Steve Ramon’s season-high seems to continue, as the Bomb clinched another podium position at the GP of Bulgaria, held last week end at the hot and hard-packed Sevlievo track, 200Km east from the capital city.

Ramon gained second position in Saturday’s Timed Practice and used his good spot at the gate to place himself on the far inside of the first corner. The former World Champion was happy with the set-up of his machine from Saturday and feeling confident after recent good form.

In the first moto, the 27 year old exited the opening corner in the mid top 10 but was too far behind of Jonathan Barragan, Josh Coppins and Sebastien Pourcel to have any designs on the top three.

The fast track permitted lap-times that were very close therefore the Belgian was frustrated in his attempts for further promotion. In the second Moto he battled for second place with Coppins before the duo both overtook Mike Brown within the first five laps. Coppins was able to go away and Ramon soon found himself holding a steady pace behind the New Zealander and comfortably ahead of Italian David Philippaerts.

Steve Ramon: "It was a good day. My start was not great in the first moto but I pushed hard so that I could come through but I had lost time to the first three. In the second race I was strong again in the first laps and had a battle with Josh for a little while there. He was quicker unfortunately and I could not catch him so I concentrated on controlling the gap over David. It was a good result for the championship today although Josh got some more points on us and the title is looking difficult. It is still possible of course and I really want to win a Grand Prix before the end of the year."

Ramon, who rose to second position in the championship standings after his heat win and podium last week in France, is now facing a 97-point gap to leader Coppins who claimed overall success. He is 49 ahead of Philippaerts.

In the same week end, the completely renewed “Misano Wolrd Circuit” played host to the 8th round of the World Championship: our Fonsi Nieto has been wearing a brand new leather suit, created by AXO on the base of the colours of the San Marino flag (white and blue), to honour his Team’s home GP. Determined but unlucky, the Spaniard collected a DNF in Race 1 due to technical problems and 12th in Race 2.