Van Berkel makes a good start to the season in Hawkstone Park
Lars van Berkel of the Husqvarna SKS Racing NL team has made a good start to his season in the British Hawkstone Park. Van Berkel showed a nice upward trend throughout the day and managed to finish ninth in the second moto and crossed the finish line in twelfth place in the closely contested super final!
It was Lars' first competition and he noticed this in training. “I secretly had some nerves and the driving was difficult. This caused me to suffer from hard forearms and I could not get further than an eighteenth time. I was not satisfied with this and I wanted to do better in the competition," says Lars.
Even in the first heat the riding did not feel good. In the beginning he rode a bit stiff and struggled with hard forearms. In the final phase things started to go better and he managed to cross the finish line in sixteenth.
In the second moto the feeling was better and Van Berkel managed to come back from fourteenth place to ninth position. With these results he had managed to qualify for the super final in which the best MX2 riders competed against the fastest MX1 riders.
“Due to a red flag situation in the MX2 class, the breaks between the motos were short. This meant that we only had half an hour between the second heat and the super final. I was only allowed to enter 32nd and therefore did not have a good start. I pushed hard in the first five minutes and then I started riding my own race. I eventually finished in twelfth place, which meant I returned to the riders' quarters with satisfaction. It can always be better, but I have sometimes been worse during the first match."
Next weekend the Husqvarna SKS Racing NL team will compete in the winter cross in Groesbeek.
Posted: Steven van Kempen/KEMCO
Photo: Gatedrop
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