EnduroGP stars ready for The Wall
By Press Release on 27th Jun 18
Four weeks after the GP in Estonia, the stars of EnduroGP will meet in Pietramurata (Italy) this weekend June 29/30 as they set to tackle the very first Hard Enduro race in the history of the Enduro World Championship The Wall!
This GP of Trentino will be very different from a traditional Enduro. Indeed, there will be only one main race day, on Saturday and everything will take place on the site of Off-Road Park Pietramurata.
Riders will start the day with three cross-type races on the Trentino MXGP playground. After a short break at noon, they will then take on four runs of a very stony X-Rocks Enduro Test on the mountainside.
At night it will be time for the Extreme special which The Wall takes its name from! With the start order taken from the cumulative times of the day, the riders will start this Xtreme one by one and ride it four times.
Steve Holcombe EnduroGP Estonia
To add a little more difficulty, this special will get tougher with each lap. Alex Salvini is back and his rivals have been made very aware of it during the first part of the season! The JET Racing rider will arrive at his home GP with the gold 24MX Leader Plate and he intends to increase his lead.
TMs Eero Remes will be his strongest competitor, although he is now 26 points behind. Keep an eye also on Loic Larrieu who seems to be getting stronger with each GP.
As does Thomas Oldrati who has already proven himself at The Wall. Christophe Charlier, Shercos Matthew Phillips and Deny Philippaerts could also be contenders.
In Enduro 1, the big question is whether Yamahas Jamie McCanney will be recovered from the wrist injury he picked up in Estonia?
If so, the battle with fellow countryman Brad Freeman should be epic! The two Brits are equal on points and the Beta Boano rider seems to be very confident.
In E3, Steve Holcombe - the 2017 EnduroGP World Champion - will look to get closer to Salvini in the EnduroGP standings. However the Gas Gas pairing ofChristophe Nambotin andDaniel McCanney will be ready to pounce.
In the Juniors, the dominance of Betas Matteo Cavallo is such that everybody is starting to wonder who can prevent him from winning the Junior 2 and the scratch Junior titles!
Finally in Youth 125cc, while Ruy Barbosa took over the lead of the category, Matthew Van Oevelen (B - Sherco), Hamish Macdonald (NZ - Sherco), Finns Roni Kytonen (Husqvarna) and Hugo Svard (Husqvarna), and Brit Dan Mundell (Sherco) are not far behind.
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