MXGP: Britz blitz!
By TMX Archives on 5th Aug 15
It was a weekend to tell the grandchildren about at Lommel as the British national anthem rang out four times around the worlds toughest motocross arena!
Shaun Simpson and Max Anstie each grabbed a triple helping of glory in MXGP and MX2, Brad Anderson went 1-1 for the second time in eight days in EMX300 and teenager Jack Bintcliffe scored an overwhelming double in the 150s.
"This was probably the roughest I've ever seen Lommel,” said Simpson. "This is real motocross with plenty of bumps, guys getting tired, regrouping to put in sprint laps.
"It was so difficult – but so enjoyable!”
Anstie was also over the moon after conquering Lommel for the second year in a row. "I haven't ridden here since last year but you don't forget this place,” he said.
"The track design and prep was awesome. All of those small jumps made it even more difficult to maintain momentum.
"What a way to round out 12 solid weeks of racing. I'm happy we've got a fortnight off now.”
And it wasn't just the winners who were rolling out the superlatives.
"At the end my legs were gone,” admitted world leader Romain Febvre.
"The rider, not the bike, made the difference this week,” declared Petar Petrov after grabbing a career-first podium.
"This place is unique, it's a killer,” reckoned Ryan Villopoto.
Anderson and Bintcliffe had already set the ball rolling with double wins in their Euro classes. The stocky 14-year-old from Yorkshire showed grit to move out of the pack going into turn one on Saturday and simply cleared off for the win but the Sunday morning affair was closer as a slip handed the lead temporarily to red plate holder Emil Weckman.
"I tried to keep calm when Emil went by but I took some deep breaths, stayed with him and found somewhere to pass him back.”
Ando's double was even more dramatic.
"I got off to a decent start on Saturday but the bike was running bad and I stopped at the corner after the finish jump on the first lap,” he said. "It cleared again after a bit and I set off again but I couldn't believe it when I pulled back 10 seconds on the last lap to win. When we checked it afterwards the problem was water in the fuel.”
Race two was another grinder.
"They were going at each other for the lead so I just let 'em get on with it and picked 'em off at the end,” added Ando.
Conrad Mewse was as fast as anyone in the 125s but again his starts and first few turns cost the West Country lad as he narrowly missed the podium while Adam Sterry's tough rides back to series second spot in EMX2 would have made headlines on any other weekend.
The most stunning action of all was reserved for Sunday afternoon. The immaculate Anstie and the death-defying 100 foot quad leaps of Simpson had already controlled qualification and the act continued when it counted.
First to the line was MX2.
The Dixon crew have got the starts sorted and Anstie emerged from turn one as leader, only to lose the lead immediately to Pauls Jonass.
The Latvian teenager is renowned for his electric opening laps and his equally rapid fade a couple of laps in so it was simply a matter of course for Anstie to let the rookie lead for a couple of laps before overpowering him to move away at two seconds a lap until the orange bike was out of his wheel tracks.
Tim Gajser and Valentin Guillod, the joint effective points leaders, had each crashed on Saturday and the Swiss struggled manfully to 12th after under-rating the challenge of Lommel in his preparation.
The Slovenian was more workmanlike for fifth but could thank a last lap fall by Julien Lieber, a mechanical for Davy Pootjes and a poor performance by Jordi Tixier for three of his four advances in the course of 35 minutes.
Race two was Anstie all the way with Jonass quickly second as Petrov burnt himself out in the first two laps when he tried to stay with the Brit.
Gajser salvaged a seventh but Guillod's weekend went from bad to worse as Brent Van Doninck binned it on a landing and the Swiss, already committed, demolished his radiator when he landed on the stricken Yam.
