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This year’s Red Bull FIM Motocross of Nations is set to make its eagerly awaited comeback to Italy after a 23 year long absence. This 63rd edition of the event is happening this weekend at Franciacorta, in the north of the peninsula.A record breaking entry list including 37 National Teams was already a great preview to the weekend rounding off the 2009 FIM Motocross season being the biggest and mo...

Belgian champion Clement Desalle has signed to race for Teka Suzuki World team in the 2010 FIM MX1 Motocross World Championship.The 20-year-old will be paired with Steve Ramon, who stays on for his fifth season at the Belgian outfit next year. Desalle made his Grand Prix debut in 2006 and finished 11th in the 2008 MX1 World Championship. A better season followed in the class in 2009 as Desalle fin...

Thomas and Adrien Chareyre made it to another double win after the fourth Grand Prix of the season was stopped at the end of a wet race one due to heavy fog.With the podium being made according to the race 1 results, Hermunen and Van Den Bosch completed the S1 rostrum with the Frenchman still leading the series.In the S2 class Delepine and Gozzini ended second and third behind current Championship...

Thomas Chareyre snatched the top of the S1 time sheets from VBD, going down towards the end of the session, courtesy of a stunning last lap. Adrien Chareyre instead was the fastest in the S2 class.In the UEM series Porfiri of the Open class won the qualifying heat joining the Open and S3 classes. In the S3 the first to cross the finish was Karanyotov.At 2400 metres above the sea level the weather ...

After taking a win each at Latina the Chareyre brothers look forward to the next round of the FIM SuperMoto World Championship in Andorra where the duo collected their first ever double win last year.Thomas Chareyre has to make up ground on current S1 leader Van Den Bosch while Adrien Chareyre leads the S2 class ahead of Gozzini.In the European series Karanyotov is on top of the S3 standings while...

Four years after the first ever attempt of a woman rider to race a Grand Prix, Brazilian Mariana Balbi did race the Honda Grand Prix of Brazil in the MX1 class marking the first ever female appearance in a Grand Prix heat.Before Balbi’s achievement Stefy Bau, currently the Youthstream WMX Manager, was the first ever woman to try and race a Grand Prix. Bau’s attempt dates back to 2005 when the Ital...

Two years after leaving the UEM EMX2 series with a bitter fourth, 19 year old Musquin made up for it by grasping this year’s MX2 World Title which remains in the Red Bull KTM Factory Racing team after last year’s win of Rattray.The season of the young Frenchman was distinguished by several important achievements such as his maiden podium appearance (Faenza), his maiden GP win and pole (both at Sev...

An action packed Honda Grand Prix of Brazil, rounding off the 2009 FIM Motocross World Championship, concluded with the victories of Desalle and Musquin, as the latter also wrapped up the MX2 Championship.Ramon and Nagl completed the MX1 podium while 2009 World Champion Cairoli struggled to end ninth; German Nagl wrapped up the second place in the Championship.Roczen and Frossard rounded off the M...

The final round of the 2009 FIM Motocross World Championship was hit by heavy rain which made the event management cancel the Saturday program in order to preserve the track conditions for tomorrow’s Honda GP of Brazil.With the focus of the organization, the teams and the riders being on tomorrow’s race, the decision will guarantee the best possible track conditions for tomorrow’s Grand Prix. The ...

The FIM Motocross World Championship will come to an end this weekend in Brazil where the series is back after a 10 year absence.Cairoli has already wrapped up the MX1 Title but Nagl, Philippaerts, Desalle, De Dycker and Coppins will battle tooth and nail to take the best possible spot inside the top six.The Honda GP of Brazil at Canelinha will surely hand out the MX2 World Title as KTM factory te...