Season Winds Up for Renaux in Switzerland
By Team TMX on 13th Aug 16
For Maxime Renaux the 2016 season has shone less brightly than the year before. The Kemea Yamaha Official MX team rider has shown flashes of brilliance in his debut EMX250 season, but bad luck has followed him throughout the year, either through injury or accident. In Switzerland over the weekend the young French rider was prepped and ready to go, but for the 2015 EMX125 World Champion the wheels of fortune spun counter-clockwise.
Returning from a broken arm this spring suffered in Germany, Renaux first raced again in Lommel, where he finished 10th overall in the heavy sands, coming ninth and 15th. In Switzerland he fared less luckily, crashing out hard on a triple in the first moto after four laps.
Despite another forced dismount in the second moto, Renaux can look back on the positive points of 2016 with some excitement for the future. In Switzerland he qualified seventh fastest in the Timed/Free Practice, and in Latvia, where he raced to a very impressive fifth overall, the 16-year old from Sedan was consistently at pace with the leaders and the youngest rider in the top five by nearly five years.
With a final ranking of 25th for points earned in just two of 10 rounds, Renaux's 2016 season in EMX250 is a series of small setbacks and incremental gains. The remaining rounds in Maggiora at Motocross of Nations and in the Veltins Arena on October 8 may not include Maxime Renaux, but in 2017 the season promises to be unforgettable.
