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march 25, 2018 - Honda Racing

MX2 - Two sevenths for Vlaanderen in RedSand MX2 races

Calvin Vlaanderen scored a pair of seventh places in today’s two third-round #MX2 races at the RedSand MX Park in Spain, to claim 8th overall in the MXGP of #lacomunitatvalenciana. Courtesy of today’s results, the 21-year-old from Cape Town moves up to 9th position in the championship standings.

Vlaanderen got off to a solid start in the opening race as he rode through turn one in seventh place aboard his Honda CRF250RW machine. The tall South African rider maintained his position in the early part of the encounter and after the situation settled, following a short but chaotic battle involving several riders, he managed to make a successful pass on Samuele Bernardini for sixth. As the #MX2 riders entered the final part of the #moto, Vlaanderen returned to his previous position after being overtaken by Darian Sanayei on lap 14.

Race 2 began with Vlaanderen 11th as the #MX2 field attacked the first part of lap one. Soon enough, Calvin entered the top 3 and then moved past fellow Honda rider Vas Vaessen. After spending the majority of the race in eighth place, Vlaanderen closed in on Conrad Mewse to take seventh place on the fourth-last lap and successfully defended it up to the finish line.

The fourth event of the 2018 #MX2 World Championship will be contested at Pietramurata (Italy) in a fortnight’s time.

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