A Promising Season Ahead for Cairoli
Following some hard training in the USA, Spain and Italy this winter Tony Cairoli, Motocross GP Champion, looks set for a good season which is just around corner. Starting on the 10th April in Bulgaria the Motocross Championship consists of sixteen around the world to see who will be crowned Champion for the 2011 season.
Despite suffering from the flu Cairoli has managed to compete on his home turf in the Italian National Championship recently. Comprising of four rounds of two races each, the Italian National acts as a proving ground before the MX GP Championship kicks off.
The first round of the Italian Championship at Ponte a Egola was a good one for Cairoli. After heavy rain the night before the track was very muddy which proved very difficult for the riders to negotiate. Tony managed come second in the first race and fourth in the second, giving him a total of 165 championship points, giving him an overall position of fourth.
In spite of having a bad arm during the first race of the second round at Faenza, Cairoli managed to finish in second place, he later said “My arm got quite hard but I tried to relax and shake it out and in the end I managed second.”. During the second race the rider got caught up with several other riders and found himself at about twentieth position, but after some typical Cairoli riding he managed to finish a very respectable third.
During the third round of the Italian Championship at the Cingoli circuit in the Marche region Cairoli performed very consistently finishing third in the first race and first in the second, collecting some valuable points. Overall this gives the Sicilian rider 545 points putting him first position, ten points above rival Philippaerts and fifteen points ahead of Frossard.
The final round of the Italian Championship takes place today at the Gazzanedi Presceglie circuit in Brescia. Hopefully Brux Sport wearer Cairoli will ride well to take top place on the podium!
