With temperatures quite a bit colder than yesterday and a sky withholding thick cloud cover, the Honda CRF150 youngsters lined up again for round two of the Honda EMX150 European Championship. With a lot of fresh faces here in Belgium, the championship standings were sure to heat up. Taking home his first EMX150 round victory was Italian Filippo Grigoletto who led the race from start to finish ahead of Enzo Toriani and Mitchell Lewis.
After standing on the third step of the podium at round one in Lausitzring, Filippo Grigoletto was on a mission this weekend. When the gates dropped for the EMX150 ‘Final’ the Italian Grigoletto was on fire, putting in a solid eleven laps to take his first ever EMX150 ‘Final’ race win. French youngster Enzo Toriani spent most of the race defending second place against the raging round one winner Mitchell Lewis. Unfortunately for Lewis an opportunity never arose to make a pass forcing him to settle for third. Fourth place went to yesterday’s top qualifier Brit Albie Wilkie; Wilkie didn’t get off to the best of starts but fought hard to finish fourth, fifteen seconds ahead of Italian Alberto Forato in fifth.
Round three of the EMX150 Championship will also be part of the MXGP Festival next weekend in Matterley Basin (Winchester), England. Italian Filippo Grigoletto and Brit Mitchell Lewis are equal on points in first and second. Grigoletto will carry the red plate as he finished with the stronger result at the most recent round. Italian Alberto Forato is a further seven points back in third.
EMX 150 Final top 10: 1. Filippo Grigoletto (ITA, Honda), 25:49.709; 2. Enzo Toriani (FRA, Honda), +0:05.613; 3. Mitchell Lewis (GBR, Honda), +0:08.338; 4. Albie Wilkie (GBR, Honda), +0:15.849; 5. Alberto Forato (ITA, Honda), +0:30.681; 6. Ethan Winchester (GBR, Honda), +0:39.698; 7. Michael Joergensen (DEN, Honda), +0:53.389; 8. Lucas Ankjaer (DEN, Honda), +0:53.787; 9. Nolan Cordens (BEL, Honda), +1:18.928; 10. Tristan-Alexander Tavares (RSA, Honda), +1:33.195
EMX 150 Championship standings: 1. Filippo Grigoletto (ITA, Honda), 45 points; 2. Mitchell Lewis (GBR, Honda), 45 p.; 3. Alberto Forato (ITA, Honda), 38 p.; 4. Michael Joergensen (DEN, Honda), 32 p.; 5. Ethan Winchester (GBR, Honda), 31 p.; 6. Lucas Ankjaer (DEN, Honda), 26 p.; 7. Enzo Toriani (FRA, Honda), 22 p.; 8. Shana Van Der Vlist (NED, Honda), 21 p.; 9. Albie Wilkie (GBR, Honda), 18 p.; 10. Raffaele Giuzio (ITA, Honda), 18 p.;
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MXGP BELGIUM – QUICK FACTS
Circuit length: 1550m
Type of ground: intermediate ground
Weather Conditions: cloudy and some showers
Temperature: 22° C