Rattray's double Dutch
By TMX Archives on 11th Sep 08
TOMMY Searle once again gave his all, but it was not quite enough to prevent Tyla Rattray moving relentlessly towards the World MX2 title as the Red Bull KTM duo decimated the field at Lierop, in Holland, on Sunday. TOMMY Searle once again gave his all, but it was not quite enough to prevent Tyla Rattray moving relentlessly towards the World MX2 title as the Red Bull KTM duo decimated the field at Lierop, in Holland, on Sunday.
In MX1 Marc De Reuver finally won his home GP, but it was a knockabout affair, Billy MacKenzie even having to sit out the race after a local wobbler sent him to hospital on Saturday. However, the true sensation was the way Steve Ramon wilted to hand David Philippaerts a 14-point cushion going into this weekend's finale at Faenza in Italy.
The unrelenting sand was not kind to the rest of the Brits.
Shaun Simpson carved out a solid fifth overall, but dropped eight points to Nico Aubin and Rui Goncalves, his rivals for the MX2 bronze medal, and there were double score-lines for Molson team-mates Gareth Swanepoel, Stephen Sword and Tom Church. The only other UK scorer was Carl Nunn with a second moto 18th from reserve, and none of the British girls scored a single point as Livia Lancelot tied up the inaugural Ladies world title.
MX2
‘Tommy Gun' had his now usual lapse in qualification but still salvaged eighth gate pick. However the KTMs were never going to be challenged in the chase to turn one through the rotovated sand and it was rather a first lap run up an earth bank which meant the Brit had to pass Erik Eggens on lap two to join team-mates Goncalves and Rattray at the front.
Distancing the field at three-seconds a lap the trio held station for half-an-hour before Rattray made his move, dropping his lap time by a further three-seconds: "I tried to put in some fast laps, but Tommy came really close at the end.”
The Brit responded but needed another two laps to pass Goncalves and came up half-a-second short after setting the fastest lap of the race on the final circuit: "I knew Tyla would be strong today. I left it just too late.”
Simpson advanced steadily up the leader-board to snatch fourth by mid-moto as Eggens and Van Horebeek baled out, but Roelants confirmed the pace in sand which had given him a heat win on Saturday to move past a lap later, and Aubin was in inspired form. The Frenchman had fallen earlier in the race after coming to the Scot for the first time, but he made no mistakes second time around.
At the track where he had made the podium 12-months ago, Swanepoel defied his long break from racing to hover on the edge of the top ten all moto, but Sword was doggedly battling past fellow hard-pack front-runners Frossard, Guarneri and Boissiere for just six-points.
Zach Osborne was lapped by half-distance as, one week after his Irish moto win, he discovered just how diverse GP tracks can be. Meanwhile, Elliott Banks-Browne, the only other UK qualifier, had to face up to the reality of Lierop as his lap times dropped by 20-seconds after an initial dynamic surge had seen him advance to 14th.
WORLD MX2 MOTOCROSS CHAMPS
Rd 14 – Lierop, HOLLAND
1 Tyla Rattray (ZA - Red Bull KTM) 25+ 25 = 50
2 Tommy SEARLE (GB - Red Bull KTM) 22+ 22 = 44
3 Nicolas Aubin (F - Ricci Yamaha) 18+ 20 = 38
4 Rui Goncalves (P - Red Bull KTM) 20+ 18 = 38
5 Shaun SIMPSON (GB - KTM UK) 15+ 15 = 30
6 Gert Krestinov (EW - Favor KTM) 9+ 16 = 25
7 Matiss Karro (LAT - Honda) 12+ 13 = 25
8 Evgeniy Bobryschev (RUS - Van Beers Yamaha) 10+ 14 = 24
9 Jeremy Van Horebeek (B - Champ KTM) 13+ 11 = 24
10 Gareth Swanepoel (R - Molson Kawasaki) 11+ 12 = 23
11 Matti Seistola (F - SRS Honda) 7+9=16, 12 Joel Roelants (B - Champ KTM) 16+0=16, 13 Davide Guarneri (I - Ricci Yamaha) 4+10=14, 14 Stephen SWORD (GB - Molson Kawasaki) 6+8=14, 15 Manuel Monni (I - 3C Yamaha) 8+6=14, 16 Xavier Boog (F - Inotec Suzuki) 14+0=14, 17 Rob Van Vijfeijken (NL - Van Vijfeijken Yamaha) 0+7=7, 18 Matteo Bonini (I - Red Bull Yamaha) 0+5=5, 19 Steven Frossard (F - CLS Kawasaki) 5+0=5, 20 Rinus Van De Ven (NL - Van Der Haar KTM) 0+4=4, 21 Carl NUNN (GB - Suso Suzuki) 0+3=3, 22 Jan Van Hastenberg (NL - Honda) 1+2=3, 23 Harri Kullas (SF - KTM) 2+1=3, 24 Anthony Boissiere (F - HDI KTM) 3+0=3.
