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Sunday, June 1: Belgian Quinten Bossche won the second of the three Ski Division GP1 Motos that got the hectic on-water action underway at the Grand Prix of Poland on Jeziorskomeer on Sunday morning.

Victory in Moto 3 gave Hungary’s Csongor Jaszai the Grand Prix win in Ski GP3 and Polish rider Juliusz Roman secured success in the Runabout GP4 section with his second Moto win of the weekend.

Frenchman Mathys Mezière wrapped up the Ski GP4 section with a third Moto win of the weekend. Czech racer Nikola Dryjakova finished third in the last of the Runabout Ladies GP4 Motos but that was sufficient to earn the Grand Prix win. Estonia’s Carmen Roosmaa won the last of the Motos.

Last gasp Ski GP1 Moto 2 win for Bossche

Mickaël Poret had managed to hold off Quinten Bossche to take the spoils in the first of the Ski Division GP1 Motos but the Belgian was out to exact revenge in heat two.

Poret has other ideas and the Frenchman held the lead through the opening laps from Oliver Koch Hansen and Bossche. Anders Keller, Valentin Dardillat and Yoni Hamelin trailed in their wake after 21 riders had taken the start. Morgan Poret was down in eighth behind Phil Segers. Both Hamelin and Morgan Poret each moved up a place soon afterwards but Mickaël Poret continued to hold a slender lead over Koch Hansen and Bossche heading into lap nine.

Poret looked set to take his second Moto win of the weekend but Bossche had other ideas. He passed Koch Hansen with a couple of minutes on the clock and then found a way to pass Poret to snatch the win to set up the prospect of a thrilling Moto 3 decider in the afternoon. Hamelin, Dardillat and Morgan Poret rounded off the top six.

Mickaël Poret said: “I start first and I kept calm and I have a lot of speed. I managed my race very well. Then, on the last lap, I have two lappers in front of me and I have to make a coin flick and I chose the blue one. Unfortunately, the guy in front of me stopped and I could do nothing. I know I have the speed. I am not tired and I have a lot of energy left for Moto 3.”

Jaszai clinches Ski GP3 win with Moto 3 success

Csongor Jaszai earned a hard-fought win in the third of the Ski GP3 Motos and the 25 points enabled the Hungarian to take the Grand Prix laurels by seven points from his Croatian rival Dorijan Jakopanec.

Jaszai passed the chequered flag over half a minute ahead of Loris Lambert with Manuel Leite of Portugal narrowly edging out Jakopanec for third place. Ten riders competed in Moto 3 and Alexandre Bourgeois and Michael van Reybroeck were classified in fifth and sixth with Lambert finishing third in the weekend’s Grand Prix.

Roman wins Runabout GP4 Grand Prix

Local rider Juliusz Roman was able to confirm the Grand Prix win in Runabout GP4 with a comfortable win in the third of the Motos. He finished ahead of the Estonian duo of Arti Mölter and Henri Koppas with Alejandro Prats Palau crossing the finish line in fourth place.

Roman’s victory gave him a total of 72 points for a second place and two wins and enabled him to secure the win by 14 points from Moto 1 winner Prats Palau. Erikas Butkus rounded off the final podium and finished ahead of Lithuania’s Grantas Gurkšnys, Karol Puzelevic and Kutra Dovydas.

Mathys Mezière wins Ski GP4 Grand Prix

Mathys Mezière made it a clean sweep of the three Ski GP4 Motos to claim victory in Poland with a maximum 75 points. The Frenchman was the class of the field in Moto 3 to finish the heat ahead over 54 seconds ahead of fellow countryman Lucas Mouchotte. Latvia’s Daniils Potrivailo and Lithuania’s Grantas Gurkšnys were third and fourth. The result enabled Mouchotte to finish second at the Grand Prix.

Runabout Ladies GP4 success for Dryjakova; Moto 3 win for Roosmaa

Former European Champion Nikola Dryjakova started the last of the Runabout Ladies GP4 Motos with an eight-point advantage over Ester Rosin of Estonia.

Carmen Roosmaa moved ahead of her rivals in the third Moto and was able to hold off Rosin, Ilaria Vanni and Dryjakova as the heat progressed. Nicole Cadei and Markéta Hollerová settled into fifth and sixth of the dozen riders.

Roosmaa passed the chequered flag to secure a memorable heat win from Rosin. When Vanni was handed a two-lap penalty for a course violation and dropped out of contention for the heat podium, third was more than enough for Dryjakova to edge out Rosin and Roosmaa for Grand Prix success. Cadei, Hollerová, Aurora Filiberti and Kätriin Nilbe finished the Moto in fourth to seventh places. Lithuania’s Astra Gurkšnytė and Alizée Vanden-Blecke were eighth and ninth.