After a short summer break, Team Honda Maddii ABF Italia returned to the track over the weekend for the fifteenth round of the MXGP World Championship, held on the famous and technical circuit of Uddevalla, Sweden.
In the MX2 class, Maxime Grau put in a solid and consistent performance throughout the weekend. The French rider opened the weekend with an excellent ninth place in Saturday’s qualifying heat, immediately confirming his good feeling with the bike and the track. In Race 1, Grau pushed hard with determination, taking an excellent seventh place at the checkered flag. In Race 2, he managed a complex heat with maturity, finishing in eleventh place. Thanks to these two results, Maxime concluded the Swedish Grand Prix in ninth overall for the day, achieving an important top 10 finish in the world championship.
As for the EMX250 European Championship, the team fielded Niccolò Alvisi and Elias Escandell. Alvisi delivered two solid heats, crossing the finish line with a positive eleventh place overall in the day’s standings. A more complicated weekend, however, for Elias Escandell, who, due to contacts and unexpected incidents on track, was unable to fully express his potential, finishing the Swedish round in 28th place overall.
Team Honda Maddii ABF Italia returns from Sweden with encouraging signs and is already focused on the next events on the world calendar, which will take place next weekend in Arnhem, the Netherlands.
Marco Maddii, Team Manager: “All in all, it was a good weekend for Maxime: he could have done even better, but it was a weekend marked by small mistakes and small crashes that somewhat compromised the final result. It could have been a 7th place, but instead he finished 9th, but we are still happy: even on a weekend that wasn’t completely perfect, he reached the top 10, which is a great sign. On the other hand, Alvisi and Escandell struggled more: with poor starts, they found it hard to recover, so it wasn’t a good weekend for the European Championship, and the guys are starting to feel a bit of end-of-season fatigue.”
