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missed out on a top three slot by one second, with Katriin Nilbe and
Virginie Morlaes rounding out the top six.
With the start of Moto2 delayed due to strong winds and large swells it
was the Ladies who were first to take on the testing conditions.
Poret made a poor start and was lying in third at the end of lap 1 with
New Zealander Ellmers out front with Italy’s Marta Sorrentino in second
place.
Ellmers led for five of the eight laps but it was Poret who was on the
charge, passing Sorrentino on lap 2 and then Ellmers to hit the front and
go on to win comfortably by 15.42s.
Ellmers second place continued her great run of form in 2017 and on her
relatively untested new SDC ‘whale’, racking up four top three finishes
and two podiums.
If the conditions were too much for champion Ortendahl managing only
fourth, Marta Sorrentino relished in them getting her best result for a
long time with a fantastic ride to third to take fourth overall and saying at
the end ‘I told you. I am from Sardinia. We don’t fear the waves’. UIM-ABP
newcomer Krista Uzare took her best result with fifth, finishing ahead of
Jonna Borgstrom.
In Freestyle Nac Florjancic turned the tables on brother Rok who took
top spot in heat 1, with a brilliant performance winning the second and
take overall victory, outscoring big brother 90 points to 88 to take his
fourth heat and Grand Prix win, Italy’s Roberto Mariani taking third
overall.
In Freestyle Nac
Florjancic turned the
tables on brother Rok
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