The first race day of the Erzbergrodeo-anniversary edition was a big celebration for the national fans! On the red-white-red podium of the Steep rock slope race KÄRCHER Rocket Ride took place Matthias Walkner (KTM), Ossi Reisinger (Husqvarna) and Christoph Heinz (Suzuki)
300 participants started yesterday, at the first racing day of the Erzbergrodeo 2014, at the steep rock slope race „Kärcher Rocket Ride“. The starterfield was fully packed with odds-on favorites like Ossi Reisinger and Seppi Fally (both won twice the spectaculare race) – as well as Motocross-Worldchampion Matthias Walkner, the three belgian Freestyle-Motocrosser Jimmy Verburgh, Steven Stufen and Gilles DeJong. Just the 48 fastest riders from the qualification were allowed to start at the Superfinal. Already after the first rounds, the talents of the Austrian Motocross elite took a clear step ahead. Reisinger, Heinz and Matthias Walkner gave the contrahents no chance on the way to the final, while Seppi Fally (Kawasaki) didn’t catch a good day and dropped out already in the quarterfinal. The spectacular final heat was the clash between the top-favorites, which finally culminated in the austrian podium: Walkner (KTM) ahead of Reisinger (Husqvarna) and Shooting-Star Christoph Heinz (Suzuki)!
Final results KÄRCHER ROCKET RIDE 2014:
1.Matthias Walkner (AUT/KTM)
2.Ossi Reisinger (AUT/Husqvarna)
3.Christoph Heintz (AUT/ Suzuki)
4.Jimmy Verburgh (BEL/KTM)
5.Florian Salbrechter (AUT/Sherco)
6.Michael Hofmann (AUT/KTM)