Press Release

DESALLE AIMS FOR MORE SUCCESS IN LATVIA

ocscottie
7/14/2011 8:56pm

Rockstar
Energy Suzuki World MX1's Clement Desalle will fly to the capital city
of Riga for the Grand Prix of Latvia hopeful of going 'two in a row' at
the flat and soft circuit of Kegums for the 10th round of the FIM
Motocross World Championship. 

The
trip east will be the sixth event from seven weeks in the GP calendar
and the last before a well-deserved break for the Belgian team and their
two riders. The crew's home race at Lommel in Limburg will take place
at the end of the month. Last summer Desalle went 1-2 in the Latvian
motos to earn what was only his second overall victory on the works
RM-Z450 in his maiden campaign. 

This
time the 22 year old heads to the track an hour south-east of the
Baltic metropolis less than fully fit but able to enter the Grand Prix
with more confidence after his podium result (third) last Sunday at
Teutschenthal in Germany. 

"Even
though it has taken some time to accept my bad luck with the injuries I
was pretty happy with the result in Germany and to get back on the
podium," the 2010 MX1 Vice-Champion said. "If I can get a good feeling
on the bike then I can be fast, but at the moment it is hard to say how
it will be until I get to the track and see what is possible. We have a
good set-up on the bike and I am very happy with it. I've been fast at
Kegums for the last two years and I hope I can do it again." 

Steve
Ramon is still searching for his first silverware of the season and the
wait could come to an end in Kegums as the former World Champion
finished third at the 2010 edition of what was only the second ever
Latvian Grand Prix. "I like the track and had a good result last year.
Things did not go so well in Germany and I need to turn that around," he
said. 

The largely
flat but loamy and sandy course has provided a technical test for the
GP fraternity in the last two incarnations of the Latvian meeting. After
good weather in 2010 the dry track churned into waves of ripples and
lines with a hard surface under the top-soil. Usually very grippy it is
hard to judge just how fast the layout will be, especially with rain
forecast for practice and qualification. 

Changeable
weather conditions are predicted for the weekend with the chance of
showers on Saturday afternoon and sunshine on race-day. 

MX1 World Championship standings (after 9 of 15 rounds): 1. Antonio Cairoli (ITA, KTM), 366 points; 2. Clement Desalle (BEL, Rockstar Energy Suzuki World MX1), 348 p.;
3. Steven Frossard (FRA, Yamaha), 326 p.; 4. Evgeny Bobryshev (RUS,
Honda), 294 p.; 5. Maximilian Nagl (GER, KTM), 282 p.; 6. David
Philippaerts (ITA, Yamaha), 250 p.; 7. Rui Goncalves (POR, Honda), 249
p.; 8. Jonathan Barragan (ESP, Kawasaki), 204 p.; 9. Xavier Boog (FRA,
Kawasaki), 203 p.; 10. Steve Ramon (BEL, Rockstar Energy Suzuki World MX1), 203 p. 

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