Pancar despite the difficulties of solid in France

Slovenian racer Jan Pancar was 12th in the World Motocross Championship race in the elite MXGP class in French Eernee after he was eighth in the first run and 14. In the second. He won the locals Romain Febvrewhich firmly leads in the sum of the season.

Pancar, who is due to sick leave of the best Slovenian racer Tima Gajser Now the only Slovenian representative in the elite competition has proven to be in qualifying when he reached the sixth starting point with his best career achievement. Today, in the first run, he started some places worse, spending the first part of the ride in ninth and tenth place, and at the end he climbed to the eighth.

In the foreground was the best Belgian Lucas Coenenwho also received qualifications before Febvro and Dutch Jeffrey Herlings.

The second run for the Slovenian racer did not start well. After the problems in the first round, he remained completely in the background and then had to move on. But he then did his job well and spent more overtaking up to 14. City after beating another home trump card in the last round Maxima Renaux. In total, this brought him 12th place and 20 new points in Sp.

In the fight for the victory, however, it has long been indicated that Cenen would succeed in a triple of victories; According to qualifying and the one in the first run, he was close to success in the second, but finally Febvre, who was haunting the entire ride, also overtook him. Since they both finished 47 points each, the second run of the Frenchman decided on the winner of the race. The third was the Swiss Jeremy Seewer With 36 points that also chased Herlings for a better second ride.

“A big victory in France, I always wanted it. I had a good first ride, AV second much better start. I managed to overtake Lucas, I waited for him to make a mistake. You can’t imagine how happy I was to win at home, « Febvre told the organizers after the race.

In the sum of the season, Febvre remained the first, now he has 441 points. The second is Coenen, who is now 47 points behind (394), and Gajser, who does not play in the third race due to injury and shoulder surgery, is still third in the SP with 305 points.

But now they are quite close to the Dutchman Glenn Coldenhoff with 302 points, and Gajser’s teammate at Honda Spaniard Ruben Fernandez With 292, as well as Renaux, is close to 289. Pancar is now at 138 with today’s proceeds and has jumped to 14. The next race will be in Teutschenthal German next week.