MX DIARY: MXoN teams finalised
By Sean Lawless on 3rd Sep 15
Britain, France and USA are the three favourites for the Motocross of Nations at Ernee on September 26/27.
A total of 35 federations have entered teams including, for the first time, Morocco.
Italy has eliminated itself from the fight for major placings after naming a junior team of Ivo Monticelli, Michele Cervellin and Samuele Bernardini after Tony Cairoli withdrew.
"I will ride the last GP at Glen Helen,” said Cairoli, "but I do not yet know if I will be fit. If I don't feel good at Glen Helen I don't have to race but I cannot commit myself to race for my country and let it down.”
As a result the FMI has also decided to race without David Philippaerts and Davide Guarneri.
Belgian team manager Joel Smets is still hoping that Ken De Dycker can get back on a bike in time to take over from Kevin Strijbos, out for the year after a hand operation last week.
Marnicq Bervoets indicated that neither Brent Van Doninck nor Damon Graulus are available.
"Each of them only rode a 450 once and there is no time when we get back from the US for testing,” he said. "Add to that the pressure of riding for your country and the chances are they would get hurt.”
Jens Getteman, on standby, broke his leg on Saturday in Assen after setting second fastest time in first practice.
MX of Nations teams
France: Gautier Paulin, Marvin Musquin, Romain Febvre
Belgium: TBA, Julien Lieber, Jeremy Van Horebeek
USA: Justin Barcia, Jeremy Martin, Cooper Webb
GB: Shaun Simpson, Max Anstie, Dean Wilson
Germany: Max Nagl, Henry Jacobi, Dennis Ullrich
Italy: Ivo Monticelli, Michele Cervellin, Samuele Bernardini
Switzerland: Arnaud Tonus, Jeremy Seewer, Valentin Guillod
Russia: Evgeny Bobryshev. Vsevolod Brylyakov, Ivan Baranov
Estonia: Tanel Leok, Harri Kullas, Gert Krestinov
Netherlands: Brian Bogers, Davy Pootjes, Glenn Coldenhoff
Sweden: Filip Bengtsson, Alvin Östlund, Jesper Jönsson
Latvia: Davis Ivanovs, Pauls Jonass, Matiss Karro
Portugal: Rui Goncalves, Sandro Peixe, Hugo Basaula
Australia: Todd Waters, Jay Wilson, Dean Ferris
Denmark: Nikolaj Larsen, Thomas Kjer Olsen, Stefan Kjer Olsen
Finland: Valtteri Malin, Jere Haavisto, Miro Sihvonen
Puerto Rico: Juan Reyes, Michael Leib, Jason Astudillo
Ireland: Martin Barr, Graeme Irwin, Stuart Edmonds
Slovenia: Klemen Gercar, Peter Irt, Tim Gajser
Spain: Jose Butron, Jorge Zaragoza, Ander Valentin
Japan: Makato Ogata, Toshiki Tomita, Yohei Kojima
New Zealand: Ben Townley, Kayne Lamont, Cody Cooper
Lithuania: Nerijus Rukstela, Vytautas Bucas, Arminas Jasikonis
Czech Republic – Jaromir Romancik, Filip Neugebauer, Martin Michek
Brazil: Thales Vilardi, Fabio Santos, Jean Ramos
Poland: Lukasz Lonka, Gabriel Chetnicki, Tomasz Wysocki
Slovakia: Martin Kohut, Richard Sikyna. Tomas Simko
Ukraine: Roman Morozov, Dmytro Asmanov, Volodymir Tarasov
Greece: Panagiotis Kouzis, Ionnis Touratzidis, Dimitros Kontoletas
Croatia: Marko Leljak, Matija Kelava, Metey Jaros
Luxembourg: Eric Tabouraing, Daniel Casoli, Björn Frank
Venezuela: Carlos Badiali, Hector Rodriguez, Lorenzo Locurcio
Norway: Henrik Wahl, Magne Klingsheim, Lasse Christoffersen
Austria: Lukas Neurauter, Pascal Rauchenecker, Günter Schmidinger
Morocco: Abdelhalim Soulimani, Said El Merjjad, Houmame Gabari
