They have been through thirteen races but for the first time this season Jose Antonio Butron has regained sensation last year and has managed to fight to the end with the best but a very unfair penalty has tarnished the final result.
The World Motocross played this past weekend the thirteenth round of the championship in Hyvinkää, Finland, where gathered a total of 17000 spectators.
Jose Antonio Butron arrived in Finland Having demonstrated a clear evolution from working with Everts and after almost a month of work was time to take the final leap towards success. Saturday qualifying did some good manga drawing many of its rivals made some mistakes because of how complicated the circuit was, and managed to finish in fifth place.
On Sunday the track was even worse and many of the riders he declared without hesitation that this was the most difficult circuit of the season. It is this heat that was in Hyvinkää did this was almost an endurance race.
In the first race José achieved the Holexhot during the first round and rolled to a very high rate followed closely by Herlings. Once the current World Champion took the controls, José started a fight for second place with Frenchman Dylan Ferrandis that lasted over half race. They swapped positions countless times finally being the Kawasaki rider who won second place and the third Jose.
The surprise came just crossing the checkered flag when he was told both Joseph and Dylan who were penalized ten places for overtaking under a yellow flag.
The situation was that the output was a sharp fall involving many pilots and one of them had to be dressed by the assists for two laps. On the first lap of the race Herlings, arriving at the accident scene and see so many yellow flags, he thought that they had canceled the trip that started had to go back and slowed almost to stop by competo, at which Butron and ferrandis what happened. A few second later and after realizing his mistake Herlings accelerated again and continued with the race. This event was understood by the curators of the FIM as an anticipated with yellow flags and end both drivers were penalized.
Nevertheless, José returned to achieve the holeshot in the second race, the eighth of the season, and once again fight each turn; no doubt that was the best version so far Butron season crossing the checkered flag in fifth. Finally a ninth place that knows little and when it was so close to getting his first podium of the season.
The next meeting will be in two weeks in the Czech Republic.
Jose Antonio Butron: "This has certainly been my best race of the season. Two Holeshot and especially a great pace in both races. The penalty is a shame as I think it is totally unfair. Now I just think about how good I felt on the bike and re-run a good race in the next race. "
