Hawkstone Highlights: New-look British MX1 championship ft. Mewse, Sterry, Gilbert, Rizzi скачать в хорошем качестве

Hawkstone Highlights: New-look British MX1 championship ft. Mewse, Sterry, Gilbert, Rizzi

With a new promoter, great names like former champ Adam Sterry and Triumph's first 450 British championship race in the hands of Joel Rizzi, the Hawkstone Park round offered something very special. Honda’s Conrad Mewse now has the red plate in both major UK motocross championships after taking a well-deserved double win but it was far from easy for 25-year-old Mewse who had to come through the pack in both 25-minute plus two lap races on the rough, sandy circuit which had attracted a large line up of 35 riders. After narrowly missing out on pole position to MXGP regular Adam Sterry in qualifying by a fifth of a second, Mewse didn’t get a great start in the opening heat while Sterry quickly took the top spot and began to pull away. Mewse was careful to pick his way forward through the traffic, to ensure he had a clean run towards the front of the pack. In the second moto Mewse was determined to get a better start and got a decent jump off the gate, but had to back off as he got crowded out by other racers. Mewse ended the lap in 12th place, and once again started to make his moves towards the head of the field where again, Sterry was in front from Josh Gilbert. It took four laps for Mewse to move into third place, just as Gilbert made a lunge to put his Honda into the lead. But he soon ran wide which let Sterry get back to the front. But nobody had an answer for Mewse who got close enough by lap nine to leap past Sterry and take the lead away. From then on, the win was in no doubt as Mewse pulled away by 21 seconds and set a blistering fastest lap, 2.3 seconds quicker than Sterry’s best.