Days of Thunder
By TMX Archives on 1st Oct 10
Jake Nicholls, Dean Wilson and Brad Anderson did Britain proud as they missed the podium by just a single-point in the Motocross des Nations at Thunder Valley on Sunday as the American hosts came back from the dead in the final moto to clinch their sixth consecutive Nations title with a 1-2 from Ryan Dungey and Andrew Short.
Dean Wilson was second best MX2 rider on the day to the phenomenal Ken Roczen, and was man enough to admit: "He's fast. There's nothing else to say.
Jake Nicholls had a nightmare first ride as the subframe bolts fell out on lap one and he lost the rear brake three-laps later, but came back for a final moto 12th, and Brad Anderson was a revelation on his debut in national colours, taking fourth overall in a loaded Open class from 8-11 motos.
Ireland, shattered by their qualification efforts in the morning, were inevitably never in the hunt and rounded out the top 20.
Full story and pictures in T+MX issue dated October 1, 2010.
RED BULL MOTOCROSS des NATIONS
Thunder Valley, Denver, Colorado, USA
FINAL TEAM STANDINGS: 1 UNITED STATES 23 points, 2 BELGIUM 30, 3 GERMANY 44, 4 GREAT BRITAIN 45, 5 ITALY 50, 6 AUSTRALIA 54, 7 FRANCE 71, 8 NEW ZEALAND 90, 9 PORTUGAL 94, 10 PUERTO RICO 99, 11 SWITZERLAND 102, 12 AUSTRIA 109, 13 SPAIN 115, 14 FINLAND 116, 15 ESTONIA 118, 16 CANADA 119, 17 LATVIA 121, 18 BRAZIL 123, 19 JAPAN 128, 20 IRELAND 142.
GROUP A RACES
RACE ONE (MX1 & MX2): 1 Ryan Dungey (US - Suzuki), 2 Antonio Cairoli (I - KTM), 3 Brett Metcalfe (AUS - Honda), 4 Jonathan Barragan (E - Kawasaki), 5 Gautier Paulin (F - Yamaha), 6 Ken Roczen (D - Suzuki), 7 Steve Ramon (B - Suzuki), 8 Dean WILSON (GB - Kawasaki), 9 Rui Goncalves (P - KTM), 10 Tanel Leok (EW - Honda), 11 Joshua Coppins (NZ - Aprilia), 12 Trey Canard (US - Honda), 13 Jeremy Van Horebeek (B - Kawasaki), 14 Marcus Schiffer (D - Suzuki), 15 Zach Osborne (PR - Yamaha), 16 Matiss Karro (LV - Suzuki), 17 Matthias Walkner (A - KTM), 18 Dean Ferris (AUS - Honda), 19 Harri Kullas (SF - Yamaha), 20 Alessandro Lupino (I - Yamaha), 21 Jeremy Medaglia (CAN - KTM), 22 Jose Antonio Butron (E - Suzuki), 23 Ivo Steinbergs (LV - Honda), 24 Pascal Rauchenecker (A - KTM), 25 Kaven Benoit (CAN - KTM), 26 Toni Eriksson (SF - KTM), 27 Priit Ratsep (EW - Honda), 28 Valentin Guillod (CH - KTM), 29 Brad Groombridge (NZ - Honda), 30 Takuya Mihara (J - Kawasaki), 31 Hugo Basaula (P - Suzuki), 32 Martin BARR (IRE - Honda), 33 Stuart EDMONDS (IRE - TM), 34 Cristopher Castro (BRA - Kawasaki), 35 Anderson Cidade (BRA - Kawasaki), 36 Christian Ruiz (PR - Honda), 37 Jake NICHOLLS (GB - KTM), 38 Akira Narita (J - Yamaha), 39 Marvin Musquin (F - KTM), 40 Gregory Wicht (CH - Honda).
