Yves Demaria Wins MX3 Italy GP - MXGP Racing News - Dirt Rider Magazine

The MX World Championship 500 class, is now known as MX3 here in the Old Continent after the previous name "Open Class."During a springy warm weekend, the big-bore class held its event in Italy at Cingoli's steep and rocky track. This track is very familiar with the old 500cc, as it was the venue for the 500 World Championship (9 rounds) and the "$1,000 Cup" which always had a large international draw.One of the latest rounds was won by U.S. rider Bob Moore...The KTM bikes, here testing the new electric ignition with the Italian Thomas Traversini, are found at ease in the big engine class and in fact, this championship, up to this third event, is led by KTM riders.The defending World Champion Sven Breugelmans, who's from the Belgian forge of motocross champions, rides a factory KTM of the Jacky Martens' team. So does the French Yves Demaria who currently leads the MX3 championship.It's another KTM for the veteran U.S. rider and former "golden boy" Bader Manner, with the only bike with a 2-stroke engine.Despite other events such as Formula 1, the Italy GP (MXGP) took place at the same time of the MX3. It was the right weather for a lovely day on the beach which drew a large crowd; both the track and the riders gave the crowd a great event.The overall winner of the MX3 was Demaria with a 3-1 finish letting him continue his domination in the series. Behind him were his teammates, Belgian Sven Breugelmans and Italian Enrico Oddenino (Honda).Another good performance came from another Italian, Cristian Beggi (Honda). He took a convincing victory in the first heat but was not as fortunate in the second one. After crashing and trying to regain some positions, he only managed to end up 15th.Moto 1 MX3: When the gate came down in the first MX3 heat, it was as though it had already declared its winner. The quick start of the Italian Christian Beggi (Honda) not only was important, but it assured him first place as he literally held the lead for all of the 17 laps of the race, much to the domestic crowd's delight.Swiss Marc Ristori (Honda) showed the crowd a good recovery from 7th place, and the French leader of the championship, Yves Demaria (KTM), got third after gaining one position after the start. Another good performance came from the "blues": Enrico Oddenino (Honda) from Tourin barely missed the podium throughout the whole race and ended his day in fourth ahead of the unbeaten Belgian Steve Breugelmans (KTM).Moto 2 MX3: This time the French Demaria didn't miss out on the chance to get hold of the lead right off the start of the last and decisive MX3 race. The points leader conducted the show like only he can before crossing the finishing line first ahead of the Swiss Marc Ristori who was always kept Demaria in his sights. A very good Felice Compagnone, thanks to a brilliant start, finished third which gave him fourth overall behind Oddenino, who ended fourth in the second moto ahead of Belgian Breugelmans.Daniele Bricca and Thomas Traversin (both Italian riders) ended sixth and eighth, respectively. Things didn't go too well for the winner of the first heat, Cristian Beggi; he got a bad start and went on to crash. Nevertheless he finished 15th after a good recovery.Demaria is leading the Championship in front of his teammate, Breugelmans, while Enrico Oddinino is three points away from the Belgian.Defendig World Champion Sven Breugelmans: "I had a good feeling about Cingoli and with a 3rd place in timed practice I was optimistic about race-day. For the start of the first race I had to make the choice either to depart from a hard spot or go over loose dirt with lots of small pebbles. I chose the last and it was disastrous. When the gate dropped I just couldn't pick up any speed and fought back from 20th to a disappointing fifth position at the finish."The second race I started ninth and worked my way up to third. I tried everything but I couldn't stay ahead of Campagnone and Oddenino. I have a more aggressive riding style which is much more demanding on the tires. When I passed the finish line, there wasn't a single knob left on the rear tire so I had virtually no traction towards the end of the race. This cost me the two positions. Yves' hard-track style is more smooth so his rear tire was not completely smoked when he finished the race. I know in Hungary and Rhenen the pressure is on to regain points on Yves but these tracks suit me much better."MX3 Moto 1:
1. BEGGI Cristian (Honda-ITA)
2. RISTORI Marc (Honda-SVI)
3. DEMARIA Yves (KTM-FRA)
4. ODDENINO Enrico (Honda-ITA)
5. BREUGELMANS Sven (KTM-BEL)
6. CINELLI Alex (Honda-ITA)
7. COMPAGNONE Felice (Yamaha-ITA)
8. TRAVERSINI Thomas (KTM-FSM)
9. BRICCA Daniele (Honda-ITA)
15. DAMI Stefano (Yamaha-ITA)
16. Matteo Zecchin (Suzuki-FSM)
17. Matteo Aperio (Yamaha-ITA)MX3 Moto 2:
1. Yves Demaria (KTM-FRA)
2. RISTORI Marc (Honda-SVI)
3. COMPAGNONE Felice (Yamaha-ITA)
4. ODDENINO Enrico (Honda-ITA)
5. BREUGELMANS Sven (KTM-BEL)
6. BRICCA Daniele (Honda-ITA)
8. TRAVERSINI Thomas (KTM-FSM)
13. CINELLI Alex (Honda-ITA)
14. DAMI Stefano (Yamaha-ITA)
15. Christian Beggi (Honda-ITA)
16. Fabio Ferrari (KTM-FSM)
20. Luca Andreani (Honda-FSM)
21. Matteo Zecchin (Suzuki-FSM)
22. Matteo Aperio (Yamaha-ITA)Points After Round 3 of 14

1. Yves Demaria, 142
2. Sven Breugelmans, 116
3. Enrico Oddenino, 113
4. Marc Ristori, 110
5. Daniele Bricca, 92
7. Cristian Beggi, 62
8. Siepek Nenad, 57
9. Colet V., 48
10. Zeramba Jen, 46