MX2

TEUTSCHENTHAL (Germany), 08 May 2016 – The gnarly old school clay track that sprawls itself over the hills of Teutschenthal always spawns incredible scenarios. Last year we saw both red plate holders crash out of the grand prix here, while this year, at the seventh round of the FIM Motocross World Championship, it raised the race intensity ten fold with Red Bull KTM Factory Racing’s Antonio Cairoli and Jeffrey Herlings being pushed to the wire in both races for the race wins and the grand prix overall in their respective classes.

The 8^th of May is officially the Easter of motocross with the rebirth of the eight-time FIM Motocross World Champion Antonio Cairoli who won his first grand prix since the MXGP of Great Britain, which took place on the 24^th of May 2015. “I’ve been searching for this win for some time now” He said, “I’ve been missing some speed but I started to feel good already in Latvia. Now I hope to be here on the podium and fighting for the win every weekend.” The popular Italian has the best track record here in Teutschenthal and has now won four grand prix’ on this soil.

Honda Gariboldi’s Tim Gajser is arguably the most exciting rider to watch on the track. The Slovenian is just on the edge at all times. He doesn’t care, he’s strong and he’s confident and he will pin it to the checkers in every race. In race one, he threw everything but the kitchen sink at Tony Cairoli, but couldn’t make a pass stick and in race two he bounced back to fourth after clipping fellow Honda rider Evegeny Bobryshev in a battle for second. His results for the day were enough for second overall, his seventh consecutive podium and, more importantly, the championship lead.

Team HRC’s Evegeny Bobryshev nursed his injured shoulder to an impressive third overall this weekend. The Russian said “I had no time on the bike during the week because of my shoulder. The track was really tough today with all of the ruts and the square edge bumps so to be third on the podium, I am really pumped because if you knew what I have and the pain I was riding through, man it’s just really amazing.”

Chainsaws and air horns were going full blast for Rockstar Energy Husqvarna Factory Racing’s Max Nagl who charged to a third in race one and sixth in race two, after he binned it while in third. The German actually tied with Bobby for third overall but the silverware goes to the person who places best in the final race and that was Bobryshev, who finished second.

There’s nothing like a bit of controversy to spice things up, especially between teammates. Monster Energy Yamaha Factory Racing’s Jeremy Van Horebeek and Romain Febvre had a discussion on the start line before race one regarding gate pick. Coincidently or not, Van Horebeek and Febvre came together on the opening lap of that moto and Febvre hit the deck. Febvre struggled to come back in that race and only finished tenth. In race two, he put in a solid ride for third, which left him in fifth overall and has seen him relinquish the red plate.

MXGP Race 1 Top Ten: 1. Antonio Cairoli (ITA, KTM), 35:21.882; 2. Tim Gajser (SLO, Honda), +0:04.991; 3. Maximilian Nagl (GER, Husqvarna), +0:12.252; 4. Christophe Charlier (FRA, Husqvarna), +0:16.655; 5. Kevin Strijbos (BEL, Suzuki), +0:26.742; 6. Jeremy Van Horebeek (BEL, Yamaha), +0:28.779; 7. Ben Townley (NZL, Suzuki), +0:42.598; 8. Evgeny Bobryshev (RUS, Honda), +0:49.103; 9. Shaun Simpson (GBR, KTM), +0:51.085; 10. Romain Febvre (FRA, Yamaha), +1:01.916.

MXGP Race 2 Top Ten: 1. Antonio Cairoli (ITA, KTM), 33:52.905; 2. Evgeny Bobryshev (RUS, Honda), +0:02.783; 3. Romain Febvre (FRA, Yamaha), +0:03.349; 4. Tim Gajser (SLO, Honda), +0:19.696; 5. Valentin Guillod (SUI, Yamaha), +0:22.314; 6. Maximilian Nagl (GER, Husqvarna), +0:25.657; 7. Ben Townley (NZL, Suzuki), +0:29.384; 8. Shaun Simpson (GBR, KTM), +0:31.077; 9. Tommy Searle (GBR, Kawasaki), +0:33.268; 10. Kevin Strijbos (BEL, Suzuki), +0:44.820.

