MVR-D Suzuki rider Matiss Karro enjoyed a solid day of racing at round two of the Maxxis British Motocross Championship at Mallory Park in Leicestershire yesterday, finishing every session inside the top-10 and ending the day in sixth overall.
Following a relative baptism of fire at the opening round of the series in Devon just a few weeks earlier, where the new three-race format caught the young Latvian out, Karro knew he had to push hard from the start of each race, doing so early-on by qualifying for the new Superpole session and ending that in sixth.
A solid trio of race results, despite tangles with other riders, saw Karro take his RM-Z250 to eighth and 10th-placed finishes in the opening motos before his best finish of the day in the final race with a sixth.
Said Karro: "Not a blistering day but we managed to bring home solid results throughout. We still need to push harder from the start though. If I can rectify this, then it should take away the problems with silly crashes and tangles with other riders. I'll be working hard on this before the next round of the championship in Scotland."
In MX1, team-mate Carl Nunn enjoyed a similar day, albeit slightly less successful, finishing the day just outside of the top-ten in 11th. A crash and subsequent ripped-off brake hose saw Nunn finish the first race in 14th, before bringing his RM-Z450 home in 10th in the second race and 13th in the final.
Said Nunn: "It wasn’t a great day to be perfectly honest: I struggled with my starts again more than anything. Naturally I'd have preferred to finish higher up the order, but at least we've ended the day with some solid points and have six weeks to improve things before the next round of the series."
Team Manager, Mark Chamberlain added: "Certainly not our best day of competition and there are no excuses. We are not where we should be and we need to work to improve this in the coming weeks. Both riders need to improve their starts and if they do this, it removes the problem of crashes and silly incidents. Aside from this, the attitude of both riders and the team as a whole is still very positive and I believe we all have the desire and ability to rectify the problems we are experiencing at present."
Results:
MX1 Overall: 1st Evgeny Bobryshev, 2nd Stephen Sword, 3rd Gareth Swanepoel, 4th Brad Anderson, 5th Gordon Crockard, 6th Tom Church, 7th Jason Dougan, 8th Alex Snow, 9th Scott Elderfield, 10th James Noble, 11th Carl Nunn (MVR-D Suzuki).
MX1 Championship Standings: 1st Bobryshev (118), 2nd Sword (110), 3rd Swanepoel (109), 4th Anderson (97), 5th Crockard (88), 6th Church (85), 7th Dougan (84), 8th Snow (66), 9th Elderfield (58), 10th Noble (57).
MX2 Overall: 1st Zach Osborne, 2nd Jake Nicholls, 3rd Kristian Whatley, 4th Alan Keet, 5th Graeme Irwin, 6th Martin Barr, 7th Elliott Banks-Browne, 8th Mel Pocock, 9th Matiss Karro (MVR-D Suzuki), 10th Neville Bradshaw.
MX2 Championship Standings: 1st Osborne (108), 2nd Nicholls (95), 3rd Whatley (81), 4th Keet (76), 5th Irwin (68), 6th Barr (68), 7th Banks-Browne (68), 8th Pocock (64), 9th Karro (58), 10th Bradshaw (58).
