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Strijbos scores best mxgp season result

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May 15th, 2016

Team #suzuki Press Office – May 15. 

Kevin Strijbos rode to fourth position today at Pietramurata in front of 29,000 spectators for the weekend and the Grand Prix of Trentino in northern Italy by taking his factory RM-Z450 to a scorecard of third and sixth in the two motos across the damp Arco di Trento soil; his best result of the season. 

The Belgian missed his first podium result of the season by just one point as Team #suzuki World #mxgp team-mate Ben Townley captured 10th place despite entering the start gate in 22nd position. 

MXGP was teased with good weather on Saturday morning and a dry set of practice sessions at Arco di Trento; hosting a Grand Prix for the fourth year in a row. The circuit was soon clouded over and downpours turned the narrow, stony and bumpy hard-pack into soggy mud and largely a one-line trajectory. Even more focus was placed on the necessity of a good start and Strijbos did reasonably well to slot into fifth place on Saturday while Townley suffered more bad luck and had to recover from a first lap crash to rise to 22nd place. 

On raceday the climate was merciful, and signs of early summer were evident with clear skies and warmer temperatures. The course itself was still soggy and slippery in places but the rain had also softened parts and increased the technical demand. 

In the first #moto it was Strijbos who made a decent getaway and got into third place swiftly after the initial turns. The race leaders barely shifted positions as Tony Cairoli won ahead of Max Nagl and #‘22’ fending-off the attentions of world championship leader Tim Gajser to post his first #moto top-three classification of the year. Townley was also strong and after chasing and passing Tanel Leok jumped across the finish line in seventh. 

The second #moto saw some fantastic action in the scrap for the lead with the race eventually won by reigning world champion Romain Febvre. Strijbos hovered on the edge of the top-five and only dropped to sixth place in the final two laps when Gajser’s charge back from a race crash proved too difficult to resist. Strijbos was seven seconds away from Jeremy Van Horebeek in fifth and the extra point he would have needed to dislodge the Slovenian rookie from the third step of the box. Townley was running in the top-10 and seemed to be set for ninth spot until a fall on lap 17 of 19 dropped him to 15th. 

In the #mxgp World Championship standings Strijbos has a total of 204 points and sits in seventh place. Townley – who missed two rounds through sickness – is 13th and with a 16-point gap to further elevation. 

After three back-to-back Grands Prix, Team #suzuki World #mxgp can finally return to their base in Lommel for a full debrief and time for further technical work ahead of another consecutive brace of events with the Spanish and French rounds on May 28-29th and June 4-5th respectively, both across the hard-pack tracks of Talavera de la Reina and St Jean D’Angely. 

Kevin Strijbos: 

“It was a pity to miss the podium by just one point but there are a lot of positives to take from this weekend. My starts were good and I felt good on the bike. Actually I’m really happy with how things have gone all weekend. The start and the fact that I could push throughout the whole #moto was great in the first one. I didn't make such a good start in the second but I was riding well and together with Jeremy we closed the gap on the others. Gajser crashed and then he came back through. In the last five-six laps I just lost his rear wheel and the fact that he passed Jeremy on the last lap meant I lost the podium. Still, like I said, there are good things to take from this GP.” 

SEEWER PLACES FIFTH AT TRENTINO MX2 
May 15th, 2016

Team #suzuki Press Office – May 15. 

The yellow charge on the FIM #mx2 Motocross World Championship slowed a little bit today as Team #suzuki World MX2’s Jeremy Seewer finished fifth overall at the Grand Prix of Trentino and the eighth round of 18 in the 2016 series. 

The Swiss might have seen his run of six consecutive podium finishes come to an end but has still to drop out of the top-five in the competitive category this season and came through a trick, slippery and crash-ridden affair in northern Italy. 

After qualifying with a strong second position in Arco di Trento, Seewer gingerly rolled into the gate with the second pick of slots. The #‘91’ had crashed in morning warm-up when he hit ‘a neutral’ and a heavy impact left him with a painful upper leg. It would be the first dramatic moment of a busy day. The heavy rain that fell just before the qualifying Heat on Saturday created a muddy and slick terrain but the narrow course was mercifully dry and technically rough and challenging for Sunday. 

Seewer didn't make the best of starts and needed the first half of the opening #moto to pull up and pass Adam Sterry to move into fifth and then made fourth place by the finish line after overtaking Samuele Bernardini. In the second #moto he was again looking at a trawl through the pack after running into a fallen rider on the second corner. Another mistake left him as the last runner on the track by the time he’d recovered his race bike. Fighting all the way up to sixth and making a slight mockery of observations that the course was one-line and hard for passing, Seewer then went down again on the penultimate lap and was able to round-off a heavy day with 12th spot; his 4-12 allowing fifth overall. 

Seewer came to the Grand Prix defending a 52-point cushion over third place in the #mx2 standings and the gap now rests at a sizeable 37 over Pauls Jonass. 

In the EMX250 European Championship, Bas Vaessen had to overcome a slip in the first rain-lashed #moto on Saturday afternoon and rally from last position to 16th. On Sunday morning the Dutchman successfully plotted a path to fifth for ninth place overall. Riding the RM-Z250 Vaessen retains fifth spot in the feeder series to Grand Prix and with four of 10 rounds now wiped from the slate. 

As with the Team #suzuki World #mxgp faction of the ‘yellow’ set-up, the #mx2 crew will now start the journey back to Lommel, Belgium and a brief hiatus before back-to-back Grands Prix in Spain and France and more hard-pack challenges ahead.

Jeremy Seewer: 

“I knew a bad day would come but I was making a bad day into a reasonably good one in some moments! I’m a bit disappointed to have had a few crashes but my feeling on the bike is great and my speed as well to catch so many people. My leg is a little bit sore but we have a free weekend now to rest a little bit. The rain helped make the track a bit more difficult and technical with some more ruts but it was still quite one-line. I lost some points for the championship position today but I think things could have been worse.” 

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