The third round of the North Western EMX 65 and 85cc Motocross European Championship was held yesterday in Halle (The Netherlands).
Sunday morning the rain started and got stronger, but during the first 2 races it stopped for a while.
In the EMX65 class, in the first race Netherlands young Brian van der Klij (KTM) did the hole shot in front of Swedish Rasmus Häkansson (KTM) and Danish Bastian Boegh Damm (KTM). Already in second lap Häkansson could overtake van der Klijs and that was the positioning until finish in lap 7: First Häkansson, second van der Klij and third Boegh Damm. In the second heat, in the hole shot Brian van der Klij in front of R. Häkansson and R. Meuwissen (KTM). Van der Klij and Häkansson did a start to finish race as first and second. Third got again Bastian Boegh Damm and forth Dutch Raivo Dankers (KTM) from 25th Qualifying position in front of Arwid Mäkinen.
In the EMX85 class, Dutch rider Bas Vaessen (KTM) had top start in front of German Tilo Wittlerbäumer (KTM) and Davy Dutch Pootjes (KTM) In lap 3 Pootjes got the leading position, lost it only for 1 lap in lap 8 to Vaessen and won the race with 11 laps in front of Bas Vaessen. Out of position Nr. 4 in the beginning the Belgian rider Cyril Genot (KTM) came up as third. Forth got the Danish Glen Meier in front of Tilo Wittlerbäumer, who lost 3 positions in the race. The race 2 hole shot went to Davy Pootjes, being in top condition and winning also race 2, again in front of Bas Vaessen, at the end 8.5 sec ahead! The bronze position took Tilo Wittlerbäumer, forth place went to British Conrad Mewse (KTM) in front of Cyril Genot.
The provisional rankings see the leadership of Swedish Rasmus Hakansson in the EMX65 class with 125 points and of Dutch Davy pootjes (KTM) in the EMX85 class with 130 points.
Next round of the North Western Zone is scheduled on the 10th of June in Bielstein (Germany).