WORLD MXGP CHAMPIONSHIP
Rd 14 – Lommel, BELGIUM
1 Shaun SIMPSON (GB - Hitachi Revo KTM UK) 25 + 25 = 50
2 Gautier Paulin (F - Team HRC Honda) 22 + 22 = 44
3 Romain Febvre (F - Yamalube Factory Yamaha) 20 + 20 = 40
4 Evgeny Bobryshev (RUS - Team HRC Honda) 16 + 18 = 34
5 Kevin Strijbos (B - World MXGP Suzuki) 14 + 16 = 30
6 Jeremy v Horebeek (B - Yamalube Factory Yam) 18 + 12 = 30
7 Todd Waters (AUS - Red Bull Ice1 Husqvarna) 13 + 15 = 28
8 Glenn Coldenhoff (NL - Team Suzuki Europe) 15 + 9 = 24
9 Tyla Rattray (ZA - Monster Energy Kawasaki) 9 + 14 = 23
10 Gert Krestinov (EST - Honda) 12 + 11 = 23
11 Dean Ferris (AUS - Wilvo Nestaan Husqvarna) 6+13=19, 12 Christophe Charlier (F - 24MX Honda) 7+10=17, 13 Priit Ratsep (EST - Honda) 8+8=16, 14 Filip Bengtsson (S - 24MX Honda) 11+5=16, 15 Angus Heidecke (D - KTM) 4+7=11, 16 Jose Butron (E - Marchetti KTM) 5+6=11, 17 Nathan WATSON (GB - Red Bull Ice1 Husqvarna) 10+0=10, 18 Klemen Gercar (SLO - 62 MotoSport Husqvarna) 3+3=6, 19 Davide Guarneri (I - Factory Racing TM) 0+4=4, 20 Mike Vanderstraeten (B - Yamaha) 2+2=4, 21 Jeffrey Dewulf (B - Yamaha) 0+1=1, 22 Dennis Ullrich (D - Castrol Power1 Suzuki) 1+0=1.
RACE ONE: 1 SIMPSON, 2 Paulin, 3 Febvre, 4 Van Horebeek, 5 Bobryshev, 6 Coldenhoff, 7 Strijbos, 8 Waters, 9 Krestinov, 10 Bengtsson, 11 WATSON, 12 Rattray, 13 Ratsep, 14 Charlier, 15 Ferris, 16 Butron, 17 Heidecke, 18 Gercar, 19 Vanderstraeten, 20 Ullrich.
RACE TWO: 1 SIMPSON, 2 Paulin, 3 Febvre, 4 Bobryshev, 5 Strijbos, 6 Waters, 7 Rattray, 8 Ferris, 9 Van Horebeek, 10 Krestinov, 11 Charlier, 12 Coldenhoff, 13 Ratsep, 14 Heidecke, 15 Butron, 16 Bengtsson, 17 Guarneri, 18 Gercar, 19 Vanderstraeten, 20 Dewulf.
SERIES STANDINGS after 14 (of 18) rounds: 1 Febvre 547 points, 2 Paulin 463, 3 Bobryshev 423, 4 Cairoli 416, 5 Nagl 360, 6 SIMPSON 356, 7 Desalle 331, 8 Van Horebeek 324, 9 Coldenhoff 290, 10 Strijbos 287, 11 Waters 278, 12 Ferris 208, 13 Rattray 204, 14 Philippaerts 185, 15 Charlier 164, 16 De Dycker 155, 17 Butron 155, 18 Frossard 128, 19 Villopoto 124, 20 Lupino 97, 21 Guarneri 93, 22 Bengtsson 78, 23 SEARLE 74, 24 WATSON 70, 25 Boog 40,... 39 NICHOLLS 11,... 42 Paul COATES 7,...
NEXT ROUND: August 16 – Trindade, BRAZIL.
WORLD MX2 MOTOCROSS CHAMPIONSHIP
Rd 14 – Lommel, BELGIUM
1 Max ANSTIE (GB - Monster DRT Kawasaki) 25 + 25 = 50
2 Pauls Jonass (LAT - Red Bull KTM) 22 + 22 = 44
3 Petar Petrov (BUL - Monster Energy Kawasaki) 20 + 18 = 38
4 Julien Lieber (B - Standing Construct Yamaha) 15 + 20 = 35
5 Harri Kullas (SF - Wilvo Nestaan Husqvarna) 18 + 16 = 34
6 Tim Gajser (SLO - Gariboldi Honda) 16 + 14 = 30
7 Jeremy Seewer (CH - Suzuki Europe MX) 13 + 13 = 26
8 Benoit Paturel (F - Kemea Yamalube Yamaha) 11 + 12 = 23
9 Jordi Tixier (F - Monster Energy Kawasaki) 14 + 9 = 23
10 Brian Bogers (NL - HSF Logistics KTM) 10 + 8 = 18
11 Davy Pootjes (NL - Red Bull Factory KTM) 1+15=16, 12 Thomas Covington (US - Monster Energy Kawasaki) 2+11=13, 13 Ivo Monticelli (I - Marchetti KTM) 6+7=13, 14 Brent Van Doninck (B - Yamaha) 12+0=12, 15 Jens Getteman (B - Jtech Honda) 8+3=11, 16 Henry Jacobi (D - KTM) 0+10=10, 17 Karel Kutsar (EST - Sahkar KTM) 5+5=10, 18 Ben WATSON (GB - Hitachi Revo KTM) 7+2=9, 19 Valentin Guillod (CH - Standing Construct Yamaha) 9+0=9, 20 Vsevolod Brylyakov (RUS - Jtech Honda) 4+4=8, 21 Samuele Bernardini (I - Factory Racing TM) 0+6=6, 22 Anton Lundgren (S - MX Racing Husqvarna) 3+1=4.
