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Compromised starting positions crucial factor on race day


Saturday’s incident packed Qualifying Race had serious knock-on
implications for both Honda World Motocross Team riders in Sunday’s
main event motos. Both Bobryshev and Gonçalves started from un-favoured
gate positions after a disrupted qualifying heat, Gonçalves lined up in
10th, Bobryshev 17th. As a result there was a heavy price to pay.


Coming from outside in the start gate was always going to be tough and
in the first moto Bobryshev and Gonçalves could only elevate themselves
to the fringes of the top 10 as they rounded the first turn. On a track
that was extremely difficult to pass, with really only one fast line,
improving this position was tough going. Bobryshev hunted down Boog to
move into 8th but could not quite position himself for a
pass on Ramon by the end of the moto. Gonçalves also struggled to make
progress through the field and was forced to settl e for
a 10th place finish. Antonio Cairoli took the win with David Philippaerts close behind.


Unfortunately worse was to come in the second moto.  Bobryshev got out
of the gate well and powered to the first turn at the front of the pack
but a collision with Balbi as he got squeezed outside, would put him
down. Forced to come from the back of the field, Bobryshev would put in
a heroic ride to 11th but that was as far as it was possible to climb.

Gonçalves once again got swallowed up off the start but pushed through to 7th
by the end of lap 1. However he would struggle to get into the groove
and was shuffled back through the field in the middle part of the moto.
A crash on the uphill wave section of the Indaiatuba track, added to
the woes in what was a troubled race for the Portuguese, eventually
finishing 13th. David Philippaerts took the win and the overall.

Evgeny Bobryshe
v,
Honda World Motocross
“I
am disappointed man, I had good speed in the qualifier but the result
was not what I needed to set me up. The track was tough to pass and in
the first moto it was hard to make any progress. In the second moto I
got away well but had a big crash in the first turn. I got run over and
kind of lost my bike for a minute. When I got going again, I was right
at the back. 11th was the best that I could do. I need to put this weekend behind me.”


Rui Gonçalves, Honda World Motocross
“This was a bad weekend really. I got arm-pump in the qualifying race and got a pretty bad gate position. The
first moto was difficult and I crashed in the second in the uphill
waves. The light was going in that part of the track and I just got my
wheel in the wrong rut. I will move past this weekend and focus on the
next round in France.”
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