Saturday Qualifying Action at the MXoN

We've got a photo gallery of action from Saturday's qualifying races at the Motocross of Nations at Matterley Basin in Winchester, England, that you can access by clicking here. There's plenty of info in the captions that describe the action, but Team USA was on top after the qualifiers, with James Stewart and Ryan Villopoto winning their respecting MX1 and MX2 motos, and Ivan Tedesco taking a second in his Open-class moto. (A team's top two finishes counted toward Sunday's scores.)

Team Belgium was the second seeded squad, with Steve Ramon's win in the Open moto, and Stefan Everts' second-place finish. France was third with a second (Christophe Pourcel in MX2), and a fourth (Yves DeMaria in Open).

Attendance was huge for Saturday, with a very enthusiastic crowd on hand. Sunday should be absolutely nuts. The Americans are hoping for a return of the cool, dry weather that graced the facility on Sunday, while many of the European teams are openly admitting to doing rain dances, figuring that a muddy race will help top the scales in their advantage.

Check back on Sunday for more from Matterley Basin.

Countries Qualified for Sunday

1. United States (James Stewart, Ryan Villopoto, Ivan Tedesco)
2. Belgium (Steve Ramon, Stefan Everts, Kevin Strijbos)
3. France (Christophe Pourcel, Yves Demaria, Sebastien Pourcel)
4. New Zealand (Josh Coppins, Ben Townley, Cody Cooper)
5. South Africa (Wyatt Avis, Tyla Rattray, Neville Bradshaw)
6. Great Britain (Billy Mackenzie, Tommy Searle, Carl Nunn)
7. Italy (Antonio Cairoli, David Philippaerts, Cristian Beggi)
8. Estonia (Tanel Leok, Aigar Leok, Juss Laansoo)
9. Finland (Jussi Vehvilainen, Matti Seistola, Antti Pyrhonen)
10. Jonathan Barragan, Carlos Campano, Alvaro Lozano)
11. Australia (Brett Metcalfe, Cheyne Boyde, Daniel Reardon)
12. Japan (Yoshitaka Atsuta, Akira Narita, Yohei Kojima)
13. Germany (Maximillian Nagl, Dennis Schroter, Manual Chittaro)
14. Portugal (Rui Goncalves, Paulo Goncalves, Henrique Venda)
15. Canada (Blair Morgan, Colton Facciotti, Marco Dube)
16. Norway (Kenneth Gundersen, Frederik Aulisether, Ronny Bakke)
17. Czech Republic (Martin Zerava, Jan Zaremba, Filip Neugebauer)
18. Slovakia (Martin Kohut, Josef Kulhavy, Tomas Bucenec)
19. Switzerland (Marc Ristori, Julien Bill, Patrick Walther)

Countries in the B Final

1. Denmark
2. Netherlands
3. Russia
4. Sweden
5. Hungary
6. Slovenia
7. Austria
8. Latvia
9. Greece
10. Croatia
11. China
12. Ireland