Raging Bulls
By Alex Hodgkinson on 5th Aug 11
The Red Bull Teka KTM steamroller ground the opposition into the sand at Lommel. They blasted to a 1-2-3 in both races for Jeffrey Herlings, Ken Roczen and Jeremy Van Horebeek in MX2 and a 1-3 in MX1 for Toni Cairoli and Max Nagl as only Clement Desalle stopped the rot. Max Anstie was again best Brit, just missing the podium with a brace of fourths in MX2, while Shaun Simpson had a stunning second moto seventh. There were top ten scores for Tommy Searle, Jake Nicholls, Arnaud Tonus and Matiss Karro and points on his return to GPs for Tom Church.
The gallery, packed to the brim with British fans, witnessed Herlings in devastating form despite being on painkillers for a week-old vacation injury: "On Friday morning I didn't even know if I could race, but today I actually had less pain than yesterday," said Herlings.
A cautious start to race one was followed by a crash which let Roczen through to lead.
The pair of them were playing cat-and-mouse for a time but as the race entered the final laps it got serious again.
The German led going into the final lap, but the Dutch teenager was on his rear wheel when Lommel bit!
"I don't know happened. One moment I was leading, the next I was on the ground. I hurt my stomach and was sick at the finish, but I got some physio and the pain was soon gone, explained Roczen after getting up to finish second.
"We were both on the limit," added Herlings. "I was on his rear wheel when he crashed and was lucky not to hit him.
With the first win under his belt the 16-year-old wanted the double and surged to the front within a few turns in race two: "I wanted to try Ken's tactic of holeshot and build a big gap as soon as possible but I guess I tried too hard and crashed down to around eighth," he said.
Within a lap he was back in front and checked out. Roczen's points lead was thus cut to 21 but he was not perturbed: "I guess I can be happy with second. Jeff is the fastest MX2 rider in the world in sand!"
Van Horebeek, the only rider in the class not to crash, completed the orange podium, but Max Anstie was undoubtedly the third-fastest rider on view, if a little over-enthusiastic at times.
"I nearly holeshot the first race but I was so excited I jumped off the track into the green netting at turn two," he admitted.
"I charged back to fourth again and was right on Jeremy when I (unintentionally) tried a nac-nac and jumped off the track again, but within a lap I had passed Petar Petrov and Tommy and Gautier Paulin collided.
"I nearly caught back up to Jeremy, but I just ran out of time.
FOR FULL REPORT AND PICTURES SEE T+MX NEWS AUGUST 5
WORLD MX1 MOTOCROSS CHAMPIONSHIP
Rd 11 – Lommel, BELGIUM
1 Toni Cairoli (I - Red Bull Teka KTM) 25 + 25 = 50
2 Clement Desalle (B - Rockstar Suzuki) 22 + 18 = 40
3 Max Nagl (D - Red Bull Teka KTM) 16 + 22 = 38
4 Evgeny Bobryshev (RUS - Honda World) 15 + 20 = 35
5 Steven Frossard (F - Monster Rinaldi Yam) 18 + 15 = 33
6 Tanel Leok (EW - Bonver TM) 13 + 16 = 29
7 Rui Goncalves (P - Honda World) 20 + 8 = 28
8 David Philippaerts (I - Monster Rinaldi Yam) 14 + 12 = 26
9 Shaun SIMPSON (GB - LS Honda) 10 + 14 = 24
10 Ken De Dycker (B - LS Honda) 9 + 13 = 22
11 Xavier Boog (F - KRT Kawasaki) 11+9=20, 12 Jonathan Barragan (E - KRT Kawasaki) 12+7=19, 13 Marvin Van Daele (B - Honda) 7+10=17, 14 Marc De Reuver (NL - Van Beers Yamaha) 0+11=11, 15 Kevin Strijbos (B - Delta Suzuki) 5+6=11, 16 Anthony Boissiere (F - Rockstar Suzuki) 8+3=11, 17 Herjan Brakke (NL - Van Beers Yamaha) 6+4=10, 18 Matthias Walkner (A - BGR KTM) 0+5=5, 19 Tom CHURCH (GB - HMP Red Bull KTM) 4+0=4, 20 Kevin Wouts (B - Kawasaki) 3+0=3, 21 Milko Potisek (F - Kawasaki) 0+2=2, 22 Carlos Campano (E - Andalucia Yamaha) 2+0=2, 23 Santtu Tiainen (SF - Kawasaki) 0+1=1, 24 Stuwey Reijnders (NL - Suzuki) 1+0=1.
RACE ONE: 1 Cairoli, 2 Desalle, 3 Goncalves, 4 Frossard, 5 Nagl, 6 Bobryshev, 7 Philippaerts, 8 Tanel Leok, 9 Barragan, 10 Boog, 11 SIMPSON, 12 De Dycker, 13 Boissiere, 14 Van Daele, 15 Brakke, 16 Strijbos, 17 CHURCH, 18 Wouts, 19 Campano, 20 Reijnders.
