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Townley recovers with impressive speed.
Poor weather conditions have hampered the Czech GP held in Loket this weekend for the 13th round of the MX GP series. KTM’s Ben Townley, was not perturbed by the challenging conditions and proved that he is one step closer to getting back to his former speed and hopefully, winning ways.
Riders were faced with a wet circuit before the start of the first heat with scattered rainfall not making for ideal race conditions. Townley managed to avoid any first turn tussles and within two laps was into fifth position, just ahead of fellow Kiwi, Josh Coppins. Townley’s luck would let him down a lap later as he tried to make a pass on Yves Demaria by ducking up the inside of the French veteran. BT remounted and managed to fight his way back from ninth to fifth place by the end of the 35 minute moto often showing glimpses of great speed.
In race two, BT was involved in a first turn pile up but still managed to keep his bike upright only losing minimal time. He miraculously recovered to 11th place within the first lap and was showing amazing speed. Five laps later, the resilient Kiwi was in third and running the fastest lap time every lap even though he had lost the use of goggles. BT worked hard at bringing down an 11 second deficit to within 4 seconds of the leading duo of Strijbos and Coppins with two laps to go. Townley crossed the finish line in third spot showing that his former speed was back to where it should be.
“ It’s been a better day than the last two GP’s! I was happy to finish both races. It took me a while to get back into the first race after the crash but I finished the race pretty strong. The second race I was hoping to be up front in the but I went down in the start and came back from last to third which wasn’t too bad. My goal for the next GP is to get back on the podium and win some races,” vowed Townley.
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