This Saturday and Sunday will be the 4th and 5th rounds of the FIM SuperEnduro World Championship. The SachsenArena in Riesa will host the last two races of the 2021/2022 season. Following a revised calendar due to the health situation, Germany has been chosen as the venue for the probable second coronation of Billy BOLT (GBR -Husqvarna). The Briton is only one round away from retaining his title of World Champion.
The organization of this weekend is ambitious. The German organizers have decided to spice up the two days of competition. Saturday's race will be run in a rotational direction which will be reversed for Sunday's race. It is therefore impossible to say that a pilot will be favored by a perfect knowledge of the track. Very experienced, the German club in charge of the track will be able to draw a course which will act as a decider for the grand final.
On the sporting level, Billy BOLT can be titled at the end of the first evening. He only needs to finish the races on the podium to win his second title. 63 points can be scored in one evening, BOLT is 50 ahead of Jonny WALKER (GBR-Beta). It would take a cataclysm or a serious incident to prevent the official Husqvarna from triumphing. But in SuperEnduro, uncertainty is a constant to be wary of. BOLT will once again be the man to beat. The challenge will also be to know who will play for a spot on the final podium. If WALKER seems in a good place for the trophy of runner up. The Beta pilot will have only one objective, the one of a championship win nothing else. He will have to have eyes in the back of his head because 8 points behind him Taddy BLAZUSIAK (POL-GasGas) and Colton HAAKER (USA-Husqvarna) are eyeing BOLT's runner-up place insistently. The Prestige category will get the great pleasure to welcome back another American rider: Ty CULLINS. The 2019 Junior vice-champion is back with his TM.
Return of the Junior and the European Championship.
This weekend marks the return of the Junior World Championship and the European Championship, which also come to compete in their last two rounds of the year. In both competitions, the crowns are yet to be distributed. We know the favorites for the title in both classes. The Polish Dominik OLSZOWY (GasGas) seems to be the favorite of the bookmakers for the juniors. The young compatriot of Taddy BLAZUSIAK literally exploded this season by winning 6 of the 6 rounds contested in the green plate category. The GasGas rider can be titled as Billy BOLT at the end of the first evening of competition. He is 38 points ahead of German Leon HENTSCHEL (GasGas) and 40 over Frenchman Fabien POIROT (Husqvarna). Fourth in this ranking Milan SCHMUESER (GER-Sherco) can still believe it with 42 points behind the Pole. We will follow with great attention the return as a junior of Suff SELLA (ISR-KTM) who signed a podium in Hungary and who seems to be the revelation of this end of the season.
The European championship is, just like the prestige and the junior under the domination of a single man: the Italian Sonny GOGGIA (KTM). He won all of his heats. He will have to continue on this momentum as Aurélien ADDESSO has modeled his performance on the one of the transalpine. Six races from finish, the tricolor is 14 points behind the former prestige driver. The third place of the general should be played between several competitors in particular Alessandro AZZALINI (ITA-GasGas), Oskar KACZMARCZYK (POL-GasGas) and Märk SZÖKE (HUN-Sherco) all separated by 3 small units.
The two evenings of the FIM SuperEnduro World Championship final can be followed live on Superenduro.TV from 6 p.m. on Saturday 19 March and 2 p.m. on Sunday 20 March.
