TEAM USA wins FIM MXoN in Italy

FRANCIACORTA (ITALY), 4 October 2009 - An eventful Red Bull FIM Motocross of Nations got underway today, with Team USA winning and home Team Italy being hit by bad luck.

Debutants Ryan Dungey and Jake Weimer, together with MXoN veteran Ivan Tedesco, handed the USA their 20th Chamberlain Trophy as the Nation remains the most successful at this event. France was second on the podium courtesy of Frossard, Musquin and Paulin, with the latter crashing in the final heat and dropping the squad off the first step of the podium. Belgium completed the podium with Desalle, Roelants and Ramon.

Germany and Great Britain rounded off the top five ahead of unlucky Italy.

With an entry list of 37 National Teams and a crowd of 90000 weekend spectators this Red Bull FIM Motocross of Nations unveiled to be the best of all times at the end of a fantastic weekend of racing and general entertainment offered to the many passionate fans.

RACE 1 (MX1 & MX2)
Right from the start to the heat Tony Cairoli holeshot and runner up Reed showed the moto was going to be theirs through an opening lap dogfight. Eventually Cairoli came out on top with Reed following. The Italian opened up a gap which the Australian was not able to close, settling for an eventual second.

Dungey worked his way up from the bottom of the top five until the third position with Desalle following in fourth. The latter was handed the position by Barragan, who made a mistake after a solid start and dropped down to 12.

Musquin steered his MX2 bike to fifth being the best placed MX2 rider in the heat ahead of experienced Coppins and Searle, another MX2 rider inside the top ten.

Race 1 top ten: 1. Antonio Cairoli (ITA, Yamaha), 2. Chad Reed (AUS, Suzuki); 3. Ryan Dungey (USA, Suzuki), 4. Clement Desalle (BEL, Honda), 5. Marvin Musquin (FRA, KTM), 6. Joshua Coppins (NZL, Yamaha), 7. Tommy Searle (GBR, KTM), 8. Jake Weimer (USA, Kawasaki), 9. Gareth Swanepoel (RSA, Kawasaki), 10. Ken Roczen (GER, Suzuki)

Nations top ten: USA, Italy, Great Britain, Australia, Belgium, France, Republic of South Africa, New Zealand, Switzerland, Germany.

RACE 2 (OPEN & MX2)
Paulin started well onboard the Open class bike and did dominate the second heat to place France ahead of the rest. Paulin headed the pack for the whole moto while Tedesco remained a steady second until the last lap, when a hard charging Philippaerts stormed to his tail and moved past at just four corners from the chequered flag.

The Italian's manoeuvre, which set the crowd on fire, was not matched by team mate Guarneri. Australian Byrne crashed into him at lap two, with both remaining out.

Tanel Leok took fourth ahead of Musquin, who could do no better than fifth onboard the MX2 bike. MX2 fellow rider Weimer instead made a mistake and dropped to 25th.

Race 2 top ten: 1. Gautier Paulin (FRA, Kawasaki), 2. David Philippaerts (ITA, Yamaha), 3. Ivan Tedesco (USA, Honda), 4. Tanel Leok (EST, Yamaha), 5. Marvin Musquin (FRA, KTM), 6. Maximilian Nagl (GER, KTM), 7. Steve Ramon (BEL, Suzuki), 8. Ken Roczen (GER, Suzuki), 9. Brett Metcalfe (AUS, Honda), 10. Tyla Rattray (RSA, Kawasaki),

Nations top ten: France, Belgium, USA, Great Britain, Republic of South Africa, Italy, Germany, Australia, Estonia, New Zealand.

RACE 3 (MX1 & OPEN)
The final moto opened with a massive tangle at the start straight, where moto 1 winner and Italy leader Cairoli went down. The MX1 World Champion's bike broke and he could not rejoin the race.

Barragan led the opening laps with Dungey following in second until he found an open door and snatched the top spot. The American would continue leading until taking victory at lap 17.Barragan struggled and dropped down to fourth, with both Ramon and Philippaerts entering the top three.

Frossard made up for a difficult first heat courtesy of a fifth place finish but it was French countryman Paulin who could not provide the necessary support to the squad. The Open class rider went down at lap one, landing on some riders' bikes which had previously crashed.Race was finished for Paulin and team France dropped down to second behind overall winner Team USA. Despite a tangle damaging Desalle's bike, Belgium made it to the podium in third. Germany took fourth ahead of Great Britain and Italy.

Dungey (USA) took the individual MX1 victory, Musquin (France) won the MX2 and Philippaerts (Italy) won the Open class. The Ricky Carmichael Award went to Dutch Herlings, who turned 15 on September 12.

Race 3 top ten: 1. Ryan Dungey (USA, Suzuki), 2. Steve Ramon (BEL, Suzuki), 3. David Philippaerts (ITA, Yamaha), 4. Jonathan Barragan (ESP, KTM), 5. Steven Frossard (FRA, Kawasaki), 6. Joshua Coppins (NZL, Yamaha), 7. Ivan Tedesco (USA, Honda), 8. Maximilian Nagl (GER, KTM), 9. Chad Reed (AUS, Suzuki), 10. Shaun Simpson (GBR, KTM),

Nations top ten: USA, France, Belgium, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Australia, Estonia, Republic of South Africa, Switzerland.