RACE TWO: 1 Cairoli, 2 Nagl, 3 Bobryshev, 4 Desalle, 5 Tanel Leok, 6 Frossard, 7 SIMPSON, 8 De Dycker, 9 Philippaerts, 10 DeReuver, 11 Van Daele, 12 Boog, 13 Goncalves, 14 Barragan, 15 Strijbos, 16 Walkner, 17 Brakke, 18 Boissiere, 19 Potisek, 20 Tiainen.
SERIES STANDINGS after 11 (of 15) rounds: 1 Cairoli 466 points, 2 Desalle 414, 3 Frossard 403, 4 Bobryshev 369, 5 Nagl 349, 6 Goncalves 309, 7 Philippaerts 308, 8 De Dycker 250, 9 Boog 235, 10 Barragan 233, 11 Ramon 229, 12 Tanel Leok 198, 13 Strijbos 176, 14 SIMPSON 149, 15 Boissiere 146, 16 Guarneri 122, 17 Aranda 61, 18 DeReuver 55, 19 Schiffer 55, 20 Campano 54,... 22 Jason DOUGAN 26,... 30 Brad ANDERSON 12,... 33 Martin BARR 8,... 38 CHURCH 4,...
NEXT ROUND: August 7 – Loket, CZECH REPUBLIC.
WORLD MX2 MOTOCROSS CHAMPIONSHIP
Rd 11 – Lommel, BELGIUM
1 Jeff Herlings (NL - Red Bull Teka KTM) 25 + 25 = 50
2 Ken Roczen (D - Red Bull Teka KTM) 22 + 22 = 44
3 Jeremy Van Horebeek (B - Red Bull Teka KTM) 20 + 20 = 40
4 Max ANSTIE (GB - CLS Monster PC Kaw) 18 + 18 = 36
5 Gautier Paulin (F - Monster Rinaldi Yam) 14 + 16 = 30
6 Tommy SEARLE (GB - CLS Monster PC Kaw) 15 + 15 = 30
7 Harri Kullas (SF - Monster Gariboldi Yam) 12 + 13 = 25
8 Jake NICHOLLS (GB - HMP Red Bull KTM) 13 + 12 = 25
9 Arnaud Tonus (CH - Bike-It Cosworth Yam) 11 + 10 = 21
10 Matiss Karro (LV - Route77 MVR-D Honda) 9 + 11 = 20
11 Mike Kras (NL - Beursfoon Suzuki) 10+7=17, 12 Jordi Tixier (F - JM Nestaan KTM) 8+8=16, 13 Petar Petrov (BG - Van Beers Yamaha) 16+0=16, 14 Joel Roelants (B - JM Nestaan KTM) 0+14=14, 15 Jose Butron (E - Silver Action KTM) 5+9=14, 16 Pascal Rauchenecker (A - JM Nestaan KTM) 6+6=12, 17 Valentin Teillet (F - Suzuki Europe MX2) 7+5=12, 18 Ludvig Soderberg (SF - Ice1 Kawasaki) 3+4=7, 19 Filip Bengtsson (S - KTM) 4+0=4, 20 Alessandro Lupino (I - Ricci Husqvarna) 0+3=3, 21 Roberts Justs (LV - Latvia Elksni Honda) 2+1=3, 22 Petr Smitka (CZ - Bonver TM) 0+2=2, 23 Julien Lieber (B - Lieber KTM) 1+0=1.
RACE ONE: 1 Herlings, 2 Roczen, 3 Van Horebeek, 4 ANSTIE, 5 Petrov, 6 SEARLE, 7 Paulin, 8 NICHOLLS, 9 Kullas, 10 Tonus, 11 Kras, 12 Karro, 13 Tixier, 14 Teillet, 15 Rauchenecker, 16 Butron, 17 Bengtsson, 18 Soderberg, 19 Justs, 20 Lieber.
RACE TWO: 1 Herlings, 2 Roczen, 3 Van Horebeek, 4 ANSTIE, 5 Paulin, 6 SEARLE, 7 Roelants, 8 Kullas, 9 NICHOLLS, 10 Karro, 11 Tonus, 12 Butron, 13 Tixier, 14 Kras, 15 Rauchenecker, 16 Teillet, 17 Soderberg, 18 Lupino, 19 Smitka, 20 Justs.
SERIES STANDINGS after 11 (of 15) rounds: 1 Roczen 490 points, 2 Herlings 469, 3 SEARLE 400, 4 Paulin 373, 5 Osborne 295, 6 Tonus 295, 7 ANSTIE 285, 8 Kullas 249, 9 Aubin 207, 10 Roelants 180, 11 Charlier 170, 12 NICHOLLS 139, 13 Tixier 131, 14 Lupino 124, 15 Butron 108, 16 Petrov 102, 17 Van Horebeek 99, 18 Coldenhoff 90, 19 Teillet 82, 20 Triest 80,... 29 BANKS-BROWNE 17,... 42 BOOKER 4,...
NEXT ROUND: August 7 – Loket, CZECH REPUBLIC.
