Lancelot took double whereas Chiara Fontanesi received the gold plate

TEUTSCHENTHAL (Germany), 23 September 2012 – FIM MX1, MX2, MX3 and WMX Motocross World Championship riders guttered on the Teutschenthal circuit in Germany in order to finish the season 2012. Antonio Cairoli ,Jeffrey Herlings and Chiara Fontanesi were proclaimed as World Champions yet, only the MX3 was about to decide in Teutschenthal. Matthias Walker was second overall, but it was enough to obtain the Title. Chiara Fontanesi joined the last round of the FIM WMX World Championship just as spectator because she was still recovering from concussion she picked up during Italian championship. She stood on the podium when receiving the gold medal for the World Champion. Livia Lancelot was the one who won the German race, ahead of Larissa Papenmeier and Meghan Rutledge. Natalie Kane finished fourth and missed the podium of the round, apart from it she was second, and Britt Van Der Wekken achieved the third final place in the WMX point standings.

Instead of the fact that Chiara Fontanesi was not riding there was the newcomer with who Livia Lancelot could compete. In race two Lancelot made a holeshot but immediately Kat Meghan Rutledge was on his back. They were very close until Rutledge felt down and was replaced by Larissa Picoto Papenmeier. While this was happening Lancelot has enlarged the gap and afterwards rode alone till the end. French Livia Lancelot was on the top of the rostrum again as well as she won the round of France and MX GP Festival of Great Britain too.

German fans were just amazing how they follow their riders and one of them was Larissa Papenmeier – Picoto. She did well as she was third and second so it means the second place overall. In the second race she started just after Lancelot and Rutledge and then she caught the chance of Routlege´s crash and moved to the second. She was several times almost caught up by Natalie Kane riding just behind her rear wheel, but she kept second place till the end.

For a very first time young Australian Kat Meghan Rutledge rode with the WMX top riders. She found out that she belongs to the best ones and she proved it by results 2 – 4 and overall she finished as the third. In was successful weekend for her as during her first performance in WMX she immediately got the podium finish. She could be even better if she would avoid crash in race two in the third lap so that was the reason why she settled down directly from the second to the fourth place.

Irish Natalie Kane rider of HM Plant KTM UK obtained the fourth place overall as she finished fourth and third. In the second race she stared from fourth position with Papenmeier ahead. She followed her all heat long but couldn’t manage to overtake her so she tightly missed the podium of German round but as compensation she received the silver medal for the second place in Championship standings.

German Anne Borchers had very consistent performance this weekend as she was fifth in first and second race and in the Championship standings as well. In the race two she needed to be careful and asserting in order to defend her fifth place, because Britt Van Der Wekken was pushing hard from behind. Both of them were riding in this order during whole second heat.

Britt Van der Wekken has a great moment as she was standing on the podium having copper medal around her neck as award for the third place in 2012 FIM WMX Motocross World Championship. Dutch Wekken had 6-6 result what made her sixth overall.

With the same amount of points there are Anne Borchers and Marianne Veenstra sharing the fourth place in Championship standings. Dutch Veenstra took the points for the 9-7 places in heats and she finished seventh overall.

Justine Charroux, Marie Pettersen and Nina Klink fulfilled the top ten ranking of the round in Teutschenthal.

WMX Race 1 top ten:
1. Livia Lancelot (FRA, Kawasaki), 25:25.181; 2. Meghan Kat Rutledge (AUS, Kawasaki), +0:04.102; 3. Larissa Papenmeier-Picoto (GER, Suzuki), +0:17.213; 4. Natalie Kane (GBR, KTM), +0:48.193; 5. Anne Borchers (GER, Suzuki), +0:56.410; 6. Britt van der Wekken (NED, Honda), +1:48.328; 7. Marie S. Pettersen (NOR, Yamaha), +1:52.909; 8. Justine Charroux (FRA, Yamaha), +1:54.414; 9. Marianne Veenstra (NED, KTM), +2:07.903; 10. Sophia Paull (GBR, Honda), -1 lap(s);

WMX Race 2 top ten:
1. Livia Lancelot (FRA, Kawasaki), 26:27.237; 2. Larissa Papenmeier-Picoto (GER, Suzuki), +0:03.500; 3. Natalie Kane (GBR, KTM), +0:07.238; 4. Meghan Kat Rutledge (AUS, Kawasaki), +0:44.238; 5. Anne Borchers (GER, Suzuki), +0:47.402; 6. Britt van der Wekken (NED, Honda), +1:36.088; 7. Marianne Veenstra (NED, KTM), +1:40.730; 8. Justine Charroux (FRA, Yamaha), +1:42.065; 9. Marie S. Pettersen (NOR, Yamaha), +1:45.566; 10. Virginie Germond (SUI, Suzuki), +1:56.662;

WMX Overall top ten:
1. Livia Lancelot (FRA, Kawasaki), 50 points; 2. Larissa Papenmeier-Picoto (GER, Suzuki), 42 p.; 3. Meghan Kat Rutledge (AUS, Kawasaki), 40 p.; 4. Natalie Kane (GBR, KTM), 38 p.; 5. Anne Borchers (GER, Suzuki), 32 p.; 6. Britt van der Wekken (NED, Honda), 30 p.; 7. Marianne Veenstra (NED, KTM), 26 p.; 8. Justine Charroux (FRA, Yamaha), 26 p.; 9. Marie S. Pettersen (NOR, Yamaha), 26 p.; 10. Nina Klink (NED, KTM), 19 p.;

WMX Championship top ten:
1. Chiara Fontanesi (ITA, Yamaha), 336 points; 2. Natalie Kane (GBR, KTM), 302 p.; 3. Britt van der Wekken (NED, Honda), 262 p.; 4. Justine Charroux (FRA, Yamaha), 228 p.; 5. Anne Borchers (GER, Suzuki), 228 p.; 6. Marianne Veenstra (NED, KTM), 195 p.; 7. Livia Lancelot (FRA, Kawasaki), 189 p.; 8. Francesca Nocera (ITA, KTM), 186 p.; 9. Virginie Germond (SUI, Suzuki), 164 p.; 10. Nina Klink (NED, KTM), 122 p.;