RACE ONE: 1 ANSTIE, 2 Jonass, 3 Petrov, 4 Kullas, 5 Gajser, 6 Lieber, 7 Tixier, 8 Seewer, 9 Van Doninck, 10 Paturel, 11 Bogers, 12 Guillod, 13 Getteman, 14 WATSON, 15 Monticelli, 16 Kutsar, 17 Brylyakov, 18 Lundgren, 19 Covington, 20 Pootjes.
RACE TWO: 1 ANSTIE, 2 Jonass, 3 Lieber, 4 Petrov, 5 Kullas, 6 Pootjes, 7 Gajser, 8 Seewer, 9 Paturel, 10 Covington, 11 Jacobi, 12 Tixier, 13 Bogers, 14 Monticelli, 15 Bernardini, 16 Kutsar, 17 Brylyakov, 18 Getteman, 19 WATSON, 20 Lundgren.
SERIES STANDINGS after 14 (of 18) rounds: 1 Jonass 433 points, 2 Gajser 429, 3 Herlings 423, 4 Guillod 408, 5 Seewer 395, 6 Tixier 393, 7 ANSTIE 387, 8 Lieber 340, 9 Petrov 262, 10 Paturel 259, 11 Tonkov 256, 12 Bogers 243, 13 Ferrandis 205, 14 Van Doninck 189, 15 Covington 189, 16 Justs 181, 17 Brylyakov 170, 18 Monticelli 143, 19 Getteman 113, 20 WATSON 99,... 27 Mel POCOCK 36, 28 Adam STERRY 32,... 40 Gradie FEATHERSTONE 5,... 47 Jordan BOOKER 1,...
NEXT ROUND: August 16 – Trindade, BRAZIL.
EUROPEAN EMX250 CHAMPIONSHIP
Rd 8 – Lommel, BELGIUM
1 Lars Van Berkel (NL - HNHF Kawasaki) 22 + 25 = 47
2 Thomas Kjer Olsen (DK - Bodo Schmidt KTM) 25 + 20 = 45
3 Alvin Ostlund (S - MAFI Yamaha) 18 + 22 = 40
4 Nick Kouwenberg (NL - J-Tech Honda) 16 + 13 = 29
5 Adam STERRY (GB - Wilvo Forkrent KTM) 20 + 9 = 29
6 Kevin Wouts (B - KTM) 13 + 15 = 28
7 Michele Cervellin (I - Martin Honda) 14 + 14 = 28
8 Frederik Van der Vlist (NL - Kawasaki) 10 + 16 = 26
9 Brian Hsu (D - Rockstar Europe Suzuki) 9 + 12 = 21
10 Nicholas Adams (ZA - GPR Promo KTM) 8 + 11 = 19
11 Maxime Desprey (F - Kawasaki) 0+18=18, 12 Magne Klingsheim (N - HNHF Kawasaki) 5+10=15, 13 Bas Vaessen (NL - Rockstar Europe Suzuki) 15+0=15, 14 Ander Valentin (E - Ausio Yamalube Yamaha) 12+0=12, 15 Luca Nijenhuis (NL - Kawasaki) 7+4=11, 16 Michael Hool (NL - KTM) 11+0=11, 17 Max Engelen (NL - HSF Logistics KTM) 4+5=9, 18 Robin Bakens (B - Honda) 0+8=8, 19 Joel Van Mechelen (N - GPR Promo KTM) 0+7=7, 20 Bryan Toccaceli (SMR - Martin Honda) 0+6=6, 21 Anton Gole (S - Creymert Honda) 6+0=6, 22 Simone Furlotti (I - MXM Silver Action KTM) 0+3=3, 23 Damon Graulus (B - Kemea Yamalube Yamaha) 3+0=3, 24 Ronnie Van Rooij (NL - Kawasaki) 0+2=2, 25 Simone Zecchina (I - Kawasaki) 2+0=2, 26 James DUNN (GB - KTM) 0+1=1, 27 Sven Van der Mierden (NL - Husqvarna) 1+0=1.
