Motocross World Championship Grand Prix of Belgium

1 August 2016

The Grand Prix of Belgium was held in the Lommel sand hell, and also for this edition the name of the track has been respected.

In this event I was on track even the young of 125 Lugana Paolo and Alessandro Manucci.

The qualifications of Samuele Bernardini Saturday he has committed several mistakes that did not allow him to give their best on the sandy track of Lommel and had to settle for 19th position.

In race 1 Samuele failed to stage a good start and at the end of the first lap was passing in the midfield, Bernardini with an excellent rhythm remounted lap after lap until arriving in 8th place.

Samuele, however, has made a mistake that forced him to an excursion off the track losing several seconds and a few places.

“Berna” was not discouraged and has been shown to be very fast on the hard sandy bottom going to recover until the eighth.

Second run unfortunate for Samuele, the young driver of Tm Factory team when he was firmly in glasses doing unseat the lens top ten a stone hit him.

Bernardini was forced to pit to replace them losing several positions in trying to recover stumbled into a slip and not being able to do better than 19th place.

Samuele Bernardini in the championship standings is always firmly in ninth place.

In the 125cc class the two young drivers can qualify for the heats with a great performance with a very good eighth time to Paolo Lugana and 13 ° for Alessandro Manucci.

The track made difficult for the incredible holes that were formed has certainly not helped the two young riders on their 125.

In the overall standings Paolo Lugana manages to win points with the 23 th place finish, Alessandro Handles author of a few mistakes too failed to take points but showed good growth on a track is not suited to its characteristics.

A seventh break for Samuel Bernardini after the great effort of the day before the races in Switzerland next week.

Marco Ricciardi commented on the race: “Good race in this” hell “, excellent first heat where he held a huge step for sin a mistake but still finished eighth, in the second moto a stone caused the exit of the lens from ‘ glasses and had to stop because they go without a mask in Lommel is impossible. One week of rest and see you in Switzerland to close these three races in the best possible way. ”