Nestaan Husqvarna factory rider, Kay De Wolf has handily won the opening moto for MX2 at the Lierop International race today. Under beautiful blue skies and in a nice temperature for February, the World MX2 champion was in complete control from the opening lap and often put lap times together two seconds quicker than the opposition.

De Wolf led the opening MX2 moto early from Jens Walvoort, Bradley Mesters, Quentin Marc Prugnieres, David Braceras, Cas Valk, Marc Rossi, Kay Karssemakers, Mads Sorensen and Lyonel Reichl in 10th. The gap between De Wolf and second places was quickly three seconds and are we seeing a Herlings like effort from the MX2 World champion?

Valk moved into fourth place and continues to show great speed as another Dutchman, Gyan Doensen was way back in 19th place and charging through the pack. Mesters in 27th place after his good start. De Wolf was wasting no time in showing why he is the World champion, as he gapped Walvoort by four seconds in the second lap. Prugnieres moved into third place.

Valk moved past Prugnieres on lap three to take over third place and the lead by De Wolf over Walvoort was now 4.7 seconds. Doensen was up to 14th spot and still riding well to make up the lost ground.

Clearly De Wolf not taking any risks with Argentina just a week away and his lead on lap five was seven seconds, with Valk now all over the back wheel of the second placed man. Top ten was De Wolf, Walvoort, Valk, Prugnieres, Braceras, Rossi, Sorensen, Karssemakers, Reichl and Bussink, with Doensen now 12th.

Valk into second place on lap six, but the lead by De Wolf was nearly 10 seconds, as Valk, Walvoort and Prugnieres were all rather close together in the fight for second, third and fourth places. Braceras was 30 seconds off the lead, with Rossi on his back wheel.

On lap seven Walvoort moved past Valk to regain second place, and the lead remained around 10 seconds to De Wolf, who was just cruising and enjoying the Dutch sand track. Doensen was 11th, with Mesters 15th. On lap eight the lead was still 10 seconds and the Nestaan Husqvarna rider just taking his time.

Walvoort closed the gap slightly to De Wolf, as the lead was 9.4 second son lap nine and Valk had dropped off the pace of the second placed man. Doensen into the top ten on lap nine. Skovbjerg and Karssemakers not that far ahead of the Dutch youngster with a handful of laps remaining.

On lap 10 Prugnieres passed Valk, and de Wolf extends his lead to 11.7 seconds and did a lap time two seconds quicker than Walvoort. Not a lot happened in the later stages of the race as De Wolf clocked another lap a second quicker than Walvoort and it seemed De Wolf was cruising again up front. Doensen’s run seems over as he lost ground on the handful of riders ahead of him.

Lap 13 and De Wolf again did a lap two seconds quicker than the opposition and the lead went to 14 seconds. Great ride by Walvoort, who keeps second his and a slight gap between himself and Prugnieres in third and Valk in fourth. De Wolf lapping riders left, right and centre and not even pushing that hard. De Wolf wins from Walvoort and Prugnieres and laps up to 11th place.

MX2 Moto One

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