#17: MXGP of The Netherlands

In Sweden, Coenen's habitual raw speed wasnt there. From the first free practice on saturday to the last moto on sunday. It was not only bad starts, honestly...

Very strange. 

Third GP I'll attend this year! Agueda, Lommel, now Arnhem.

Should be a great weekend of racing

It's smaller than you may think, I thought the track was really wide before I got there. I think Valkenswaard is a bit more hardpack though. 

Make sure you buy a ticket for the grandstands, as it's quite packed and you can see a lot more sitting down there. A ticket for that is 10 EUR extra if I remember correctly. We've bought VIP tickets (Arnhem tent, not the Infront one) with our friend group, so it's a bit different atmosphere for us compared to Lommel for example. 

Paddock is small as well, every meter is used to get all the riders and trucks on there. 

And be prepared for horrendous traffic from the track. I attended last year and i think we were stuck for 2 hours in the parking field.

Seems he injured his shoulder the week before Sweden...

I've no idea why riders don't say when they're injured. He was clearly not himself in Sweden, and now we know why.

He was missing all his lines where I was sitting in the bottom turn of the track where Gifting made his famous passes. His rear suspension was way off in the rear and just kicked up on the brutal braking bumps, he couldn’t hold the inside lines like everyone else was using.

WMX time practice 

1.47.582 = Lynn Valk
1.49.082 = Lotte Van Drunen 
1.49.313 = Kiara Fontanesi 
1.50.137 = Daniela Guillen
1.50.819 = Shana Van Der Vlist
1.52.200 = Lucy Barker
1.52.203 = Martine Hughes
1.52.224 = Amandine Verstappen 
1.52.796 = Danee Gelissen
1.52.851 = Sara Andersen

Lucus Coenen losing his cool in timed practice. 

EMX250 time practice 

1.42.792 = Janis Reisulis 
1.42.966 = Francisco Garcia 
1.43.996 = Noel Zanocz 
1.44.006 = Liam Owens
1.44.423 = Nico Greutmann 
1.44.691 = Nicolai Skovbjerg 
1.45.040 = Jekabs Kubulins 
1.45.115 = Mads Fredsoe 
1.45.617 = Maximilian Werner 
1.45.942 = Joe Brooks 

MX2 time practice 

1.38.816 = Kay De Wolf 
1.39.547 = Rick Elzinga 
1.40.222 = Sacha Coenen 
1.40.515 = Camden Mc Lellan 
1.40.642 = Simon Laengenfelder 
1.41.199 = Liam Everts 
1.41.360 = Mathis Valin
1.41.381 = Thibault Benistant 
1.41.422 = Guillem Farres
1.41.499 = Valerio Lata 

MXGP time practice 

1.38.576 = Jeffrey Herlings 
1.38.884 = Lucas Coenen 
1.39.726 = Tim Gajser 
1.39.785 = Romain Febvre 
1.40.292 = Andrea Bonacorsi 
1.40.406 = Maxime Renaux
1.40.635 = Brent Van Doninck 
1.40.904 = Calvin Vlaanderen 
1.40.988 = Isak Gifting 
1.41.524 = Kevin Brumann

He was clearly very frustrated several times during timed timed training when he/slower riders screwed up fast laps.

WMX race 1 

+0.000 = Lotte Van Drunen 
+18.402 = Daniela Guillen
+20.668 = Shana Van Der Vlist 
+23.880 = Kiara Fontanesi 
+47.275 = Danee Gelissen 
+48.212 = Lucy Barker 
+1.00.750 = Larissa Papenmeier 
+1.01.779 = Sara Andersen
+1.15.587 = Amandine Verstappen 
+1.24.939 = April Franzoni 

EMX250 race 1 

+0.000 = Francisco Garcia
+3.411 = Janis Reisulis 
+4.053 = Noel Zanocz 
+4.981 = Liam Owens 
+35.913 = Nico Greutmann 
+37.402 = Jake Cannon 
+49.781 = Bradley Mesters 
+57.452 = Jekabs Kubulins 
+1.01.225 = Nicolai Skovbjerg 
+1.03.960 = Maxime Lucas 

I'm wondering if there is an injury in the Reisulis camp. Janis does not seems as dominant as before, and he fades quite a lot at the end.
 

L. Coenen is a rookie right?

MX2 qualifying race 

+0.000 = Andrea Adamo
+1.304 = Sacha Coenen
+3.882 = Liam Everts
+24.429 = Rick Elzinga 
+25.350 = Camden Mc Lellan 
+26.605 = Mathis Valin
+36.201 = Kay De Wolf 
+38.106 = Cas Valk 
+39.647 = Guillem Farres
+45.597 = Jens Walvoort

MXGP qualifying race 

+0.000 = Jeffrey Herlings 
+1.417 = Glenn Coldenhoff 
+5.961 = Romain Febvre 
+9.257 = Lucas Coenen 
+11.812 = Tim Gajser 
+16.387 = Andrea Bonacorsi 
+33.951 = Brian Bogers 
+35.956 = Ruben Fernandez 
+39.197 = Pauls Jonass 
+40.452 = Brent Van Doninck

Fastest laps of saturday races 

WMX race 1 

1.52.771 = Lotte Van Drunen 
1.54.466 = Daniela Guillen
1.54.768 = Kiara Fontanesi 
1.54.829 = Shana Van Der Vlist 
1.56.626 = Danee Gelissen 
1.56.767 = Lynn Valk
1.57.273 = Larissa Papenmeier 
1.57.638 = Amandine Verstappen 
1.57.981 = Lucy Barker
1.58.231 = Sara Andersen 