MXGP Overall Top Ten: 1. Antonio Cairoli (ITA, KTM), 50 points; 2. Tim Gajser (SLO, HON), 40 p.; 3. Evgeny Bobryshev (RUS, HON), 35 p.; 4. Maximilian Nagl (GER, HUS), 35 p.; 5. Romain Febvre (FRA, YAM), 31 p.; 6. Ben Townley (NZL, SUZ), 28 p.; 7. Kevin Strijbos (BEL, SUZ), 27 p.; 8. Christophe Charlier (FRA, HUS), 26 p.; 9. Shaun Simpson (GBR, KTM), 25 p.; 10. Valentin Guillod (SUI, YAM), 23 p.

MXGP Championship Top Ten: 1. Tim Gajser (SLO, HON), 299 points; 2. Romain Febvre (FRA, YAM), 291 p.; 3. Antonio Cairoli (ITA, KTM), 263 p.; 4. Maximilian Nagl (GER, HUS), 238 p.; 5. Evgeny Bobryshev (RUS, HON), 232 p.; 6. Jeremy Van Horebeek (BEL, YAM), 215 p.; 7. Kevin Strijbos (BEL, SUZ), 169 p.; 8. Shaun Simpson (GBR, KTM), 168 p.; 9. Valentin Guillod (SUI, YAM), 139 p.; 10. Glenn Coldenhoff (NED, KTM), 136 p.

MXGP Manufacturer: 1. Honda, 305 points; 2. Yamaha, 298 p.; 3. KTM, 270 p.; 4. Husqvarna, 249 p.; 5. Suzuki, 192 p.; 6. Kawasaki, 154 p.

Something you never expected to read this season, ‘Red Bull KTM Factory Racing’s Jeffrey Herlings had his work cut out for him’ this weekend as he battled illness and a blazingly fast Jeremy Seewer to remain unbeaten this season. Herlings is used to steam rolling this class, so he was a little bit fired up by the challenge, but regardless of that, he won both races for his 54^th grand prix victory.

You’d never guess that Monster Energy Kawasaki Racing Team’s Dylan Ferrandis has literally just been given the all clear to race. He landed on the second step of the podium for the second time this year and tributes his good results to his awesome starts where he took the Fox Holeshot in race one and missed it by a hair in race two. “I’m surprised because I didn’t ride so much during the week because I was really tired and I had a bit of pain in my shoulder, but I am happy to be back on the podium.”

Team Suzuki World MX2’s Jeremy Seewer left his diesel engine at home this weekend. Instead he was running on 100% race fuel as he rode like a man possessed all weekend. The Swiss rider was fastest in Free Practice and Timed Practice on Saturday and finished second in Qualifying. He crashed in the first moto today and came from around twentieth all the way to fourth, but the real head turner was when he put the challenge to Herlings and almost won the final race. The Suzuki star on the rise finished third overall.

It was another weekend of highs and lows for Rockstar Energy Husqvarna Factory Racing’s Max Anstie who was third in race one and led the best part of race two before he threw away his four second lead with 6 mins to go. It’s safe to say the Brit will be frustrated, but at least he salvaged fifth in that race which was enough for fourth overall, while Kemea Yamaha Official MX Team’s Benoit Paturel put in two solid races to round out the top five.

MX2 Race 1 Top Ten: 1. Jeffrey Herlings (NED, KTM), 34:21.787; 2. Dylan Ferrandis (FRA, Kawasaki), +0:14.877; 3. Max Anstie (GBR, Husqvarna), +0:21.575; 4. Jeremy Seewer (SUI, Suzuki), +0:26.760; 5. Pauls Jonass (LAT, KTM), +0:30.964; 6. Aleksandr Tonkov (RUS, Yamaha), +0:34.711; 7. Benoit Paturel (FRA, Yamaha), +0:38.264; 8. Brent Van doninck (BEL, Yamaha), +0:44.503; 9. Vsevolod Brylyakov (RUS, Kawasaki), +0:49.671; 10. Brian Bogers (NED, KTM), +0:54.844.

