2018 Women Motocross World Championship has produced more intensity on and off the track than forever.
Italian 5x WMX Champion Kiara Fontanesi blitzed the highly competitive field going 1-1 at Assen MXGP last weekend, taking the Red Plate from injury withdraw leader Courtney Duncan.
Home track favourite Nancy Van de Ven put in hard work performance, only to be out-done by tricky sand track conditions which switched riders 180 degrees at blink of eye.
Germany’s Larissa Papenmeier was most impressive showing speed up front mixing the top 6 Women MX riders: Fontanesi, Van Den, Amandine Verstappen, Stephanie Laier, Shana Van der Vlist and Papenmeier within 40 seconds at Final Lap R2.
Which paves for comparison on WMX Assen MXGP 2017 in regard to Women’s speed, lap-times one year down. How far have these trail-blazing female athetes come?
Facts:
2017 WMX Assen MXGP R1: Best Lap-Time Nancy Van de Ven 2.04.849 Speed 43.2
2017 MX2 Assen MXGP R1: Best Lap-Time Pauls Jonass 1.38.122 55.0 Difference 0.66.727secs 11.8km/p/h
2018 WMX Assen MXGP R1: Best Lap-Time Kiara Fontanesi 1.50.335 50.8
2018 MX2 Assen MXGP R1: Best Lap-Time Jorge Prado 1.41.538 55.3 Difference 0.08.797secs 04.5km/p/h
Figures: in one year WMX top MX racers have gone from 66 second lap-time gap compared to MX2 riders to 8 second gap at MXGP Assen TT Circuit, Netherlands.
And WMX top racers have narrowed gap in speed, big-time from 11km/p/h to short of 4km/p/h. That’s impressive!
WMX Final Round 6: Imola, Italy September 29th, 30th 2018
Words: Sharon Cox
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