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Who impressed: MX2 in Ottobiano!

Who impressed: MX2 in Ottobiano!

Jeremy Seewer: You wouldn’t say that the sandy, bumpy Ottobiano circuit is a Jeremy Seewer track but he looked right at home and adapted to the track brilliantly. Seewer’s starts at the beginning of the year were simply not good enough but he looks to have improved on them which is positive.

He dominated the first moto of the weekend and won by nearly thirteen-seconds which is impressive. However, in the second moto he had two small crashes which meant he couldn’t take a double moto win but he still won the GP and gained seven points on Jonass on the race for the championship.

Pauls Jonass: The championship leader had a bad first moto only finishing in sixth, his worst moto of the year except for the muddy Indonesian race. Jonass would have been asking himself questions after struggling in the first moto but with the pressure on he came out a totally different rider in the second moto.

Jonass got the holeshot and never looked back controlling the race from the front. It was a bad day as he admitted that he didn’t have a great feeling on the track but even still he won a moto and finished second overall.

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Thomas Covington: The American has had to work extremely hard to get to where he’s currently at in the sand. A few years ago, he just didn’t look good in the sand and that’s to no surprise at all as they simply don’t have tracks like that in America. Covington has clearly put in a lot of laps at many different sand tracks and it looks like everything is starting to fall into place for him.

To get third overall is a great result and shows he has come a long way. He is still searching for more though as he says he got ‘smoked’ by Jonass and Seewer in the second moto so he’s not just content on getting podiums!

Benoit Paturel: The Kemea Yamaha rider has not been making things easy for himself. Starts, starts, starts! That’s what he needs to work on massively because it’s seriously costing him. In the first moto he started in eighth and rode really well to get back to second, he looked like he had the speed to at least challenge Seewer.

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Paturel got an even worse start in the second moto as he was outside the top twenty-five. He charged his way through the field and got back to seventh but it was only good enough for fourth overall which is a missed opportunity because he had the speed for at least a podium at the weekend.  Paturel would be in contention for the title if his starts had have been better. The speed though, is impressive from the French rider.

Bas Vaessen:  The MX2 rookie looked great at Ottobiano. In the first moto he ended up a very solid seventh and came from fourteenth on the first lap! The best was still yet to come.
In the second moto he ended up a very impressive fourth spot to clinch fifth overall, a career best for the Dutchman. He is clearly very strong is sand and could be a dark horse to get a podium before the end of the year. Lommel and Assen could be the tracks to watch out for Vaessen.

Alvin Ostlund: The Swede had a good GP in Russia and he brought his good form to Italy. He went eight and fifth in the moto’s for seventh overall. In the second moto he was very impressive beating some top riders like Olsen, Leiber, Paturel and Bogers to name a few. Ostlund will hope to carry this form into the rest of the season and become a consistent top ten rider.

Ben Watson: The Brit deserves a mention this week as he was flying on his Hitachi KTM UK machine. The weekend couldn’t have started better for the Brit as he finished a superb fourth in the qualifying race.

Unfortunately, the first race didn’t go to plan as he got caught up in a start straight crash. When he was coming through the field he took another crash as he had just entered the points so he had to call it a day. He took a better start in the second moto in ninth and managed to come home in eighth which is a good result. Watson will want to start getting the same results in hard pack now too.