RACE ONE: 1 Rattray, 2 SEARLE, 3 Goncalves, 4 Aubin, 5 Roelants, 6 SIMPSON, 7 Boog, 8 Van Horebeek, 9 Karro, 10 Swanepoel, 11 Bobryschev, 12 Krestinov, 13 Monni, 14 Seistola, 15 SWORD, 16 Frossard, 17 Guarneri, 18 Boissiere, 19 Kullas, 20 Van Hastenberg.
RACE TWO: 1 Rattray, 2 SEARLE, 3 Aubin, 4 Goncalves, 5 Krestinov, 6 SIMPSON, 7 Bobryschev, 8 Karro, 9 Swanepoel, 10 Van Horebeek, 11 Guarneri, 12 Seistola, 13 SWORD, 14 Van Vijfeijken, 15 Monni, 16 Bonini, 17 Van De Ven, 18 NUNN, 19 Van Hastenberg, 20 Kullas.
SERIES STANDINGS after 14 (of 15) rounds: 1 Rattray 596 points, 2 SEARLE 563, 3 Aubin 381, 4 SIMPSON 367, 5 Goncalves 365, 6 Cairoli 357, 7 Frossard 289, 8 Boog 283, 9 Van Horebeek 277, 10 Monni 259, 11 SWORD 257, 12 Boissiere 243, 13 Guarneri 181, 14 Roelants 181, 15 Marvin Musquin 180, 16 Tarroux 161, 17 Krestinov 117, 18 NUNN 102, 19 Aranda 101, 20 Paulin 95,... 26 DOUGAN 48,... 29 NICHOLLS 37,... 31 BANKS-BROWNE 33,... 47 BARR 6,...
FINAL ROUND: Sep 14 – Faenza, ITALY.
MX1
A SECOND-and-a-half faster than everyone in Quali, Marc De Reuver was always favourite for the win, but the Dutchman was content to sit back in fifth in the early laps and let others share the stress. "You can ride more freely when you're not leading!” he later explained.
Ramon had not looked stressed as he made his best start of the year to round turn one behind Max Nagl, but the Belgian was going backwards the entire race after an unsuccessful attempt to dive inside the German at turn three.
The back end of the Suzuki was stepping out all around the track every time the title holder tried to force on and, after only salvaging even seventh place because team-mate De Dycker crashed into the fence on 25-minutes, wasn't talking to anybody.
Ramon's dad, Eddy admitted, however that they had misjudged the track by a mile in set-up: "We have changed settings for race two and just hope it is better.” Unfortunately, it wasn't!
De Dycker was the first to take on Nagl after an unexpectedly vibrant Philippaerts had been forced to ease back his challenge to the KTM, but no-one had an answer when De Reuver laid down new parameters at half-distance and coolly passed and left the lot of them.
Philippaerts chased home Barragan for third and there wasn't a Belgian in the top six - and race two was torture.
"There wasn't a single line anywhere on the track without potholes,” explained Nagl.
