Guillem Farres takes overall victory to extend his lead in the ADAC MX Youngster Cup. Junior World Champion, Gyan Doensen, dominates the ADAC MX Junior Cup 85. Jonathan Frank takes the championship lead in the ADAC MX Junior Cup 85.
Round six of the ADAC MX Youngster Cup saw Guillem Farres (E/Raths Motorsports) extend his lead in the table, courtesy of two race wins and overall victory in front of 7,000 spectators at the weekend. Newly-crowned Junior World Champion, Gyan Doensen (NL/Husqvarna SKS-Racing NL Team), scored maximum points in the ADAC MX Junior Cup 85 and was rewarded with victory in the event standings. In the championship, Jonathan Frank (D/Schmicker Racing) moved to the top of the table.
ADAC MX Youngster Cup
Guillem Farres once again proved to be the most consistent rider in the ADAC MX Youngster Cup at the track belonging to MC Jauer e.V.. Third place in Saturday’s opening race and two victories on Sunday were enough for Farres to extend his lead in the championship, which he has held since the start of the season, by a further eleven points. On Saturday, race one was won by LS2 Best Qualifier Maximilian Spies (D/Schmicker Racing), after he and Camden Mc Lellan (ZA/TBS Conversions KTM Racing Team) had pulled clear of the rest of the field. In race two on Sunday, Farres soon passed Red Bull Holeshot winner Noah Ludwig (D/Becker Racing) to move into the lead, from where he proceeded to control the race. Spies took second place from Ludwig in the final third of the race. He had previously been embroiled in a battle with Mc Lellan, during which the South African hit the deck and lost a number of places. Ludwig lost third place to Victor Alonso (E/GripMesser.com Racing Team) towards the end of the race. Gerard Congost (E/WZ-Racing) took an early lead in the third and final race, but succumbed to pressure from Farres on lap four. Spies made a poor start, then fell while fighting back from the rear of the field and eventually came home ninth after a difficult race. Mc Lellan put pressure on Congost for large stretches of the race, before taking second place in the final third. Cato Nickel (D/WZ-Racing) ended race three in fourth place, ahead of Alonso. Farres won the event standings, ahead of Mc Lellan and Spies, who scored the same number of points over the course of the weekend. In the championship, Spain’s Farres extended his lead over Spies to 72 points. Mc Lellan lies third, ahead of Ludwig and Nickel.
“It was a great weekend. It was not easy, but I hardly made any mistakes and was consistently quick across the three races. I want to win this title and am pleased to have extended the lead, so I don’t need to take as many risks in the remaining races,” said Farres after taking overall victory.
ADAC MX Junior Cup 85
Gyan Doensen arrived in Jauer as the newly-crowned Junior World Championship and showed his class with pole position and three race wins in the ADAC MX Junior Cup 85. With good starts and a patient race strategy at first, he took his chances to lead the first two races and control proceedings from the front. He then crowned his weekend with a lights-to-flag victory in race three. However, it was not all plain sailing for Doensen, as Áron Katona (HU/HTS Team) and Dex Kooiker (NL/Bloody Harry Energy-RGS MX Team) in particular were able to stick with the world championship all weekend. Katona ended the first two races in third place. He came home behind Dani Heitink (NL/heitinktransport.nl) in the opener on Saturday, while Kooiker denied him the runner-up spot in race two. In the third race, Katona pulled off an overtaking manoeuvre on the final lap to pass Kooiker and take second place in the race and the overall standings. Kooiker completed the overall podium in Jauer, courtesy of fourth, second and third places. Jayson Van Drunen (NL/SHR Motorsports Yamaha Motor Europe) battled his way to fifth, fourth and seventh place, meaning he ended the event in fourth place. An exciting battle for the championship developed between Maxime Lucas (B/Becker Racing) and Jonathan Frank, who were separated by just one point coming into the weekend. Both drivers struggled with mediocre starts, with Lucas even hitting the deck in race two. The bubble finally burst for Frank in the final race, as he finished fourth to claim his best result in Jauer and end the weekend in fifth place in the event standings. Frank moved to the top of the table, ahead of Lucas, who was seventh in Jauer, and Van Drunen. Just eight points separate these four riders at the top of the championship.
“It could hardly have gone better, with pole position and three wins. Unfortunately, I missed the first two races of the season, but I now want to carry this momentum into the coming events and try to make it into the top three in the championship,” said a beaming Gyan Doensen.
“My starts were not good here, but I did a good job of fighting my way through the field. I am very pleased to have taken over the Red Plate,” said Jonathan Frank.
Replays of all the races from both days of the event can be watched as a complete livestream or as individual races, free of charge, via the playlistADAC MX Masters Jauer. All the results of the weekend can be found online atadac.de/mx-masters.
