VOL. 50 ISSUE 34 AUGUST 27, 2013
P23
PHOTOGRAPHY BY RAY ARCHER
DESALLE'S DAY, CAIROLI'S YEAR
seventh World Championship –
with five of those coming in the
MX1 class.
Desalle, who is sitting in
a comfortable second in the
championship with one more
GP to go, won his fourth GP and
third straight race with a 2-1 tally.
Following him in second was his
teammate Kevin Strijbos with two
third-place moto finishes; and
Honda World Motocross' Evgeny
Bobryshev ended up third with a
4-4 tally. A finally healthy Bobry-
HERLINGS OUT FOR
SEASON/MXoN
W
hen Jeffrey Herlings had to withdraw from
last weekend's Belgian Grand Prix to have
his injured shoulder examined, his hopes of a perfect season ended. Discovering that he'd broke his
shoulder blade in his qualifying crash at Bastogne
made things even worse. Now his season has come
to a pre-mature end.
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PHOTOGRAPHY BY RAY ARCHER
W
hile Rockstar Energy Suzuki's Clement Desalle
won the battle of the British Motocross Grand Prix on Sunday,
it was Red Bull KTM's Antonio
Cairoli who won the war, clinching the MX1 title after winning the
first moto.
Cairoli completed a great
season – earning six pole positions, nine GP victories and only
missed the podium twice (in this
round and the Czech Republic
Grand Prix). It all added up to a
Antonio Cairoli won his fourthstraight MX1 title for KTM on the 350
at this weekend's British Grand Prix.
shev earned his third-straight podium in a row.
Cairoli missed his shot at
the podium after a mechanical
forced him to withdraw from the
second moto.
With Jeffrey Herlings absence
in the MX2 class, the races are
now wide open. Last week's winner Dean Ferris, won the first
moto on the Monster Energy
Yamaha but, like Cairoli, Ferris
also suffered mechanical woes
in the second moto and the DNF
ruined his chances of back-toback wins.
Instead it was KTM's Glen
Coldenhoff who would take the
overall with his 3-4 tally, despite
not feeling well on the day.
Britain's Jake Nicholls put
his KTM in second at his home
Grand Prix, finishing second and
sixth in the two motos, respectively. Third went to Spaniard
Jose Butron, making it a KTM
MX2 sweep with his 5-3 tally.
A broken
shoulder has
sidelined Jeffrey
Herlings for the
rest of the season and ends
his quest for the
perfect season.