MX2 Race 2 Top Ten: 1. Jeffrey Herlings (NED, KTM), 34:26.873; 2. Jeremy Seewer (SUI, Suzuki), +0:02.365; 3. Dylan Ferrandis (FRA, Kawasaki), +0:19.820; 4. Benoit Paturel (FRA, Yamaha), +0:21.421; 5. Max Anstie (GBR, Husqvarna), +0:38.093; 6. Samuele Bernardini (ITA, TM), +0:39.619; 7. Brent Van doninck (BEL, Yamaha), +0:41.667; 8. Vsevolod Brylyakov (RUS, Kawasaki), +0:53.490; 9. Brian Bogers (NED, KTM), +0:59.281; 10. Roberts Justs (LAT, KTM), +1:02.044.

MX2 Overall Top Ten: 1. Jeffrey Herlings (NED, KTM), 50 points; 2. Dylan Ferrandis (FRA, KAW), 42 p.; 3. Jeremy Seewer (SUI, SUZ), 40 p.; 4. Max Anstie (GBR, HUS), 36 p.; 5. Benoit Paturel (FRA, YAM), 32 p.; 6. Brent Van doninck (BEL, YAM), 27 p.; 7. Vsevolod Brylyakov (RUS, KAW), 25 p.; 8. Pauls Jonass (LAT, KTM), 25 p.; 9. Brian Bogers (NED, KTM), 23 p.; 10. Aleksandr Tonkov (RUS, YAM), 23 p.

MX2 Championship Top Ten: 1. Jeffrey Herlings (NED, KTM), 350 points; 2. Jeremy Seewer (SUI, SUZ), 270 p.; 3. Pauls Jonass (LAT, KTM), 218 p.; 4. Aleksandr Tonkov (RUS, YAM), 186 p.; 5. Benoit Paturel (FRA, YAM), 186 p.; 6. Petar Petrov (BUL, KAW), 183 p.; 7. Max Anstie (GBR, HUS), 162 p.; 8. Vsevolod Brylyakov (RUS, KAW), 157 p.; 9. Samuele Bernardini (ITA, TM), 149 p.; 10. Brent Van doninck (BEL, YAM), 129 p.

MX2 Manufacturer: 1. KTM, 350 points; 2. Suzuki, 270 p.; 3. Kawasaki, 244 p.; 4. Yamaha, 243 p.; 5. Husqvarna, 218 p.; 6. TM, 149 p.; 7. Honda, 132 p.

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MXGP OF GERMANY – QUICK FACTS

Circuit length: 1540m

Type of ground: Hard pack

Temperature: 22°C

Weather conditions: sunny

Weekend Crowd Attendance: 28,000

NEXT ROUND

The next round will take place next weekend, May 15^th in Pietramurata, Trentino.

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MXGP of Germany

We had a very special Studio Show yesterday explaining the all new Monster Energy SMX Riders’ Cup which will take place in Germany inside the VELTINS-Arena on the 8^th of October this year!

MXGP-TV’s Paul Malin was joined by Giuseppe Luongo, Stefan Everts, Antti Pyrhonen and David Philippaerts. Watch it here: 

Watch the highlights from the MXGP qualifying races here at round seven of the FIM Motocross World Championship in Teutschenthal, Germany here.

MXGP Qualifying Race Highlights

TEUTSCHENTHAL (Germany), 07 May 2016 – The recipe for long, deep ruts and great racing was revealed today with the traditional circuit of Teutschenthal shaping up gnarlier than ever for the qualifying races here at the seventh round of the 2016 FIM Motocross World Championship.

Red Bull KTM Factory Racing’s Antonio Cairoli lit the candles to go pole for the first time since last years MXGP of Great Britain. Interestingly, the 2015 MXGP of Great Britain is also the last time TC222 stood on top of the box.

