MX3 Season Starts in Portugal

CORTELHA

(PORTUGAL), 2 April 2010 – Cortelha in Portugal will have a pleasure
to
open the FIM MX3 Motocross World Championship season this weekend.
Also the
UEM EMX2 Motocross European Championship riders will take part of
the
opening event.

Thanks to the local
organizer Amigos Cortelha, the place Cortelha in
Southern Portugal is already well known
place in motocross World with the great organized events from
previous
years. This year they again put a lot of effort to make a new
unforgettable
event for the successful beginning of the season 2010.

Already at the first
event some big names will take part of the Championship. Husqvarna
Factory
rider Alex Salvini (Cross2R) missed the World Championship Title
last year
for a trifle and this season he wants to take it to
Italy .
Spanish rider Carlos Campano will be hard competitor for him. Matevz
Irt
(Tecno B) from
Slovenia
changed to Husqvarna after a very successful season that he made
last year,
when he finished sixth overall. Czech rider Martin Zerava (UFO
Racing) came
back after the injury. Antti Pyrhonen from
Finland ,
the third rider of the 2009 MX3 World Championship does not have
this luck.
After the bad leg injury, he is still not ready to start the season.
This
season he will have another important member of the team, Alejandro
Noemi
Boellert from
Chile .
Boellert will not be the only rider from
South America who will compete in the MX3
World Championship. Victor Dario Arco from
Argentina came to
Europe to take part of this Championship,
which will also take place in his home country at the beginning of
May.
Portugal
will have some riders who will attract the public; leader of the
home
Championship Luis Correia is a favourite and Hugo Basaula, who made
good
results in the last MX3 season.

LINKS
http://www.motocrossmx1.com/">Youthstream
FIM
Amigos Cortelha
Federaçao de Motociclismo de
Portugal