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LaCapelle: Paturel in

Paturel returns to racing.

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Benoit Paturel has been extremely quiet in recent weeks. Following the debacle with BOS, he entered the shadows and has not emerged with any firms plans to race in the upcoming FIM Motocross World Championship. Encouraging news was received earlier today, however, as it seems that he has entered the LaCapelle Marival pre-season international that will run tomorrow.

Paturel will race a Honda in the premier division, with help from Steven Frossard. This is a privateer effort, as far as we can tell, but the choice to pick red machinery is rather intriguing. Paturel rode a Yamaha in recent years, then piloted both a Kawasaki and a KTM in the off-season. Perhaps the decision was linked to the fact that there is a fill-in slot at Team HRC that he could potentially fill? That is simply speculation at this stage, as HRC have claimed that they have not yet decided who will pilot the vacant machine.

The fact that Paturel is clearly betting on himself is positive in itself, as most questioned his mentality after splitting from BOS. The reason for that split was that he did not gel with the machinery, despite the fact that he never tested the full race bike. BOS later signed Evgeny Bobryshev as a replacement, much to the delight of Grand Prix fans, but it still remains to be seen what Paturel will do when the new season begins.

Words: Lewis Phillips | Lead Image: Monster Energy Media/Ray Archer

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Results: Lierop International

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Lucas and Sacha Coenen confirmed for Lierop

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This Sunday (March 3) the Dutch motocross season will start at the Herselse Bossen circuit in Lierop. The field of racers is getting stronger and stronger and it promises to be a really high-level race.


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The MX2 class is full of young and motivated riders and Lucas and Sacha Coenen will join them for Lierop. These talented twins regularly impressed in the MX2 World Championship last year and Lucas won his first Grand Prix in Indonesia at the age of sixteen.

A fifth place was his share in the final standings and he certainly wants to improve on that this year. Sacha also regularly showed that he has the speed to compete at the front. Highlights were his second place in the qualifying heat in Finland and top five finishes in the Czech Republic and Sweden.

In the deep sand of Lierop, the Coenen brothers will compete against riders like Kay de Wolf, Cas Valk, Hakon Osterhagen, Max Werner, Scott Smulders, Bradley Mesters, Hakon Fredriksen, Oriol Oliver and others.

Also in the 500 class we get fireworks with the participation of Jeffrey Herlings, Jago Geerts, Pauls Jonass, Calvin Vlaanderen, Brent van Doninck and others.

The weather forecast looks good, so the Dutch MX Season Opener in Lierop has all the ingredients to see a great day of racing.

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Results: Spanish Championship Talavera

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Find all the results from Round 1 of the Spanish Championship at Talavera below.

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