Published On: 14 juli 2012
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The 10th GP of the season takes us to Kegums in Latvia this weekend.
Before bringing you a report on the qualifying series, we would like to bring you some happy news.
Diga Racing is happy and proud to announce that José Butron has signed a contract with the Diga Racing Team
has extended for the 2013 season. The 21-year-old Spaniard, who has already achieved great results this season
and gave Diga Racing its first podium in the MX2 World Championship thanks to his
3rd place in the Brazilian GP, ​​so we will also defend our colors next season. As we do you
could already announce at the beginning of this season, the Diga Racing Team is a full member of the KTM
has become a family and this will also be the case in 2013, which gives us extra motivation to do even better
to do in 2013!
For the Latvian GP, ​​José Butron and Priit Rätsep will start in the MX2 category. Normal
Maksim Nazarov would ride his first race in the European Championship MX2 for Diga Racing this weekend, but
the young Russian had to cancel due to illness.
This morning during free practice, José achieved the 8th fastest time and Priit finished 25th.
Things didn't go so well in qualifying training and José had to settle for 17th
place while Priit finished 22nd.
Qualifying series
José made a great start and came out of the first corner as leader ahead of Herlings and Van Horebeek.
However, during the first round he lost out to an unleashed Herlings
a little later Van Horebeek and Roelants also came alongside. José was now in fourth place
Searle who also attacked the Diga Racing rider. He fought hard for fourth place
defend, but in the third round he had to let Searle go.
About halfway through the race Nicholls passed José and on the 8th lap Tixier took advantage
a mistake to refer José to sixth place. Butron ended up with a nice finish
sixth place ahead of Tonus and behind Tixier.
Priit crashed at the start and finished in 28th place after the first lap. After three rounds
he was in 26th place, but then things went wrong again and he came back last
the circuit. However, the young Estonian did not give up and tried to get to the front as quickly as possible. He went
Past Monticelli and Fors. Halfway through the race, Priit was in 23rd place. In the final laps
he managed to gain a few places and eventually finished the qualifying series with
a 20th place ahead of Kenny Vandueren and behind Julien Lieber.

DThe 10th GP of the season takes us to Kegums in Latvia this weekend.

Before bringing you a report on the qualifying series, we would like to bring you some happy news. Diga Racing is happy and proud to announce that José Butron has extended his contract with the Diga Racing Team for the 2013 season. The 21-year-old Spaniard, who already achieved great results this season and gave Diga Racing its first podium in the world championship Thanks to its 2rd place in the Brazilian GP, ​​MX3 will also defend our colors next season.

As we could already inform you at the beginning of this season, the Diga Racing Team has become a full member of the KTM family and this will also be the case for 2013, which gives us extra motivation to do even better in 2013!

For the Latvian GP, ​​José Butron and Priit Rätsep will start in the MX2 category. Normally Maksim Nazarov would ride his first race in the European Championship MX2 for Diga Racing this weekend, but the young Russian had to withdraw due to illness.

This morning during free practice, José achieved the 8th fastest time and Priit finished 25th. Things did not go so well in the qualifying training and José had to settle for 17th place while Priit finished 22nd.

Qualifying series

José made a great start and came out of the first corner as leader ahead of Herlings and Van Horebeek. However, during the first round he lost out to an unleashed Herlings and a little later Van Horebeek and Roelants also came alongside. José was now in fourth place ahead of Searle who also attacked the Diga Racing rider. He fought hard to defend his fourth place but on the third lap he had to let Searle go.

About halfway through the race Nicholls passed José and on the 8th lap Tixier took advantage of a mistake to relegate José to sixth place. Butron ultimately finished in a nice sixth place ahead of Tonus and behind Tixier.

Priit crashed at the start and finished in 28th place after the first lap. After three laps he was in 26th place, but then things went wrong again and he came back to the circuit as the very last. However, the young Estonian did not give up and tried to get to the front as quickly as possible. He passed Monticelli and Fors. Halfway through the race, Priit was in 23rd place. In the final laps he managed to gain a few places and eventually ended the qualifying series with a 20th place ahead of Kenny Vandueren and behind Julien Lieber.

Images : CDS