A Max for Nagl and Musquin
By TMX Archives on 12th Jun 09
MARVIN Musquin led a French domination of MX2, but it was Max Nagl for Deutschland who landed the big prize at Ernee on Sunday to march right into contention for the MX1 world title.On a heavily rutted track, dampened time and again as showers and sunshine followed each other in rapid succession, there was incident aplenty with the depleted UK squad right in the thick of it as a CCM led a GP for the first time in 32 years when Tom Church powered past Nagl from his outside gate to lead for half a lap in race two.
Both TC and Jason Dougan deservedly grabbed a top ten finish, Billy MacKenzie rebounded in race two for another 5th, and cousin Bryan grabbed points second time out.
In MX2 KTM UK had a wretched day, but Mel Pocock finally broke his duck in race one, and was so delighted he nearly quadrupled his series score in race two!
Report and Pictures: ALEX HODGKINSON
THE long hot spell had to end, and it did at precisely ten past noon as the MX2 race burst from the gate.
Musquin had declared after his win in the Saturday qualifier that he hoped it would stay dry, but the change of weather made little difference.
He simply checked-out twice, and the first race was almost a shut-out for the French; the only visitor to break top nine was Arnaud Tonus, who lives a mile from the frontier in Switzerland and contests the French national series.
Stephen Sword's race was over almost as quickly as it had begun: "My tear-offs broke and I had to throw away my goggles. The only place to try a pass was the inside, the front wheel slid out and that was that.”
With Jake Nicholls leaving turn one almost last, UK hopes rested with Pocock and how he responded,19th at the chequered flag, he was beaming: "What can I say? My heartbeat was running 200 mph on the last lap, particularly after I went wide into the soft stuff at the turn after the start.” Just a reminder; Mel hit a bank 50 yards from the finish at Valkenswaard in April when apparantly on the way to his first score.
And it just kept getting better with a forward-moving 13th in race two. Having travelled to the race light in a Sprinter with Ben and Zane, the boys must be hoping Steve Dixon stays home again in future!
The other kid to rock the French in race two was Ken Roczen. The 15 year old got planted on the ground at turn one in the opener, but hit back with runner-up in the second moto to maintain his 30 point average per GP and move into the world top ten despite only contesting half of the series so far. "I tried to stay with Musquin, but he was just too fast,” he smiled, "but it will come!”
Nicholls again gated miserably, and Sword was in and out of the points until he jumped off the side of the track.
NAGL is clearly the man of the moment in MX1. He had looked comfortable as he chased home Clement Desalle in the Saturday quali and never looked back in either race. "It was just a great weekend. I like this type of track when the deep ruts come out after the rain. It was easy to make a mistake, but after last week at Mallory I was determined not to throw it away again. I couldn't see properly after I got water behind my roll-off strip in race one, but the only problem I had was when Jason Dougan ignored the blue flags for nearly a lap.
"In the second moto I got back past Tom Church already on the first lap and pushed hard for ten minutes; after that I had a big lead and was completely in control.”
It was pretty much follow-my-leader in Nagl's wake in race one, though Billy MacKenzie wasted a decent start by spinning out on the first lap. After scything his way back to 14th, the Scot was understandably livid with himself when he went down again at the final turn and rolled home 19th.
Cousin Bryan frustratingly missed the points by one place: "I started midpack and we were all queueing up to filter into this single rut turn when Aranda T-boned me from behind. "
Tom Church, who had come home tenth in race one, even pressurising Toni Cairoli for half the race before falling, sensationally leapt under Nagl at the table top after turn one in a sun-blessed second encounter to lead for half a lap.
If memory serves correctly, it is the first time CCM have led a GP since John Banks at Farleigh in 1977.
TC owned up to the secret behind his electric gating: "I was really fired-up after breaking a chain yesterday, and that meant I was last to the gate. There wasn't a full line-up so I started away from the rest and gave myself a clear run into ther first turn. "
Of course it couldn't last and TC eventually came home 13th, but team-mate Jason Dougan truly got the bit between his teeth. Doogie had already shown pace in race one, running top five lap times after losing nearly a lap on lap one when he crashed over the big triple, but in race two it was the Phoenix Tools CCM which broke top ten at the chequered flag.
