Team Suzuki Press Office – October 9.
Team Suzuki and Jeremy Seewer took the overall MX2 class victory at the brand new SMX Riders and Manufacturers Cup at the Veltins Arena in Schalke Germany on Saturday evening.
The unique event, organised by MXGP, was a mixture of Supercross and Motocross with the best riders in the world all together in one race. Each Manufacturer had to select three riders and one ‘joker’ to represent their brand. Team Suzuki World MXGP Manager Stefan Everts selected American Jake Weimer on the RM-Z450, the Swiss Seewer on the RM-Z250 and Lithuanian Arminas Jasikonis also on the RM-Z450 (no joker was selected).
All riders lined-up at the start gate for three SMX races, their gate position decided by the Superpole. Each team had to select one rider who had to try and set a fast time out on the track and for Suzuki, Weimer was selected and had the hard task of going out first, and after all other five riders set their time, Suzuki secured sixth, 12th and 18th gate positions.
Instead of the usual 35-minute plus two lap GP format, each race was a short sprint of 16 laps around the sandy Super Motocross circuit.
