolini Fabrizio (ITA-Honda) 20:48.238; 6. Martella Mattia (ITA-KTM) 20:52.962; 7. Bussei Giovanni (ITA-TM) 21:12.654; 8. Llados Joan (ESP-Aprilia) 21:17.602; 9. Ciaglia Luca (ITA-Honda) 21:20.391; 10. Gimenez David (ESP-Suzuki) 21:21.746.
S2 Race 2
If you were to ask Marc Reiner Schmidt what is his favourite circuit you could almost guarantee that after today he would say Jerez de la Frontera, because for him the opening round of the S2 European Championship will always be remembered as the place where all his dreams came true, after recording another start-to-finish victory to claim maximum points and to stand proudly on the top step of the podium. Behind him, Toni Klem was able to go one better and finished five seconds adrift of the new championship leader and red plate holder.
Mattia Martella rode confidently in race two to place third, an improvement on his sixth position in the first outing after passing Fabrizio Bartolini on lap two, and capitalizing on a mistake from Yuri Guardalà who fell on lap eight.
Fourth position belonged to Diego Monticelli who once again showed that he has the speed to pull through the pack as he had to again as he came from seventh on the opening lap.
Fabrizio Bartolini started in fifth but moved into fourth at one thirds race distance, but with a third of the race to go was pushed back into fifth by Monticelli.
But the day belonged to Marc Reiner Schmidt and he will heard to round two with an eight point advantage over Klem.
S2 Race 2 Top Ten: 1. Schmidt Marc Reiner (GER-TM) 20:49.168; 2. Klem Toni (FIN-TM) 20:54.312; 3. Martella Mattia (ITA-KTM) 21:08.629; 4. Monticelli Diego (ITA-Honda) 21:09.438; 5. Bartolini Fabrizio (ITA-Honda) 21:09.704; 6. Guardalà Yuri (ITA-Honda) 21:15.569; 7. Bussei Giovanni (ITA-TM) 21:17.948; 8. Gimenez David (ESP-Suzuki) 21:28.272; 9. Promutico Lorenzo (ITA-Honda) 21:33.583; 10. Jaros Zdenek (CZE-KTM) 21:35.156.
S2 Overall Top Ten: 1. Schmidt Marc Reiner (GER-TM) 50 points; 2. Klem Toni (FIN-TM) 42 p.; 3. Guardalà Yuri (ITA-Honda) 37 p.; 4. Monticelli Diego (ITA-Honda) 36 p.; 5. Martella Mattia (ITA-KTM) 35 p.; 6. Bartolini Fabrizio (ITA-Honda) 32 p.; 7. Bussei Giovanni (ITA-TM) 28 p.; 8. Gimenez David (ESP-Suzuki) 24 p.; 9. Ciaglia Luca (ITA-Honda) 22 p.; 10. Jaros Zdenek (CZE-KTM) 21 p.
S2 Championship Top Ten: 1. Schmidt Marc Reiner (GER-TM) 50 points; 2. Klem Toni (FIN-TM) 42 p.; 3. Guardalà Yuri (ITA-Honda) 37 p.; 4. Monticelli Diego (ITA-Honda) 36 p.; 5. Martella Mattia (ITA-KTM) 35 p.; 6. Bartolini Fabrizio (ITA-Honda) 32 p.; 7. Bussei Giovanni (ITA-TM) 28 p.; 8. Gimenez David (ESP-Suzuki) 24 p.; 9. Ciaglia Luca (ITA-Honda) 22 p.; 10. Jaros Zdenek (CZE-KTM) 21 p.
S2 Manufacturers: 1. TM 50 points; 2. Honda 40 p.; 3. KTM 35 p.; 4. Suzuki 24 p.; 5. Aprilia 20 p.; 6. Husqvarna 13 p.; 7. Yamaha 5 p.
