The first rounds of the North_Western leg of the EMX65 and EMX85 European Championships were held this weekend in Korskro Banen (Denmark)
Holeshot of EMX65 heat 1 went to Matti Jorgensen, Denmark. Best starts and in leading positions after lap 1 have been Kay Karssemakers, NED, Rasmus Pedersen, DEN, 3rd Noel Nilsson, SWE, than Sem de Lange, NED, and Constantin Piller, GER. At the end of heat 1 the Danish Rasmus Pedersen won this first heat and hat overtaken the first position already in lap 3. Indeed the best rider in this heat! Silver/ 2nd place went to Karssemakers and Bronze/3rd position to Max Palsson, SWE, who was in the first lap only in 9th position!
Holeshot went to Swedish Max Palsson in the heat 2. Best starts and in leading positions after lap 1 Palsson in front of Rasmus Pedersen and Noel Nilsson, then Constantin Piller, Varg and Hess. At the end of this second EMX65 heat Rasmus Pedersen was again the lucky winner and so he got the overall victory of the day with the anthem for Denmark! 2nd in Heat 2 got Nilsson, overtaking Palsson in the last lap. 4th place went to Karssemakers in front of the 2 Germans Max Thunecke and Ben Hess.
Race 1 of EMX85 saw the holeshot going to the Finnish Kim Savaste. (Holeshot winners get a small prize from the organizer). Best starts and in leading positions after lap 1: Kim Savaste in front of Spanish Jorge Prado Garcia and the Belgian Jago Geerts. In 4th position one of the other leading riders, Italian Gianluca Facchetti. At the end of this 20 min. plus 2 laps this 1st heat of the new Championship year was won by Jago Geerts, who took the leading position already in lap 3, second got Kim Savaste, 3rd Gianluca Facchetti, in front of Prado, Mikkel Haarup and Jarni Kooij.
Holeshot of race 2 went to Prado Garcia. Best starts and in leading positions after lap 1: Prado Garcia, 2nd Jarni Kooij, 3rd Kim Savaste, than Facchetti in front of Notario Lopez. But this changed again over the race distance because of several crashes. At the end of this second heat Jago Geerts won again and so got overall winner at Esbjerg. 2nd place in heat 2 and overall went to Kim Savaste, 3rd position to Prado Garcia.
Next round is scheduled on the 11th of May in Waechtersbach-Aufenau (Germany).
Download here FIM Europe Press Release 032/2014
