ORLYONOK (Russia) 01 May 2018 – The Russian circuit of Orlyonok has hosted the furthest East round of theEuropean Motocross World Championships. Beautiful weather joined with the Eastern beaches of the Black Sea for unpredictable racing action this week.

Prior to the opening races of the FIM Motocross World Championship classes of MXGP and MX2 FIM Europe Motocross Championship classes of EMX250 and EMX300 completed their second races today. ASTES4-TESAR Yamaha’s Nicholas Lapucci and Verde Substance KTM’s Brad Anderson showed both speed and consistency on the way to taking their first EMX victories this year.

Race 1 of EMX250 was full of action right from the start with Jeremy Sydow leading Honda Redmoto Assomotor’s Mathys Boisrame, KTM Silver Action’s Gianluca Facchetti, and Carglass Honda Racing’s Steven Clarke but all 4 crashed in the opening laps.

The championship points leader coming into Russia, REVO Husqvarna UK’s Mel Pocock, had a collision with BUD Racing Kawasaki’s Pierre Goupillon sending both riders down, Pocock was later disqualified from Race 1 due to unsportsmanlike behavior after the incident.

Tom Vialle used the mistakes of the fast starters to win in dominant fashion leading every official lap. Giuseppe Tropepe took over 2nd from Tomass Sileika on lap 3 and stayed in the same position the remainder of the race.

ASTES4-TESAR Yamaha’s Nicholas Lapucci started in 9th position but by lap 6 the Italian made his way into 3rd. The #53, Team Diga Procross’ Dylan Walsh, followed Lapucci through the field and battled with REVO Husqvarna UK’s Martin Barr on the final laps to take 4th over Barr’s 5th.

Race 2 was led early by Walsh from New Zealand but Great Britain’s Steven Clarke chased the Kiwi down and made a pass for the lead stick on lap 8. Running in 3rd the first half of the race was Pocock before Lapucci found a way by on lap 11.

With 2 laps remaining Lapucci made a pass on Walsh for second and on the final lap of 17 Yamaha SM Action’s Maxime Renaux took another position from Walsh to finish 3rd. In the overall standings Nicolas Lapucci took his career first EMX250 win with Clarke 2nd and Walsh 3rd. Martin Barr claims the championship leaders red plate ahead of Walsh while Pocock dropped to 3rd.

MXGP RUSSIA – QUICK FACTS

Circuit length: 1507m

Type of ground: Hard Pack

Temperature: 26°

Weather conditions: sunny

Weekend Crowd Attendance: 35,000

NEXT STOP

The Next Stop of the EMX250 Championship will be held in Kegums, Latvia on May the 13^th, while the next round of the EMX300 Championship will take place in Matterley Basin, Great Britain on June the 3rd.