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Desalle juices<br />
the orange<br />
russia, Rnd 6 of 20, may<br />
Round six of twenty and MXGP heads<br />
back to the popular (but fast and unforgiving)<br />
Orlyonok facility on the banks of<br />
the Black Sea for the second year in a<br />
row. The riders discovered the real pace<br />
and potential of the track on the May<br />
Day holiday (a Tuesday bizarrely) having<br />
waded their way through torrential rain<br />
and mud the previous summer. Sunshine<br />
beat down on the paddock in Russia and<br />
bounced particularly bright from Monster<br />
Energy Kawasaki’s Clement Desalle<br />
who managed to register two excellent<br />
starts (second both times) to construct<br />
the base of the sole victory in 2018 for a<br />
Japanese manufacturer (and the 21st win<br />
for the Belgian in his career, making him<br />
the third most successful racer in MXGP<br />
this decade).<br />
Desalle’s escape in the first moto and<br />
narrow 1.5 second win over Cairoli was<br />
the first part of his spoils. Cairoli and<br />
Herlings had engaged in their own very<br />
watchable duel for second place and ran<br />
out of time and laps to attack the #25.<br />
With Cairoli in fourth and struggling to<br />
pass Tim Gajser in the second moto,<br />
Desalle cruised behind Herlings to grasp<br />
the overall. Sadly, he wouldn’t be able to<br />
take profit of another similar opportunity<br />
for the rest of the campaign.
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