ISSUE 3 - MXGPFRANCE
In race 2 Paturel, who has struggled with
starts all year long, scored his first career
Fox Holeshot. The firsts kept on coming as
he won race 2, the only time in his career
thus far. On the French mother’s day holiday
Paturel finished second overall and dedicated
his race win to his mother, whom passed
away last year. In the press conference
Paturel said: “I’m really happy with my race,
I had difficulty in the past at the last race in
Germany, but I came back strong. I’m happy
to battle with these two guys (Jonass and
Seewer), I think we have a good level and it
is really nice to ride like this. Today I got the
first FOX Holeshot of my career and it helped
very much.”
Suzuki World MX2’s Jeremy Seewer followed
up his 2nd place with 3rd in race 2. Seewer
applied pressure to his title competitor
Jonass in both races but in neither was able
to make a pass. Seewer has been focusing
on eliminating mistakes and his 3rd overall
scored the same points as Paturel’s 2nd.
Seewer later in the race press conference
said: “Third position is a little bit less than
we expected but it was still a good race
especially in the second one where we all
3 pushed pretty hard and gapped the other
guys. First race I tried to pull on Pauls and
made a small mistake, I was really scared to
the make the same mistakes of yesterday”.
For the second time in two races Suzuki
World MX2’s Hunter Lawrence placed one
spot behind his teammate, Seewer, while last
weekend he was third, this time it was 4th
overall. Lawrence placed 5-4 and is showing
some serious speed that will undoubtedly
continue in the upcoming rounds.
The final spot in the top five went to the
hard charging LRT KTM rider Julien Lieber.
The Belgian had a decent start in Race 1
and moved from 5th on lap one to finish
4th. Though the real story was that of the
2nd race when he was 19th after lap one but
made a miraculous charge up to 6th by the
finish, the #33’s 4-6 charge was worth 33
points proved just enough to keep him 5th
overall.
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