Jack the whipper!
By TMX Archives on 19th Nov 09
BRITAIN has a new supercross hero! Jack Brunell, the 20-year-old from Windsor, has served his apprenticeship through two winters of German SX well and came out with all-guns blazing in Stuttgart at the weekend to wrestle top perch on the podium of the Youngsters Cup on both evenings against a truly class international field.
Ashley Greedy ate dirt too often to join Jack in collecting trophies, but hung in there for sixth each night, while the big class was inevitably a clean sweep for the American SX and Arenacross specialists who made up half the field.
With 25 hopefuls from eight countries chasing a dozen places at the start of the two SX2 motos each evening, even the afternoon qualification was hectic in the highest-profile SX series outside the USA, but both Brits held their nerve each afternoon to make the main programme; and for anybody who thinks that was a simple matter, German champion Dennis Baudrexl and SA GP regular Shannon Terreblanche each missed the cut one day!
STUTTGART INTERNATIONAL SUPERCROSS
Hanns Martin Schleyer Halle, Stuttgart (ADAC)
SX1: 1 Cole Siebler (USA – Honda) 1-4, 2 Tiger Lacey (USA - Kawasaki) 6-1, 3 Florent Richier (F - Kawasaki) 2-6, 4 Jason Thomas (USA - Suzuki) 7-2, 5 Travis Sewell (USA - Kawasaki) 4-10, 6 Alexandre Rouis (F - Yamaha) 8-7, 7 Teddy Maier (USA - Kawasaki) 0-3, 8 Cedric Soubeyras (F - KTM) 5-11, 9 Ben Evans (USA - Honda) 3-0, 10 Jacob Marsack (USA - Honda) 12-5, 11 Davide Degli Esposti (I - Suzuki) 11-9, 12 Jeff Northrop (USA - KTM) 0-8, 13 Daniel Siegl (D - Suzuki) 9-0, 14 Mike Brown (USA - KTM) 10-0.
SX2: 1 Jack Brunell (GB - Kawasaki) 1-1, 2 Romain Berthome (F - KTM) 4-5, 3 Boris Maillard (F - Kawasaki) 2-12, 4 Filip Thuresson (S - Suzuki) 10-3, 5 Filip Neugebauer (CZ - Kawasaki) 8-4, 6 Dennis Baudrexl (D - Honda) 0-2, 7 Ashley Greedy (GB - KTM) 6-6, 8 Rinus van de Ven (NL - KTM) 7-8, 9 Dominique Thury (D - Kawasaki) 9-7, 10 Milko Potisek (F - Suzuki) 5-11, 11 Shannon Terreblanche (SA - Kawasaki) 3-0, 12 Kaspar Lyngaard (DK - Yamaha) 0-9, 13 Maik Schaller (D - Honda) 0-10, 14 Levy Batista (F - KTM) 11-0, 15 Ross Johnson (USA - Honda) 12-0.
For full story see T+MX News, Friday, November 20, 2009
British Superhero Jack Brunell blitzed the opposition in SX2, taking a brace of wins in Germany.