SENKVICE (Slovakia), 27 June 2012 – After a year riders of WMX 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 – Chiara Fontanesi is ready for enlarging his lead. Home and Czech riders will participate too, and they want to make a good results in front of home spectators.

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 and WMX rounds.

Number of home and Czech riders will meet on a track with leading riders of 2012 WMX season. Chiara Fontanesi is red plate owner. She had quite a big lead, but two riders behind her fighting for every point. Second Natalie Kane and Britt van der Wekken are ready to make a nice show.

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

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WMX 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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