Supermoto’s first round results

Moscow hosted the first round of the 2008 Supermoto Championship of Russia. On May 17-18, despite cold and wet weather, motorcyclists arrived at the Grebnoy Canal to demonstrate how they can manage the bike on wet road.

It was pouring with rain almost all the time but it could not stop the experienced Supermoto riders. On the contrary, many of them managed to show even higher level of professionalism than what they would have shown had it been a bright and sunny day.

There were four races: two for amateurs and two for professionals. Alexander Ivanyutin won in the S2 class, coming first in both professional races and coming top of the rating list with 50 points.

Maxim Lebedev and Sergei Ivanyutin came second and third respectively with 42 points each. Then Maxim Averkin and Alexander Latyshev with 34 points, Rasul Shemiunov and Alexei Shmelev with 29 points. Artyom Teslenko came eighth with 26 points, Sergey Denisov came in ninth position and received 24 points, and Yury Gavrosh was the tenth and received 11 points after two races.

First race results (professional category):

1 â„–7 Alexander Ivanyutin S2 16 laps 23:23.062 - 25 points
2 №3 Sergei Ivanyutin S2 16 laps 23:25.669 +2.607 – 22 points
3 â„–2 Maxim Lebedev S2 16 laps 24:06.031 +42.969 - 20 points
4 â„–12 Alexander Latyshev S2 16 laps 24:28.181 +1:05.119 - 18 points
5 №11 Maxim Averkin S2 15 laps 24:04.948 + 1 lap – 16 points
6 №17 Alexei Shmelev S2 15 laps 24:21.033 +16.085 – 15 points
7 â„–18 Rasul Shemiunov S2 14 laps 23:38.230 + 2 laps - 14 points
8 â„–50 Artyom Teslenko S2 13 laps 23:58.290 + 3 laps - 13 points
9 â„–25 Sergei Denisov S2 13 laps 24:59.032 +1:00.742 - 12 points
10 №5 Yury Gavrosh S2 12 laps 24:02.585 + 4 laps – 11 points

Second race results (professional category):

1 №7 Alexander Ivanyutin S2 17 laps 24:04.228 – 25 points
2 №2 Maxim Lebedev S2 17 laps 24:43.698 +39.470 – 22 points
3 №3 Sergei Ivanyutin S2 17 laps 25:14.703 +1:10.475 – 20 points
4 №11 Maxim Averkin S2 16 laps 24:35.602 + 1 lap – 18 points
5 №12 Alexander Latyshev S2 16 laps 24:58.934 +23.332 – 16 points
6 №18 Rasul Shemiunov S2 15 laps 24:06.095 + 2 laps – 15 points
7 №17 Alexei Shmelev S2 15 laps 24:11.148 +5.053 – 14 points
8 №50 Artyom Teslenko S2 13 laps 24:24.406 + 4 laps – 13 points
9 №25 Sergei Denisov S2 13 laps 24:44.926 +20.520 – 12 points
DNS â„–5 Yury Gavrosh S2 0

Talking about the hobby class (Esta Group Cup), the winner was German Tarasov who won in both races and finished with 50 points. Dmitry Shupranov came second both times and received 44 points. Anastasia Loginova ended was third with 40 points.

1. German Tarasov – 50
2. Dmitry Shupranov – 44
3. Anastasia Loginova – 40
4. Alexei Galkin – 34
5. Mikhail Seregin – 32
6. Alexander Tarasov – 29
7. Igor Avdeev – 29
8. Ilya Shcheglov – 25
9. Dmitry Baidal – 24
10. Sergei Zuev – 24
11. Pavel Kondratov – 21
12. Denis Kutsenko – 17
13. Nikolay Lazarev – 16
14. Stanislav Karavaev – 8
15. Andrei Pokatov – 0

It is worth mentioning that Anastasia Loginova showed the best result during the warm-up race. She is a well-known motocross racer and this was only her second year she entered Supermoto. Her best time was 1'37.742.