Picking a bad position on the grid he never found the good rhythm during this opening race; starting sixteenth he moved to thirteenth but finally got a sixteenth position on this typical track where you need to practice a lot to get some strong results.

The second start was also difficult for Steven, and before the end of the first lap he touched the back wheel of another rider and crashed just in front of the pit lane. He wasn’t injured seriously, but another rider came at full speed, didn’t saw him and hurt his back.

It was a big collision, and the rear brake pedal of his rival stay incrusted in Steven’s back! The doctors took him to the local hospital where he had perfect treatment; they took off the pedal, and he left the hospital a few hours later with a plaster on his cracked fibula.

He has to keep the plaster during several days, and will miss the last GP in Faenza and also the Motocross of Nations.