Meanwhile Red Bull KTM Factory Racing’s Jeffrey Herlings battled the flu on the way to his seventh consecutive qualifying race win, while in addition to the premier classes, the third rounds of the European Championship EMX250 and FIM Women’s Motocross World Championship also took place, as did the opening round of the Honda EMX150 European Championship.

There was a massive turn of events in the WMX world championship with the red plate holder Altherm JCR Yamaha’s Courtney Duncan crashing out of the lead. Team One One Four’s Livia Lancelot capitalized on Duncan’s misfortune and took her first race win of the season and now has a 6 point lead in the championship over Yamaha’s Nancy Van de Ven. Meanwhile, Monster Energy Kawasaki’s Australian, Hunter Lawrence, put a smile back on the faces of those down-under with his first ever EMX250 race win.

The defending EMX150 champion, Emil Weckman, won the opening race in the Honda EMX150 European Championship.

We’re only on the edge of summer here in Germany although today it felt as though it was in full swing with cloudless blue skies and warm temperatures making up the day. The fans were in for a treat today when two of the ‘old-schoolers’, Red Bull KTM Factory Racing’s Antonio Cairoli and Monster Energy Yamaha Factory Racing’s Jeremy Van Horebeek led the two leading the series this year, Honda Gariboldi’s Tim Gajser and Monster Energy Yamaha Factory Racing’s Romain Febvre, around turn one.

The track was ripped mega deep through the week and saturated with water, which turned Teutschenthal’s ‘Talkessel’ circuit into Rut City. Precision was of the essence in the technical conditions, which is what Cairoli is renowned for, although Gajser and Febvre have also proved in a short space of time that they can ride that way too.

Speaking of Gajser and Febvre, the battle between them is what has everyone hooked and once again, it was on full blast after the duo dropped Van Horebeek on the second lap. Both youngsters embrace the ‘win at all costs’ mentality, and there is definitely no love lost between the two, which always makes for epic racing.

With five minutes to go, Gajser flicked his map to animal mode, and set his sights firmly on Cairoli. As the Slovenian mixed up his lines in effort to get around the eight-time world champ, he broke traction, slid and clipped a rut, which chucked him off. Febvre inherited second and put a sniper dot right smack in the middle of Cairoli’s back.

With two laps to go, Febvre had his finger firmly on the trigger as he tried to muster the strength to pull it. Every time he tried, he’d bobble and eventually he had to settle for second while Tony Cairoli finally got the monkey off his back with his first race win of the season.

Gajser remounted and held on for third ahead of Van Horebeek and Rockstar Energy Husqvarna Factory Racing’s Christophe Charlier who took his second ever top five, with his first being at the MXGP of Lombardia, Italy, last year.

Team HRC’s Evgeny Bobryshev is riding with a slightly stiff shoulder and finished sixth ahead of the home soil hero Rockstar Energy Husqvarna Factory Racing’s Max Nagl.

MXGP Qualifying Race Top Ten: 1. Antonio Cairoli (ITA, KTM), 24:17.557; 2. Romain Febvre (FRA, Yamaha), +0:00.626; 3. Tim Gajser (SLO, Honda), +0:17.907; 4. Jeremy Van Horebeek (BEL, Yamaha), +0:21.180; 5. Christophe Charlier (FRA, Husqvarna), +0:27.790; 6. Evgeny Bobryshev (RUS, Honda), +0:30.688; 7. Maximilian Nagl (GER, Husqvarna), +0:32.933; 8. Kevin Strijbos (BEL, Suzuki), +0:34.956; 9. Shaun Simpson (GBR, KTM), +0:42.396; 10. Valentin Guillod (SUI, Yamaha), +0:50.269

When the gates slammed down on the German clay it was Monster Energy Kawasaki Racing Team’s Dylan Ferrandis who proved he had lost no flexibility in his right wrist as he twisted the throttle as far round as possible all the way to turn one for the holeshot. Behind the Frenchman, who has been on the couch for the majority of the season with a shoulder injury, was Red Bull KTM Factory Racing’s duo of Jeffrey Herlings and Pauls Jonass.

