Spainish GP a complete washout
April 20, 2008
Spain is place where we all go for sun, sand and sangria but not this weekend.
The second round of the world motocross championship was a complete washout, the riders did a grand job surviving let alone racing – it wasn’t even mud it was like porridge.
Rattray took moto one by over a minute but in race two, riders who finished race one near the back of the pack seem to reverse their results, it was chaos.
Stephen Sword put in an extraordinary ride to finish third overall his first podium in a long time, Tommy Searle finished sixth, Shaun Simpson twelfth, Carl Nunn twenty first, Jason Dougan twenty third and Elliott Banks Browne in twenty fifth.
In the MX1 class the second moto was cancelled due to the condition of the track but Ramon took the win with Phillipaerts second and De Dycker third. The best of the Brits was Tom Church back in seventh, Billy Mackenzie in eighth and James Noble fourteenth.
This is certainly one event that teams and riders alike will want to forget and by the time the trucks reach Portugal for next weekend’s race - we can get back to some real motocross racing.
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