Yankee doodle at St Jean
By Alex Hodgkinson on 23rd Sep 11
Brave Brits Tommy Searle, Dean Wilson and Brad Anderson tantalisingly missed the Nations podium yet again by just two slender points after a dramatic day in front of a huge patriotic crowd at St Jean dAngely...
Britain led after race one and were countering a French advance in race two until Wilson – riding with a broken wrist – slithered into the fence, and the defiant hosts were giving it their all until Christophe Pourcel had a tyre come off the rim just after he had passed Ryan Dungey to set off after Ryan Villopoto in the decider.
The Irish team stuck at it for 19th on another long day, when they again had to qualify through the B final.
Full Report and Pictures in T+MX News, issue dated September 23, 2011
MONSTER ENERGY MOTOCROSS des NATIONS
Saint Jean d'Angely, FRANCE
FINAL TEAM STANDINGS: 1 USA 26 points, 2 FRANCE 39, 3 AUSTRALIA 44, 4 GREAT 46, 5 BELGIUM 54, 6 SOUTH 56, 7 GERMANY 68, 8 SPAIN 68, 9 HOLLAND 81, 10 ESTONIA 86,,...
GROUP A RACES
RACE ONE (MX1 & MX2): 1 Chad Reed (AUS - 450 Honda), 2 Ken Roczen (D - 250 KTM), 3 Ryan Dungey (US - 450 Suzuki), 4 Tommy SEARLE (GB - 450 Kawasaki), 5 Tyla Rattray (ZA - 450 Kawasaki), 6 Tanel Leok (EW - 450 TM), 7 Jonathan Barragan (E - 450 Kawasaki), 8 Marvin Musquin (F - 250 KTM), 9 Dean WILSON (GB - 250 Kawasaki), 10 Joel Roelants (B - 450 KTM),...
RACE TWO (MX2 & OPEN): 1 Gautier Paulin (F - 450 Yamaha), 2 Jeffrey Herlings (NL - 350 KTM), 3 Ryan Villipoto (US - 450 Kawasaki), 4 Roczen (D), 5 Kevin Strijbos (B - 450 Suzuki), 6 Gareth Swanepoel (ZA - 450 Yamaha), 7 Brett Metcalfe (AUS - 450 Suzuki), 8 Davide Guarneri (I - 450 Kawasaki), 9 Carlos Campano (E - 450 Yamaha), 10 Arnaud Tonus (CH - 450 Yamaha),...
RACE THREE (MX1 & OPEN): 1 Villipoto (US), 2 Dungey (US), 3 Rattray (ZA), 4 SEARLE (GB), 5 Guarneri (I), 6 Bobrishev (RUS), 7 Reed (AUS), 8 Paulin (F), 9 Herlings (NL), 10 Metcalfe (AUS),...
GROUP B
FINAL TEAM STANDINGS: 21 IRELAND 5 points, 22 Sweden 13, 23 Latvia 14, 24 Slovenia 23, 25 Puerto Rico 23, 26 Venezuela 29, 27 Norway 29, 28 Brazil 32, 29 Ukraine 34, 30 New Zealand 35,...
B FINAL: 1 Martin BARR (IRE - 350 KTM), 2 Tom Soderstrom (S - 450 Suzuki), 3 Jonathan Albertson (PR - 450 Yamaha), 4 Stuart EDMONDS (IRE - 250 TM), 5 Humberto Martin (VEN - 450 Honda), 6 Ivo Steinbers (LV - 450 Kawasaki), 7 Klemen Gercar (SLO - 250 KTM), 8 Ivo Steinbers (LV - 450 Kawasaki), 9 Marcello Ferreira de Lima (BRA - 450 Honda), 10 Ivo Steinbers (LV - 450 Kawasaki),
