Ryan Dungey: “This definitely ranks near the top for me. It has been a dream to come over here and a real experience to be a part of this, never mind actually winning it. A lot of people told me what it would be like, but when you arrive here you can’t help but be amazed. We had a good time and full credit to Jake and Ivan; I had a break between the motos but they went back-to-back and that takes a lot of heart and dedication. I am glad we could work together and pull this one off.”Jake Weimer: “Everything here is different from what we are used to in the States, from the food to the language, the starting gate and the tracks. We had a lot of pressure coming to this race as Team USA won the last editions, and I felt a lot of pressure. I was pretty happy with my first race, but in the second one I made a lot of mistakes and I’m just thankful to my team-mates, both of them rode amazingly well. A lot of people in the US say that we were a ‘B’ team but the B team won and I want to thank everyone in the team for the job we did together, including of course Mitch Payton and Kawasaki Pro Circuit. It’s my first experience here in Europe, my feeling is really good and I’m super-excited. The track was difficult, rutty and rougher than what we have in the US, but that was a great experience.”Ivan Tedesco: It’s tough doing back to back motos and every time I race this race that I do, I had to dig deep. Philippaerts was pushing me in the Moto1 and I was tired in the last moto, but Ryan pulled off the win. The fans are amazing and they go crazy and they are cheering for us. I was disappointed (when he clashed with Philippaerts on the track), that could have lost the title when he nearly knocked me off, I could have gotten dirty, but I did not know how hot he was coming into the corner. The circuit are just so rough and in America we have different tracks.David Philippaerts won the Open class: “I am very happy for my position and to win the Open class but of course things did not work out for our team. I had to ride very hard today with two bad starts; I did the right thing yesterday with the holeshot but was pretty bad for the races, still I pushed really hard to close up to Tedesco. I think the gap was almost ten seconds but I kept opening the gas more and took some chances. When I saw the opportunity to overtake and I made it happen I thought ‘this cannot be possible’, this must be another David! It was another chase in the second moto. With all the people here it was a hectic but amazing experience and something I will remember for a long, long time.”Tony Cairoli won the Race 1: “The first race was perfect. I knew Chad Reed was there all the time and it was pretty hard to make that rhythm all race but I guessed it was the same for him. We could pull away from the other guys and it was fun. The people here were amazing and I want to say thanks, because they helped me a lot. It was a pretty big crash at the start of the second but now I feel a bit better. I was full gas along the straight and I think it was Paulin who closed my line a bit from the inside and then someone else squashed me from the outside, once we touched then we went flying. I am happy for the first Heat but this was not a good day for Italy and we had no luck.”
