Teut sweet for Searle

But the ultimate star of the day was Toni Cairoli, as the Sicilian celebrating his 27th birthday with a seventh straight GP victory – silencing the German gallery by out-running Max Nagl and Ken Roczen on their home turf.

 

There was joy and frustration in the UK camp. 

 

Searle's maximum confirmed his runner-up world ranking and Jake Nicholls saw off Jordi Tixier for fourth in the series, but a late pass by Zach Osborne denied the East Anglian his first GP podium finish.

 

A hospitalised Steve Dixon missed a double podium for his team as the American and Arnaud Tonus flanked Searle on the box.

 

Shaun Simpson was the only man to race with the KTMs in MX1 during qualification, but the Scot twice got tangled-up early in the points-scoring races, to miss a top ten world ranking by a single point.

 

The final Searle versus Herlings showdown of the summer was soon over.

 

"It just cut out, I've got no idea what it was, but I'm glad it happened here, not in Italy. That would have been stress,” admitted the Dutch teenager after his KTM quit under him early in race one. 

 

Thankfully it happened as he dived downhill and not over one of the massive jumps.

 

But it is doubtful he would have had much for Searle. 

 

The Brit had already dominated qualification and soon took over from a hole-shotting Elliott Banks-Browne with a scintillating inside pass off the biggest drop-off in the valley.

 

"We're mates and I didn't think he'd block me,” he said.

 

The race was halfway over before Osborne could find a way past ‘EBB' and a lap later, with the podium beckoning, the Roczen's KTM expired to leave the American chasing the Brit. 

 

There was just three seconds in it at the chequered flag as Searle "...tightened up. I was in front but it was a difficult race.”

 

Nicholls had completed a British 1-2-3 out of the gate but quickly found himself pushed back to sixth.

 

"I made a real mess of the first few turns and took too long to get round Teillet,” said Nicholls.

 

"Tixier was gone and it's always difficult to make up time around here.”

 

The eight-point advantage for fourth in the series rankings was down to six.

 

Rd 16 (FINAL) – Teutschenthal, GERMANY

 1 Antonio Cairoli (I - KTM) 25 + 25 = 50

 2 Ken Roczen (D - KTM) 20 + 22 = 42

 3 Clement Desalle (B - Suzuki) 22 + 18 = 40

 4 Max Nagl (D - KTM) 14 + 20 = 34

 5 Gautier Paulin (F - Kawasaki) 18 + 16 = 34

 6 Evgeny Bobryshev (RUS - Honda) 15 + 15 = 30

 7 Ken De Dycker (B - KTM) 16 + 11 = 27

 8 Xavier Boog (F - Kawasaki) 12 + 14 = 26

 9 Christophe Pourcel (F - Kawasaki) 13 + 12 = 25

10 Sebastien Pourcel (F - Kawasaki) 11 + 13 = 24

11 Josh Coppins (NZ - Yamaha) 9+10=19, 12 Kevin Strijbos (B - KTM) 8+8=16, 13 Tanel Leok (EST - Suzuki) 10+6=16, 14 Davide Guarneri (I - KTM) 5+9=14, 15 Shaun SIMPSON (GB - Yamaha) 6+7=13, 16 Bryan MacKENZIE (GB - KTM) 3+5=8, 17 Milko Potisek (F - Honda) 7+0=7, 18 Jonathan Barragan (E - Honda) 4+1=5, 19 Jeremy Delince (B - Yamaha) 0+4=4, 20 Jamie LAW (GB - KTM) 1+3=4, 21 Pier Filippo Bertuzzo (I - Honda) 0+2=2, 22 Austin Howell (US - Kawasaki) 2+0=2.

RACE ONE: 1 Cairoli, 2 Desalle, 3 Roczen, 4 Paulin, 5 De Dycker, 6 Bobryshev, 7 Nagl, 8 Christophe Pourcel, 9 Boog, 10 Sebastien Pourcel, 11 Leok, 12 Coppins, 13 Strijbos, 14 Potisek, 15 SIMPSON, 16 Guarneri, 17 Barragan, 18 MacKENZIE, 19 Howell, 20 LAW.

RACE TWO: 1 Cairoli, 2 Roczen, 3 Nagl, 4 Desalle, 5 Paulin, 6 Bobryshev, 7 Boog, 8 Sebastien Pourcel, 9 Christophe Pourcel, 10 De Dycker, 11 Coppins, 12 Guarneri, 13 Strijbos, 14 SIMPSON, 15 Leok, 16 MacKENZIE, 17 Delince, 18 LAW, 19 Bertuzzo, 20 Barragan.