Billy Mac also escaped incident in race two, holding second for half of the moto before Cairoli, Leok and Philippaerts came charging past, and Bry Mac got reward for persistence from a lowly 25th on lap one.
As at Mallory last week champion Philippaerts was phenomenally fast, his second on the day coming despite two crashes in race two and a nasty incident in race one when he jumped off the track negotiating a lapper and landed on a flagman.
Cairoli was relieved to salvage a podium: "I still have much to learn about riding an MX1 bike in deep ruts. and it was really rough today!”
Wretched luck for Ken De Dycker; third in race one and headed for second in race two, the big guy broke a footrest off his Suzuki !
WORLD MX2 MOTOCROSS CHAMPIONSHIP
Rd 8 – Ernee, FRANCE
1 Marvin Musquin (F - Red Bull KTM) 25 + 25 = 50
2 Anthony Boissiere (F - HDI KTM) 22 + 14 = 36
3 Loic Larrieu (F - Ricci Yamaha) 18 + 16 = 34
4 Gautier Paulin (F - Bud Kawasaki) 13 + 18 = 31
5 Ken Roczen (D - Teka Suzuki) 6 + 22 = 28
6 Davide Guarneri (I - Ricci Yamaha) 7 + 20 = 27
7 Steven Frossard (F - CLS Kawasaki) 20 + 7 = 27
8 Valentin Teillet (F - Red Bull KTM Jnr) 15 + 11 = 26
9 Nico Aubin (F - Ricci Yamaha) 12 + 13 = 25
10 Joel Roelants (B - Red Bull KTM Jnr) 10 + 12 = 22
11 Rui Goncalves (P - Red Bull KTM) 11+9=20, 12 Manuel Monni (I - 3C Yamaha) 4+15=19, 13 Loic Rombaut (F - CLS Kawasaki) 14+2=16, 14 Arnaud Tonus (CH - HDI KTM) 16+0=16, 15 Evgeny Bobryschev (RUS - Van Beers Yamaha) 9+6=15, 16 Mel POCOCK (GB - Utag Yamaha) 3+8=11, 17 Xavier Boog (F - Teka Suzuki) 8+3=11, 18 Jeremy Van Horebeek (B - Red Bull KTM Jnr) 0+10=10, 19 Cedric Soubeyras (F - MD Yamaha) 5+1=6, 20 Dennis Verbruggen (B - LS Honda) 0+5=5, 21 Petr Smitka (CZ - Sarholz KTM) 0+4=4, 22 Pascal Leuret (F - JK Multitek Honda) 2+0=2, 23 Nikolaj Larsen (DK - Beursfoon Suzuki) 1+0=1.
RACE ONE: 1 Marvin Musquin, 2 Boissiere, 3 Frossard, 4 Larrieu, 5 Tonus, 6 Teillet, 7 Rombaut, 8 Paulin, 9 Aubin, 10 Goncalves, 11 Roelants, 12 Bobryschev, 13 Boog, 14 Guarneri, 15 Roczen, 16 Soubeyras, 17 Monni, 18 POCOCK, 19 Leuret, 20 Larsen.
RACE TWO: 1 Marvin Musquin, 2 Roczen, 3 Guarneri, 4 Paulin, 5 Larrieu, 6 Monni, 7 Boissiere, 8 Aubin, 9 Roelants, 10 Teillet, 11 Van Horebeek, 12 Goncalves, 13 POCOCK, 14 Frossard, 15 Bobryschev, 16 Verbruggen, 17 Smitka, 18 Boog, 19 Rombaut, 20 Soubeyras.
