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With mixed feelings and eight points in his pocket Bo left the Misano circuit this weekend. It was a difficult weekend because of the rain on Friday during practice and in qualifying. The race on Saturday was on a dry track. “Eight place was the maximum result looking at the conditions. Misano is a hard track and when it’s wet it is very slippery. I went in to the race on a base setup and I knew it was going to be tough.” Bo starts from eleventh, and gains a…

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Bo had a tough weekend at the Navarra circuit. Setting up the the bike was a tough job. The race, shortened to nine laps after a red flag, didn’t give him the opportunity to get into his rythm and a twentythird spot was his result. The race start was really messy with Fabio Quartararo stalling his bike on the grid and waving his hands to stop the startprocedure. The race is stopped an Fabio has to start from pitlane. Bo has a real bad start from sixteenth and tries to fight…

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Jorge Martin won two races to claim 25 points at Silverstone with the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup Race 1 being interrupted by rain. The 16-year-old Spaniard was on Pole after being quickest all through practice and resisted the most intense pressure from his very able opposition in both races. He thus extended his points lead over Joan Mir. The 16-year-old Spaniard finished second ahead of 15-year-old Italian Stefano Manzi who picked up his sixth P3 of the season, the same position he holds in the points table. The race…

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An eight-man Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup battle for the lead all the way to the final lap only produced a winner at the final corners as Joan Mir snatched victory from Fabio Di Giannantonio with Stefano Manzi chasing them across the line. It was the second win of the season for 16-year-old Spaniard Mir but the first time on the podium for Italian 15-year-old Di Giannantonio whose previous best was fifth in Race 1 at the Sachsenring. Italian 15-year-old Manzi seems stuck in second or third. Cup points leader…

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Lacking confidence on a dry track on raintyres resulted in a disappointing thirteenth spot for Bo. He was never in the race for a moment. The race was postponed for half an hour because of the changing conditions and shortened to nine laps. The organisers of the Rookies Cup decided to send the riders out on wet tyres. Bo had qualified fifth and a good result should be possible. But as soon as the riders went out is was obvious the track had dried out completely and no more rain…

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After a nearly flawless practice and qualifying Bo was fifteenth on the grid and feeling confident, eager to get a good result in his seventh race in the Spanish Open. In the warmup he was only three tenth of a second behind first place, there was nothing to stop him for getting a good result. An unfortunate maneuver on his bike resulted in fracturing his arm. His race was over after two laps. “I was shifting my body on the bike to go into the fourth corner, when the back…

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Bo Bendsneyder and Jorge Martín gave the huge Dutch TT crowd exactly what they had stayed for with a thrilling battle that ultimately produced a Dutch winner as 15-year-old Bendsneyder flashed across the line in front on Saturday afternoon. 16-year-old Spaniard Martín took a clear second and extended his points lead after five of the 14 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup races this season. The contest for third was even more intense and only sorted out at the final corner as Stefano Manzi claimed the honours from Olly Simpson, Soushi…

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In his first Dutch TT ever Bo just misses out on the podium and takes fourth in the first race. Fourth is his best result so far in the Red Bull Rookies Cup. The race was brought back to fourteen laps because of the heavy rain. After a good start Bo lost several places in the jam in corner one and comes out as tenth after lap one. After a few laps he loses even more spots and finds himself in thirteenth. The gap to the leader is already 19…

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Bo Bendsneyder sits on Pole Position for his home round of the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup at Assen. The 15-year-old Dutchman held off two determined Italians, 17-year-old Manuel Pagliani and 15-year-old Stefano Manzi, to lead the front row. “It’s just fantastic, I can’t believe it, my first Dutch TT and I am on pole,” he enthused as the local journalists sought his quotes in the Rookies Cup garage immediately afterwards. “I know the track of course and that helps but I have also been getting quicker and quicker since…

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Bo took seven championship points in the two races at Catalunya this weekend. Both races were hard-fought. “I’m quit pleased with this weekend, both races went quit well, but we could have gotten some more points.” Starting from eighth Bo finished lap one as eleventh. After a few laps a nine rider group was formed behind the four frontrunners, battling for fifth. Bo was right in the middle of it and was easily following the pace. He was in ninth for quit some time. The first corner looked to be…

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