RACE ONE: 1 Kjer Olsen, 2 Van Berkel, 3 STERRY, 4 Ostlund, 5 Kouwenberg, 6 Vaessen, 7 Cervellin, 8 Wouts, 9 Valentin, 10 Hool, 11 Van der Vlist, 12 Hsu, 13 Adams, 14 Nijenhuis, 15 Gole, 16 Klingsheim, 17 Max Engelen, 18 Graulus, 19 Zecchina, 20 Van der Mierden.
RACE TWO: 1 Van Berkel, 2 Ostlund, 3 Kjer Olsen, 4 Maxime Desprey, 5 Van der Vlist, 6 Wouts, 7 Cervellin, 8 Kouwenberg, 9 Hsu, 10 Adams, 11 Klingsheim, 12 STERRY, 13 Bakens, 14 Van Mechelen, 15 Toccaceli, 16 Max Engelen, 17 Nijenhuis, 18 Furlotti, 19 Van Rooij, 20 DUNN.
SERIES STANDINGS after 8 (of 9) rounds: 1 Kouwenberg 284 points, 2 STERRY 251, 3 Graulus 243, 4 Maxime Desprey 235, 5 Hsu 190, 6 Ostlund 186, 7 Kjer Olsen 177, 8 Valentin 166, 9 CLARKE 118, 10 Zecchina 114, 11 Cervellin 100, 12 Dercourt 96, 13 Van Berkel 95, 14 Ken Bengtsson 86, 15 Van der Vlist 83, 16 Pootjes 80, 17 Adams 78, 18 Vaessen 71, 19 Herbreteau 66, 20 Nijenhuis 57,... 26 Michael ECCLES 37,... 48 Robert DAVIDSON 8,... 59 Nathan DIXON 2,... 62 DUNN 1,... 64 James COTTRELL 1, 65 Liam KNIGHT 1,...
FINAL ROUND: August 30 – Assen, HOLLAND.
EUROPEAN EMX300 CHAMPIONSHIP
Rd 6 (Final) – Lommel, BELGIUM
1 Brad Anderson (GB - Yamaha) 25 + 25 = 50
2 Mike Kras (NL - Yamaha) 22 + 22 = 44
3 Andy Truyts (B - KTM) 18 + 20 = 38
4 Davey Janssen (NL - Husqvarna) 20 + 15 = 35
5 Tom Meijer (NL - Yamaha) 15 + 16 = 31
6 Dietger Damiaens (B - KTM) 12 + 18 = 30
7 Mikael Kaipanen (SF - KTM) 14+14=28, 8 Kai Haase (D - Suzuki) 11+12=23, 9 Marco Maddii (I - KTM) 13+9=22, 10 Patrick Vos (NL - Kawasaki) 5+13=18, 11 Giacomo Redondi (I - Beta) 10+8=18, 12 Matthew MOFFAT (GB - Husqvarna) 16+0=16, 13 Nicolas Bender (CH - Yamaha) 8+7=15, 14 Rinnie Van Linden (NL - KTM) 9+4=13, 15 Damon STRYDOM (GB - KTM) 0+11=11, 16 Miguel Gaboleiro (P - Aprilia) 0+10=10, 17 Ryan Hammond (GB - TM) 3+5=8, 18 Ron Lespoix (B - KTM) 7+0=7, 19 Rene Rannikko (SF - KTM) 0+6=6, 20 Erwin Robins (NL - Yamaha) 4+2=6, 21 Joey Smets (B - KTM) 6+0=6, 22 Franz Lofquist (S - Honda) 2+3=5, 23 Michele Cencioni (I - Husqvarna) 1+1=2.
RACE ONE: 1 Anderson, 2 Kras, 3 Janssen, 4 Truyts, 5 MOFFAT, 6 Meijer, 7 Kaipanen, 8 Maddii, 9 Damiaens, 10 Haase, 11 Redondi, 12 Van Linden, 13 Bender, 14 Lespoix, 15 Smets, 16 Vos, 17 Robins, 18 Hammond, 19 Lofquist, 20 Michele Cencioni.
RACE TWO: 1 Anderson, 2 Kras, 3 Truyts, 4 Damiaens, 5 Meijer, 6 Janssen, 7 Kaipanen, 8 Vos, 9 Haase, 10 STRYDOM, 11 Gaboleiro, 12 Maddii, 13 Redondi, 14 Bender, 15 Rannikko, 16 Hammond, 17 Van Linden, 18 Lofquist, 19 Robins, 20 Michele Cencioni.
