USA conquers 21st Chamberlain Trophy on home soil

LAKEWOOD
(USA), 26 September 2010 – Another thrilling Red Bull FIM Motocross
of Nations took place in Thunder Valley and Team USA obtained an
eventual win at their home track in front of a passionate crowd of
32000 weekend spectators. Second overall was Team Belgium, who
improved his last year’s third position, and third was Team Germany
making their podium comeback. 

Team USA was in second
position behind Germany when the third race started, but a superb
performance of Ryan Dungey and Andrew Short brought USA their 21st
victory, their sixth in a row. Steve Ramon, Clement Desalle and
Jeremy Van Horebeek handed Belgium a second final position. 

Team
Germany, who was leading the Nations point standings after race two,
had a bitter sweet ending completing the podium in the Thunder Valley
track. 

Great Britain finished fourth overall just one
point behind Germany and Italy completed the top five. France was
struck by bad luck as Marvin Musquin dnf’d twice due to mechanical
problems, dropping the team down to seventh.


RACE
1 (MX1 & MX2)

Race
one started with a surprising holeshot of Barragan, but the Spaniard
could not stand the pressure of his pursuers and he finally finished
fourth. American Dungey got the lead already in lap two and dominated
until the end, while his team mate Canard was involved tangle with
Osborne just after the start as both went down at turn one – Canard
ending an eventual twelfth. 

Italian Cairoli went on the
track committed to beat American Dungey, but he could only finish
second almost six seconds behind the American after an early chase.
Australian Metcalfe did a consistent race and finished third ahead of
Barragan. 

Paulin completed the top five, while his team
mate Musquin could not finish the race due to a mechanical problem on
his KTM machine. 

Roczen was blocked by Canard and
Osborne, whom he found on the ground in front of him when taking turn
one. Though he worked his way up to finish in a solid sixth position.
Belgian Ramon finish seventh, followed by British Wilson and
Portuguese Gonçalves. 


Race 1 top ten: 1. Ryan
Dungey (USA, Suzuki), 35:56.436; 2. Antonio Cairoli (ITA, KTM),
+0:05.598; 3. Brett Metcalfe (AUS, Honda), +0:22.000; 4. Jonathan
Barragan (ESP, Kawasaki), +0:25.704; 5. Gautier Paulin (FRA, Yamaha),
+0:32.917; 6. Ken Roczen (GER, Suzuki), +0:39.361; 7. Steve Ramon
(BEL, Suzuki), +0:43.201; 8. Dean Wilson (GBR, Kawasaki), +0:47.329;
9. Rui Gonçalves (POR, KTM), +1:15.068; 10. Tanel Leok (EST, Honda),
+1:22.218; 


Nations top ten: USA, Germany, Belgium,
Australia, Italy, Spain, Estonia, Latvia, Portugal, New
Zealand. 


Complete
results available at www.motocrossmx1.com/reslists.aspx 

Photos
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RACE
2 (OPEN & MX2)

American
Short opened the second race with an incredible start taking the
holeshot and leading the heat until he made a mistake. After a crash
Short dropped back to position 25th but committed himself to do his
beat for USA and took an eventual 13th. 

16 year old
Roczen, who received the Ricky Carmichael Award for being the
youngest best placed rider in the Nations, took advantage of Short’s
mistake and led the race until he was overtaken by Townley –on the
bigger machine- in lap five. The New Zealander managed to keep the
lead until the end of the heat and finished six seconds after Puerto
Rican Regal. 

Roczen was finally third followed by
Belgian Desalle, who would become the overall winner of the Open
class by the end of the day. Nagl and Wilson finished fifth and sixth
respectively, while American Canard, who started 15th after a bad
start, managed to end in seventh position. 

Brit Anderson
was eighth, while Italian Monni and Belgian Van Horebeek completed
the top ten. 
Again French Musquin had a mechanical problem
and did not finish the race.


Race 2 top ten: 1. Ben
Townley (NZL, Honda), 36:11.627; 2. Kyle Regal (PUR, Honda),
+0:06.246; 3. Ken Roczen (GER, Suzuki), +0:07.235; 4. Clement Desalle
(BEL, Suzuki), +0:30.171; 5. Maximilian Nagl (GER, KTM), +0:37.809;
6. Dean Wilson (GBR, Kawasaki), +0:41.751; 7. Trey Canard (USA,
Honda), +0:56.298; 8. Brad Anderson (GBR, Honda), +0:58.070; 9.
Manuel Monni (ITA, Yamaha), +1:20.316; 10. Jeremy van Horebeek (BEL,
Kawasaki), +1:25.010; 


Nations top ten: Germany, USA,
Belgium, Italy, Great Britain, Australia, Puerto Rico, New Zealand,
Spain, Portugal.


Complete
results available at www.motocrossmx1.com/reslists.aspx 

Photos
available at www.motocrossmx1.com/gallery 

RACE
3 (MX1 & OPEN)

Race
three started with Germany at the front of the Nations point
standings, USA second and Belgium third, all the countries being
really tight in points. Americans Dungey and Short gave their best
for their country in the last heat and they actually dominated the
race, starting with Short first and Dungey second then swapping
position to see the Suzuki rider victorious.

Belgian Desalle
finished third ahead of Italian Cairoli, who had to race all the way
through from an initial 14th position, 
and Australian
Metcalfe completed the top five. 

Other Belgian Ramon
contributed to his country’s final second position by finishing
seventh in the third heat, followed by French Boog and Swiss Tonus.
Paulin did not have a good start and could only finish ninth and
Australian Marmont completed the top ten. 

Race two
winner Townley had a mechanical failure while he was second and could
not finish the heat. 


Eventually Team USA moved up to
the top of the podium, exploiting also the crash of Germany’s Nagl
who did not finish the race. Belgium clinched the runner up position
while Germany came back onto the podium courtesy in third, even
though the trio’s hopes for victory came to a bitter end in the
final heat. 


Dungey (USA) took the individual MX1
victory, Roczen (Germany) won the MX2 as well as the Ricky Carmichael
Award and Desalle (Belgium) won the Open class.


Race 3 top
ten: 1. Ryan Dungey (USA, Suzuki), 36:41.709; 2. Andrew Short (USA,
Honda), +0:10.230; 3. Clement Desalle (BEL, Suzuki), +0:17.577; 4.
Antonio Cairoli (ITA, KTM), +0:22.593; 5. Brett Metcalfe (AUS,
Honda), +0:27.187; 6. Steve Ramon (BEL, Suzuki), +0:29.778; 7. Xavier
Boog (FRA, Kawasaki), +0:31.946; 8. Arnaud Tonus (SUI, Suzuki),
+0:33.135; 9. Gautier Paulin (FRA, Yamaha), +0:58.530; 10. Jay
Marmont (AUS, Yamaha), +1:05.494;


Nations top ten: USA,
Belgium, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Australia, France, New
Zealand, Portugal, Puerto Rico. 


Complete
results available at www.motocrossmx1.com/reslists.aspx 

Photos
available at www.motocrossmx1.com/gallery 


RED
BULL FIM MXoN – QUICK FACTS
Circuit
length: 1740 mt
Type of ground: intermediate hard
pack
Temperature: 26° C
Weather conditions: sunny
Crowd
attendance during weekend: 32000


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