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Aigar Leok Takes Fourth Place In First GP (Mar 4, 2010)
TM Racing factory rider Aigar Leok brought his TM 450cc 4t machine home in fourth place at the opening round of the motocross world championship held in Faenza, Italy.
After finishing twelfth in Saturday mornings qualifying race Aigar felt at ease, was 100% confident in his machine and was pleased with the result after such a short amount of time on the bike, only recently recovering from a collarbone injury sustained in winter practice.During the afternoon however the heavens opened and rain fell nigh on continuously throughout Saturday night and into Sunday leaving the track saturated.
Sunday mornings warm-up saw Aigar set the fifth fastest time on the ever changing track surface which was now becoming almost un-rideable. The start of race one saw Aigar 'gate' well and he was into the top ten by turn one, with the track worsening a battle ensued just to complete laps, with riders and machinery stricken around the circuit Aigar ploughed through the mud and worked his way up the leaderboard and into the top three, losing out to a hard charging Ken DeDycker in the closing stages.
Aigar: " for a long time i have not remembered a race so hard, i am very happy with the result, maybe i could push a little harder to climb onto the podium but the risk of losing everything was too high, my bike has been fantastic and i now look to the future...."
The Grand Prix debut of Czech rider Martin Michek and the new TM 250F fuel injection was more difficult, after a bad start to the race, getting boxed in by other riders, he pushed hard trying to recover positions only to be stopped in his tracks by the machine being locked into the mud. Martin said at the end of the race.."Today the conditions of the circuit were impossible, i tried to recover positions after the start but when i arrived at the big hill i had not many choices of lines, i took the only trajectory available to me and was imprisoned in mud..".
The second race for both MX1 and MX2 were cancelled due to the appalling conditions, not only for the riders but also for the specators, tunnels underneath the track surface which allowed access to viewing areas were also becoming flooded.