This weekend sees MXGP traveling to Orlyonok in Russia! The good news is that there is a huge amount of Russian wild cards lining up for the MX2 class, full gates mean great racing! The track is a full 98 mile drive from Sochi which hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics but you wouldn't guess it from the climate :)
Current points leader Tony Ciaroli won the last time MXGP raced here which was way back in 2012! With Gajser out of action he will be looking to make a big dent in those points and make history with another win at this epic track.
Entry lists.
| Number | MXGP |
|---|---|
| 4 | Arnaud Tonus |
| 7 | Tanel Leok |
| 9 | Ken De Dycker |
| 12 | Max Nagl |
| 17 | Jose Butron |
| 21 | Gautier Paulin |
| 25 | Clement Desalle |
| 27 | Arminas Jasikonis |
| 47 | Bryan Boulard |
| 71 | Damon Graulus |
| 77 | Alessandro Lupino |
| 84 | Jeffrey Herlings |
| 86 | Erki Kahro |
| 89 | Jeremy Van Horebeek |
| 92 | Valentin Guillod |
| 93 | Jonathan Bengtsson |
| 99 | Max Anstie |
| 134 | Semen Rogozin |
| 191 | Jaromir Romancik |
| 222 | Antonio Cairoli |
| 259 | Glenn Coldenhoff |
| 301 | Viacheslav Golovkin |
| 333 | Alexander Efimov |
| 400 | Vitaly Gusev |
| 461 | Romain Febvre |
| 777 | Evgeny Bobryshev |
| 909 | Lukas Neurauter |
| 911 | Jordi Tixier |
| 920 | Ander Valentin |
| 999 | Rui Goncalves |
| Number | MX2 |
|---|---|
| 6 | Benoit Paturel |
| 18 | Vsevolod Brylyakov |
| 19 | Thomas Kjer Olsen |
| 29 | Henry Jacobi |
| 33 | Julien Lieber |
| 41 | Pauls Jonass |
| 57 | Darian Sanayei |
| 61 | Jorge Prado |
| 64 | Thomas Covington |
| 66 | Iker Larranaga Olano |
| 67 | Magne Klingsheim |
| 75 | Hardi Roosiorg |
| 83 | Nathan Renkens |
| 88 | Freek van der Vlist |
| 91 | Jeremy Seewer |
| 95 | Micha-Boy De Waal |
| 96 | Hunter Lawrence |
| 97 | Maykal Grisha Ivanov |
| 98 | Bas Vaessen |
| 110 | Alexis Verhaeghe |
| 128 | Ivo Monticelli |
| 142 | Ivan Petrov |
| 152 | Petar Petrov |
| 161 | Alvin Ostlund |
| 172 | Brent Van Doninck |
| 189 | Brian Bogers |
| 211 | Nicholas Lapucci |
| 297 | Anton Gole |
| 321 | Samuele Bernardini |
| 338 | David Herbreteau |
| 372 | Ivan Baranov |
| 426 | Conrad Mewse |
| 555 | Artem Guryev |
| 747 | Michele Cervellin |
| 783 | Enzo Toriani |
| 841 | Luca Moroni |
| 919 | Ben Watson |
Timetable
Saturday:
- EMX300 Free/Timed Practice 09:15
- EMX250 Free/Timed Practice 10:00
- MX2 Free Practice 11:30
- MXGP Free Practice 12:00
- EMX300 Race 1 13:30
- MX2 Time Practice 14:15
- MXGP Time Practice 14:45
- EMX250 Race 1 15:30
- MX2 Qualifying Race 16:25
- MXGP Qualifying Race 17:10
Sunday:
- EMX300 Race 2 09:45
- MX2 Warm up 10:25
- MXGP Warm up 10:45
- EMX250 Race 2 11:30
- MX2 Race 1 13:15
- MXGP Race 1 14:15
- MX2 Race 2 16:10
- MXGP Race 2 17:10
Looks really cool👌
track looks AMAZING :) now i need to add Russia to my holiday list haha.
I'm Italian and i love Russia, someday I would go InMoscoww or San petersburg but i dont have enough money now. Im an univerity student. But i promise when i have enough money 100% ill go
Keep steeming @zaragast :) you'll get there. I have never been either but would love to.
I swear I have some addiction from Russian culture I would go in Russia. But i think is because Italian and Russian love eachother
haha maybe :)
of course ;)
great post :)
Nice one bruvva :)
Wow, I spent there every summer in the last years of evil empire - 1,5 km to the left along the coast in Novomikhailovka and there I had first sex. But the Orlyonok itself was a terrible place (it is summer camp for schoolchildren) - hellish rules, as in the army or rather prison
I would only be going for the track if i went
nice to meet you though @busser :)
Thanks! Had not been there for 10 yrs. Down there is pebble beach, good for snorkeling, but visibility is poor if compare to Aegean sea. Service level is.. well.. minimalistic if not worse...
my local beach is pebbles here haha, hurts to walk on :D
Wow, look at that scenery. Judging from that you'd have no sense of the winter olympics being held close to there....
I also see some dutchies in the race, that's nice (i'm from NL as well).
One of the fastest in MX1 is dutch mate :)
Herlings the sand master!
Haha awesome! Will read into him.
He is crazy fast mate! Spent years dominating the MX2 class but he has moved up now to MX1 and seems to be settling in very well.
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That is one scenic track. Is it mostly sand? I'll look for your post race vid links.
it looks amazing! check out google maps
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/44%C2%B015'52.1%22N+38%C2%B049'05.4%22E/@44.2644677,38.8159807,917m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d44.2644639!4d38.8181694