Round four of the FIM MX3 World Championship continues to heat up as local boy Klemen Gercar triumphs his home round of Slovenia. Frantisek Smola finished second overall and Gert Krestinov completed the top three.Immediately revving up the fans Klemen Gercar took the holeshot in race one followed by yesterday's top qualifier Frantisek Smola and red plate holder Matthias Walkner. While Gercar used the encouragement of the crowd to run away with the win, Frantisek Smola was left to battle with the current world champion Matthias Walkner. Although it was not easy Walkner managed to find a way around the determined Smola to claim second forcing Smola to settle for third.Martin Michek was forced to push hard after a terrible start left him outside the top ten, the fiery Czech made a series of great passes to eventually finish fourth ahead of the third placed qualifier Günter Schmidinger in fifth.Race two saw the fan favorite Slovenian Klemen Gercar claim yet another holeshot followed by championship toppers Günter Schmidinger, Frantisek Smola, Gert Krestinov and Martin Michek.Fresh off the victory in race one a confident Gercar looked in great shape to take the victory again in race two, after leading every lap all his hard work came undone when he crashed with less than a quarter of a lap to go handing Gert Krestinov the win.Following Gert Krestinov through to claim second place was the top qualifier Frantisek Smola, who spent most of the race engaged in battle with the eventual race winner Gert Krestinov. Also benefiting from the mistake of Gercar was Martin Michek who after battling back from yet another bad start was more than happy to cross the finish line in third. In the end Klemen Gercar managed to recover for fourth just ahead of Günter Schmidinger in fifth.Klemen Gercar used his first and fourth place results to take the overall win as well as the championship point's lead. Runner up for the round of Slovenia was Frantisek Smola leaving third overall to the second race winner Gert Krestinov.It was a rough day for the current world champion Matthias Walkner as technical problems and a small crash hindered his results in race two forcing him to finish outside the top five in the round overall, as well as loose the red plate to Klemen Gercar.MX3 Race 1 top ten: 1. Klemen Gercar (SLO, Honda), 34:58.111; 2. Matthias Walkner (AUT, KTM), +0:06.761; 3. Frantisek Smola (CZE, KTM), +0:18.418; 4. Martin Michek (CZE, KTM), +0:30.632; 5. Günter Schmidinger (AUT, Honda), +0:31.749; 6. Gert Krestinov (EST, Kawasaki), +0:34.047; 7. Pier Filippo Bertuzzo (ITA, Yamaha), +0:53.336; 8. Christian Brockel (GER, KTM), +1:04.735; 9. Lukasz Lonka (POL, Honda), +1:08.107; 10. Petr Bartos (CZE, KTM), +1:10.027;MX3 Race 2 top ten: 1. Gert Krestinov (EST, Kawasaki), 35:48.628; 2. Frantisek Smola (CZE, KTM), +0:01.505; 3. Martin Michek (CZE, KTM), +0:03.952; 4. Klemen Gercar (SLO, Honda), +0:07.870; 5. Günter Schmidinger (AUT, Honda), +0:11.445; 6. Pier Filippo Bertuzzo (ITA, Yamaha), +0:45.521; 7. Lukasz Lonka (POL, Honda), +0:47.404; 8. Christian Brockel (GER, KTM), +0:47.832; 9. Martin Zerava (CZE, Suzuki), +0:56.010; 10. Petr Michalec (CZE, Honda), +1:07.254;MX3 Overall top ten: 1. Klemen Gercar (SLO, Honda), 43 points; 2. Frantisek Smola (CZE, KTM), 42 p.; 3. Gert Krestinov (EST, Kawasaki), 40 p.; 4. Martin Michek (CZE, KTM), 38 p.; 5. Günter Schmidinger (AUT, Honda), 32 p.; 6. Matthias Walkner (AUT, KTM), 32 p.; 7. Pier Filippo Bertuzzo (ITA, Yamaha), 29 p.; 8. Lukasz Lonka (POL, Honda), 26 p.; 9. Christian Brockel (GER, KTM), 26 p.; 10. Alain Schafer (SUI, Kawasaki), 18 p.;MX3 Championship top ten: 1. Klemen Gercar (SLO, Honda), 155 points; 2. Matthias Walkner (AUT, KTM), 150 p.; 3. Gert Krestinov (EST, Kawasaki), 143 p.; 4. Martin Michek (CZE, KTM), 141 p.; 5. Timur Muratov (RUS, KTM), 95 p.; 6. Pier Filippo Bertuzzo (ITA, Yamaha), 94 p.; 7. Christian Brockel (GER, KTM), 86 p.; 8. Ludvig Söderberg (FIN, Honda), 77 p.; 9. Frantisek Smola (CZE, KTM), 74 p.; 10. Petr Michalec (CZE, Honda), 62 p.;
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