A crowd vibrated with the start of the third round of the FIM Motocross World Championship that is taking place this weekend in Villa La Angostura, Province of Neuquén. Fans enjoyed two spectacular qualifying races, the preview of a Sunday of definitions with another four races to come.
The MXGP Argentina 2022 started in full blast. Before the first rays of sunlight appeared, the fans started to fill all the Patagonia Race Track available sectors, which was the perfect scenery for a big time.
The activity started in the morning with practices for MX2 and for MXGP, which were repeated after midday. The climax of this Saturday was the qualifying races, which kept the fans on edge until the end of each one.
Jonass and Gerts flew high on Saturday
#MXGP: Pauls Jonass was the winner of a spectacular qualifying race in the last activity today at #patagoniaracetrack. The Latvian grabbed a hard-fought heat in which he climbed from sixth to first place. The runner-up was the Swiss Jeremy Seewer, who was ahead for some laps, and the third place was for the Spanish rider, Jorge Prado who, without taking too many risks, started to climb up positions to get to the third place.
Gleen Coldenhoff had been the main protagonist, leading more than half of the race; however, with four laps to go he started to lose performance and fell to sixth position, just ahead of Tim Gajser, who arrived in Argentina as leader of the championship and who had also been the one to look at in the practices.
The best Argentinean of the first race of the weekend was Lautaro Toro in 16th place.
Previously, Jago Geerts won the qualifying race among the MX2 bikes. The Belgian was strong in the race, dominating from start to finish over Tom Vialle and Kay De Wolf. Luciano Righi was the best local rider, in 14th place.
Tomorrow, a promising closing day
Sunday will be the most awaited moment for everyone. The activity will start shortly after 10 am with two Warm-Up sessions, one for each category.
The MX2 Race 1 will start at 12:15 and immediately after that, it will be time for the MXGP.
After a short break, the action will return to the track. At 15:10 with MX2 Race 2 and at 16:10 with the MXGP Race 2.
