MX2

We’re creeping closer to summit of the year, the Monster Energy FIM Motocross of Nations. Here’s how the MXoN line-ups are looking so far:

Team France

Gautier Paulin

Romain Febvre

Marvin Musquin

Team USA

Justin Barcia

Jeremy Martin

Cooper Webb

Team Australia

Todd Waters

Dean Ferris

Jay Wilson

Team New Zealand

Ben Townley

Cody Cooper

Kayne Lamont

Team Great Britain

Shaun Simpson

Max Anstie

The third rider is yet to be confirmed.

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4 rounds have passed since the last issue of the MXGP Mag, that’s 8 motos in each class, that’s a cumulative 9 hours and 20 minutes of racing for this months racing catch up to dissect. 16 starts have passed, not including the drama that is now de rigueur in Saturday’s 20 plus 2 qualifying races, 8 sets of trophies have been handed out and we’ve had new red plate holders in both MXGP and MX2. Let’s start with one of those two men.

Romain Febvre...

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Last weekend at the MXGP of Belgium in Lommel we ran a competition where you could WIN a Moto-Master 270 MXGP Brake Kit, a copy of MXGP The Official MXGP Videogame and an all season pass to www.mxgp-tv.com.

All you had to do was name three riders that use Moto-Master products.

The WINNER of that competition was Georgi Stanchev who named Antonio Cairoli, Valentin Guillod & Aleksandr Tonkov.

Congratulations Georgi! 

The Swiss rider Christopher Valente has signed a contract with Marchetti Racing KTM Team to race MX2 in 2016. Valente was injured during the MXGP of France and is still not 100% healthy, but he will ride for Machetti Racing KTM next year in the MX2 Motocross World Championship and in the Internazionali d'Italia championship.

“Chris joined us this year when the championship had already started” Elio Marchetti, Team manager said “and he showed a great will to learn and to improve. Unfortunately the injury stopped him for 2015 but he is already working to be back in a good shape for 2016”.

“I’m very happy to stay in this team” Valente replied “where I found a lot of professionalism and passion for this sport. Due to the injury I couldn't pay them off for what they did for me, but next year I’ll do my best. I already feel better and I’ll be back on the bike soon. I can’t wait”

Copyright: Photo: Marchetti Racing

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FUNCHAL (Portugal), 05 August 2015 - Youthstream presents the twenty-third issue of MXGP Mag which includes a feature on the final round of the FIM Women’s Motocross World Championship, a catch up on the action packed racing in July, a special feature on the Donjoy Physio center and a reflection on the 2015 FIM Junior Motocross World Championship. Read all this, and more!

Click here to read the twenty-third issue of MXGP Mag or download it for FREE on Apple Store or Google Play. The iOs and Android versions contain exclusive videos and several photo galleries, and once the MXGP Mag has been downloaded, the reader does not need to be connected on the Internet to go through the content.

Those users who have already downloaded the other issues on their iOs device can automatically download the twenty-third issue by opening the News Stand and clicking on the cover of the MXGP Mag. Whereas those readers using an Android device will be able to download the magazine for free thanks to this new app: http://bit.ly/IssuuOnAndroid

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Team France has officially announced their line up for the 2015 Monster Energy FIM Motocross of Nations. Gautier Paulin, Marvin Musquin and Romain Febvre is the dynamic squad that will fly the flag high for their home crowd at the MXoN in Ernée, France on the weekend of September 27th.

Team France will line up as the defending champions as their team from last year Gautier Paulin, Dylan Ferrandis and Steven Frossard claimed the chamberlain cup in the loam of Latvia.

Once again, France has a super strong team and are looking good to hold on to the title for the second year running.

The FIM Asia Motocross Championship shall be launching its Rounds 1 and 2 in the state of Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia this August 14-15, 2015. This event is ongoing for the past 15 years and has garnered entries from the FIM Asian Continental Union, as this is the biggest event in the Asian Motocross Championship history with 14 countries participating in the four Asian classes of the MX65, MX85, MX Veterans and the MX2 Premiere categories, this events are supported by Sultan Mizan Abidin from the state of Kuala Terengganu.

This event is being also supported by the State of Kuala Terengganu Sporting Ministry and has highlighted tourism sporting event annually thru the events global television telecast to over 650 million household in speed channels in 6 continents, such as Fox Sports Asia, ESPN Globally, Eurosports Europe, Speed – USA etc.

Top riders in the Asian region of the FIM Asia affiliated nations shall be participating in the events slated herewith with national motocross riders championship series from Japan, Thailand, Guam, Malaysia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, India, Mongolia, Indonesia, Iran, Singapore, China, Australia and USA.

Coming into the series from last year MX2 championships are Arnon “Turbo” Theplib and Jugkrit “Ben 10” Suksripaisan from AP Honda and Chaiyan Romphan from Yamaha  Thailand, Sean Lipanovich from Guam - USA, Khaliunbold Erdenebileg from Mongolia, Kenneth San Andres, Jean Erick Mitra, Aaron Paul Pacheco, Lawrence Gelo Abonita, Jay Lawrence Santos, Leo Agustin, Mark Reggie Flores, Garry Gavino from the Philippines, Kosuke Abe from Japan, Xu Jianhao and Sun Shuyue from China, Rishi Gomes of India, Ishan Dilantha of Sri Lanka, Ali Borzoozadeh and Amir Sabetifar of Iran, Osman Asroy of Singapore, Lewis Stewart of Australia and Gregory Manley Perez of Guam,  Agi Agassi, Farhan Hendro, Del Vintor, Aldi Lazaroni  of Indonesia.  From Malaysia are Hairi Zakaria & Mohammad Salleh.

