The Slovenian wins the GP but is less precise. Prado falls and we have to wait for a verdict. Herlings wins race 2. Sacha Coenen in an MX2 who also lights up the other Belgian, Everts, but places Valerio Lata on the Maggiora podium. But it's not over…
June 16, 2024
Maggiora, Novara, 16 June. In the emotional background, allow us, the encore triumph of the Ferrari #50 of Antonio Fuoco, Nicklas Nielsen and Miguel Molina at the 24 hours of Le Mans. Super congratulations Mr Coletta, and Toprak's Tris in Misano. In the no longer imaginary scenario of tomorrow, Antonio Cairoli's return to the saddle, competing in Ponte a Egola on the newly created Ducati. Everyone knows that “Tony” remained very fast, we all suspected that an Ace like that doesn't turn off the engine of his career, no matter how stellar, and puts on his slippers. In the present, in the incredible reality, the cannon fire from the Motocross fortress of Maggiora amazes and inflames. Fortress under siege of bad weather on Saturday, still narrow in the possible lines of the morning, and in the relief of an afternoon of dizzying races.
The telex from the front. MXGP. There's no getting bored with these beasts! It doesn't bore us in Maggiora. Tim Gajser takes the lead in Race 1, perfectly. He seems to be taking off, it seems like a Race 1 destined for the boredom of super domination. It is not so. The Honda official is not so precise, not so lucid. He is rough, he makes mistakes, he gives away, he corrodes his own advantage. With the improved track Prado, GasGas, does not have to be asked and also drags Herlings, KTM, behind the pacesetter. Breath down my neck, there are three of them, behind is the void. The result is a race that brings all of Maggiora to their feet, memorable, exhilarating, from the second lap. At the seventeenth they are still there, the three inseparable, elbow to elbow. They end in order in a handkerchief of just over two seconds. Race 2 borders on drama, perhaps so. Bad start. Gajser goes away, Prado falls. The motorbike, the shoulder, the left leg? Something is wrong, the Spanish World Champion goes out into the pit, comes back in then gives up. Trouble ahead? Meanwhile, an unfortunate, inopportune zero. Another imprecise Gajser, strong but nervous, crashes on the 11th lap. Nothing serious, but it's the slot offered to Herlings, KTM, to take the lead and stay there until the finish. Seewer, Kawasaki, is third, Guadagnini, Husqvarna, seventh, redeems the failure of Race 1. Gajser wins the GP and flies to the top of the World Championship with 511 points. Herlings, slowly but inexorably growing from Germany, approaches Prado, probably scandalously unlucky.
MX2. It is Sacha Coenen's second consecutive “outburst”. The KTM official has learned, he is no longer just the ace of holeshot and surroundings. The little brother follows Lucas and together the two cousins of the Group, KTM and Husqvarna, conquer Maggiora, Sacha once again winner of the Italian Grand Prix after Latvia, at the end of a sensible, strong, very determined race. No ifs or buts. Ok, Laengenfelder, GasGas was one of the protagonists of the entire weekend, but never until the real end of each stage. Drop, a bit of bad luck, having underestimated the explosive power of those chasing on a legendary track like Maggiora? It does not matter. Carta sings. The German doesn't go beyond 4th place. And the genetic question, that transfer of genes by which people inherit exceptional qualities? I don't know, in any case ask the Everts' propellers, and if you are bio-engineers have a code isolated and replicate pilots that you humans can't even imagine… but Liam is also at his limit, inversely proportional to the bad conditions of the track. First in Qualifying and Race 1, fourth in Race 2. He is second behind Sacha. Where we wanted to go with this. To the wonder of Valerio Lata, a formidable little policeman in his competition of celebration, consecration, life and career still in its infancy, still so splendidly offered as a special prize to the stoic and historical passion of Maggiora, of GasGas, of Beddini. A fifth and a thrilling, goosebumps podium, certainly for him too, a new, exciting Italian story.
But this is nothing. Maggiora deserves a key witness, and the Italian Grand Prix launches Moto.it's new lethal weapon into the Motocross firmament: Mattia Carpi. Keep the page open, Mattia is about to spill a wheelbarrow of strong emotions onto our and your site! Starting with the truth about Jorge Prado. You will understand well that for the next West Nusa Tenggara Indonesian Grand Prix, 29 and 30 June, there is time for Maggiora's things to settle
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