Dylan Ferrandis – Second Place Man

Dylan Ferrandis is one of the outstanding riders from the first two rounds of this year’s FIM MX2 World Championship. The Team CLS Kawasaki Monster Energy rider holds down second place in the series points and has battled with series leader Jeffrey Herlings, of the Red Bull KTM Factory Racing team on more than one occasion.

To everyone’s surprise Ferrandis won the opening moto of the 2014 season at the MXGP of Qatar and maybe even more surprising was the fact he was disappointed with his overall result.

“I was disappointed with my result in the second race,” Ferrandis told the press in Qatar. “I was riding smoothly but got some mud on my goggles and I had vision troubles. I lost a few positions and that cost me the overall GP victory after I had won the first moto. The last few laps of the first race were intense as Jeffrey was just behind me; it was stressful but I beat him and I am now even more determined to do it more often.”

A week later in Thailand Ferrandis suffered some problems with his bike, but overall still looked strong and maintained his second place in the series points. It was another showing that this young Kawasaki rider is going to make it tough for Herlings on occasions in 2014.

“It was a tough weekend for us in Thailand. It was difficult to breathe on the track but everyone had the same problems. In the first race I had a good start and was a close second when the leader rode through a puddle; I got water in my goggles and had to take off my tear off, and later I made a few mistakes to lose two places.”

His second moto was a similar story to Qatar, after putting in a solid opening ride, problems caused him to drop off the podium place with 4-5 results for fourth overall.

“My second start was not as good; I started fifth but had caught back up to Coldenhoff when I had problems with the engine. I just missed a podium result but I’m happy to fly back to Europe second in the championship after this GP, which is probably the most difficult of the series.”

With 74 points to his name he is 23 points back from Herlings and five points ahead of Glenn Coldenhoff in the series points. The MXGP of Brazil this weekend will see if the free-flowing Frenchman can continue to hold down that second place spot and maybe give Herlings some trouble.

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