But we got a whole crew together in the MX2 Hobby class. 10 of us were all going to race in the first MX2 heat. A total of 150 people signed up for this class which was split in three groups of 50. The first 15 would ride the A-final, place 16-30 in each group would transfer to the B-final and the rest of the pack would make the C-final. In practice the track was slippery. The grass field was turned into a motocross track, but everyone was sliding all over the place. The grass disappeared after the practice session and near perfect soil appeared for the first heat. But things were wrong in the first turn already as
Paul de Jong went down and got the rest of the pack on top of him. Pieter Does, Rob Karsmakers, and Tom Kuiper got a decent start and when I quickly counted the heads in front of me I was in an A-final spot too. It was task to stay in that position but with amateurs going from left to right (me included) things could go either way. I kept the rubber side down and finished 11th, right behind Tom Kuiper. Pieter Does (TwinAir) had qualified in 2nd place, and Rob Karsmakers (TMV) in 5th. Missing out on the A-final with one place was Martijn van Bakel. He would have to ride the B-final together with Frank "Lippe" Weckert (27th), Patrick Cleassens and
Eric Mulders (30th). The rest of the crew would ride the C-final.But things went from good to bad when it started to rain, hard! The track turned into a mud bath and everyone was soaked before even getting out of the gate. It turned into a big mess, but the show must go on and the complete program was finished before it
got dark. None of us got anywhere in the MX2 Hobby class, we were all drenched, covered in mud and had some cleaning to do when we got back home. It's all about fun, right?Not sure if we'll make it to the next rounds. If we do, we'll report from it for you here. Broaaaapp!
BdJ
Pictures by:
Ad Ophey
Jeroen Gerrits
Frans Brzoskowski
MX2 Hobby class qualification race numbers 1 - 50
1 85 Mike Otten 9 12:28.659 1:18.683 4 50.329
2 4 Pieter Does 9 12:43.439 14.780 1:22.404 2 48.056
3 32 Mark van de ven 9 13:04.241 35.582 1:25.702 6 46.207
4 48 Leon Swinkels 9 13:25.028 56.369 1:28.023 7 44.988
5 3 Rob Karsmakers 9 13:26.013 57.354 1:27.590 6 45.211
6 29 Thimo Vogelsangs 9 13:28.536 59.877 1:29.145 6 44.422
7 24 Rolf Lieffering 9 13:32.599 1:03.940 1:29.319 8 44.335
8 30 Jan Vervoort 9 13:34.096 1:05.437 1:29.186 3 44.402
9 26 Perry Voss 9 13:35.100 1:06.441 1:29.963 4 44.018
10 6 Tom Kuiper 9 13:37.381 1:08.722 1:28.822 4 44.584
11 1 Bart de Jong 9 13:38.550 1:09.891 1:29.623 3 44.185
12 14 Sven van den Elzen 9 13:38.897 1:10.238 1:28.914 2 44.537
13 45 Izzi van der Heijden 9 13:39.855 1:11.196 1:29.502 7 44.245
14 49 Mike Teraa 9 13:40.775 1:12.116 1:27.331 7 45.345
15 22 Martijn ter Veer 9 13:44.773 1:16.114 1:29.066 2 44.461
16 9 Martijn van Bakel 9 13:47.517 1:18.858 1:29.552 2 44.220
17 44 John Roestenburg 9 13:48.938 1:20.279 1:29.047 4 44.471
18 41 Juul van den Heuvel 9 13:49.584 1:20.925 1:27.045 9 45.494
19 7 Patrick Claessens 9 14:04.951 1:36.292 1:31.706 5 43.181
20 25 Rick Heusschen 8 12:34.376 1 Lap 1:31.569 5 43.246
21 13 Noud Bosmans 8 12:40.509 6.133 1:32.636 7 42.748
22 38 Dennis Oerlemans 8 12:42.524 8.148 1:28.842 8 44.574
23 70 Mike Bakker 8 12:50.082 15.706 1:33.470 6 42.367
24 17 Cas Vervoort 8 12:50.556 16.180 1:34.786 3 41.778
25 28 Leon Oerlemans 8 12:51.504 17.128 1:33.293 5 42.447
26 35 Karin van Dijk 8 12:53.587 19.211 1:33.637 4 42.291
27 10 Frank Weckert 8 13:07.882 33.506 1:37.116 3 40.776
28 12 Joost van Boekel 8 13:09.229 34.853 1:35.185 5 41.603
29 34 Tijn Swiers 8 13:09.986 35.610 1:37.401 5 40.657
30 5 Eric Mulders 8 13:13.602 39.226 1:33.989 2 42.133
31 40 Wilco Groenendaal 8 13:13.834 39.458 1:35.163 6 41.613
32 8 Bryan Huysans 8 13:14.314 39.938 1:33.486 6 42.359
33 19 Erwin Kraaijvanger 8 13:15.124 40.748 1:36.268 4 41.135
34 11 Ronald Tielemans 8 13:19.967 45.591 1:36.831 6 40.896
35 20 Bart Peeters 8 13:21.479 47.103 1:37.529 6 40.603
36 43 Davy van Loon 8 13:23.151 48.775 1:37.929 5 40.437
37 50 Ralph Jaspers 8 13:25.809 51.433 1:38.187 3 40.331
38 36 Tim Hanegraaf 8 13:27.301 52.925 1:38.037 6 40.393
39 15 Martin Peters 8 13:35.650 1:01.274 1:38.784 6 40.087
40 39 Roy Venneman 7 12:39.037 2 Laps 1:38.129 3 40.355
41 33 Bart Cissen 7 13:08.392 29.355 1:33.463 3 42.370
42 42 Stijn Nouwen 7 13:12.600 33.563 1:39.691 5 39.723
43 47 Marco van der Linden 7 13:16.854 37.817 1:33.596 2 42.310
44 31 Remie Leferink 7 13:25.439 46.402 1:52.601 3 35.168
45 21 Simon v/d Munckhof 4 11:08.870 5 Laps 1:37.578 3 40.583
46 68 Jessy Welten 3 4:28.037 6 Laps 1:29.666 3 44.164
47 18 Youri Hendriks 1 1:40.753 8 Laps --:--:--.--- 1 -
48 2 Paul de Jong 1 3:24.607 1:43.854 --:--:--.--- 1 -
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