Rueda, Escrig, Guevara and Verdugo triumph at the Cuna de Campeones in Ciudad Real

The Cuna de Campeones has closed its sixth round of the 2014 season with doubles by José Antonio Rueda in the Minimotos category and Álex Escrig in MiniGP 140. In addition, in the intermediate MiniGP 110 category, Luis Miguel Verdugo has opened his winners’ record at the Cuna de Campeones and Izan Guevara has taken victory in the second race at the Corral de Calatrava track (Ciudad Real).

In the Minimotos category, José Antonio Rueda adds two more wins. Rueda has achieved his third double of the season after winning both races held at the Ciudad Real track by seven and five seconds. Roberto García finished second in both races, while the other podium finisher was the Andalusian Hugo Millán in the first race, who returned to the podium for the first time since the season opener, and the Valencian Ángel Piqueras in the second. David García, Marco García, Jesús Torres and Paqui Herráez were also among the standout riders in this sixth round of the season.

Rueda remains leader of the overall standings after scoring a maximum of points in Ciudad Real. Behind him, 96 points adrift, is Roberto García, in second. The third-placed rider is Ángel Piqueras, while Hugo Millán, Marco García and Eitán Gras occupy fourth, fifth and sixth positions, respectively.

In the MiniGP 110 category, Luis Miguel Verdugo makes his debut and Izan Guevara repeats. Verdugo has opened his winners’ record at the Cuna de Campeones with an unchallenged victory in a race in which he started from pole position. Verdugo controlled the pace of the race at all times and beat Daniel Holgado and Izan Guevara by a margin of nearly two seconds. Guevara responded in the second race with another win, his fourth of the year, leading throughout and in which Marcos Ruda climbed from ninth to second place in an impeccable comeback. Verdugo finished third in this race and moves up to sixth place in the overall standings. Julio Herráez, Adrián Fernández and Daniel Muñoz were also among the standout riders at this Cuna de Campeones round.

Marcos Ruda remains overall leader with 38 points more than Izan Guevara, who is second overall and has cut seventeen points off Ruda’s lead in this round. Daniel Holgado is third, while Julio Herráez has overtaken Daniel Muñoz for fourth place in the overall standings.

And we close with the action in MiniGP 140, where we had a second consecutive double for leader Álex Escrig, who extends his lead over the second-placed rider in the overall standings by twelve more points. In the first race held in Ciudad Real, in which he gave his rivals no chance, the second place was contested over the 16 laps of the race by Adrián Huertas, who finished second, and Jon Ander Barbero, who reached the podium for the first time in his Cuna de Campeones career. In the second race he maintained an intense one-on-one battle with Adrián Huertas, which was resolved with a victory for Escrig by just two tenths of a second. Adam Íñiguez finished third on this occasion. Adrián Carrasco, Marcos Uriarte, Javier Miguel and José Suárez also achieved notable results at this Cuna de Campeones round.

Álex Escrig settles into first place in the overall standings with a 44-point lead over Adrián Huertas, second, and 68 over Adrián Carrasco, third. Aitor Andújar, Adam Íñiguez, Javier Miguel and Jon Ander Barbero occupy the following positions in the standings.

Source | Cuna de Campeones