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Ernée, FRANCE, 28 May 2017

Morgan Lesiardo keeps the red plate

Morgan Lesiardo maintained his series lead in the FIM European EMX250 Motocross Championship despite a difficult weekend in the fourth round at Ernée in the north-western corner of France.

The newcomer to the Monster Energy Kawasaki MX2 Racing Team, still learning to exploit his KX250F to the optimum, was also facing a new type of racing surface with the French hillside track but came through with flying colours. His starts were moderate in each moto, but he showed his professionalism to stay calm and advance from an initial eleventh to fifth place in race one and follow that with a hard charge from eighteenth to ninth in race two. The combined score line gave him fifth over the weekend and he retains a healthy thirty-four-point lead in the standings after four rounds of the nine race series.
 
Marshal Weltin of Bud Racing Monster Energy Kawasaki continued his learning curve by racing from sixteenth to ninth in the opening moto but faced a difficult race in moto two as the front brake was damaged in a collision on the opening lap; the young American persevered despite the handicap to earn three more points and is now thirteenth in the series standings.
 
Teammate Tristan Charboneau took a stone in his goggles on the opening lap of the first moto and had to pit to take new goggles and clean the blood from his face; he continued to be classified twenty-seventh and raced to fifteenth place in race two.
 
Morgan Lesiardo: “I had some bad starts this weekend and I’m not really happy with the results, even if in both races I came back in the top ten to keep the championship lead.
My feeling was not so good with the track at first, but it got better and better, even if I’m not so used to hard pack, and my lap times were good in the last part of the races. We’ll continue to work with the team; the next race is in two weeks and the goal will be for sure to be on the podium in Russia.”