SERIES STANDINGS after 8 (of 15) rounds: 1 Marvin Musquin 284 points, 2 Paulin 250, 3 Guarneri 235, 4 Goncalves 222, 5 Frossard 205, 6 Boog 177, 7 Aubin 161, 8 Monni 134, 9 Van Horebeek 128, 10 Roczen 120, 11 Larrieu 115, 12 Tonus 108, 13 Roelants 103, 14 Osborne 100, 15 Boissiere 100, 16 SIMPSON 97, 17 Schiffer 89, 18 SWORD 84, 19 Teillet 71, 20 Vongsana 60,... 23 NICHOLLS 52,... 35 POCOCK 11,...
NEXT ROUND: June 21 – Teutschenthal, GERMANY.
WORLD MX1 MOTOCROSS CHAMPIONSHIP
Rd 8 – Ernee, FRANCE
1 Max Nagl (D - Red Bull KTM) 25 + 25 = 50
2 David Philippaerts (I - Monster Yamaha) 22 + 18 = 40
3 Toni Cairoli (I - Red Bull DeCarli Yamaha) 14 + 22 = 36
4 Tanel Leok (EW - Red Bull DeCarli Yamaha) 13 + 20 = 33
5 Clement Desalle (B - LS Honda) 18 + 15 = 33
6 Josh Coppins (NZ - Monster Yamaha) 15 + 14 = 29
7 Mickael Pichon (F - Martin Honda) 16 + 12 = 28
8 Aigar Leok (EW - TM) 12 + 13 = 25
9 Manuel Priem (B - Aprilia) 10 + 10 = 20
10 Ken De Dycker (B - Teka Suzuki) 20 + 0 = 20
11 Billy MacKENZIE (GB - CAS Honda) 3+16=19, 12 Tom CHURCH (GB - Buildbase CCM) 11+8=19, 13 Julien Bill (CH - Aprilia) 7+9=16, 14 David Vuillemin (F - Bud Kawasaki) 9+7=16, 15 Gareth Swanepoel (ZA - KRTE Kawasaki) 8+6=14, 16 Jason DOUGAN (GB - Phoenix Tools CCM) 0+11=11, 17 Gert Krestinov (EW - Silver Action KTM) 5+5=10, 18 Shannon Terreblanche (ZA - Sturm Kawasaki) 2+4=6, 19 Gregory Aranda (F - CLS Kawasaki) 6+0=6, 20 Rob Van Vijfeiken (NL - Van Beers Yamaha) 4+1=5, 21 Bryan MacKENZIE (GB - CAS Honda) 0+3=3, 22 Carlos Campano (E - Van Beers Yamaha) 0+2=2, 23 Raphael Beaudouin (F - Honda) 1+0=1.
RACE ONE: 1 Nagl, 2 Philippaerts, 3 De Dycker, 4 Desalle, 5 Pichon, 6 Coppins, 7 Cairoli, 8 Tanel Leok, 9 Aigar Leok, 10 CHURCH, 11 Priem, 12 Vuillemin, 13 Swanepoel, 14 Bill, 15 Aranda, 16 Krestinov, 17 Van Vijfeiken, 18 Billy MacKENZIE, 19 Terreblanche, 20 Beaudouin.
RACE TWO: 1 Nagl, 2 Cairoli, 3 Tanel Leok, 4 Philippaerts, 5 Billy MacKENZIE, 6 Desalle, 7 Coppins, 8 Aigar Leok, 9 Pichon, 10 DOUGAN, 11 Priem, 12 Bill, 13 CHURCH, 14 Vuillemin, 15 Swanepoel, 16 Krestinov, 17 Terreblanche, 18 Bryan MacKENZIE, 19 Campano, 20 Van Vijfeiken.
SERIES STANDINGS after 8 (of 15) rounds: 1 Cairoli 291 points, 2 Philippaerts 261, 3 Nagl 248, 4 Coppins 238, 5 Desalle 237, 6 De Dycker 228, 7 Tanel Leok 223, 8 Barragan 215, 9 Swanepoel 120, 10 Aigar Leok 118, 11 Vuillemin 117, 12 Billy MacKENZIE 103, 13 Ramon 100, 14 Strijbos 82, 15 Aranda 80, 16 Priem 77, 17 Pichon 56, 18 CHURCH 51, 19 Bill 47, 20 Krestinov 46,... 22 DOUGAN 40, 23 NOBLE 39,... 27 ANDERSON 24, 28 NUNN 18,... 37 Bryan MacKENZIE 5,... 40 ROSE 3,...
