Ramon 10th in Grand Prix of Germany

Steve Ramon took part in Round 9 of
the MX1 Motocross World Championship held in Teutschenthal, Germany, this
past weekend. The event witnessed the largest crowds of the calendar this
season, as 40 000 fans lined the rough and technical circuit.

In moto 1 Ramon was quick out the
gate and headed through the opening section just inside the top 10 as all
the riders jockeyed for track position. The Belgian had a good pace but a
series of small mistakes on dropped him down a few positions. Once settled
into his rhythm, Ramon was able to move past Simpson into 10^th,
which he held to the finish.

Moto 2 proved to be another tough
race as an early crash put Ramon down to 14^th in the early
stages. Fighting for every possible point Ramon raced hard to get back to
9^th position at the finish, awarding him 10^th overall
for the event.

Steve Ramon: "Not much luck today.
I had a pretty good start in the first moto but I made two mistakes on the
first lap and some guys passed me. I wasn't riding well today and didn't
have the power to push. It was tough. The second moto was about a bad
start, a crash, pushing to recover and then making mistakes! I crashed
together with Schiffer and from that point I just tried to get as many
points as possible. Of course I'm not happy but I did what I
could."

Round 10 of the 15 round series
takes place in Latvia this coming weekend.

Results

MX1 Race 1:

1          Bobryshev,
Evgeny   RUS     Honda

2          Cairoli,
Antonio          ITA
     KTM

3          Frossard,
Steven        FRA    
Yamaha

4          Nagl,
Maximilian        GER    
KTM

5          Desalle,
Clement        BEL    
Suzuki

6          de Dycker,
Ken          BEL
    Honda

7          Goncalves,
Rui            POR
    Honda

8          Barragan,
Jonathan   ESP     Kawasaki

9         
Philippaerts, David   ITA     
Yamaha

10       Ramon,
Steve            BEL
    Suzuki

MX1 Race 2:

1          Bobryshev,
Evgeny   RUS     Honda

2          Cairoli,
Antonio          ITA
     KTM

3          Desalle,
Clement        BEL    
Suzuki

4          Goncalves,
Rui            POR
    Honda

5          de Dycker,
Ken          BEL
    Honda

6          Barragan,
Jonathan   ESP     Kawasaki

7          Nagl,
Maximilian        GER    
KTM

8         
Philippaerts, David   ITA     
Yamaha

9          Ramon,
Steve            BEL
    Suzuki

10       de Reuver,
Marc        NED   
Yamaha

MX1 GP Overall:

1          Bobryshev,
Evgeny   RUS     Honda 50

2          Cairoli,
Antonio          ITA
     KTM    44

3          Desalle,
Clement        BEL    
Suzuki 36

4          Goncalves,
Rui            POR
    Honda 32

5          Nagl,
Maximilian        GER    
KTM    32

6          de Dycker,
Ken          BEL
    Honda 31

7          Barragan,
Jonathan   ESP    
Kawasaki        28

8          Frossard,
Steven        FRA    
Yamaha          26

9         
Philippaerts, David   ITA     
Yamaha          25

10       Ramon,
Steve            BEL
   
Suzuki           
23

MX1 World championship
standings:

1          Cairoli,
A.        ITA     
366

2          Desalle,
C.       BEL    
348

3          Frossard,
S.     FRA     326

4          Bobryshev,
E. RUS     294

5          Nagl,
M.           GER
    282

6         
Philippaerts, D.          ITA
     250

7          Goncalves,
Rui            POR
    249

8          Barragan,
J.    ESP     204

9          Boog,
Xavier   FRA     203

10       Ramon,
Steve            BEL
    203