Darian Sanayei entered the MX2 World Championship for the first time last weekend at Charlotte (North Carolina) and get his first top seven result on his Monster Energy Bud Racing Kawasaki. In France Xavier Boog won another Supercross race and will be racing the final round of the Pro Supercross this weekend.
The Motocross World Championship moved for the last two rounds of the series in the United States of America, and Darian couldn’t miss these races after finishing runner-up in the FIM European EMX250 Championship this summer. His lack of experience of the series format didn’t helped him, especially as the program was concentrate on one day due to hurricane Hermine. With only one free and one timed practice period the US teenager only got the eighteenth gate, but he immediately raced into the top ten during the first moto and advanced as high as sixth place before surrendering a place to a more experienced rival in the closing laps. He did an amazing start in race two and got the holeshot but lost a few positions early in the race to hold the sixth place; but the pace and extra track time took its toll in the end and Darian had to relax his pace in the closing laps to finish a safe thirteenth.
Eleventh of the GP, he will for sure look for a better result next weekend in Glen Helen, a track that he already knows.
In France Xavier Boog continues to achieve great performances in Supercross; a few days after being crowned French SX Tour champion, Xavier lines up in Chaumont for the second round of another series, the Pro Supercross Cup. It was another perfect event for Xavier who won got three holeshot, won the two qualifying races and dominates the main event! He is currently runner up in this series, only two points behind the leader before the final round this weekend à Briis sous Forges. Teammate Maxime Desprey enjoyed in another event, at Brienon its first top five result in Supercross since his injury, with a strong fourth position in the main event.
Darian Sanayei: “I like the track here for my first GP. They postponed Friday and we had to ride more than normal on Saturday with the practice sessions and both races; that was a lot more than I was used to this season in the European series. The qualifying session was not perfect, but I learnt the track and knew that I could get a good result with a good start; in the first moto I was eight or ninth in the first corner and came back to sixth until two laps to go when Anstie passed me. Seventh was a pretty good result for my first ever MX2 GP moto, but after this race and riding so much I was already feeling some pain in my back. I get a nice holeshot in the second moto, which was good and from there I just tried to survive; I didn’t feel so good and I got a thirteenth so overall it was not so bad for my first GP.”
