Lancelot Seeks Revenge in Agueda

FUNCHAL
(PORTUGAL), 4 May 2010 – The FIM Women’s Motocross World
Championship resumes
from the Portuguese round at Agueda this weekend when the best
female MX
racers will gather for another exciting battle. Stephanie Laier
leads the
series after the opening round in Bulgaria. Chiara Fontanesi is
second
while Maria Franke is third ahead of Larissa Papenmeier and Livia
Lancelot.

Taking victory at
round one in Sevlievo, Bulgaria, with a dominant performance Red
Bull KTM
Factory Racing’s Laier is now back on top of the points standings,
basically the same position she finished in 2009 when she collected
her
maiden World Title. The
German had a weekend to forget at Agueda last year as she crashed in
the
opening moto.

Rival Lancelot of KTM HDI took victory in Agueda last year but her
weekend
to forget was surely the opening round in Bulgaria where she
struggled to
take just fifth overall. The 2008 Women’s World Champion will be
surely
back into the saddle in Portugal.

By taking second in Sevlievo, Fontanesi confirmed her progression
from her
maiden podium in 2009 at Lierop. The Italian is yet to win a round
of this
series and aims at breaking Laier and Lancelot’s record – so far the
only
two racers to have won an overall.

Diga KTM’s Franke holds third in the Championship after a solid
start but
she is chased by rivals Papenmeier and Lancelot.

Kane is another rider looking for better fortunes in Portugal where
she
finished fifth in 2009. The Irish is now seventh in the standings
after she
took third in the Championship in 2009.

2009 WMX PODIUM:

1. Livia Lancelot

2. Ashley Fiolek

3. Larissa Papenmeier


2009 WMX POLE: Livia Lancelot

 
Photos
available
at www.motocrossmx1.com/gallery 
 
TIMETABLE

Saturday: WMX Free Practice 9:25; MX2 Free Practice 10:00; MX1 Free
Practice
10:45; WMX Time Practice 13:00; MX2 Pre Qualifying Practice 13:35; MX1 Pre
Qualifying Practice 14:20;
WMX Race 1 15:15;
MX2 Qualifying Race 16:05;
MX1
Qualifying Race 16:55;


Sunday: WMX Warm up 8:30; MX2 Warm up 9:00; MX1 Warm up 9:30; WMX
Race 2
11:15; MX2 Grand Prix Race 1 12:10; MX1 Grand Prix Race 1 13:10; MX2 Grand
Prix Race 2 15:03;
MX1 Grand Prix race 2 16:03.

 

 

LINKS
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