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2024 UIM-ABP European Continental Aquabike Championship
BRAMM, JAKOPANEC, BOHUSLAV, GURKSNYS, KASZA, HOEKE, DRYJAK AND YPRAUS EARN MOTO 1 WINS IN GYŐR
Saturday, July 20: Cyrielle Bramm, Dorijan Jakopanec, Marvin Bohuslav, Grantas Gurksnys, György Kasza, Daan Hoeke, Peter Dryjak and Jasmiin Ypraus secured Moto 1 wins after the opening heats on day two of the Grand Prix of Hungary, near Győr, on Saturday morning.
French girl Cyrielle Bramm led 10 rivals from pole position to the finish of the opening Runabout GP4 Moto to claim a 3.72-second victory over Ilaria Vanni in an 11-lap race where Nicole Cadei, Arianna Urlo and Markéta Hollerová rounded off the top five.
Croatia’s Dorijan Jakopanec followed up his success in the opening Ski GP3 Moto on Friday afternoon with a comfortable 25.14-second victory over Ander Hubert Lauri in the first of the Ski Juniors GP3.3 World Championship Motos. Maxime Arthebise rounded off the podium places, while Marvin Bohuslav of Hungary got the better of Croatian rival Leo Kete to take Ski Juniors GP3.2 honours.
Ten riders competed for the spoils in the opening Moto in Runabout GP4 Juniors and Lithuania’s Grantas Gurksnys led from pole position to the chequered flag to win the heat comfortably by 18.60 seconds from Dovydas Kutra. Katarina Sepp of Estonia made a good start and climbed through the field to second place before slipping to third near the end. Erikas Butkus finished fourth and Via Petrovic was fifth after qualifying third.
Talented Hungarian racer György Kasza started the opening Runabout Veterans GP1 Moto from pole position and dominated the five-man race until the last lap when the Sea-Doo rider hit trouble and was pipped to the chequered flag by Zsolt Cseke. Krisztian Panyi-Horvath, Mindaugas Jaciauskas and Sándor Major finished third, fourth and fifth but Cseke was later docked two laps for cutting the course and slipped to fourth after Panyi-Horvath was not classified because of multiple course-cutting violations. The resultant changes handed the Moto win to Kasza from Jaciauskas and Major
Kasza said: “We are really happy to have the European Championship coming to our country. The course is really nice. It’s so technical. The lake is not so big but the full race site is excellent. We have good weather and I am so happy to win again.”
Csongor Jászai led from pole position through the early part of the opening Ski GP2 Moto but the Hungarian was overtaken by Dutchman Daan Hoeke, who managed to hold his advantage to the finish to record an 11.26-second win. Jászai picked up valuable points for second and Marlon Tikk of Estonia finished where he had qualified in third. Flying Finn Jerry Olin and Luuk Hoeke rounded off the top five. Austrian Lukas Glanninger was docked two laps for cutting the course and was the last of the finishers in ninth.
Frenchman Pierre-François Savelli was not able to take advantage of his pole position for the opening Runabout GP2 Moto against 16 rivals and slipped down to fifth through the opening laps, as Czech Petr Dryjak, local rider Levente Kacor, Alexis Mihalcea of Romania and Germany’s Justin Patzner slipped by.
Dryjak hung on over the 12-lap race to claim the win by 4.90 seconds from Kacor with Savelli moving up to third before the finish and Mihalcea and Patzner rounding off the top five with Rashed Al-Dawas taking sixth. Al-Dawas then moved up to fifth when Mihalcea was docked a lap for missing a turn buoy. That pushed the Romanian down to 14th but ahead of Alexandre Girel, who was docked two laps for cutting the course.
The Moto winner Dryjak said: “The race ended up perfect for me. I am really happy. The track was really tricky and really wavey. We opened very fast. One time I missed a buoy and had to correct it but everything ended up well. Let’s hope the second Moto ends up like this.”
Jasmiin Ypraus had dominated the free practice and qualifying sessions in the Ski Ladies GP1 category and the flying Estonian took full advantage of her starting position to storm ahead of Norwegian rival Benedicte Drange and former World Champion Sofie Borgström.
Ypraus gradually extended her advantage as the 12-lap race progressed and eventually earned the Moto win by 3.85 seconds after easing her pace towards the finish. Drange and a distant Borgström, Virginie Morlaes, Joana Graça, Naomi Benini and Janina Johansson followed her over the finish line.
Ypraus said: “I won the first Moto but the circuit here is tight, as it will be in Vichy (next weekend). It’s nice, it’s technical so you have to have the power to the end. It’s physical and Benedicte was pushing me all the time.”
The first of the Ski GP1 and Runabout GP1 Motos precede a host of Moto 2s on Saturday afternoon.
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