French talent Musquin leads FIM MX World series into St. Jean d’Angely

FUNCHAL (PORTUGAL),
2 June 2010 – The FIM Motocross World Championship collective goes straight
from USA to France where the seventh round of the series will take place
this weekend. While home riders Xavier Boog and Sebastien Pourcel
struggle in a Tony Cairoli dominated MX1 class, France has a strong
presence in the MX2 courtesy of leader Marvin Musquin and third placed
since the USGP Steven Frossard.

 
Winning at Glen
Helen, Cairoli built on his Championship lead while Max Nagl remained in
second place. Clement
Desalle instead is now third from David Philippaerts and Ken De Dycker.
Home rider Xavier Boog is the best placed Frenchman with a current seventh
place while Sebastien Pourcel is 13th right ahead of countryman Boissiere.


In the MX2 class instead the French fans will come in crowds to support
Championship leader and defending Champion Marvin Musquin, winner in the
USA. Ken Roczen follows in second while other French Steven Frossard
stormed to third in the Championship courtesy of his podium in America.


Another French is leading the EMX 125 class and that is youngster Jordi
Tixier. Having won all moto’s in rounds one and two, Tixier leads the
series from Austrian Pascal Rauchenecker and Italian Dawid Ciucci.


The venue of St. Jean d’Angely makes its comeback into the series calendar
and is due to host also the 2011 FIM Motocross of Nations.

 
MX1

Winning at the historic comeback to USA of the FIM Motocross World
Championship, Red Bull KTM Factory Racing MX1’s Cairoli has increased his
points lead from team mate Nagl, having a bad weekend at Glen Helen. Now
Cairoli enters France with a 41 point advantage over Nagl and a three GP
win record to extend to four.


A dnf in moto two at Glen Helen made it a terrible weekend for Nagl, who
remained second in the Championship though. The German won the French GP
last year at Ernee but was off the podium at St. Jean in 2008.


A podium finish in America helped Rockstar Teka Suzuki World MX1’s Desalle
in moving up to third in the Championship. The French speaking Belgian looks
forward to France as he hopes to add another victory to his Portuguese GP
success of this year.


Yamaha Monster Energy Motocross’ Philippaerts is currently in fourth place
in the Championship but has to make up for a disastrous appearance in St.
Jean in 2008 when he crashed and did not finish heat two. The former World
Champion instead was second in Ernee in 2009.


Yamaha fellow rider De Dycker is fifth in the series ahead of Ramon.


Kawasaki Racing’s Boog is so far the best placed home rider as he sits in
seventh place. The MX1 debutant has narrowly missed on his maiden podium
finish in the USA but is pumped about breaking into the top three in his
home event. Team mate Pourcel instead has been struggling since the start
to the season but this comeback to St. Jean, the venue of his fourth and
last GP win in 2008, may be a confidence booster.


As Pourcel is 13th in the series, TM Racing Factory’s Frenchman Boissiere
is 14th. The latter has always been on the French MX2 GP podium since 2008.

 

2008 MX1 PODIUM:

1. Sebastien Pourcel

2. Joshua Coppins

3. Jonathan Barragan

 

2008 MX1 POLEMAN: Steve Ramon

 
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at www.motocrossmx1.com/gallery 

 
MX2

Red Bull KTM Factory Racing MX2’s Musquin has been taking back to back
victories since Portugal as America marked his third consecutive win and
fifth of 2010. The Frenchman is so far the leader of the MX2 series and is
confident for his home Grand Prix, which he dominated in 2009 in Ernee by
winning both moto’s.


40 points behind Musquin is runner up Roczen of Teka Suzuki Europe World
MX2. The 16 year old German is yet to win a Grand Prix, a goal he came
close to in Bellpuig but a bike failure dropped him off the overall podium.
Roczen will seek revenge in St. Jean but knows it will be hard to beat
Musquin on his home ground.


Third placed in the Championship is another French racer in the likes of
Frossard. The Kawasaki CLS rider injured his right thumb in Glen Helen’s
qualifying race but that did not prevent him from taking an incredible
third overall on the podium and storming to third in the Championship.


Other Red Bull KTM Factory Racing MX2 rider Herlings instead dropped down
to fourth in the series due to a bad weekend in the USA. The 15 year old
will try and put himself back together for France as his goal is making up
points on the top three riders.


Team mate Simpson completes the top five but Osborne is coming closer
courtesy of his home podium at Glen Helen – that was also Osborne’s first
podium of 2010.


Racing with the top five riders in several occasions this year, Finnish
Kullas hopes to improve on his 11th place in the Championship.


Yamaha fellow rider Paulin is also another one looking for a podium finish
at home as Osborne did in America. Also for Paulin it would be the first
podium of 2010 as he only resumed racing in Bellpuig due to an off season
injury.


Missing the Catalan and American GP’s in order to recover from an injury,
2009 EMX2 European Champion Charlier will make his comeback this weekend to
reinforce the line up of French riders.

 

2008 MX2 PODIUM:

1. Tommy Searle

2. Tyla Rattray

3. Anthony Boissiere

 

2008 MX2 POLEMAN: Antonio Cairoli

 
Photos available
at www.motocrossmx1.com/gallery 

 
EMX 125

Dominating the first and second rounds of this very first edition of the
UEM EMX 125 European Championship, French Tixier leads the EMX 125 series
and hopes to experience the feeling of winning at home for the first time
in his young career. Tixier is followed by Austrian Rauchenecker and
Italian Ciucci completing the top three. Other French Lafont is fourth and
Italian Bernardini is fifth.

 
TIMETABLE

Saturday: EMX 125 Free Practice Group 1 8:05; EMX 125 Free Practice Group 2
8:40; WMX Free Practice 9:25; MX2 Free Practice 10:00; MX1 Free Practice
10:45; EMX 125 Pre Qualifying Practice Group 1 11:35; EMX 125 Pre
Qualifying Practice Group 2 12:10; WMX Time Practice 13:00; MX2 Pre
Qualifying Practice 13:35; MX1 Pre Qualifying Practice 14:20; WMX Race 1
15:15; MX2 Qualifying Race 16:05; MX1 Qualifying Race 16:55; EMX 125
Qualifying Race 1 17:45; EMX 125 Qualifying Race 2 18:35;


Sunday: EMX 125 Warm up 8:00; WMX Warm up 8:30; MX2 Warm up 9:00; MX1 Warm
up 9:30; EMX 125 race 1 10:20; WMX Race 2 11:15; MX2 Grand Prix Race 1
12:10; MX1 Grand Prix Race 1 13:10; MX2 Grand Prix Race 2 15:03; MX1 Grand
Prix race 2 16:03; EMX 125 Race 2 17:20.

 

 

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