The third round of the EnduroGP World Championship took place last weekend, with victories for Andrea Verona and Josep García at the EnduroGP of Romania in Bacau.
On the first day, Saturday, Verona (GasGas) was the fastest in seven out of the 13 Special Tests, finishing with a time of 1h12m23.92s to beat García (Red Bull KTM) by 13.62s – winning the Enduro 2 (E2) and Enduro 1 (E1) classes, respectively. Steve Holcombe (Honda Racing RedMoto) finished third, 58.04s behind, followed by Brad Freeman (Beta) who won the Enduro 3 (E3) class.
In the second stage of the Romanian round, held on Sunday, García set the pace. He won six out of the 12 Special Tests, but the battle with Verona was much closer: the two finished just 22.59s apart. Freeman, the winner of E3, finished third, over a minute behind the leaders, followed by Nathan Watson (Beta) and Holcombe.
In the Youth category, Alberto Elgari (TM Moto) achieved a double victory: on Saturday he was 16.22s faster than Manuel Verzeroli (KTM), while on Sunday he finished 57.56s ahead of Pietro Scardina (Fantic Racing Junior). Max Bror elvis Ahlin (KTM) also had a clean sweep of victories in the Junior category, beating Kevin Cristino (Fantic Racing) on the first day and Axel Semb (Fantic Racing) on the second. Cristino outperformed in Junior 1 in both stages, ahead of Thibault Giraudon (Sherco).
In Open Senior, Andrea Beloti (MC Lago D’Iseo/KTM) beat Patrik Andersson (Yamaha) by over a minute on both days, Arvid Karlsson (KTM) came out on top in Open 4t against Emanuel Gyenes (KTM) on both Saturday and Sunday, while in Open 2t Tim Louis (Sherco) won against Jiri Hadek (Sherco) on Saturday, while Hadek defeated Inbar Selinger (KTM) on Sunday.
