The MXGP of Flanders has turned out very positively for the De Baets MX team. Lotte van Drunen started with a wildcard in the MX2 class and managed to score a World Championship point in this class. In addition, Benoit Paturel scored fifteen important points in the MXGP class.
The conditions were tough in Lommel. The sandy track in combination with the high temperatures made it hard for the riders. Lotte van Drunen competed in the MX2 class for the first time in her career and immediately managed to show good things on Saturday. Among the boys, she managed to set a seventeenth time in time practice and eventually qualified 23rd for the race on Sunday.
In the gruelling motos on Sunday, the goal was to reach the finish line in both motos. She succeeded and also managed to score a World Championship point with a twentieth place.
Benoit Paturel also had a positive weekend. Although riding sand is not his favorite, he gave everything he had and managed to qualify twelfth for the race on Saturday.
On Sunday, he added two consistent motos. Paturel crossed the finish line in thirteenth and fourteenth place and finished fourteenth in the general classification. Paturel is also in fourteenth place in the world championship standings.
In the weekend of 10 and 11 August, the world championship will continue in Uddevalla, Sweden.
Overall MXGP Lommel:
1 Jeffrey Herlings 50 Pnt
2 Jorge Prado 44 Pnt
3 Romain Febvre 38 Pnt
4 Tim Gajser 34 Pnt
5 Glenn Coldenhoff 30 Pnt
14 Benoit Paturel 15 Pnt
World Championship Standings MXGP:
1 Tim Gajser 705 Pnt
2 Jorge Prado 681 Pnt
3 Jeffrey Herlings 667 Pnt
4 Calvin Vlaanderen 507 Pnt
5 Jeremy Seewer 479 Pnt
14 Benoit Paturel 183 Pnt
Overall GP MX2 Lommel:
1 Kay de Wolf 47 Pnt
2 Rick Elzinga 40 Pnt
3 Simon Laengenfelder 38 Pnt
4 Liam Everts 35 Pnt
5 Mikkel Haarup 32 Pnt
21 Lotte van Drunen 1 Pnt
Photocredits – Fullspectrum Media
