Supermoto: TM dominates Sosnová with Hermunen and Mitchell-Thomas

The Finn class S1 and the British in the S2 class, winning both races in their respective categories and offer a memorable weekend to the manufacturer Pesaro. First podium for Ivan Lazzarini.

With its favorable weather conditions - despite some cloud has done several times in the head sky - was held over the weekend in Ceska Lipa, Czech Republic, the third Grand Prix of the season in the World Supermoto S1 and S2 of the European. Sosnová on the circuit, the large and passionate audience Czech therefore had the opportunity to applaud the two rulers of the event, Mauno Hermunen and Thomas Mitchell, who won both heats of the respective classes by scoring a memorable weekend for TM Racing, the home of the Marche signed so that an excellent 'Philoctetes' in the GP of Czech Republic

The Finnish Mauno Hermunen dominated both races of the S1 class of authority, battling with a little French and teammate Thomas Chareyre only in the early stages of Race 1. Chareyre then won two second places in Race 1 ahead of his brother Adrian (Aprilia) and in Race 2 in front of our Ivan Lazzarini, the first podium of the season in Race 2 with his Honda after an already positive fourth in the first race.

Second run also positive for Christian Ravaglia (Honda) and Andrea Occhini (Suzuki), who find place in the Top 10. Yesterday's was the third victory with 'shotgun' in a row for Hermunen, who with his 150 points is the absolute protagonist of this season and can begin to enjoy the title of the Supermoto World Championship 2013.

The Race of the European S2-1 was stopped after two laps due to an accident with no particular consequences for Vincent Marchal (Honda), but the recovery was, however, revived the duel between our Edgardo Borella (Yamaha) and the British Mitchell -Thomas (TM), with the latter took the lead on lap 9 to go to win the victory, while the Italian was also mocked by the Finnish Asseri Kingelin (Honda) for second place. In Race 2 Mitchell-Thomas has instead dominated from start to finish, finding himself on the podium with the Italian Diego Monticelli (Honda) and, again, Kingelin. For Monticelli, fourth in Race 1, it is then also came third overall in the event.

The FIM Supermoto World Championship is back in action this weekend for the fourth round of the season, the Grand Prix of Estonia, which for the first time will host the protagonists of this series on the demanding circuit Kuressaare, a small town on the southern coast of 'island of Saaremaa, in the western part of the Baltic country.