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De Wolf - Steals Victory

De Wolf - Steals Victory

Mar 2

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Nestaan Husqvarna Factory rider, Kay De Wolf has won the MX2 class at the GP of Argentina with 1-5 results, his ninth GP win of his career. The defending champion was struggling in the second moto, but some bad luck, or poor racing from Simon Langenfelder handed the victory to the defending MX2 champion.

Second overall was another Red Bull KTM factory rider, Sasha Coenen with 8-1 scores. Third overall was Red Bull KTM Factory rider Langenfelder with 2-6. Langenfelder nearly won the fourth Grand Prix of his career, but crashed three times in the final lap of the second moto to lose the overall and hand it to the defending champion.

Kay De Wolf: I was struggling compared to the first moto. Track dried out and was completely different. I got back to back wins, won last year in Argentina and now this year. Today we didn’t have the red place, so we have the blue gear, I will enjoy the next two weeks on the bike and head to Spain. The first one was muddy and everyone had wheel spin and I changed my plans and pulled the holeshot. I crashed in the second one and couldn't breath and had to catch my breath, but we did a good job. Three weeks ago, we never thought we would be here and the injury didn't help, but we recovered quickly.

Sasha Coenen: I knew we had the speed and in the first moto I slipped on the gate and had to come from the back and then the second one took the holeshot and led the whole race and didn't make any mistakes. Nice to be second in the first GP.

MX2 Moto Two

Sasha Coenen took the holeshot from Lata, Langenfelder, Oliver, Adamo, de Wolf, Benistant, Everts, Walvoort and Rossi 10th. McLellan 14 and Valin 12th. De Wolf into fifth place as he passed Adamo, and Oliver into second place.

Six bikes from Austria inside the top seven, with Coenen, Oliver, Langenfelder, de Wolf, Adamo and Everts all on KTM or Husky machines. Only the Honda of Lata in third on a Japanese bike. Yamaha and Kawasaki in 8th, 9th and 10th, with Benistant, Reisulis and Valin. Lap one and the lead by Coenen was 4.1 seconds, and then Lata 6.3 behind the leader.

Coenen continued to gap the field, with his lead 6.2 on lap two and no changes inside the top ten. Benistant and Valin in a nice battle and Oliver slipped over and dropped from second to 8th place. Great ride by MX2 rookie Lata on the HRC machine. Valin passed Oliver to drop the Spaniard to ninth place.

Four laps and the lead was no 10 seconds over Lata, who was having trouble with Langenfelder as the German tried time and time again to make the pass. Valk back in 13th place after his solid moto one result and Everts still showing great speed, despite his lack of prep. Langenfelder passed Lata and put himself as the GP leader from the two motos.

De Wolf still stuck in fifth position and 14 seconds off the pace of Coenen, while the top ten on lap five was Coenen, Langenfelder, Lata, Adamo, De Wolf, Everts, Reisulis, Valin, Oliver and Benistant.

Big changes on lap six as Adamo and De Wolf both passed Lata, and de Wolf trying to get himself in a position to win the GP from Langenfelder, but he is 16 seconds off Coenen and five seconds behind Langenfelder. The lead by Coenen was now 10 seconds over Langenfelder. Everts also moved past Lata and fourth overall at this point of the race. Brilliant effort from the Belgian kid.

De Wolf a crash and he dropped to eight place and then passed Lata to move into seventh but damaged his overall chances. Lap nine it was Coenen with a 10 second lead over Langenfelder, then Adamo, Everts, Reisulis, Valin, de Wolf, Lata, Oliver and McLellan. Oliver also moved past Lata.

Coenen looking brilliant in the lead as he shows us what we all knew, a very talented rider, who just needs to be more mature and stay on the bike. When he does that, moto wins and GP wins will come more often. Lap 13 the top ten was Coenen, Langenfelder, Adamo, Everts, Reisulis, Valin, De Wolf, Oliver, McLellan and Lata 10th.

Reisulis dropped from fifth to seventh as Valin and de Wolf both went past and on lap 15 it was Coenen with a 12 second lead, then Langenfelder, Adamo, Everts, Valin, De Wolf, Reisulis, Oliver, McLellan and Lata.

Langenfelder crashed twice, allowing Adamo into second, but he maintained third place and still could have won the Grand Prix, but then, in the final part of the moto, Langenfelder crashed again and dropped any chance of winning the Grand Prix. That went to de Wolf.

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