Ivan Cervantes ganha GP Finlandia de Enduro e segue em primeiro lugar na categoria E3

KTM’s Cervantes continues to dominate E3 class after GP of Finland

KTM’s Ivan Cervantes was once again the dominant racer in the E3 class of Round 4 of the World Championship in Finland’s Riihimaki at the weekend, leaving the venue with a double victory and 50 more championship points.

The Spanish rider from the KTM Enduro Factory Team has won every race of the season so far, except one in Sardinia, Italy, where he placed third. He has a commanding 34-point lead in the standings with half the season still in hand.

Factory teammate Samuli Aro also enjoyed riding for his home crowd, picking up two podium places – second on Saturday and third on Sunday to place him fourth in the standings so far in what is a close contest for second place. Three riders are within three points of each other, battling it out for second and third in the standings. “Cervantes was pushing even more today and maybe Aro was a bit tired from yesterday,” said KTM team boss Fabio Farioli. “This was a good result for us and Ivan is well ahead in the standings.”

Already on Saturday, the KTM factory teammates Cervantes and Aro fought it out for the final glory in race one of this round of the championships, which was finally decided in the Spaniard’s favour during the last test of the day on the sandy, stony and bumpy circuit in southern Finland. Ivan took the test by just 44 hundredths of a second.

Riders now travel to Puchov in Slovakia for the next round of the world championship next weekend

E3 Results Saturday
1. Ivan Cervantes, Spain, KTM
2. Samuli Aro, Finland, KTM
3. Sebastien Guillaume, France, Husqvarna
4. Christophe Nambotin, France, Gas-Gas
5. Fabio Mossini, Italy, Honda

E3 Results Sunday
1. Ivan Cervantes, Spain, KTM
2. Christophe Nambotin, France, Gas-Gas
3. Samuli Aro, Finland, KTM
4. Fabio Mossini, Italy, Honda
5. Markus Kehr, Germany, KTM

Standings after Round 7 and 8 of 16
1. Ivan Cervantes, Spain, KTM, 195 points
2. Sebastien Guillaume, France, Husqvarna, 161
3. Christophe Nambotin, France, Gas-Gas, 160
4. Samuli Aro, Finland, KTM, 158
5. Fabio Mossini, Italy, Honda, 122
6. Markus Kehr, Germany, KTM, 120