Toni's over the top
By TMX Archives on 21st May 09
DESPERATE conditions call for desperate measures, but Toni Cairoli once again went over the top at Bellpuig on Sunday. His antics cost the Sicilian the goodwill of more than one rival as well as the GP as two attacks misfired, but the sport had a home hero and a new winner by the end of the weekend.
All of the surviving Brits with the exception of Mel Pocock – frustratingly 21st – scored points, but UK hero of the day was Billy MacKenzie, the Scot bouncing back from a Cairoli assault in race one to scorch clear at the rate of several seconds a lap in race two before jarring his hand again and running out of track to end the race without a rear brake, courtesy of that wretched green fencing.
And for the second week in a row, 15-year-old Kenny Roczen gave his peers a lesson in racing!
Report and Pictures: ALEX HODGKINSON
MACKENZIE didn't gate top six in race one but, the CAS Honda now set up to his liking, he gave a glimpse of that same devastating pace which won him three GPs in Japan to scorch past all bar Jonathan Barragan in a hectic opening half-lap.
But then came the incident with Cairoli.
The Italian has become used to putting his front wheel under his rivals in MX2 and has got away with it on several occasions so far this year in MX1 too, but the Scot was not about to be intimidated, held his line and braced himself, but the impact was so great that he was thrown down the track with his cart-wheeling bike narrowly missing him.
The Scot felt it was a blatant take-out, and the only man to argue with that was Cairoli, who considered it ‘a normal pass' and also went down, splitting his fuel tank: "I didn't think I would make it to the finish, and was easy on the throttle.”
Not so easy that, having got onto the rear wheel of fourth placed Josh Coppins, he again launched one of his patented assaults but came off worse as the Kiwi saw him coming and nearly got out of the way.
"I touched Josh's rear wheel and crashed again, hurting my ribs.”
Cairoli finished eighth, MacKenzie 11th and a struggling Coppins, hit by an iron deficiency, fourth behind Barragan, Clement Desalle and David Philippaerts.
Ken De Dycker exited on lap one with a broken clutch lever after crashing with Tanel Leok, and the CCMs of Tom Church and Jason Dougan were 14th and, the last men un-lapped in the race.
Barragan again shot to the front in race two, but MacKenzie was in determined mood and sprinted past and clear, a fall by the Spaniard leaving him 12 seconds clear within a few laps.
Max Nagl, pushed out at turn one in the opener from a poor gate, the result of a lowly qualifier after his gate failed to drop cleanly, had also broken clear of the rest and, when Billy hit trouble on lap seven, he was >>>
<<< ready to move in for the kill.
As MacKenzie dropped back, in pain and without a rear brake which would see him run out of track again later after bravely defying Cairoli and Philippaerts for a couple of laps, Nagl too built up a 12-second advantage before Cairoli could get to second.
With just three laps left, even the Italian would have accepted second, but poor Nagl was the victim of a lapper who ignored the blue flags: "I can't believe. The victory was mine and he simply blocked the line, I crashed and my lead was gone.”
Cairoli doesn't need a second invitation in such circumstances and he pounced on the final lap by flattening a table-top.
MacKenzie held onto fifth and TC again took points in 17th.
For the full report and pictures, see T+MX Friday May 22.
Second in the series, Spaniard Jonathan Barragan was the hero of the day for the home crowd after taking the overall in the MX1.
WORLD MX1 MOTOCROSS CHAMPIONSHIP
Rd 6 – Bellpuig, SPAIN
1 Jonathan Barragan (E - KTM) 25 + 18 = 43
2 David Philippaerts (I - Monster Yam) 20 + 20 = 40
3 Toni Cairoli (I - Red Bull DeCarli Yam) 13 + 25 = 38
4 Max Nagl (D - Red Bull KTM) 14 + 22 = 36
5 Clement Desalle (B - LS Honda) 22 + 14 = 36
6 Josh Coppins (NZ - Monster Yamaha) 18 + 13 = 31
7 David Vuillemin (F - Bud Kawasaki) 16 + 12 = 28
8 Billy MacKENZIE (GB - CAS Honda) 10 + 16 = 26
9 Gareth Swanepoel (ZA - KRTE Kawa) 15 + 10 = 25
10 Tanel Leok (EW - Red Bull DeCarli Yam) 12 + 8 = 20
11 Aigar Leok (EW - TM) 11+7=18, 12 Ken De Dycker (B - Teka Suzuki) 0+15=15, 13 Gregory Aranda (F - CLS Kawasaki) 0+11=11, 14 Tom CHURCH (GB - Buildbase CCM) 7+4=11, 15 Manuel Priem (B - Aprilia) 0+9=9, 16 Julien Bill (CH - Aprilia) 9+0=9, 17 Shannon Terreblanche (ZA - Sturm Kawasaki) 5+3=8, 18 Carlos Campano (E - Van Beers Yamaha) 8+0=8, 19 Gert Krestinov (EW - Silver Action KTM) 0+6=6, 20 Jason DOUGAN (GB - Phoenix Tools CCM) 6+0=6, 21 Fabien Izoird (F - Suzuki) 0+5=5, 22 Johan Karlsson (S - Suzuki) 3+2=5, 23 Ivo Steinbergs (LV - Latvia Elksini Honda) 4+0=4, 24 Luis Correia (P - Delta Suzuki) 2+1=3, 25 Rob Van Vijfeiken (NL - Yamaha) 1+0=1.
