TM RACING – WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP SUPERMOTO – BUSCA
June 7, 2022
L30 RACING WINS IN ALL CLASSES AT THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
MARC REINER SCHMIDT AND ALEX RUIZ AT THE TOP OF S1 AND S4 CLASSES
The L30 Racing Team riding the TM Racing Factory m.y. 2022 began its World Championship season with the Italian stage of Busca, a town in the province of Cuneo, which for years has been one of the reference circuits in the Supermoto scenario.
In addition to S1GP World Championship, the S4 class, which will award the European title at the end of the season.
The line-up for the 2022 season is composed in S1GP class by the reigning World Champion Marc Reiner Schmidt, the Italian Champion Elia Sammartin and the Estonian Patrick Pals.
In S4 class, asphalt specialists Kevin Vandi and new signing Alex Ruiz.
S1GP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
In S1GP class, Marc Reiner Schmidt won with full points on the SMX 450 Factory, Elia Sammartin finished fourth and Patrick Pals sixteenth.
In race 1 Marc Reiner Schmidt got off to a good start, securing second position, but on lap three he decided to overtake the leading rider, thus heading for the final victory, with Thomas Chareyre in pursuit, also on TM Factory.
Elia Sammartin was protagonist of a great progression: the Italian who started around seventh position, recovered up to fourth place; Patrick Pals started fifteenth and then managed to finish sixteenth.
In race 2 “Fast race” formula, Marc Reiner Schmidt started in third place and after a few laps he moved behind Thomas Chareyre’s other TM Factory, Schmidt attacked the frenchman on lap four and went on to win the first moto.
Elia Sammartin started inside the top ten, having to move up from ninth place, but managed to gain the final seventh place; while Patrick Pals, who had started a little later, makes a lot overtakes, reaching the finish line fourteenth.
In the Super Final Schimdt started in front of everyone leading a good part of the race, up to the tenth lap, when Chareyre attacked him taking the leadership of the race, Schmidt attacked again the Frenchman going to sign the third win of the day.
Excellent start for Sammartin, who started in fourth place and then finished fifth showing a good race pace; Pals made a good start too, from twelfth position, then finishing in fifteenth place in the race.
S4 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP
In the S4 class Alex Ruiz won his first European race on his debut, repeating the win at the beginning of the season at the Italian Championship; Kevin Vandi, very fast, was second twice.
In race 1 Alex Ruiz started in front of everyone, at his wheel his teammate Kevin Vandi, who was quick to attack. Vandi led the race for 4 laps, then again handing over the first position to Ruiz, who took his TM SMX 450 to first place under the checkered flag. The two teammates finished first and second respectively.
In race 2 Ruiz repeated the start in the lead of the first heat, followed by Vandi, who launched the decisive attack on lap six, taking the lead.
Kevin Vandi drove a good part of the race, but with 3 laps from the end Ruiz moved on to lead again, thus going on to win and finishing in the same order as race 1.
The two teammates have monopolized the first two positions in the standings.
IVAN LAZZARINI: “An amazing day, we won in all classes. In S4 we managed to take first and second place with Alex and Kevin, the duel in the second race was wonderful, we have the red plate since this first race, we could not ask for better.
As for the S1GP class with Schmidt we managed to win all the races, but behind him Chareyre with a TM Factory proved to be still competitive, surely the 2 will give us a great show, now Schmidt has started in the right way.
We are also very satisfied about Elia Sammartin, who finished fourth, still improving a lot on the bike.
Now we are preparing for May’s appointment in Alcarras, for the second round of the World Championship.”