Surprisingly, The Bullet wasn’t the fastest in Timed Practice; it was Team Suzuki World MX2’s Jeremy Seewer who chalked that one to the board for the first time this season. Maybe it was just another sign of Herlings all new race maturity because the MX2 star didn’t waste any time in taking the lead and checked out to win his seventh straight qualifying heat by fourteen seconds. He later mentioned that he wasn’t feeling well, “I’ve been sick since Tuesday,” he said, “I’ve had a fever actually and I can feel it really hard now so yeah, the fever is coming into play.”

Meanwhile, despite feeling a little rusty, Ferrandis was riding well behind Herlings until he caught his gear lever and hit neutral while laying into one of the gnarly ruts out here. Jonass went right into the back of him and had to wheelie out of the rut to get around. As Ferrandis tried to bash his bike back into gear, Jonass was thrown off line, which gifted Seewer an easy second place.

At the checkers, Seewer had pulled a gap on Jonass for a comfortable second while Jonass had to fight hard to finish third after Kemea Yamaha Official MX Team’s Brent Van doninck scrubbed past Ferrandis for fourth and went after him. Despite the hard charge from Van doninck, time ran out for the Belgian who has just made his comeback after dislocating his hip two months ago, and he had to settle for fourth. Ferrandis rounded out the top five.

MX2 Qualifying Race Top Ten: 1. Jeffrey Herlings (NED, KTM), 24:23.425; 2. Jeremy Seewer (SUI, Suzuki), +0:14.611; 3. Pauls Jonass (LAT, KTM), +0:18.329; 4. Brent Van doninck (BEL, Yamaha), +0:19.865; 5. Dylan Ferrandis (FRA, Kawasaki), +0:27.727; 6. Benoit Paturel (FRA, Yamaha), +0:40.360; 7. Brian Bogers (NED, KTM), +0:47.445; 8. Max Anstie (GBR, Husqvarna), +0:48.600; 9. Aleksandr Tonkov (RUS, Yamaha), +0:55.082; 10. Calvin Vlaanderen (NED, KTM), +0:58.946

Click here to obtain the complete results

All the photos of the MXGP of Germany will be available here

MXGP OF GERMANY – QUICK FACTS

Circuit length: 1540m

Type of ground: Hard pack

Temperature: 24°C

Weather conditions: sunny

TIMETABLE

Sunday: EMX150 Warm-up 08:15; WMX Warm-up 08:30; EMX250 Warm-up 08:45; MX2 Warm up 09:00; MXGP Warm up 09:20; EMX150 Race 2 09:50; WMX Race 2 10:40; EMX250 Race 2 11:30; MX2 Race 1 13:15; MXGP Race 1 14:15; MX2 Race 2 16:10; MXGP Race 2 17:10.

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MXGP of Germany

TEUTSCHENTHAL (Germany), 07 May 2016 – A press conference took place here in Teutschenthal, at the MXGP of Germany, announcing that Monster Energy will be the title sponsor of our epic new project, the SMX Riders’ Cup, a new concept where the fastest motocross riders in the world will go bar-to-bar inside a stadium on a uniquely designed indoor motocross track.

Youthstream President Mr. Giuseppe Luongo was joined by Team Suzuki World MXGP’s Team Manager Mr. Stefan Everts, Rockstar Energy Husqvarna Factory Racing’s Team Manager Mr. Antti Pyrhönen and DP19 Yamaha Official MX Team Owner/Manager Mr. David Philippaerts, for the announcement.

The event, Monster Energy SMX Riders’ Cup, will take place at the VELTINS-Arena in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, on the 8^th of October 2016. The VELTINS-Arena is home to the football team FC Schalke 04, and is an amazing venue. What also works in favor of the VELTINS-Arena is the fact that it has a fully retractable roof that can be closed at any time over the course of the night, even with public inside, which means the track will be prime and the fans will be comfortable.

