The American domination of this years Red Bull FIM Motocross of Nations has
begun. Lead by AMA legend Ricky Carmichael and with great support from
Ryan Villopoto and Tim Ferry the American team scored three wins from
three starts and proved that they will be the team to beat tomorrow. Under
warm conditions and in front of around 30,000 excited spectators the home
nation looked brilliant.
After drawing the gate positions Team USA got a lucky break by drawing the
third spot on the grid. Team Italy and Team Belgium were wide on the grid,
giving them less of a chance of making good starts. Team New Zealand were
an early withdrawal after both Darly Hurley and Ben Townley crashed out in
practise.
The opening moto of the Saturday program brought together the MX1 rider
and this was probably the most exciting race of the day. New AMA National
Motocross champion Grant Langston battled with Carmichael for the first part
of the race, and when Carmichael went down in the opening stages Langston
took the lead. Once he got his composure back RC re-passed Langston and
moved away to win he race easily. Langston in second and David Philippaerts
third. Max Nagl was next then came World MX1 champion Steve Ramon. Chad
Reed finished well back after crashing a few times.
The second moto of the day saw the MX2 riders go out and this was complete
domination by Ryan Villopoto. The American Lite champion took the lead and
just pulled away from everyone. eventually winning by around 40 seconds.
Second place was Antonio Cairoli who had a bad start and had to pass several
riders to get into second place. By the time he was second he was already 35
seconds behind the leader and no chance of making up time.
The third moto put more pain on the world teams as Tim Ferry quickly took
the lead and pulled away to win his Open class moto. Ken De Dycker did show
amazing speed to come from last to fourth... click on ozzy go to the full story
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