Veterans Class and other top notch riders are from Philippines, Jun San Andres, Guillermo Gonzales, Jasper Veloira, Bernie Esteban, Jaime Baluyot, Eduardo Abonita, Darnel Francisco, Alan Mollenido from the Philippines, and Dr. Stanley Yasuhiro from Guam.

MX85 classes are Amon Gomes and Rugved Barguje of India, Vincent Louie Jimenez, Jero Denji Sta. Ana, and John Marick Antonio for the Philippines; and Reza, Hendrik and Zidane of Indonesia. In the MX65 class riders are David Xander Viterbo, Sean Sydney Adriano, Sonny Wenson Reyes, from the Philippines. These riders are the strongest rider’s countries garnered from their respective FIM sanctioned Motocross national championship motocross series.

Riders’ from this FIM Asian Motocross Championship shall be entitled to a ride at the current annual FIM Motocross World Championship series. For these years it shall be Sean Lipanovich from Guam, being fielded to the World MXGP to be held in Glenn Helen MX circuit in California at the US of A on September 20, 2015 for the MXGP class of the Youthstream organized world MXGP events. The FIM Asian Motocross Continental Championships are in close collaboration, in the past 15 years working relationships with Mr. Giuseppe Luonggo,  with the Youthstream – the FIM rights holders of the MXGP - fieled riders form our events to the MXGP and in return gain popularity to encourage more hostings of the very exciting Youthstream MXGPs in our Asian region, of which is evident has taken effect as of date.

The FIM Asia compliant outdoor supercross circuit is located at the Gong Badak Sports Complex in Kuala Terengganu, a city area developed for sports use existing in the past 15 years.

Next weekend then after on August 23, 2015, the launch of the 2015 FIM Asia Cup of Road Racing shall be hosted in Motegi Circuit in Japan, and September in Taiwan and then after Thailand tour, the same field of Asian delegates riders shall be battling out in 150R machines of one make, the last year’s winners the NAMSSA Philippines team shall be in front line contention of this event together with top riders from MFJ - Japan, FMSCT - Thailand and IMI of Indonesia. Final negotiations are ongoing to host the next round of the FIM Asian Motocross Championship Palembang, Indonesia on November 15, 2015 and announcement to be out shortly soon. Of course we wish to thank organizers, officials of events, local governments, the media and riders for the greatest show on earth in the Asian region . 

One hundred and eleventh issue of this bi-weekly motorcycle sport magazine, tackling the latest races and issues in MotoGP, the FIM Motocross World Championship, AMA Motocross/Supercross and World Superbike as well as general motorcycling and accessories with the best blogs and photographs. In OTOR 111: Simpson sails thru the sand;
MXGP from Belgium where the British ran riot and two riders dealt out sand riding lessons to their Grand Prix peers. Also a pictorial from the Czech Republic. Call in the Glory;
A visit to Glendale in California to meet the British Vintage bike specialists who are also becoming the popular go-to guys in the movie industry for all two-wheel matters. Sacre Blue: Febvre’s rise; the new star of MXGP has been irrepressible and unavoidable and in a season of surprise and twists Romain Febvre has marched a steady path to success. We lift the lid. Opinions, opinions; Blog from Superbike in Malaysia, Neil Hodgson’s take on MotoGP before Indianapolis and Steve Matthes drops the inside line on Team USA for Ernee.

Read OTOR issue 111 here

There is often nothing more important for a sportsman’s career than having the right people around him. Be it a parent, a trainer, a mechanic you can trust or a good friend. For some riders having that back-up takes a load off your shoulders and gives you the right words at the right time. Whether you want to listen, well, that is up to you.

For Pauls Jonass, the NEW red plate owner of the MX2 class that person is legendary GP champion Stefan Everts. Everts installs confidence and relaxes the mind of the MX2 rookie. Jonass has himself mention of the impact Everts has on his career as he climbs towards a possible World Motocross Championship.

“Staying relaxed is something Stefan helps me with a lot,” Jonass said. “He is like my mental coach. Everyone asks me how the pressure is. I’m feeling quite comfortable with that. I don’t feel the pressure and Stefan helped me a lot with that. He helps so much.”

Of course Jonass isn’t the only one receiving help from a legend. Joel Smets works with Glenn Coldenhoff and Kevin Strijbos, J.M.Bayle helps out the HRC team of Gautier Paulin and Evgeny Bobryshev. 

Several world mx champs and former GP winners like Jacky Vimond, James Dobb, John Van Den Berk, Harry Everts, Jacky Martens, Dave Thorpe, Marnicq Bervoets, Yves Demaria, Willie Simpson and many more can been seen talking to their riders in recent years, giving them the advice that they have learnt through years of competition on the world scene.

Many team-managers like Red Bull IceOne Husqvarna team manager Antti Pyrhonen know how to talk to riders and prepare them for the toughest sport in the world.

“It is important to know what to tell somebody,” Pyrhonen said. “If you have raced you do have an idea what to expect, and the relationship I have with my riders works well. Max (Nagl), Todd (Waters) and Nathan (Watson) are similar to me in some ways and that makes the relationship a lot easier.”

For a rider of the level of Jonass, a young rider, but with so much talent it could be easy for him to go the wrong way, make the wrong decisions, but with the help of an Everts, or a Bayle or a Demaria a young rider finds the peace to do what he feels is right, and taking in the advice from somebody who has seen it all before and knows the pit-falls and dangers of the wrong decision.

All greats have made major mistakes in their careers, and those mistakes shouldn’t have to happen to a young rider if he has a word of advice from somebody who has talked the walk and talked the talk.