With De Reuver outside the top ten after being unable to avoid the fallen Barragan, the German led for two laps after quickly passing Ramon, but there were five leaders in six laps as Philippaerts, De Dycker, a charging De Reuver and then Manuel Priem took turns at the front.
WORLD MX1 MOTOCROSS CHAMPS
Rd 14 – Lierop, HOLLAND
2 Ken De Dycker (B - Teka Suzuki) 13+ 25= 38
3 Maximilian Nagl (D - Red Bull KTM) 16+ 22= 38
4 David Philippaerts (I - Monster Yamaha) 20+ 16= 36
5 Josh Coppins (NZ - Monster Yamaha) 18+ 15= 33
6 Jonathan Barragan (E - Silver Action KTM) 22+ 8= 30
7 Clement Desalle (B - Inotec Suzuki) 10+ 18= 28
8 Steve Ramon (B - Teka Suzuki) 14+ 13= 27
9 Marcus Schiffer (D - Sarholz KTM) 11+ 14= 25
10 Manuel Priem (B - Kawasaki Europe) 9+ 12= 21
11 Sebastien Pourcel (F - GPKR Kawasaki) 12+9=21, 12 Aigar Leok (EW - Van Beers Yamaha) 8+11=19, 13 William Saris (NL - Yamaha) 5+10=15, 14 Tanel Leok (EW - Kawasaki Europe) 15+0=15, 15 Cedric Melotte (B - Team Aprilia) 4+7=11, 16 Scott Columb (NZ - MTM Suzuki) 6+2=8, 17 Tom CHURCH (GB - Molson Kawasaki) 2+5=7, 18 Patrick Roos (NL - Pater KTM) 7+0=7, 19 Carlos Campano (E - Utag Yamaha) 0+6=6, 20 Luis Correira (P - Yamaha) 3+3=6, 21 Loic Leonce (F - JK Yamaha) 1+4=5, 22 Gregory Aranda (F - Kawasaki) 0+1=1.
RACE ONE: 1 De Reuver, 2 Barragan, 3 Philippaerts, 4 Coppins, 5 Nagl, 6 Tanel Leok, 7 Ramon, 8 De Dycker, 9 Pourcel, 10 Schiffer, 11 Desalle, 12 Priem, 13 Aigar Leok, 14 Roos, 15 Columb, 16 Saris, 17 Melotte, 18 Correira, 19 CHURCH, 20 Leonce.
RACE TWO: 1 De Dycker, 2 Nagl, 3 De Reuver, 4 Desalle, 5 Philippaerts, 6 Coppins, 7 Schiffer, 8 Ramon, 9 Priem, 10 Aigar Leok, 11 Saris, 12 Pourcel, 13 Barragan, 14 Melotte, 15 Campano, 16 CHURCH, 17 Leonce, 18 Correira, 19 Columb, 20 Aranda.
SERIES STANDINGS after 14 (of 15) rounds: 1 Philippaerts 477 points, 2 Ramon 463, 3 De Dycker 452, 4 Barragan 419, 5 Coppins 415, 6 Nagl 394, 7 Pourcel 392, 8 Tanel Leok 337, 9 MacKENZIE 293, 10 De Reuver 277, 11 Desalle 263, 12 Priem 245, 13 Aigar Leok 164, 14 Bill 159, 15 Nemeth 159, 16 Schiffer 135, 17 Brown 107, 18 NOBLE 94, 19 CHURCH 93, 20 Boniface 75,... 22 Salvini 58,... 23 ANDERSON 54,... 36 CROCKARD 14,... 44 SMITH 5,... 47 ROSE 3,... 52 EDMONDS 1,...
FINAL ROUND: Sep 14 – Faenza, ITALY.
With two superb race wins in MX2, Tyla Rattray goes into the finalround in Italy as the red-hot favourite to take the world title.
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STEFFI Laier was in a class of her own in the World Ladies title races, but Livvy Lancelot had already declared her game plan on Saturday evening: "I'm not interested in the GP win, I only need a fifth and a sixth for the title and I just want to stay out of trouble.”
