{"id":16178,"date":"2025-02-17T17:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T17:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huttenmetaalracing.nl\/?p=16178"},"modified":"2025-03-10T17:58:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T17:58:46","slug":"thibault-benistant-on-the-podium-in-lacapelle-marival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huttenmetaalracing.nl\/en\/2025\/02\/17\/thibault-benistant-on-the-podium-in-lacapelle-marival\/","title":{"rendered":"Thibault Benistant on the Podium in Lacapelle Marival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thibault Benistant of Monster Energy Yamaha Factory Racing MX2 has made a strong start to the season by finishing second in the first round of the French Championship in Lacapelle Marival. Karlis Alberts Reisulis also delivered a solid performance, securing fourth place.<\/p>\n<p>The Lacapelle Marival circuit had undergone several modifications compared to previous major events. These changes proved to be successful, with riders expressing enthusiasm about the new layout. Benistant and Reisulis started the day on a positive note, setting the second and fourth fastest times in qualifying.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16175\" src=\"http:\/\/huttenmetaalracing.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/unnamed-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/huttenmetaalracing.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/unnamed-9.jpg 1900w, https:\/\/huttenmetaalracing.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/unnamed-9-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/huttenmetaalracing.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/unnamed-9-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/huttenmetaalracing.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/unnamed-9-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/huttenmetaalracing.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/unnamed-9-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/huttenmetaalracing.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/unnamed-9-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Later in the day, they added two strong motos to their results. Benistant finished second in both motos, securing the overall runner-up position. Reisulis crossed the line in fourth place in both races, which also earned him fourth place in the day&#8217;s overall classification.<\/p>\n<p>The team will remain in France this week to compete in an international race in Sommieres next weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Overall Results \u2013 French MX2 Championship, Lacapelle Marival:<\/p>\n<p>1 Mathis Valin 100 Pnt<br \/>\n2 Thibault Benistant 88 Pnt<br \/>\n3 Janis Martins Reisulis 80 Pnt<br \/>\n4 Karlis Alberts Reisulis 76 Pnt<br \/>\n5 Francisco Garcia 72 Pnt<\/p>\n<p>Photo credits \u2013 Fullspectrum Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thibault Benistant of Monster Energy Yamaha Factory Racing MX2 has made a strong start to the season by finishing second in the first round of the French Championship in Lacapelle Marival. Karlis Alberts Reisulis also delivered a solid performance, securing fourth place. The Lacapelle Marival circuit had undergone several modifications compared to previous major events. [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":16176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-races"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huttenmetaalracing.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huttenmetaalracing.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huttenmetaalracing.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huttenmetaalracing.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huttenmetaalracing.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huttenmetaalracing.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16179,"href":"https:\/\/huttenmetaalracing.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16178\/revisions\/16179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huttenmetaalracing.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huttenmetaalracing.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huttenmetaalracing.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huttenmetaalracing.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}