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Kevin Horgmo Seventh In The World
F&H Kawasaki Racing Team's Kevin Horgmo ended his FIM World MX2 Motocross Championship career with eighth overall at Matterley Basin in England to seal seventh in the series final standings.
A fall on the second lap of race one put the Norwegian back to eleventh after his sixth-placed start. By lap seven he made a neat pass for tenth and by the finish had closed down the riders ahead but was unable to make a further pass on the ultra-fast raceway. In the final race of his MX2 career - the championship has an age-cap of twenty-three years of age - the F&H Kawasaki again railed the outside of turn one to race past pit-lane sixth before an unfortunate choice of lines during the ever-hectic opening lap saw him relegated to tenth. Digging deep he jumped to eighth on the ninth of fourteen laps and continued to push, nearly catching seventh. However his efforts were already sufficient to secure eighth on the day and seventh in the final championship standings.
Big Van World MTX Kawasaki’s Jack Chambers had a frustrating GP at the track just thirty minutes drive from the team workshop after missing his usual good starts. The young American was sixteenth throughout race one but was looking at his first top-ten GP moto until the final corner when a slip cost him two positions to finish eleventh. Despite only contesting nine of the nineteen rounds of the series he completed his first world championship campaign nineteenth.
F&H Kawasaki's David Braceras did not race; the Spaniard was suffering pain in his left elbow after crashing on the opening lap of Qualifying on Saturday and it was considered wiser not to risk further injury. Despite only contesting fourteen of the nineteen-race series he was ranked seventeenth in his rookie GP season.
BUD Racing Kawasaki's Quentin Marc Prugnières rounded out the FIM European EMX250 Championship sixth in the series standings; the Frenchman charged hard from ninth in the final moto of the season, two strong passes during the second half of the race lifting him to sixth. Teammate Benjamin Garib had finished eighth in the first moto on Saturday despite a mid-moto fall which had cost him three positions. WMX world number three Lotte van Drunen thoroughly enjoyed her EMX250 wild card debut with two solid rides to creditable twenty-eighth and twenty-fifth-placed finishes.