FINAL SERIES STANDINGS after 16 rounds: 1 Toni Cairoli 692 points (CHAMPION), 2 Clement Desalle 594, 3 Gautier Paulin 536, 4 Christophe Pourcel 521, 5 De Dycker 505, 6 Strijbos 405, 7 Boog 398, 8 Leok 381, 9 Bobryshev 325, 10 Goncalves 315, 11 SIMPSON 311, 12 Sebastien Pourcel 229, 13 Guarneri 226, 14 Barragan 224, 15 Philippaerts 212, 16 Nagl 138, 17 Karro 112, 18 De Reuver 74, 19 Potisek 72, 20 Soubeyras 67,... 34 Bryan MacKENZIE 22, 35 Jamie LAW 21, 36 Alfie SMITH 18,... 45 Graeme IRWIN 7,... 51 Nathan PARKER 5,... 58 Alex SNOW 3,... 61 Kristian WHATLEY 2,... 69 Martin BARR 1,...

 

Rd 16 (Final) – Teutschenthal, GERMANY

 1 Tommy SEARLE (GB - Kawasaki) 25 + 25 = 50

 2 Zach Osborne (US - Yamaha) 22 + 18 = 40

 3 Arnaud Tonus (CH - Yamaha) 15 + 20 = 35

 4 Jake NICHOLLS (GB - KTM) 18 + 16 = 34

 5 Jordi Tixier (F - KTM) 20 + 13 = 33

 6 Valentin Teillet (F - Kawasaki) 16 + 15 = 31

 7 Romain Febvre (F - KTM) 14 + 11 = 25

 8 Jeffrey Herlings (NL - KTM)  0 + 22 = 22

 9 Glenn Coldenhoff (NL - KTM)  8 + 14 = 22

10 Alexander Tonkov (RUS - Honda) 12 + 10 = 22

11 Jose Butron (E - KTM) 10+9=19, 12 Jordan Lacan (F - Kawasaki) 5+8=13, 13 Tim Gajser (SLO - KTM) 9+4=13, 14 Alessandro Lupino (I - Husqvarna) 11+2=13, 15 Julien Lieber (B - KTM) 13+0=13, 16 Elliott BANKS-BROWNE (GB - KTM) 0+12=12, 17 Max ANSTIE (GB - Honda) 4+6=10, 18 Benoit Paturel (F - Kawasaki) 0+7=7, 19 Damon Graulus (B - Suzuki) 2+5=7, 20 Ivo Monticelli (I - Suzuki) 6+1=7, 21 Even Heibye (N - KTM) 7+0=7, 22 Davis Ivanovs (LAT - Kawasaki) 3+3=6, 23 Robin Kappel (F - KTM) 1+0=1.

RACE ONE: 1 SEARLE, 2 Osborne, 3 Tixier, 4 NICHOLLS, 5 Teillet, 6 Tonus, 7 Febvre, 8 Lieber, 9 Tonkov, 10 Lupino, 11 Butron, 12 Gajser, 13 Coldenhoff, 14 Heibye, 15 Monticelli, 16 Lacan, 17 ANSTIE, 18 Ivanovs, 19 Graulus, 20 Kappel.

RACE TWO: 1 SEARLE, 2 Herlings, 3 Tonus, 4 Osborne, 5 NICHOLLS, 6 Teillet, 7 Coldenhoff, 8 Tixier, 9 BANKS-BROWNE, 10 Febvre, 11 Tonkov, 12 Butron, 13 Lacan, 14 Paturel, 15 ANSTIE, 16 Graulus, 17 Gajser, 18 Ivanovs, 19 Lupino, 20 Monticelli.

FINAL SERIES STANDINGS after 16 rounds: 1 Jeff Herlings 694 points (CHAMPION), 2 Tommy SEARLE 651, 3 Jeremy Van Horebeek 559, 4 NICHOLLS 443, 5 Tixier 434, 6 Roelants 367, 7 ANSTIE 333, 8 Butron 291, 9 Coldenhoff 273, 10 Ferrandis 272, 11 Lupino 262, 12 Tonus 246, 13 Febvre 221, 14 Teillet 211, 15 Osborne 210, 16 Larsen 163, 17 Tonkov 159, 18 Kullas 132, 19 Charlier 131, 20 Petrov 131,... 23 Mel POCOCK 87,... 26 Elliott BANKS-BROWNE 47,... 62 Lewis TOMBS 1,...