RACE ONE: 1 Barragan, 2 Desalle, 3 Philippaerts, 4 Coppins, 5 Vuillemin, 6 Swanepoel, 7 Nagl, 8 Cairoli, 9 Tanel Leok, 10 Aigar Leok, 11 MacKENZIE, 12 Bill, 13 Campano, 14 CHURCH, 15 DOUGAN, 16 Terreblanche, 17 Steinbergs, 18 Karlsson, 19 Correia, 20 Van Vijfeiken.
RACE TWO: 1 Cairoli, 2 Nagl, 3 Philippaerts, 4 Barragan, 5 MacKENZIE, 6 De Dycker, 7 Desalle, 8 Coppins, 9 Vuillemin, 10 Aranda, 11 Swanepoel, 12 Priem, 13 Tanel Leok, 14 Aigar Leok, 15 Krestinov, 16 Izoird, 17 CHURCH, 18 Terreblanche, 19 Karlsson, 20 Correia.
SERIES STANDINGS after 6 (of 15) rounds: 1 Cairoli 231 points, 2 Barragan 195, 3 De Dycker 183, 4 Coppins 175, 5 Philippaerts 174, 6 Tanel Leok 162, 7 Desalle 162, 8 Nagl 155, 9 Vuillemin 101, 10 Ramon 100, 11 Swanepoel 92, 12 Aigar Leok 85, 13 Strijbos 82, 14 MacKENZIE 68, 15 Aranda 50, 16 Priem 48, 17 De Reuver 45, 18 NOBLE 39, 19 CHURCH 32, 20 Bill 31,... 23 DOUGAN 23,...
NEXT ROUND: May 31 – Mallory Park, Leicestershire, BRITAIN.
WORLD MX2 MOTOCROSS CHAMPIONSHIP
Rd 6 – Bellpuig, SPAIN
1 Jeremy Van Horebeek (B - KTM Jnr) 22 + 20 = 42
2 Rui Goncalves (P - Red Bull KTM) 25 + 16 = 41
3 Anthony Boissiere (F - HDI KTM) 14 + 25 = 39
4 Ken Roczen (D - Teka Suzuki) 15 + 22 = 37
5 Xavier Boog (F - Teka Suzuki) 20 + 13 = 33
6 Davide Guarneri (I - Ricci Yamaha) 18 + 14 = 32
7 Steven Frossard (F - CLS Kawasaki) 16 + 15 = 31
8 Nico Aubin (F - Ricci Yamaha) 10 + 18 = 28
9 Marcus Schiffer (D - Sarholz KTM) 12 + 11 = 23
10 Manuel Monni (I - 3C Yamaha) 13 + 7 = 20
11 Marvin Musquin (F - NGS Honda) 7+12=19, 12 Jake NICHOLLS (GB - Red Bull KTM UK) 4+8=12, 13 Arnaud Tonus (CH - HDI KTM) 11+0=11, 14 Khounsith Vongsana (F - Honda) 0+10=10, 15 Gautier Paulin (F - Bud Kawasaki) 5+5=10, 16 Stephen SWORD (GB - Red Bull KTM UK) 0+9=9, 17 Dennis Verbruggen (B - LS Honda) 9+0=9, 18 Joel Roelants (B - Red Bull KTM Jnr) 8+0=8, 19 Ceriel Klein Kromhof (NL - Van der Laar KTM) 0+6=6, 20 Nikolaj Larsen (DK - Beursfoon Suzuki) 6+0=6, 21 Martin Michek (CZ - TM) 0+4=4, 22 Jose Antonio Butron (E - KTM) 0+3=3, 23 Matiss Karro (LV - Suzo MVRD Suzuki) 3+0=3, 24 Loic Rombaut (F - CLS Kawasaki) 0+2=2, 25 Yohei Kojima (J - Teka Suzuki) 2+0=2, 26 Jason Clermont (F - NGS Honda) 0+1=1, 27 Evgeny Bobryschev (RUS - Van Beers Yamaha) 1+0=1.