How the racing works:

• Each manufacturer, KTM, Honda, Husqvarna, Yamaha, Kawasaki, Suzuki and TM, will have a team of four riders. Three main riders and one ‘Joker’. The Joker can replace any rider on the team at any time.
• The riders can ride any bike they want between 245cc to 450cc, regardless of their age. It also doesn’t matter if the engine is 4-stroke or 2-stroke.
• Each team will have ONE team captain, and that rider will race the ‘Superpole’.
• The Superpole is a 2-Lap sprint. Only 7 riders enter, 1 from each brand.
• The team whose rider is the fastest in the Superpole will have the 1/8/15 gate pick, the second one will have 2/9/16, and so on.
• Three main races will be raced. There will be three riders per team. The team with the lowest score at the end of the event will win.
• Prize money for the individual overall winner:

- 1^st: €50,000

- 2^nd: €30,000

- 3^rd: €20,000

• The best placed MX2 rider will receive €10,000.
• The riders points system is like: 1 point for 1^st, 2 points for 2^nd, 3 points for 3^rd etc.
• Prize money for the winning manufacturer:

- 1^st: €50,000

- 2^nd: €30,000

- 3^rd: €20,000

• The manufacturers points system is like the riders’ points system: 1 point for 1^st, 2 points for 2^nd, 3 points for 3^rd etc.
• There will be 9 scores from each team on the board. The 7 best scores are counted. The worst 2 results are dropped.
• In addition to the main events, there will be two junior classes in the form of the SMX125cc and a YZ125 Cup which is an invitational race for Yamaha riders, arranged by Yamaha and the national federations across Europe.

As above, Mr. Giuseppe Luongo explained how the event works and expressed how excited he is to take on this new challenge and reach a new audience. Mr. Antti Pyrhönen, on behalf of Husqvarna, followed, “Everybody is really excited for this event. I think the idea is great and for sure the event will be fantastic,” he said, “It’s in a central location in Europe, in Germany, it’s close to Belgium and Holland as well. I think this is a big step for the future of our sport. All of the infrastructure will be even better than what we already have now in the normal MXGP paddock and all the job that Youthstream is doing with the promotion and marketing, all the work that the manufacturers are doing, and all the work that the riders are putting in will make this a great show, and it’s a great opportunity to bring in more fans to see our sport and it’s and hopefully bring more partners.”

Ten-time FIM Motocross World Champion and the new team owner and manager of Team Suzuki World MXGP, Mr. Stefan Everts said, “For Suzuki this is a good opportunity for our promotion and we know that Youthstream is pushing very hard to promote our sport as good as possible. I think that is why it is so important for Suzuki to be there and to support this event.” He added: “I think it will take new interest, it’s a completely new concept, which makes people curious and it’s cool to see the manufacturers cup coming back. From Suzuki’s side, we support this event and we will do our best to bring out the best riders for the best show and to win!”

Because the riders and the manufacturers that are competing for the Monster Energy SMX Riders’ Cup have the chance to race for a massive cash prize, the racing is bound to be intense and action packed, which combined with music and other forms of mega entertainment will make for an awesome night out.

For more information click HERE and follow this link to purchase your ticket in advance: http://smxschalke.motocross-tickets.com/10981-smx-riders-cup/

Watch the Monster Energy SMX Riders' Cup 3D Track preview by clicking HERE

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Monster Energy SMX Riders' Cup

Watch the first GoPro lap of Teutschenthal with Monster Energy DRT Kawasaki's Vsevolod Brylyakov

Welcome to Teutschenthal, Germany, where the seventh round of the FIM Motocross World Championship is about to get underway.

We caught up with Wilvo Standing Construct Yamaha Factory Racing’s Aleksandr Tonkov while he was jamming on the new MXGP video game.

To check out the game, click here: www.mxgpvideogame.com