The fog and the snow did not stop the Internazionali d’Italia Championship, for the Round #3 which has been held in the great frame of Cingoli, in spite of the cold which has frozen the 4.500 fans, who have crowded the stands of the Crossdrome “G.Tittoni”. On such a track, which has been completely renovated by the Motoclub “A. Fagioli”, that has celebrated his 65° birthday, the great champions of motocross raced competitively and showed to have improve their consistence.

The winner of the day is Philippaerts (Yamaha Factory Monster), who has demonstrated to have a great form ready for the World Championship, during the two Finals. A first place in Final #1 and a second in Final #2 gave him the upper step of the podium, in front of the feverish Cairoli (RedBull Teka Ktm Factory Racing) and the team-mate Frossard. They are those three riders who are leading this championship, and in the overall classification they are separated by few points. In fact Cairoli gets the head of the classification for 10 points on Frossard (Yamaha Factory Monster) and 15 on Philippaerts.

Final #1 is characterized by several over takings among these three riders during the first lap, at the end of which the French rider take the head of the race, followed by the two Italian riders, with the Sicilian loosing ground lap after lap. In this way the fight between the team-mates burst into flame and during the tenth lap Philippaerts passes Frossard and is undisturbed in first position at the finish.

In Final #2 these three champions are still on the three higher steps, even though with another order of positions: Cairoli makes a great start and flies toward his first race victory during this 2011 Internazionali d’Italia Championship, while Philippaerts controls remaining constantly in second position. This placement for the Italian-Belgian rider means the overall victory for him. Behind them there is bagarre for the third position between Frossard and Strijbos (Suzuki Delta Hens), with the French rider managing to overcome the Belgian rider just at few laps from the finish. Aniway great race for Strijbos, who finishes fourth in front of Bobryshev (Honda World Motocross). The Russian does not manage to take advantage from two great starts, as it happened in Faenza. Nagl (RedBull Teka Ktm Factory Racing) is fifth placed: he has to race, trying to recover positions, expecially in Final #2, when he is over the twentieth position at the end of the first lap.

For the MX2, it is another great performance by Paulin (Yamaha Factory Monster), always fighting with the best riders of MX1 and finally able to keep his leadership by managing to leave behind Chiodi (Suzuki Valenti Motocross) and Maddii (Ktm BGR).

The Under 17 class is again a duel between Bernardini (Ktm Maglia Azzurra) and Zecchina (Suzuki Castellari), who share the victories of the two manches, fighting till the limit in the second final, when they accidentally crashed, luckily without consequences. In Final#1, Zecchina starts badly and is in tenth position at the end of the first lap: he recovers until the third place, but Seewer (Ktm) is able to keep it behind him, in spite of his will to recover. During Final#2 it is the Tuscan rider who falls, after having being passed by the rider from Mantova: he gets up, but he has to be satisfied for his third place behind the Swiss Seewer, who finally showed to have improved constantly. Regarding the overall classification, they take the same points, but Zecchina is the winner an still the championship leader, because of the best result in the second race, in front of Bernardini, Seewer and Bonini (Husqvarna) who concludes fourth placed.

Round#3 has finished and all the problems linked to bad weather seems to be overcame, so Internazionali d’Italia are ready to reach their epilogue, concerning to 2011 edition. The theatre of the last round will be Gazzane di Preseglie, where, next Sunday 27th March, the title for each class will be assigned: Elite, MX1, MX2 and Under 17. All the fans who came to the first three rounds are ready to go, in order to watch the final fight among the great champion of Motocross.

ADK Team: AndreAdrenaliniK