At 9.00 am, under the sunshine, the day has began with the Quad Contest racers the first to start this series of races.

Among the riders are some big names such as Julien Gramusset, in charge of marketing at Reaction. He has never missed the Quad Contest and of course has the bib n°1.

In the Holeshot racing team, Axel Dutrie and his n°21 took part to the Mondial du Quad as a young pilot. After training at Audemar with Joël Bontoux, today he is importing products for quads and supports Romain Couprie who hopes to win the top riders trophy this year in Pont de Vaux. Arnaud Augoyard is a car rallye racer, his passion is motorsports (his n°46 is in reference to Valentino Rossi) and he is actively helping Mira Canette, a caritative association. At last Riccardo Ventura and his n°60 is the initiator of the France Italy challenge and also manager of Quaddy, 6th saler of quads in France for 2007.

As it was planned, the ranking has quickly changed regarding the practices made on the very muddy track of yesterday. The n°59 Martin/Guiou who only realised the 11th time took the head from the start whereas the n° 7 Boucher/Petit follows him very quickly and realised good laps. Behind the riders found new racks. In this promotional race where you can test yourself, the preparation is very important and those who have found the good gearing down could make the best with their machine.

It's certainly the case for Dutrie/Duvion who were 17th at the end of the practices and who at only one hour racing are fighting for the title with the n°7. The n°9 is losing his 3rd in favour of Mionnet/Gaillard n°42. The pilots in the teams often are not the same level. That's why the ranking are modified after the changes of riders. It's the case of the n°7, n°21, n° 4 Prioli/Lerissel But Valentin Mionnet et Kenny Gaillard have been the most steady with their LTR n°42 and win after 2 hours racing, a victory with nearly 2 minutes ahead the n°49 and the n°60 is on the 3rd place of the podium.

The Quad Contest is opening Pont de Vaux 2008
The riders of the Quad Contest have started with practices at 9.00 pm on a particularly hard track.

On Friday 22 August, the weather turned bad in the afternoon and the very muddy track made the riding very tricky. On a track with only one way it was very hard to pass, the riders had to ride very carefully in order to not lose in the curve. During a long time the Italian Riccardo and Amerigo Ventura were leaders with 3'36''14' , realised at their first lap with their Raptor n°60. But in the 7th and last lap, the Belgian Fabian Leroi and Olivier Potier from Luxembourg are at the pole position with thei Suzuki LTR with 3'31 ''289. Valentin Mionnet and Kenny gaillard are at the 3rd on the start grid just a few seconds before the Italiens. But the track, 3750 m long with its long straight line 555 m long, is very surprising since the practices and the fist two sessions of the Mondial which will take place this afternoon and tonight.But tonight it will get dried. Moreover the organiser have planned several refections worksworks of the track between the rounds, that would avoid the track to be destroyed. The weather for tomorrow morning, for the race which will be from 9.00am to 11.00am will change a lot and maybe the ranking of tocay will be changed. Indeed if there are great differences between the firsts and the last in this promotional formula, we can expect great moments of suspens at Pont de vaux.

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