Winners in Britain

In what was something of a carbon copy of their success in Spain just two weeks earlier Valentin Guillod and Antonio Cairoli scored GP victories in the MX2 and MXGP class at the Grand Prix of Great Britain last weekend.

Held at the magnificent Matterley Basin circuit, and in front of a massive crowd the two riders looked strong all weekend and clearly deserved their success.

Both Guillod and Cairoli are in strong contention for top three honors in their respective classes at season end, with Guillod no doubt looking at finishing the season as close as possible to red plate owner Jeffrey Herlings and Cairoli keen to close to gap to MXGP red plate holder Max Nagl.

"It was a great weekend and started well from Saturday,” Guillod said. “I felt good on the bike straightaway. I was aiming for a good result and make points but the race with Max was very nice and clean. I finished second when Jeffrey came up to our rear wheel so that was OK. I made a good start in the second moto, took the lead and didn't make a mistake. It was my best race and it was really cool to fight with Jeffrey. I had fun and I think my team and all the fans had fun; it was motocross and a nice show."

For Cairoli it was pretty much more of the same as he clocked up yet another win in the UK. The Red Bull KTM Factory rider continues to produce the goods at the homeland of the sport and he is building well after a less than great start to the season.

“I have a lot of great memories here in England,” Cairoli said. “Here I won my first moto at the Motocross of the Nations with 250, long time ago in 2006. I have a lot of fans here, everybody is cheering a lot and you can feel it. I’m really happy, because the weekend went pretty perfect and I will not change nothing. I’m confident about the future, the best is yet to come and I’m really happy that I’ve made the decision to go on the 450, is much easier to ride compare to the 350, even if I still have to learn a lot how to get faster. I want to wish to Rui Goncalves a good and fast recover, is one of my best friend and I was sad to don’t see him racing today.”

If you were a betting man today you would pick Guillod as the second best rider in the MX2 class as the season ends and I don’t know too many people betting against Cairoli to add his ninth world title to his already full trophy cabinet.