NEXT ROUND: Jun 21 – Teutschenthal, GERMANY.
WORLD LADIES MOTOCROSS CHAMPS
Rd 4 – Ernee, FRANCE
1 Livia Lancelot (F - KRTE Kawasaki) 25 + 25 = 50
2 Stephanie Laier (D - Red Bull KTM) 20 + 22 = 42
3 Larissa Papenmeier (D - Teka Suzuki) 22 + 20 = 42
4 Maria Franke (D - Pfeil Kawasaki) 18 + 18 = 36
5 Marianne Veenstra (NL - Winter Suzuki) 13 + 16 = 29
6 Natalie KANE (IRE - MVR-D Suzuki) 15 + 14 = 29
7 Elin Mann (S - KTM) 16+13=29, 8 Marielle De Mol (NL - Yamaha) 12+15=27, 9 Elien De Winter (B - LS Honda) 11+12=23, 10 Chiara Fontanesi (E - 3C Racing Yamaha) 14+6=20, 11 Brenda Wagemans (B - KTM) 9+10=19, 12 Anne Borchers (D - Teka Suzuki) 10+9=19, 13 Francesca Nocera (I - Silver Action KTM) 5+11=16, 14 Sara Pettersson (S - KTM) 8+7=15, 15 Nicky Van Wordragen (NL - KTM) 6+8=14, 16 Jenny Seidenberg (D - Sarholz KTM) 3+5=8, 17 Alix DUNLOP (GB - Buildbase CCM) 7+1=8, 18 Britt Van der Wekken (NL - Honda) 4+2=6, 19 Marie Romlin (S - KTM) 0+4=4, 20 Carmen Segura Pereira (E - KTM) 0+3=3, 21 Sofia Johansson (S - KTM) 2+0=2, 22 Justine Charoux (F - Yamaha) 1+0=1.
RACE ONE: 1 Lancelot, 2 Papenmeier, 3 Laier, 4 Franke, 5 Mann, 6 KANE, 7 Fontanesi, 8 Veenstra, 9 De Mol, 10 De Winter, 11 Borchers, 12 Wagemans, 13 Pettersson, 14 DUNLOP, 15 Van Wordragen, 16 Nocera, 17 Van der Wekken, 18 Seidenberg, 19 Johansson, 20 Charoux.
RACE TWO: 1 Lancelot, 2 Laier, 3 Papenmeier, 4 Franke, 5 Veenstra, 6 De Mol, 7 KANE, 8 Mann, 9 De Winter, 10 Nocera, 11 Wagemans, 12 Borchers, 13 Van Wordragen, 14 Pettersson, 15 Fontanesi, 16 Seidenberg, 17 Romlin, 18 Segura Pereira, 19 Van der Wekken, 20 DUNLOP.
SERIES STANDINGS after 4 (of 6) rounds: 1 Lancelot 185 points, 2 Laier 161, 3 Papenmeier 148, 4 Franke 139, 5 Mann 128, 6 KANE 116, 7 Veenstra 111, 8 De Winter 88, 9 De Mol 86, 10 Fiolek 80, 11 Van Wordragen 70, 12 Wagemans 54, 13 Borchers 52, 14 Fontanesi 51, 15 Nocera 51, 16 Whitmore 45, 17 Pettersson 38, 18 Van der Wekken 33, 19 Segura Pereira 24, 20 Gieger 22,... 23 DUNLOP 15,...
NEXT ROUND: Jun 21 – Teutschenthal, GERMANY.
In his home MXGP Marvin Musquin didn't disappoint with two outstanding victories and the overall and increasing his series lead in MX2.