EMX250 race 1 

1.46.768 = Janis Reisulis 
1.47.231 = Francisco Garcia 
1.48.879 = Liam Owens
1.48.935 = Noel Zanocz 
1.49.252 = Jekabs Kubulins 
1.49.398 = Nico Greutmann 
1.49.719 = Nicolai Skovbjerg 
1.50.485 = Maximilian Werner 
1.50.855 = Bradley Mesters
1.50.938 = Maxime Lucas 

MX2 qualifying race 

1.43.444 = Kay De Wolf 
1.45.265 = Simon Laengenfelder 
1.45.510 = Liam Everts
1.45.583 = Sacha Coenen 
1.45.688 = Andrea Adamo
1.46.026 = Thibault Benistant 
1.46.754 = Rick Elzinga 
1.46.901 = Mathis Valin
1.46.960 = Camden Mc Lellan 
1.47.601 = Valerio Lata 

MXGP qualifying race 

1.44.641 = Jeffrey Herlings 
1.45.242 = Glenn Coldenhoff 
1.45.352 = Tim Gajser 
1.45.400 = Lucas Coenen 
1.45.483 = Andrea Bonacorsi 
1.45.522 = Romain Febvre 
1.46.283 = Pauls Jonass 
1.46.730 = Calvin Vlaanderen 
1.46.832 = Ruben Fernandez 
1.46.987 = Jorgen-Matthias Talviku 
 

16th for Calvin in the quali race. He must have crashed somewhere. Bummer for his gate pick for today.

Yeah he was 16th on the first lap, got up to 12th mid race, crashed on lap 10 and dropped back to 16th. He should be doing better in sand.

Thanks Elliot. Calvin grew up racing in the deep sand at Melkbos here in Cape Town. I always expect a podium from Calvin anytime the GPs hit a sandy track.

Here's hoping he gets a couple of decent starts today.

EMX250 race 2 

+0.000 = Janis Reisulis 
+2.584 = Liam Owens
+8.690 = Mads Fredsoe 
+21.298 = Francisco Garcia 
+22.513 = Jekabs Kubulins (penalty, 10th)
+24.881 = Noel Zanocz 
+26.042 = Nico Greutmann 
+27.469 = Nicolai Skovbjerg 
+39.940 = Bradley Mesters 
+1.04.605 = Tom Brunet 

Overall 

2/1 = Janis Reisulis 
1/4 = Francisco Garcia 
4/2 = Liam Owens
3/5 = Noel Zanocz 
5/6 = Nico Greutmann 
12/3 = Mads Fredsoe
7/8 = Bradley Mesters
9/7 = Nicolai Skovbjerg 
8/10 = Jekabs Kubulins 
13/9 = Tom Brunet 

Championship 

478 = Janis Reisulis 
440 = Noel Zanocz 
407 = Francisco Garcia 
271 = Nico Greutmann 
266 = Gyan Doensen 
251 = Nicolai Skovbjerg 
248 = Liam Owens
200 = Bradley Mesters 
197 = Jake Cannon 
182 = Simone Mancini 
 

EMX250 stats 

Overall wins 

5 = Janis Reisulis 
3 = Noel Zanocz 
2 = Francisco Garcia 
1 = Adrien Petit
1 = August Frisk 

Overall podiums 

8 = Noel Zanocz 
7 = Janis Reisulis 
7 = Francisco Garcia 
2 = Adrien Petit 
2 = Gyan Doensen  
1 = Mads Fredsoe
1 = August Frisk 
1 = Alexis Fueri 
1 = Adria Monne
1 = Nico Greutmann 
1 = Ivano Van Erp 
1 = Jake Cannon 
1 = Nicolai Skovbjerg 
1 = Liam Owens 

Race wins 

10 = Janis Reisulis 
6 = Francisco Garcia 
3 = Noel Zanocz 
2 = August Frisk
1 = Adrien Petit
1 = Simone Mancini 
1 = Ivano Van Erp 

Race top 3 

18 = Janis Reisulis 
13 = Francisco Garcia 
12 = Noel Zanocz 
5 = Gyan Doensen 
3 = Adrien Petit 
3 = August Frisk
3 = Simone Mancini 
2 = Nico Greutmann 
2 = Jake Cannon 
2 = Ivano Van Erp 
2 = Nicolai Skovbjerg 
2 = Mads Fredsoe
1 = Salvador Perez
1 = William Askew
1 = Alexis Fueri
1 = Liam Owens 

Laps lead 

156 = Janis Reisulis 
58 = Francisco Garcia 
33 = August Frisk
32 = Noel Zanocz 
24 = Ivano Van Erp 
18 = Simone Mancini 
11 = Adrien Petit 
10 = Alexis Fueri 
5 = Gyan Doensen 
2 = William Askew
1 = Jake Cannon 

Fastest laps of the races 

10 = Janis Reisulis 
4 = Francisco Garcia 
2 = August Frisk
2 = Simone Mancini 
2 = Noel Zanocz 
1 = Adrien Petit 
1 = Gyan Doensen 
1 = Liam Owens 
1 = Jekabs Kubulins 

Fastest practice lap 

11 = Janis Reisulis 
2 = Francisco Garcia 
2 = Noel Zanocz
1 = Nico Greutmann

Nasty crash by Längenfelder! 

Great push by De Wolf 

Damn both Vlaanderen and Ruben must have had a seriously shit start.