Race One: It’s brutal conditions for the first race of the year. It looked like Sacha Coenen was going to grab the holeshot but then he went wide and got caught up in the lose stuff. It allowed Janis Reisulis to get into the lead and the Latvian was having a superb ride.
Coenen was coming though the pack and made a move on Zanchi for second when he started to catch Reisulis – he got the gap down to just over four seconds but then Reisulis crashed out of the lead.
Simon Längenfelder had made a move on Zanchi for second before issues dropped him to third again – Zanchi will be happy with second on his first race with the Ducati.
Scott Smulders had a superb ride to come home an impressive fourth with Reisulis rounding out the top five.
Race Two: Things were more straight forward for Coenen in race two as he was leading on the first lap and from there no one else saw were he went. Längenfelder was riding steady in second and despite Reisulis being on his rear wheel, the Latvian then had another crash towards the end of the race.
That allowed Cas Valk to finish third on his TM – a strong ride.
Zanchi finished sixth in the second race which was enough to round off the podium. Smulders backed up his strong race one by finishing fifth in race two for fifth overall – a great day for the Dutch rider.
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