FINAL SERIES STANDINGS after 6 rounds: 1 Marco Maddii 223 points, 2 Matt MOFFAT 178, 3 Dietger Damiaens 178, 4 Martens 164, 5 STRYDOM 162, 6 Kaipanen 104, 7 Anderson 100, 8 Smets 98, 9 Vos 94, 10 Bender 93, 11 Kras 86, 12 Lewis GREGORY 86, 13 Janssen 84, 14 Arana 67, 15 Riccardo Cencioni 66, 16 Brucart Sanchez 61, 17 Michele Cencioni 56, 18 Beconcini 55, 19 Gaboleiro 52, 20 Rob HOLYOAKE 49,... 45 Ryan Hammond 8,... 51 Ty KELLETT 6,...
WORLD MXGP CHAMPIONSHIP
Rd 14 – Lommel, BELGIUM
1 Shaun SIMPSON (GB - Hitachi Revo KTM UK) 25 + 25 = 50
2 Gautier Paulin (F - Team HRC Honda) 22 + 22 = 44
3 Romain Febvre (F - Yamalube Factory Yamaha) 20 + 20 = 40
4 Evgeny Bobryshev (RUS - Team HRC Honda) 16 + 18 = 34
5 Kevin Strijbos (B - World MXGP Suzuki) 14 + 16 = 30
6 Jeremy v Horebeek (B - Yamalube Factory Yam) 18 + 12 = 30
7 Todd Waters (AUS - Red Bull Ice1 Husqvarna) 13 + 15 = 28
8 Glenn Coldenhoff (NL - Team Suzuki Europe) 15 + 9 = 24
9 Tyla Rattray (ZA - Monster Energy Kawasaki) 9 + 14 = 23
10 Gert Krestinov (EST - Honda) 12 + 11 = 23
11 Dean Ferris (AUS - Wilvo Nestaan Husqvarna) 6+13=19, 12 Christophe Charlier (F - 24MX Honda) 7+10=17, 13 Priit Ratsep (EST - Honda) 8+8=16, 14 Filip Bengtsson (S - 24MX Honda) 11+5=16, 15 Angus Heidecke (D - KTM) 4+7=11, 16 Jose Butron (E - Marchetti KTM) 5+6=11, 17 Nathan WATSON (GB - Red Bull Ice1 Husqvarna) 10+0=10, 18 Klemen Gercar (SLO - 62 MotoSport Husqvarna) 3+3=6, 19 Davide Guarneri (I - Factory Racing TM) 0+4=4, 20 Mike Vanderstraeten (B - Yamaha) 2+2=4, 21 Jeffrey Dewulf (B - Yamaha) 0+1=1, 22 Dennis Ullrich (D - Castrol Power1 Suzuki) 1+0=1.
RACE ONE: 1 SIMPSON, 2 Paulin, 3 Febvre, 4 Van Horebeek, 5 Bobryshev, 6 Coldenhoff, 7 Strijbos, 8 Waters, 9 Krestinov, 10 Bengtsson, 11 WATSON, 12 Rattray, 13 Ratsep, 14 Charlier, 15 Ferris, 16 Butron, 17 Heidecke, 18 Gercar, 19 Vanderstraeten, 20 Ullrich.
RACE TWO: 1 SIMPSON, 2 Paulin, 3 Febvre, 4 Bobryshev, 5 Strijbos, 6 Waters, 7 Rattray, 8 Ferris, 9 Van Horebeek, 10 Krestinov, 11 Charlier, 12 Coldenhoff, 13 Ratsep, 14 Heidecke, 15 Butron, 16 Bengtsson, 17 Guarneri, 18 Gercar, 19 Vanderstraeten, 20 Dewulf.
SERIES STANDINGS after 14 (of 18) rounds: 1 Febvre 547 points, 2 Paulin 463, 3 Bobryshev 423, 4 Cairoli 416, 5 Nagl 360, 6 SIMPSON 356, 7 Desalle 331, 8 Van Horebeek 324, 9 Coldenhoff 290, 10 Strijbos 287, 11 Waters 278, 12 Ferris 208, 13 Rattray 204, 14 Philippaerts 185, 15 Charlier 164, 16 De Dycker 155, 17 Butron 155, 18 Frossard 128, 19 Villopoto 124, 20 Lupino 97, 21 Guarneri 93, 22 Bengtsson 78, 23 SEARLE 74, 24 WATSON 70, 25 Boog 40,... 39 NICHOLLS 11,... 42 Paul COATES 7,...
NEXT ROUND: August 16 – Trindade, BRAZIL.
FOR FULL REPORT AND PICTURES SEE TMX AUGUST 6
