Fermo hosts last Grand Prix of 2010 FIM Motocross World Championship‏

FUNCHAL
(PORTUGAL), 8 September 2010 – The 2010 FIM Motocross World
Championship is getting to its end and Fermo is the new Italian venue
chosen to conclude the season this weekend. Antonio Cairoli and
Marvin Musquin arrive in Italy being already the 2010 FIM World
Champions in MX1 and MX2 respectively, but the top ten positions in
both Championships are still to be decided. 

In MX1 there
is only 21 points difference from runner up Clement Desale and third
in the Championship David Philippaerts. Max Nagl, who had an
excellent weekend in Lierop last weekend, is just 10 points away from
the Italian and can easily enter the top three after this weekend in
Fermo. All of them are really talented riders on the hard pack and
they have all achieved a GP victory this season, so anything can
happen at the Italian GP. 

Ken Roczen and Steven Frossard
will finish second and third in the MX2 Championship as the gap from
them to the rest of the riders is more than the 50 points. However,
behind them, riders such as Zach Osborne, Joel Roelants, who was
third overall last weekend in Lierop, and Shaun Simpson have less
than 10 points difference among them. Last weekend’s GP winner
Gautier Paulin is eleventh in the Championship and will do his best
to obtain his second overall victory in Fermo and enter the top ten
in the point standings. 

Jordi Tixier, 2010 UEM EMX 125
European Champion, will miss the last round of the series due to a
hand injury he picked up while preparing for his MX2 appearance in
Fermo. Between second in the Championship Yohan Lafont and third
classified Sulivan Jaulin there are just seven points difference, so
the two young talents will race for the runner up position this
weekend in Fermo. 


MX1

Current
2010 MX1 World Champion Cairoli added one more GP victory in his
personal records last weekend in Lierop, where he had to give his
best riding to achieve the victory. Red Bull KTM Factory Racing MX1’s
Cairoli is riding at home what it can be his last race of the season
as he has not been selected for Team Italy for the upcoming Red Bull
FIM Motocross of Nations. So far, the Italian has achieved eight GP
victories, he has been twelve times on the podium, has won 15 heats
and has received three times the Lovemytime Pole Position
Award. 

Runner up Rockstar Teka Suzuki World MX1’s
Desalle has not been really lucky in the last phase of the
Championship. First he missed the top of the rostrum several times
for very few points, then handed the MX1 Title to Cairoli after his
Suzuki machine stopped in Brazil and last weekend in Lierop he
suffered a really big crash in the qualifying race and was not able
to ride at his 100% level during the races. Desalle is 21 points
ahead of Philippaerts and will do his best to keep his runner up
position in the Championship. 

For Yamaha Monster Energy
Motocross’ Philippaerts, Lierop was not one of his best weekends
either, being just fifth overall. This season the Italian has only
achieved one overall victory in France, so he is willing to finish
the Championship winning his home Grand Prix in Fermo. Like his
compatriot Cairoli, Philippaerts has not been selected to take part
in the Red Bull FIM Motocross of Nations for Team Italy, so he will
try to delight his fans as much as possible in case Fermo is his last
race of the season. 

Red Bull KTM Factory Racing MX1’s
Nagl lands in Fermo with high self-esteem after winning the
qualifying race and the first heat last weekend in Lierop, where he
finished second overall behind his team-mate Cairoli and ahead of
Belgian Ramon. Nagl is fourth in the MX1 World Championship
Classification but is just ten points away from third classified
Philippaerts. 

Rockstar Teka Suzuki World MX1’s Ramon
was third overall in Lierop last weekend and could keep his fifth
position in the point standings. Ramon is still recovering from a leg
injury and admitted he still struggles to keep the rhythm throughout
the 35 minutes and two laps of Sunday races. The Belgian is 15 points
away from Nagl, so he still has some possibilities to improve his
fifth position in the point standings. 

Tanel Leok is
sixth in the Championship and he will not be able to improve his
current position in the MX1 Classification this weekend in Fermo as
he is 102 points behind fifth classified Ramon. The Estonian finished
seventh at the end of last season, which means that he has improved
one position in the Championship. 

After his GP victory
in Teutschenthal, Germany, seventh in the Championship De Dycker has
not been able to be back again on the podium and he will have to do a
good performance in Fermo if he wants to cut the 22 points difference
with the Estonian Leok. 

Eighth in the Championship is
Xavier Boog, who seems to be not full fit after his knee injury
suffered in Lommel, and he is followed by Evgeny Bobryshev, who will
not take part in the last GP of the season as he is still recovering
from two broken ribs. Completing the top then is home rider Davide
Guarneri who got a solid eighth position in Lierop last
weekend. 

