#19: MXGP of Australia

Yep it’s expensive to get to this one cost $6500 in flights and accommodation for the 4 of us for the 4 days we’re here. 

But here’s some crocs for ya 

Don't want No Crocs!

Sooner or later, some pr**k is going to let a 'too big" pet in my river 100 meters away from my house, and it's gonna get Me!

Crocs, like Sharks (and Drop Bears), have my name tattooed on their schnozes, and they all want to Eat Me! 

I can sort the bloody Drop Bears, the little Bastards, but Not those Maritime Murderers!

WMX time practice 

1.43.292 = Kiara Fontanesi 
1.43.826 = Daniela Guillen 
1.43.998 = Lotte Van Drunen 
1.46.258 = Lachlan Turner 
1.46.830 = Lucy Barker 
1.47.083 = Shana Van Der Vlist 
1.47.552 = Courtney Duncan 
1.47.773 = Nellie Fransson 
1.48.397 = Amandine Verstappen 
1.48.498 = Darci Whalley 

WMX moto 1 

+0.000 = Daniela Guillen 
+4.776 = Lotte Van Drunen 
+7.571 = Courtney Duncan 
+24.899 = Kiara Fontanesi 
+27.811 = Shana Van Der Vlist 
+39.093 = Lucy Barker 
+56.827 = Alexandra Massury 
+58.187 = Lachlan Turner 
+1.08.288 = Nellie Fransson 
+1.10.309 = Amandine Verstappen

Fastest laps of saturday races 

WMX moto 1 

1.48.736 = Daniela Guillen 
1.51.032 = Kiara Fontanesi 
1.51.072 = Courtney Duncan 
1.51.286 = Lotte Van Drunen 
1.51.771 = Lachlan Turner 
1.52.516 = Nellie Fransson 
1.52.659 = Shana Van Der Vlist 
1.53.439 = Lucy Barker 
1.54.861 = Alexandra Massury 
1.55.663 = Emma Milesevic 

MX2 qualifying 

1.40.119 = Camden Mc Lellan 
1.40.635 = Liam Everts 
1.40.884 = Janis Reisulis 
1.42.401 = Sacha Coenen 
1.42.650 = Guillem Farres 
1.42.685 = Kay Karssemakers 
1.42.826 = Karlis Reisulis 
1.43.432 = Byron Dennis
1.44.009 = Maxime Grau 
1.44.906 = Ferruccio Zanchi 

MXGP qualifying 

1.37.353 = Jeffrey Herlings 
1.38.206 = Romain Febvre 
1.38.262 = Tom Vialle
1.39.260 = Andrea Adamo 
1.40.384 = Jan Pancar 
1.41.174 = Pauls Jonass 
1.41.917 = Calvin Vlaanderen 
1.41.921 = Jeremy Seewer 
1.42.928 = Jago Geerts 
1.44.187 = Dylan Walsh

It's interesting to see that Guillen and Van Drunen are off the pace of Turner in WMX US but then Turner is off from their pace in WMX Euro.

What are the USWMX Motos  : 12 minutes +?

MXGP WMX : 25 minutes + ?

Different things.

But, I'm sure any of the top Women can adapt. A good start and LT could do much better, tomorrow morning. They mentioned she does training with her brother and other blokes, with far longer motos. 

Me, I was hoping Mama Kiara could get her 7th - nothing against Guillen, or  Lotte - they've got plenty of years left, I would hope.  I even like Courtney, despite her being a Dastardly Kiwi 😁. 

Yeah but Lachlan was still 3 seconds off from pole in practice whereas she was much faster than Daniela and Lotte in the USA.

DV would have said : "it's not the same sport".

😁

Where are all the riders?

It's not as if they were in Loket, Teutschenthal or Lommel.😅

Watch out for those drop bears!!!!!

BUGGER!

Thought WMX Moto 2 was on at 10.30, went for an early morning 'putter' on the CRE. 

Admittedly, I did 'Turn Turtle' a couple of unplanned times, so got back a bit late.

So, I guess Guillen won, the OA and Championship ?

Well, good on her.

Bloody fast ladies!

Let's see if they get the replay up, before the 12.30 MX2 1st Moto.

Hope the weather doesn't turn too 'Tropical', and moto(s) don't get rained out like last year.

These factory Triumph 250s are pretty good hey.

Pretty cool to have the KTM Group + Yamaha stranglehold on MX2 broken.

For fellow Aussies, if you have 2  screens going, SBS has Romaniacs on on Speedweek at the moment.

Herlings and Febvre over a minute in front of 3rd; plenty of life left in the old dogs.

