Lodz for life!

Ending the night undefeated, the Polish rider placed ahead of Britain's Jonny Walker, who delivered the stand-out performance of the night to bag his first ever world championship podium with second overall. In doing so Jonny pushed Sweden's Husaberg-mounted Joakim Ljunggren into third overall.

 

With the Polish round of the series presenting Blazusiak with the first opportunity of his career to race indoors in front of his home crowd, winning all three races was exactly what most expected the US Endurocross champion and SuperEnduro series leader to do. And he did.

 

As riders got to grips with the fast and flowing, but in places tricky track, it was Husqvarna's Alex Salvini that clocked the fastest time during practice ahead of Gas Gas rider Ivan Cervantes with Blazusiak sitting third. But from there on out it quickly became the Blazusiak show.

 

As the riders launched out of the gate for the first of three 11-lap SuperEnduro finals, Taddy grabbed the holeshot and set about distancing himself from the rest of the chasing pack. With a clear track to work with the Polish star was able to control the race from the front, locking down his first win of the night. 

 

Behind him Ljunggren and Cervantes battled hard for second for the first five laps of the race but as they began to trip each other up it allowed Walker to inch ever closer and turn the duo into a trio. With Walker clearly the fastest of the three, he quickly worked his way past to secure a strong second position by the end of the race. As Ljunggren struggled with arm pump Cervantes too found his way past the Swede to finish third.

 

With the starting order reversed for the second final, the fastest riders of the night found themselves starting on the second row of the start line. 

 

With all the major players buried deep in the pack Husaberg's Mike Hartmann took advantage of the situation to lead the opening lap. 

 

While Hartmann's team-mate Xavi Galindo took over the race lead at the end of the first lap, Blazusiak had already carved his way from last into third position. It would take another three laps for Blazusiak to find a way past Galindo before checking out to another comfortable race win. 

 

FOR FULL REPORT SEE TMX NEWS DECEMBER 16

 

World SuperEnduro Champs

Rd 2 – Atlas Arena, Lodz, Poland

SuperEnduro Final 1: 1 Taddy Blazusiak (KTM), 2 Jonny Walker (KTM), 3 Ivan Cervantes (Gas Gas), 4 Joakim Ljunggren (Husaberg), 5 Alex Salvini (Husqvarna), 6 Xavier Galindo (Husaberg), 7 Cristobal Guerrero (KTM), 8 Alfredo Gomez (Husaberg), 9 Dougie Lampkin (Gas Gas), 10 Mike Hartman (Husaberg), 11 Johan Edlund (Husaberg), 12 Xavier Leon (Gas Gas), 13 Pawel Szmkowski (Husaberg), 14 Marcin Frycz (Kawasaki), 15 Thomas Hostinsky (Husaberg), 16 Tomasz Zych (Husqvarna).

SuperEnduro Final 2: 1 Taddy Blazusiak (KTM), 2 Jonny Walker (KTM), 3 Xavier Galindo (Husaberg), 4 Joakim Ljunggren (Husaberg), 5 Ivan Cervantes (Gas Gas), 6 Mike Hartman (Husaberg), 7 Cristobal Guerrero (KTM), 8 Alex Salvini (Husqvarna), 9 Dougie Lampkin (Gas Gas), 10 Alfredo Gomez (Husaberg), 11 Thomas Hostinsky (Husaberg), 12 Johan Edlund (Husaberg), 13 Xavier Leon (Gas Gas), 14 Pawel Szymkowski (Husaberg), 15 Marcin Frycz (Kawasaki), 16 Tomasz Zych (Husqvarna).

SuperEnduro Final 3: 1 Taddy Blazusiak (KTM), 2 Joakim Ljunggren (Husaberg), 3 Jonny Walker (KTM); 4. Alex Salvini (Husqvarna), 5 Xavier Galindo (Husaberg), 6 Cristobal Guerrero (KTM), 7 Ivan Cervantes (Gas Gas), 8 Mike Hartman (Husaberg), 9 Alfredo Gomez (Husaberg), 10 Dougie Lampkin (Gas Gas), 11 Johan Edlund (Husaberg), 12 Pawel Szymkowski (Husaberg), 13 Thomas Hostinsky (Husaberg), 14 Xavier Leon (Gas Gas), 15 Marcin Frycz (Kawasaki), 16 Tomasz Zych (Husqvarna).

2012 FIM SuperEnduro World Championship Standings: 1 Taddy Blazusiak (KTM) 120 points, 2 Jonny Walker (KTM) 81, 3 Joakim Ljunggren (Husaberg) 79, 4 Xavi Galindo (Husaberg) 66, 5 Cristobal Guerrero (KTM) 59, 6 Alex Salvini (Husqvarna) 55, 7 Ivan Cervantes (Gas Gas) 53, 8 Alfredo Gomez (Husaberg) 43, 9 Mike Hartmann (Husaberg) 31, 10 Cody Webb (Beta) 27...