TEAM POSITIONS after RACE ONE: 1 USA 13 points, 2 Germany 20, 3 Belgium 20, 4 Australia 21, 5 Italy 22, 6 Spain 26, 7 Estonia 37, 8 Latvia 39, 9 Portugal 40, 10 New Zealand 40,... 13 Great Britain 45,... 17 Ireland 65
RACE TWO (MX2 & OPEN): 1 Ben Townley (NZ - Honda), 2 Kyle Regal (PR - Honda), 3 Roczen (D), 4 Clement Desalle (B - Suzuki), 5 Maximilian Nagl (D - KTM), 6 WILSON (GB), 7 Canard (US), 8 Brad ANDERSON (GB - Honda), 9 Manuel Monni (I - Yamaha), 10 Van Horebeek (B), 11 Xavier Boog (F - Kawasaki), 12 Antonio Balbi (BRA - Kawasaki), 13 Andrew Short (US - Honda), 14 Osborne (PR), 15 Yoshitaka Atsuta (J - Suzuki), 16 Arnaud Tonus (CH - Suzuki), 17 Kyle Keast (CAN - Honda), 18 Jay Marmont (AUS - Yamaha), 19 Kullas (SF), 20 Karro (LV), 21 Alvaro Lozano (E - Yamaha), 22 Luis Correia (P - Yamaha), 23 Gordon CROCKARD (IRE - Honda), 24 Rauchenecker (A), 25 Lupino (I), 26 Gert Krestinov (EW - Kawasaki), 27 Ferris (AUS), 28 Guillod (CH), 29 Basaula (P), 30 Mihara (J), 31 Jon Soderberg (SF - KTM), 32 Castro (BRA), 33 Benoit (CAN), 34 BARR (IRE), 35 Ratsep (EW), 36 Groombridge (NZ), 37 Lauris Freibergs (LV - Honda), 38 Gunter Schmidinger (A - Suzuki), 39 Butron (E), 40 Musquin (F).
TEAM POSITIONS after RACE TWO: 1 Germany 28 points, 2 USA 33, 3 Belgium 34, 4 Italy 56, 5 Great Britain 59, 6 Australia 66, 7 Puerto Rico 67, 8 New Zealand 77, 9 Spain 86, 10 Portugal 91,... 20 Ireland 122.
RACE THREE (MX1 & OPEN): 1 Dungey (US), 2 Short (US), 3 Desalle (B), 4 Cairoli (I), 5 Metcalfe (AUS), 6 Ramon (B), 7 Boog (F), 8 Tonus (CH), 9 Paulin (F), 10 Marmont (AUS), 11 ANDERSON (GB), 12 NICHOLLS (GB), 13 Goncalves (P), 14 Coppins (NZ), 15 Monni (I), 16 Schiffer (D), 17 Balbi (BRA), 18 Walkner (A), 19 Atsuta (J), 20 Leok (EW), 21 Correia (P), 22 Wicht (CH), 23 Keast (CAN), 24 CROCKARD (IRE), 25 Eriksson (SF), 26 Schmidinger (A), 27 Soderberg (SF), 28 Cidade (BRA), 29 Steinbergs (LV), 30 EDMONDS (IRE), 31 Lozano (E), 32 Ruiz (PR), 33 Freibergs (LV), 34 Narita (J), 35 Townley (NZ), 36 Regal (PR), 37 Barragan (E), 38 Krestinov (EW), 39 Nagl (D).
GROUP B RACE
TEAM STANDINGS: 21 IRELAND 5 points, 22 ECUADOR 11, 23 SWEDEN 14, 24 VENEZUELA 16, 25 COSTA RICA 25, 26 UKRAINE 27, 27 GUATEMALA 29, 28 MEXICO 42, 29 LITHUANIA 50, 30 PHILIPINES 53, 31 ICELAND 54.
FINAL: 1 Martin Davalos (ECU - Yamaha), 2 Gordon CROCKARD (IRE - Honda), 3 Martin BARR (IRE - Honda), 4 Raimundo Trasolini (VEN - Yamaha), 5 Stuart EDMONDS (IRE - TM), 6 Frederik Noren (S - Honda), 7 Johan Mora (CR - Kawasaki), 8 Andreas Hultman (S - Honda), 9 Tomas Angel Castillo (GUA - Yamaha), 10 Andres Benenaula (ECU - Yamaha), 11 Alexander Eriksson (S - KTM), 12 Humberto Martin (VEN - Yamaha), 13 Oleksandr Pashchynskyi (UKR - KTM), 14 Roman Morozov (UKR - KTM), 15 Giovanni Perrotta (VEN - Yamaha), 16 Felipe Espinosa (ECU - Yamaha), 17 Mykola Pashchynskyi (UKR - KTM), 18 Gerald Gonzalez (CR - Kawasaki), 19 Alberto Hereida (MEX - Kawasaki), 20 Estefan Castillo (GUA - Honda), 21 Nerijus Rukstela (LIT - Suzuki), 22 Hjalmar Jonsson (ISL - Honda), 23 Martin Carcia (MEX - Suzuki), 24 Rodolfo Fernandez (GUA - Yamaha), 25 Carlos Oros (MEX - Suzuki), 26 Ralph Alvarez (PHI - Yamaha), 27 Jolet Jao (PHI - Suzuki), 28 Kenneth San Andres (PHI - Yamaha), 29 Mindaugas Kazakevicius (LIT - Honda), 30 Rimantas Pazemeckas (IT - Honda), 31 Alejandro Rohas (CR - Kawasaki), 32 Gylfi Gudmundsson (ISL - Suzuki).