WMX moto 2 

+0.000 = Daniela Guillen 
+2.841 = Lachlan Turner 
+19.423 = Lotte Van Drunen 
+26.688 = Courtney Duncan 
+1.05.274 = Lucy Barker 
+1.14.222 = Nellie Fransson 
+1.32.730 = Kiara Fontanesi 
+1.36.066 = Amandine Verstappen 
+1.40.853 = Alexandra Massury 
+1.44.578 = Emma Milesevic 

Overall 

1-1 = Daniela Guillen 
2-3 = Lotte Van Drunen 
3-4 = Courtney Duncan 
8-2 = Lachlan Turner 
4-7 = Kiara Fontanesi 
6-4 = Lucy Barker 
9-6 = Nellie Fransson 
7-9 = Alexandra Massury 
10-8 = Amandine Verstappen 
11-10 = Emma Milesevic 

Championship 

233 = Daniela Guillen 
209 = Kiara Fontanesi 
177 = Lotte Van Drunen 
167 = Courtney Duncan 
153 = Lucy Barker 
141 = Shana Van Der Vlist 
133 = Amandine Verstappen 
116 = Malou Jakobsen 
99 = Nellie Fransson 
80 = Alexandra Massury

WMX stats 

Overall wins 

3 = Daniela Guillen 
1 = Kiara Fontanesi 
1 = Lotte Van Drunen 

Overall top 3 

5 = Daniela Guillen 
4 = Kiara Fontanesi 
2 = Courtney Duncan 
2 = Lotte Van Drunen 
1 = April Franzoni 
1 = Shana Van Der Vlist 

Moto wins 

5 = Daniela Guillen 
3 = Kiara Fontanesi 
2 = Lotte Van Drunen 

Moto top 3 

10 = Daniela Guillen 
6 = Kiara Fontanesi 
5 = Lotte Van Drunen 
4 = Courtney Duncan 
2 = Shana Van Der Vlist  
1 = April Franzoni 
1 = Lucy Barker 
1 = Lachlan Turner 

Laps lead 

46 = Daniela Guillen 
39 = Kiara Fontanesi 
25 = Lotte Van Drunen 
8 = Lachlan Turner 
1 = Nellie Fransson 

Fastest laps of the race 

6 = Daniela Guillen 
3 = Lotte Van Drunen 
1 = Kiara Fontanesi 

Pole in practice 

2 = Lotte Van Drunen 
2 = Kiara Fontanesi 
1 = Daniela Guillen

MX2 moto 1 

+0.000 = Camden Mc Lellan 
+1.367 = Guillem Farres 
+2.168 = Liam Everts 
+17.635 = Janis Reisulis 
+26.107 = Sacha Coenen 
+31.044 = Byron Dennis
+39.062 = Kay Karssemakers 
+45.270 = Maxime Grau 
+47.661 = Karlis Reisulis 
+1.35.433 = Ferruccio Zanchi 

MXGP moto 1 

+0.000 = Jeffrey Herlings 
+18.362 = Romain Febvre 
+1.02.170 = Andrea Adamo 
+1.07.125 = Tom Vialle
+1.11.155 = Pauls Jonass 
+1.13.043 = Calvin Vlaanderen 
+1.42.497 = Jan Pancar 
-1 lap = Jeremy Seewer
-1 lap = Jago Geerts 
-1 lap = Ivo Monticelli 

2 new world champion from spain : well done Guillem Farres and Daniela Guillen Garcia. 

Better moto 2 for Lachlan Turner also!

Watching the first motos now.. Sounds like Malin has been enjoying his time over here haha

He sounded very rough yesterday

Congrats to Farres, dude really took the bull by the horns in this championship. One of the more consistent MX2 championship runs I can recall from recent years

Huge congrats to Triumph, 1-2 in the championship. Relatively new to the game and they already have a fabulous 250. 

Farres held his nerve under pressure in the final quarter of the season and McLellan has been on fire of late. 

Whole team has earned a beer or 3 tonight!

Congrats to Daniela and Guillem, well deserved!! 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸

Congrats to Darwin to what was a great event. ( from what i saw on the stream anyways).

The weather was more favourable this year.

There will never be another commentator that is better than Malin, he will always be the voice of motocross

Such a shame all titles were decided oversea’s

Anyways wonderful to see Farres taking the championship. I remember him grinding out moto’s on his final EMX125 season at our local track. You obviously hope to see a talented and humble kid like that grow into being a top competitor, but I never expected him to be able to win a world championship a few years later. Especially knowing the amount of injuries and other issues he had at the start of his 250 career. 

His first team didn’t have the funds to give him the best race bike. KTM put Braceras on the factory support team. He then went to Raths motosports, the owner definitely saved his career. He got his opportunity at Star Yamaha, but got benched in a brutal way days after breaking his arm (which was a pure start racing incident). Then he went to Husky. Did well at supercross but due bike issue he broke his leg and got benched again (KTM had their financial issues) and got the opportunity at Triumph. They made it work and now he is a World Champ. Absolutely beautiful.

Triumph also gave mcLellan a golden opportunity and he has all the momentum for next year to take it home

I honestly expected more locals entering. Whats happening? Does the fee is really that expensive? Aussies have a good healthy championship in every class. Sad =/ ...
I know its more complicated than that but these out of europe rounds should be together with the biggest rounds of the country's national races.
And I agree with that other fella here, I'd swap Turkye for Japan in a heartbeat. They gotta go to America too.
Anyway...

Unfortunately the logistics involved means it’s not viable for most Aussie riders to attend; it’s a 3500km drive from the nearest capital city, it’s also the start of our SX season. 
That’s a big hurdle for teams and riders for a one off wild card entry. Good on KTM for getting Walsh and Dennis there though.

Triumph should’ve did everything possible to get Farres back to the US on a 250c he would be a title contender for sure. Their 250 US effort is seriously lacking. 

The Bike he is on is completely different..not sure if it’s that simple.