In the end she won the GP anyway!
Laier was once again miles in front in race two, until the rear-shock broke! Showing a determination few of her male colleagues would even dream of, the German rode the final five laps with the rear wheel constantly smashing the rear fender to still come home in sixth place.
Sophia Paull lost 18th on the final lap of race one, so neither she, Megan Lewis or Amie Goodlad got amongst the scorers.
But leave the final word to the ever-smiling US champion Ashley Fiolek: "Southwick is like a golf course compared to this place!”
WORLD LADIES MOTOCROSS CHAMPS
Rd 5 – Lierop, HOLLAND
1 Livia Lancelot (F - Kawasaki) 22+ 25= 47
2 Stephanie Laier (D - KTM) 25+ 15= 40
3 Ashley Fiolek (US - Honda) 18+ 20= 38
4 Larissa Papenmeier (D - Inotec Suzuki) 14+ 22= 36
5 Marielle De Mol (NL - Yamaha) 16+ 18= 34
6 Brenda Wagemans (B - KTM) 15+ 13= 28
7 Elin Mann (S - KTM) 20+ 8= 28
8 Nicky Van Wordragen (NL - KTM) 11+ 16= 27
9 Marianne Veenstra (NL - Suzuki) 13+ 14= 27
10 Elien De Winter (B - Shineray KTM) 12+ 11= 23
11 Maria Franke (D - Kawasaki) 9+12=21, 12 Sofia Sjoberg (S - Honda) 7+10=17, 13 Britt Van Der Wekken (NL - Honda) 4+9=13, 14 Sara Petterson (S - KTM) 6+7=13, 15 Aubrina Dunn (US - Honda) 10+2=12, 16 Shirley Verkade (NL - KTM) 8+3=11, 17 Nini Klink (NL - KTM) 5+5=10, 18 Sandra Adriansson (S - Suzuki) 1+6=7, 19 Desiree De Groot (NL - Yamaha) 2+4=6, 20 Mie Pedersen (DK - Suzuki) 3+0=3, 21 Kim Irmgartz (D - Suzuki) 0+1=1.
RACE ONE: 1 Laier, 2 Lancelot, 3 Mann, 4 Fiolek, 5 De Mol, 6 Wagemans, 7 Papenmeier, 8 Veenstra, 9 De Winter, 10 Van Wordragen, 11 Dunn, 12 Franke, 13 Verkade, 14 Sjoberg, 15 Petterson, 16 Klink, 17 Van Der Wekken, 18 Pedersen, 19 De Groot, 20 Adriansson.
RACE TWO: 1 Lancelot, 2 Papenmeier, 3 Fiolek, 4 De Mol, 5 Van Wordragen, 6 Laier, 7 Veenstra, 8 Wagemans, 9 Franke, 10 De Winter, 11 Sjoberg, 12 Van Der Wekken, 13 Mann, 14 Petterson, 15 Adriansson, 16 Klink, 17 De Groot, 18 Verkade, 19 Dunn, 20 Irmgartz.
FINAL SERIES STANDINGS after 5 rounds: 1 Livia Lancelot 212 points (CHAMPION), 2 Stephanie Laier 185, 3 Maria Franke 166, 4 Papenmeier 160, 5 Mann 144, 6 Fiolek 140, 7 Veenstra 135, 8 De Winter 133, 9 Prumm 122, 10 De Mol 101, 11 Van Wordragen 90, 12 Wagemans 83, 13 Borchers 67, 14 Adriansson 65, 15 Sjoberg 65, 16 Irmgartz 50, 17 Haupt 44, 18 Verkade 35, 19 Seidenberg 31, 20 Fransoo 28, 21 Van Der Wekken 27, 22 Petterson 21, 23 Scott 19, 24 Sophia PAULL 17, 25 Branlid 13,... 35 Megan LEWIS 2,...
FOR FULL REPORT SEE T+MX NEWS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2008