At GP of Riga, Fredriksen finished 3rd in Race 2 and just out of the podium in EMX250. In MX2 Renaux finished 5th overall. In MXGP Jacobi had two bitter races as he ended out of the points-area.
After only two days since the GP that reopened the 2020 season, the World Motocross went once again on track for the GP of Riga, second out of three races that will be disputed at the circuit of Kegums in Latvia. As it was for the previous round, the EMX250 Championship took place there too for the third round of the season.
Henry Jacobi #29 in the MXGP class, Maxime Renuax #959 in the MX2 and the Norwegian Hakon Fredriksen #427 in the EMX250 Championship were the line up of Team SM Action Yamaha.
The round started on Tuesday with the EMX250 Championship riders that had their race. After the good performances showed in the previous round, Fredriksen confirmed straight away his speed on his Yamaha YZ-F250 of the Team from Emilia Romagna. After the 4th fastest lap time in Free Practice, Hakon finished Timed Practice in 10th place. In Race 1 he had a terrible start, and after lap 1 he was in the back of the group, but his recovery was sensational and after 15 laps he was 10th at the finish line. In Race 2, Hakon did not repeat the mistake at the start and with an attacking pace he conquered the 3rd place, which allowed him to finish 4th in the overall. The Norwegian showed a great grit and he placed himself in 13th place in the General Classification.
In the MX2, in both Free and Timed Practice, Maxime was not as fast as usual and he went on the grid in 16th place. In both races, though, Renaux put in two solid performances after two good starts, and he finished Race 1 in 7th position and Race 2 in 5th. In the overall he finished 5th and in the General Classification he is still in 4th place, and still fighting for the Top 3 of the most prestigious Championship of the quarter of litre class.
Henry Jacobi, in the MXGP, tried to delete the bad previous round and he finished Free Practice in 10th place. In Timed Practice, though, he was not able to make it better than the 22nd position and in Race 1 too, after a start that placed him in the middle of the group, he was not able to show his potential. He stayed in the points-area until lap 8, but then he made a mistake that moved him back and his first race ended with zero points in 22nd position. Unluckily, in Race 2 too, the German was in troubles on the soft surface of the Latvian track and after a whole race disputed in the low level positions, Henry finished 22nd. With a very little satisfying 25th place in the overall, he is now in 21st place in the General Classification.
On the weekend of the 15th and 16th of August, GP of Kegums will host the 5th round of the FIM Motocross World Championship. After that there will be three weeks of break and, if everything will go the right way, as the Coronavirus pandemic is still developing around the world, on the 5th and the 6th of September the teams will fly to Turkey for the 6th seasonal round at Afyonkarahisar.
Source: https://mailchi.mp/b22f6263da60/team-sm-action-yamaha-press-release?e=7734f3af1b
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