Van Doninck scores another top ten finish in MXGP of Arnhem
Brent van Doninck of JM Racing Honda has scored another top ten moto finish at the Dutch MXGP in Arnhem. Van Doninck managed to finish eighth in the second moto.
Van Doninck had a good weekend on the tough sand circuit and he showed this already on Saturday. He set a ninth fastest time in time practice and this was also his position in the qualifying heat. Perhaps it could have been a little bit better because in the last five minutes he ran out of tear offs. As a result, he was unable to attack Mattia Guadagnini, who was riding in front of him, and he had to settle for ninth place.
The first moto on Sunday started with a setback as Van Doninck was involved in a crash in the first corner after the start and had to start the race at the back. Giving it his all, he came back to eighteenth place and scored three points.
At the start of the second moto, Van Doninck was boxed in and had to come back to the front from around twentieth place. He did this well and with impressive lap times he managed to come back to eighth place.
With these results, he finished in thirteenth place in the general classification.
To gain experience, Max Werner competed in the MX2 class. Werner set a twentieth fastest time in time practice and managed to get a very good start in the qualifying heat. He had some nice battles and was still in the top fifteen in the middle of the race. Unfortunately, Werner had to deal with a mechanical problem in the closing stages that forced him to abandon the race.
In the first moto on Sunday, Werner rode a good first half of the race and was in seventeenth place for a long time. However, in the closing stages, the tough circuit started to take its toll and Werner left the race with three laps to go.
With the EMX250 race in Switzerland coming up, it was decided not to race in the second moto because this race was to gain experience in the MX2 class.
Overall MXGP Arnhem:
1 Jeffrey Herlings 50 Pnt
2 Jorge Prado 44 Pnt
3 Tim Gajser 38 Pnt
4 Glenn Coldenhoff 38 Pnt
5 Romain Febvre 32 Pnt
13 Brent van Doninck
Photocredits – Fullspectrum Media
