perfect, it was pretty sore; this
track is very slick, and it is easy
to put your foot on the ground.
I chose a good gate in the first
moto but not in the second—
some were dropping and some
not. It seemed I had the last one
of the 40 to drop! I tried to come
back fast through the group, and
it was going well actually, but I
crashed again while 11th and got
hit again. I restarted and tried to
get as many points as I could."
In MX2, KTM did get a victory
thanks to Spain's Jorge Prado,
though he had a bit of a scare in
the first moto.
The championship points lead-
er, Prado, was leading the first
moto when Belgian Jago Geerts
(Yamaha) actually ran him down
and passed him for the win.
Prado said, "I relaxed a bit in
the last laps, but I felt everything
was under control until I took
the wrong rut after the finish-line
jump in the first race. I charged
hard to try and make a pass on
the last lap, but I couldn't make it
happen."
Prado, however, rebounded in
moto two. The Spaniard shot out
of the gate, nabbed the holeshot
and never looked back to take
the moto win and overall victory
with a 2-1.
After starting off in fourth,
Geerts worked his way up to
second for second overall on the
day.
Thomas Kjer Olsen (Husqvar-
na) of Denmark, the nearest rider
to Prado in the championship,
struggled with bad starts and
went 3-5 for third overall. He saw
the points gap between him and
Prado grow a bit to 14, 297-283.
Geerts is third in the champion-
ship with 217 points. CN
IN
THE
WIND
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Jorge Prado went 2-1
for the MX2-class win.
PHOTO: RAY ARCHER
