Officially it opened the 2017 season with the first race of the Italian International hell of Riola Sardo sand in Sardinia.

Team Tm Factory comes to this race with Samuele Bernardini riding his Tm 250 in MX2 and Paolo Lugana in 125.

In the hard-fought 125cc Paolo Lugana soon proved up to its rivals in time trials and clocked the seventh fastest time, a position that foreshadowed an excellent result for Paul.

At the start of the first moto Paolo was involved in a crash that saw him lose several positions, Lugana distributed in the rear sported a good pace that saw him climb up the table up to 22 ° square.

In the second moto Paolo started to make a good result and so was, Lugana has sported to slow him winning a huge no place.

Samuele Bernardini only a few days has been testing the new Tm 250, still improved the bike from last year.

“Berna” in qualifying ended with a good ninth place.

Samuel in the MX2 moto start strong party to try to find a good rhythm. Thanks to a constant race without taking big risks has got an encouraging eighth place.

Bernardini has thus gained access to the final prestigious Elite.

Samuele is very strong at the start of the party passing the first lap in fifth place among the 450.

Halfway through the race Bernardini was the victim of a fall without consequences and has sent smoke into her beautiful performance.

Good test for the entire Tm Factory team in view of the opening of the World Cup in Qatar, only a few days off and then back on the track for the second race of the Italian International on track Malagrotta.

Marco Ricciardi commented on the race: “Good performance of Samuele, for us this race has served to test the latest news before shipping the bikes in Qatar, good first race with a good pace, was not exaggerating because it has to find the right feeling , the Elite great start in the middle of 450 and excellent first half of the race, too bad fall which hurt him, clocked good times, in the next two races we will move forward with the development of the bike for the World. “