RACE ONE: 1 Goncalves, 2 Van Horebeek, 3 Boog, 4 Guarneri, 5 Frossard, 6 Roczen, 7 Boissiere, 8 Monni, 9 Schiffer, 10 Tonus, 11 Aubin, 12 Verbruggen, 13 Roelants, 14 Marvin Musquin, 15 Larsen, 16 Paulin, 17 NICHOLLS, 18 Karro, 19 Kojima, 20 Bobryschev.
RACE TWO: 1 Boissiere, 2 Roczen, 3 Van Horebeek, 4 Aubin, 5 Goncalves, 6 Frossard, 7 Guarneri, 8 Boog, 9 Marvin Musquin, 10 Schiffer, 11 Vongsana, 12 SWORD, 13 NICHOLLS, 14 Monni, 15 Klein Kromhof, 16 Paulin, 17 Michek, 18 Butron, 19 Rombaut, 20 Clermont.
SERIES STANDINGS after 6 (of 15) rounds: 1 Marvin Musquin 184 points, 2 Paulin 181, 3 Guarneri 179, 4 Goncalves 166, 5 Boog 141, 6 Frossard 136, 7 Aubin 126, 8 Osborne 100, 9 SIMPSON 97, 10 Van Horebeek 89, 11 Schiffer 89, 12 Monni 87, 13 Tonus 83, 14 Larrieu 70, 15 Roelants 69, 16 Roczen 67, 17 SWORD 61, 18 Lupino 56, 19 Vongsana 54, 20 NICHOLLS 42,...
NEXT ROUND: May 31 – Mallory Park, Leicestershire, BRITAIN.
WORLD LADIES MOTOCROSS CHAMPS
Rd 3 – Bellpuig, SPAIN
1 Stephanie Laier (D - Red Bull KTM) 25 + 22 = 47
2 Larissa Papenmeier (D - Teka Suzuki) 22 + 20 = 42
3 Livia Lancelot (F - KRTE Kawasaki) 16 + 25 = 41
4 Maria Franke (D - Pfeil Kawasaki) 18 + 18 = 36 5 Elin Mann (S - KTM) 20 + 15 = 35
6 Natalie KANE (IRE - MVR-D Suzuki) 14 + 16 = 30
7 Nicky Van Wordragen (NL - KTM) 15+11=26, 8 Marianne Veenstra (NL - Winter Suzuki) 11+14=25, 9 Elien De Winter (B - LS Honda) 12+12=24, 10 Marielle De Mol (NL - Yamaha) 13+10=23, 11 Sarah Whitmore (US - KTM) 9+13=22, 12 Francesca Nocera (I - Silver Action KTM) 8+7=15, 13 Anne Borchers (D - Teka Suzuki) 7+6=13, 14 Justine Charoux (F - Yamaha) 10+3=13, 15 Sara Pettersson (S - KTM) 5+5=10, 16 Chiara Fontanesi (E - 3C Racing Yamaha) 0+9=9, 17 Brenda Wagemans (B - KTM) 0+8=8, 18 Carmen Segura Pereira (E - KTM) 3+4=7, 19 Britt Van der Wekken (NL - Honda) 6+0=6, 20 Shirley Verkade (NL - KTM) 4+0=4, 21 Natascha Fransoo (D - TM) 1+2=3, 22 Jenny Seidenberg (D - Sarholz KTM) 2+1=3.
RACE ONE: 1 Laier, 2 Papenmeier, 3 Mann, 4 Franke, 5 Lancelot, 6 Van Wordragen, 7 KANE, 8 De Mol, 9 De Winter, 10 Veenstra, 11 Charoux, 12 Whitmore, 13 Nocera, 14 Borchers, 15 Van der Wekken, 16 Pettersson, 17 Verkade, 18 Segura Pereira, 19 Seidenberg, 20 Fransoo.
RACE TWO: 1 Lancelot, 2 Laier, 3 Papenmeier, 4 Franke, 5 KANE, 6 Mann, 7 Veenstra, 8 Whitmore, 9 De Winter, 10 Van Wordragen, 11 De Mol, 12 Fontanesi, 13 Wagemans, 14 Nocera, 15 Borchers, 16 Pettersson, 17 Segura Pereira, 18 Charoux, 19 Fransoo, 20 Seidenberg.
SERIES STANDINGS after 3 (of 6) rounds: 1 Lancelot 135 points, 2 Laier 119, 3 Papenmeier 106, 4 Franke 103, 5 Mann 99, 6 KANE 87, 7 Veenstra 82, 8 Fiolek 80, 9 De Winter 65, 10 De Mol 59, 11 Van Wordragen 56, 12 Whitmore 45, 13 Wagemans 35, 14 Nocera 35, 15 Borchers 33, 16 Fontanesi 31, 17 Van der Wekken 27, 18 Pettersson 23, 19 Gieger 22, 20 Segura Pereira 21,... 21 Charoux 20,...
NEXT ROUND: June 7 – Ernee, FRANCE.