SENKVICE (Slovakia), 27 June 2012 – After a year riders of MX3 World Motocross Champioship will come back to Slovakia. Track in Senkvice is well known from past years, but organisers made a little changes again. Nice region full of wine welcome riders from far. Weather forecast for weekend offers high temperatures and also for this reason it will be harder on slower and more technical track. Head rider of championship standings – Matthias Walkner is ready for enlarging his lead. Home riders will participate too, and they showed us last year their qualities. Martin Kohút obtained third place last year here in Senkvice´s track.

Senkvice is little village between vineyards nearby capital of Slovakia – Bratislava. Senkvice aren´t well known only for the wine, but also for motocross. Fifty years of motocross in this region helps to make a good competitions. In this year organisers made a few changes on a track. New turns, jumps and waves made track more technical and slower.

Today was opening press conference for this year´s races. Representative of organisers, MX3 general manager – Patricia Maskarova, vice-president of off-road racing in Slovakia – Andrea Pravdova and one of riders – Tomas Pravda were talking about racing on new track and also about prosperous cooperation in organising of MX3 rounds.

Number of home and Czech riders will meet on a track with leading riders of 2012 MX3 season. Everybody is ready for taking as many points as it will be possible. Matthias Walkner is still red plate owner. Another Austrian Gunter Schmidinger with Slovenian rider Klemen Gercar want also red plate and they both will try to win this weekend. Hottest candidates of Slovak riders are Martin Kohut and Tomas Simko.

Organisers prepared very nice track with rich programm and everybody is looking forward to weekend full of racing.

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MX3 Round of Slovakia – QUICK FACTS

Circuit lenght: 1 800 metres
Type of ground: hard pack
Temperature: 27 °C
Weather conditions: sunny

TIMETABLE
Saturday: MX3 Free Practice Group A 10:00; MX3 Free Practice Group B 10:30; WMX Free Practice 11:00; MX3 Qualifying Race Group A 15:00; MX3 Qualifying race Group B 15:30; WMX Qualifying Race 16:30
Sunday: WMX Warm-Up 10:00; MX3 Warm-Up 10:30; WMX Race 1 12:30; MX3 Race 1 13:30; WMX Race 2 15:30; MX3 Race 2 16:30

LINKS
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FIM Motocross World Championship MX3 and WMX - Slovakia

Photo: Press conference

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