With the water steaming off the track in the afternoon the riders were challenged to find the best lines on the drying tarmac. “It's the best track I've ever been,” on said fourteen year old Australian Dylan Mavin. “It's even better in the dry,” he said with a big grin after the afternoon session. “I think the hardest corner was probably the last one, really hard to get the bike stopped and turned so that you could get a good drive out.”

The circuit was new to everyone and the riders really started to have some fun.

“I have really enjoyed it, you could say it has become my new favourite track,” said fourteen year old German Tobias Hinze. “It's a fast track and from riding my mini bike I love the fast corners. It also has difficult slow corners and good grip even in the wet.”

Fellow countryman, fourteen year old Kevin Hanus from Nürnberg agreed. “It is a great track with some very interesting corners. The last left hander is very tricky but great when you get it right. It has been a hard two days but I have enjoyed it.”

There were a few, a very few, who did not even mind the weather. “I like racing in the rain,” said twelve year old Nico Thöni from Austria. “The track is great, it's got good grip and I am really enjoying it. I just hope I get into the Cup.”

Fellow Austrian Gustl Auinger, himself a legendary rain racer and now Rookies Rider Coach, was impressed with all that he saw. “The kids really did a great job, it was so cold standing out their watching them I was certainly not wishing I could be on the bike. If you could choose, you wouldn't go out in such conditions. But they did it and did it with a smile. Of course we had some falls, in these conditions it id bound to happen. I think we have found some great riders here.”

At the end of the second day the names of the invited riders were read out, naturally producing very different feelings between those who had made the list and those who had not.

“Fantastic,” said fifteen year old Spaniard Daniel Ruiz. “It will be so great to race in the Cup, to learn all those new circuits and meet riders from all over the World. Now that I have the chance to race at the MotoGPs I can hardly believe it.”

“I am sure that we have a group of very talented guys here,” asserted Harald Bartol, KTM's race director. “When we add this group to the riders remaining in the Cup from this year I am sure we will have a closer field and even more exciting racing than we had this season. They were extremely difficult conditions for the guys but as things changed through the weekend and looking back at the early Selection Events it is usually the same guys who show their talent.”

Full list of drivers chosen for the Final Selection Event:

Dylan Mavin - Australia
Nico Thöni - Austria
Jakub Kornfeil - Czech Republic
Nelson Major - France
Florian Marino - France
Kevin Calia - Italy
Daijiro Hiura - Japan
Alessio Cappella - Nigeria
Mathew Scholtz - South Africa
Daniel Ruiz - Spain
Joshua Elliott - Ireland
Harry Stafford - United Kingdom

3 reserves

Niklas Ajo - Finland
Ben McConnachie - United Kingdom
Valentin Debise – France