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De Dycker takes first season win at home at Belgian MX
 


LOMMEL (BELGIUM), 2 August 2009 – Taking his first season win at home De Dycker moved up to fourth in the Championship while Musquin won a wet MX2 Grand Prix to build on his Championship lead.

Nilsson wrapped up the World Cup win yesterday already but carried on winning the second moto today for a dominant overall win ahead of Van Grinsven and Engdahl.

Nagl and Cairoli completed the MX1 podium while Belgians Roelants and Verbruggen were second and third overall in MX2.

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Despite crashing in yesterday’s qualifying Teka Suzuki World MX1 De Dycker remained positive and started off the Grand Prix with a strong win in the opening moto. The Belgian passed countryman Desalle after a couple of laps and carried on to win with a big advantage over the LS Motors man. The final heat was harder for De Dycker but he soldiered on to finish third and grasp his first season’s win at home, moving up to fourth in the Championship as well.

Red Bull KTM Factory Racing’s Nagl was second overall, mounting again on the podium in Lommel after last year’s third place finish. Nagl won the final moto but struggled in the first heat after a bad start – he finished sixth eventually.

Championship leader Cairoli turned a bad weekend into a good one, as he secured the podium despite a disastrous qualifying yesterday and lost just two points from runner up Nagl. Cairoli took two bad starts in the heats but recovered to fifth and second in each moto.

Ramon was fourth overall at his comeback race after he injured his neck at Valkenswaard. The overall result, including a third place finish from heat one, showed the Belgian is ready for a strong finale to the 2009 season.

Being the third home rider in the top five, Desalle was fifth overall as a second moto crash at the first corner damaged his pipe – after a noise control Desalle was given a one minute penalty and dropped down to ninth.

Aprilia Racing’s Priem ended eighth overall despite two good starts to the heats. The Belgian ended right ahead of defending Champion Philippaerts, who had a bad day.  

Strijbos, coming back this weekend despite another crash last week hampered his right shoulder, was ninth in heat one but had to pull out of heat two due to a technical issue.

 

MX1 Race 1 top ten: 1. Ken de Dycker (BEL, Suzuki), 43:03.805; ; 2. Clement Desalle (BEL, Honda), +0:06.893; 3. Steve Ramon (BEL, Suzuki), +0:18.879; 4. Joshua Coppins (NZL, Yamaha), +0:48.843; 5. Antonio Cairoli (ITA, Yamaha), +0:49.076; 6. Maximilian Nagl (GER, KTM), +0:50.650; 7. David Philippaerts (ITA, Yamaha), +1:11.853; 8. Tanel Leok (EST, Yamaha), +1:13.690; 9. Kevin Strijbos (BEL, Honda), +2:04.985; 10. Manuel Priem (BEL, Aprilia), +2:31.170;

MX1 Race 2 top ten: 1. Maximilian Nagl (GER, KTM), 41:54.880; ; 2. Antonio Cairoli (ITA, Yamaha), +0:30.961; 3. Ken de Dycker (BEL, Suzuki), +0:49.586; 4. Steve Ramon (BEL, Suzuki), +0:58.857; 5. Manuel Priem (BEL, Aprilia), +1:14.596; 6. Tanel Leok (EST, Yamaha), +1:14.903; 7. Joshua Coppins (NZL, Yamaha), +1:47.985; 8. Gareth Swanepoel (RSA, Kawasaki), +2:08.690; 9. Clement Desalle (BEL, Honda), +2:14.637; 10. David Philippaerts (ITA, Yamaha), -1 lap(s);

MX1 Overall top ten: 1. Ken de Dycker (BEL, Suzuki), 45 points; 2. Maximilian Nagl (GER, KTM), 40 p.; 3. Antonio Cairoli (ITA, Yamaha), 38 p.; 4. Steve Ramon (BEL, Suzuki), 38 p.; 5. Clement Desalle (BEL, Honda), 34 p.; 6. Joshua Coppins (NZL, Yamaha), 32 p.; 7. Tanel Leok (EST, Yamaha), 28 p.; 8. Manuel Priem (BEL, Aprilia), 27 p.; 9. David Philippaerts (ITA, Yamaha), 25 p.; 10. Shannon Terreblanche (RSA, Kawasaki), 14 p.;

MX1 Championship top ten: 1. Antonio Cairoli (ITA, Yamaha), 466 points; 2. Maximilian Nagl (GER, KTM), 415 p.; 3. David Philippaerts (ITA, Yamaha), 388 p.; 4. Ken de Dycker (BEL, Suzuki), 383 p.; 5. Clement Desalle (BEL, Honda), 379 p.; 6. Joshua Coppins (NZL, Yamaha), 375 p.; 7. Tanel Leok (EST, Yamaha), 327 p.; 8. Jonathan Barragan (ESP, KTM), 215 p.; 9. Gareth Swanepoel (RSA, Kawasaki), 188 p.; 10. Aigar Leok (EST, TM), 167 p.;

MX1 Manufacturers: 1. Yamaha, 529 points; 2. KTM, 475 p.; 3. Honda, 414 p.; 4. Suzuki, 398 p.; 5. Kawasaki, 242 p.; 6. Aprilia, 189 p.; 7. TM, 167 p.; 8. CCM, 123 p.; 9. Husaberg, 0 p.; 10. Husqvarna, 0 p.;

Date: 2009-08-02 22:12:06 | Author: Youthstream