Austrian Dean Ferris will also take part in the
Italian GP in Fermo and will be joined by Antonio Balbi, one of the
best Brazilian riders in the history, and the current MX3 World
Champion Spanish Carlos Campano. 


Photos
available at www.motocrossmx1.com/gallery 



MX2

Red
Bull KTM Factory Racing MX2’s Musquin was proclaimed the 2010 MX2
FIM World Champion last weekend in Lierop thanks to his second
overall position and Roczen’s DNF in the first heat of the Benelux
GP. Musquin obtained his second MX2 World Title in a row having still
one more GP to go.

For Teka Suzuki Europe World MX2 rider
Roczen the dream of becoming the MX2 World Champion this season is
over. The 16-year-old German rider could not believe what was
happening when he saw that the chain of his Suzuki machine had broken
while he was leading the first heat in Lierop. Roczen had lost all
his chances to win the Championship but he dominated the second heat
with superb authority. Roczen will finish second in the point
standings of the Championship in his second year in the MX2
class. 

Kawasaki CLS’ Frossard is still third in the
Championship but the French seems to be struggling in these last
Grand Prix’s of the season. Frossard is 78 points ahead of fourth
placed Osborne, so he will finish third in the 2010 MX2 World
Championship, no matter his result in Italy. However, the French will
try to be back on the podium to finish the season with a good feeling
on his Kawasaki machine. 

Fourth in the Championship is
Red Bull KTM Factory Racing MX2’s Herlings, who is still away from
racing due to his shoulder injury suffered in Loket. The Dutch rider
can lose his fourth position in the Championship this weekend as his
pursuers are closing the big gap that Herlings had opened before
getting injured. Osborne, for instance, is just 23 points away from
him, so if the American or even sixth classified Roelants, Simpson,
Tonus or Van Horebeek do a good race in Fermo, Herlings might lose
some positions in the point standings. 

Bike-it Cosworth
Yamaha UK’s Osborne completes the top five and can even improve his
position in the Championship if he does a good performance in the
hard pack of Fermo. The American has been three times on the podium
this season, in Glen Helen, France and Germany, so he is looking
forward to conquering the Italian rostrum as well. 

Joel
Roelants moved from ninth to sixth in the point standings after his
third overall position in Lierop last weekend. The Belgian is
confident that he can be even higher in the podium and is looking
forward to Fermo to prove it. Roelants is just two points behind
Osborne, so he can even finish in the top five of the MX2 FIM World
Championship. 

After a very bad weekend in Brazil, Shaun
Simpson finished fourth overall in the GP of Benelux last weekend and
kept his seventh position in the Championship. Arnaud Tonus follows
the Brit in the point standings after his solid sixth position in
Lierop. The Swiss showed last weekend that he can ride with front
riders but he still lacks some strength to be able to keep his
position until the end of the race. 

Ninth is Jeremy Van
Horebeek, who did not experience a good weekend in Lierop and could
only finish 17th, and completing the top ten is Harry Kullas. 

Last
weekend’s Grand Prix winner Paulin Gautier is still eleventh in the
MX2 point standings after missing the first four Grand Prix of the
season due to an injury. It was hard for the French to ride at his
100% level again, but he is now fully fit to do a good result in
Fermo and finish the Championship among the top best MX2 riders of
the World. 


Photos
available at www.motocrossmx1.com/gallery 


EMX
125 

Jordi
Tixier is the current 2010 UEM EMX 125 European Champion after his
overall victory in Loket, Czech Republic. However, the French will
not be able to take part in the last round of the series due to his
hand injury. Second and third classified, Lafont and Jaulin, will
have to fight tooth and nail this weekend in Fermo to obtain the best
final position in the Championship. 


TIMETABLE

Saturday:
EMX 125 Free Practice Group 1 8:05; EMX 125 Free Practice Group 2
8:40; WMX Free Practice 9:25; MX2 Free Practice 10:00; MX1 Free
Practice 10:45; EMX 125 Pre Qualifying Practice Group 1 11:35; EMX
125 Pre Qualifying Practice Group 2 12:10; WMX Time Practice 13:00;
MX2 Pre Qualifying Practice 13:35; MX1 Pre Qualifying Practice 14:20;
WMX Race 1 15:15; MX2 Qualifying Race 16:05; MX1 Qualifying Race
16:55; EMX 125 Qualifying Race 1 17:45; EMX 125 Qualifying Race 2
18:35; 

Sunday: EMX 125 Warm up 8:00; WMX Warm up 8:30;
MX2 Warm up 9:00; MX1 Warm up 9:30; EMX 125 Race 1 10:20; WMX Race 2
11:15; MX2 Grand Prix Race 1 12:10; MX1 Grand Prix Race 1 13:10; MX2
Grand Prix Race 2 15:03; MX1 Grand Prix race 2 16:03; EMX 125 Race 2
17:20.


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