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Jonna Borgstrom lost ground after start-
ing from P2 and despite pushing hard at
the end 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 test-
ing conditions. Poret made a poor start and
was lying in third at the end of lap 1 with
New Zealander Ellmers out front with Ita-
ly’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 cham-
pion Ortendahl, managing only fourth,
Marta Sorrentino relished in them getting
her best result for a long time with a fan-
tastic 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.
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