TEUTSCHENTHAL (GERMANY), 19 June 2010 – Clement Desalle took his first season pole at the opening day of this German Grand Prix, with Jeffrey Herlings taking pole position in the MX2 class after a dogfight with home rider Ken Roczen, 
winning Teutschenthal last year. Other German Max Nagl made a brave decision to race after breaking his left collarbone in France and ended sixth while team mate Tony Cairoli had to recover from a crash.
Xavier Boog and Davide Guarneri completed a compact top three ahead of Evgeny Bobryshev and David Philippaerts while Cairoli was an eventual 13th.
With Herlings and Roczen pulling away from the rest of the field, Steven Frossard completed the MX2 top three ahead of Jeremy van Horebeek and early leader Shaun Simpson. Series leader Marvin Musquin was seventh.
French Tixier and Clermont won today’s qualifying heats of the EMX 125 class.
MX1
Rockstar Teka Suzuki World MX1’s Desalle made it to his first pole of the season today on Teutschenthal’s hard pack. The Belgian put together a perfect moto right from the start, when he took the holeshot and led the pack into turn one. From then on Desalle held the first place and kept away from the dogfight for second in between Boog and Guarneri to win his first Lovemytime MX1 Pole Position Award of 2010.
Kawasaki Racing’s Boog had a hard time to keep the runner up spot as a hard charging Guarneri put the heat on him during the whole race. When he crossed the chequered flag to equal his best qualifying result dating back at the French GP, Boog was one second off Desalle and just less than half a second ahead of Guarneri.
The Italian of LS Motors Honda was happy with third overall, his best qualifying performance since he moved to MX1, but failed on a last lap attempt to pass Boog.
De Dycker crashed at lap six, handing third back to Guarneri and fourth to CAS Honda’s Bobryshev. The Russian defended his position to finish ahead of Yamaha Monster Energy’s Philippaerts.
Red Bull KTM Factory Racing MX1’s Nagl was a brave sixth after he decided to race despite his left collarbone fracture from France two weeks ago. Nagl knows it will be a hard home Grand Prix but is determined to put on a good show for his many fans at Teutschenthal.
Team mate Cairoli instead had a bad start then crashed at the opening lap. The Championship leader took an eventual 13th place.
At his maiden Grand Prix qualifying, Ferris of Australia took 25th while Priem –who made his comeback to racing after injuring at round one in Bulgaria- was 29th.
MX1 Qualifying Race top ten: 1. Clement Desalle (BEL, Suzuki), 25:50.239; ; 2. Xavier Boog (FRA, Kawasaki), +0:01.059; 3. Davide Guarneri (ITA, Honda), +0:02.488; 4. Evgeny Bobryshev (RUS, Honda), +0:03.343; 5. David Philippaerts (ITA, Yamaha), +0:04.956; 6. Maximilian Nagl (GER, KTM), +0:13.886; 7. Ken de Dycker (BEL, Yamaha), +0:27.046; 8. Steve Ramon (BEL, Suzuki), +0:29.539; 9. Anthony Boissiere (FRA, TM), +0:30.948; 10. Gareth Swanepoel (RSA, Honda), +0:33.485;
Complete results available at www.motocrossmx1.com/reslists.aspx
Photos available at www.motocrossmx1.com/gallery
MX2
15 year old Herlings of Red Bull KTM Factory Racing MX2’s repeated his pole position performance from Mantova as he went on to take his second Lovemytime MX2 Pole Position Award. The Dutch teenager moved past team mate Simpson after two laps and went on to win a two way battle for pole.
The one who troubled Herlings was other teenager Roczen of Teka Suzuki Europe World MX2. The German moved past Simpson and chased Herlings for the whole race. The winner of last year’s German GP was second to Herlings but saved his energies for tomorrow’s two heats.
Kawasaki CLS’ Frossard worked his way up throughout the race to earn a valuable third place ahead of team mate Van Horebeek.
Simpson preferred to play it safe and settled for a fifth place ahead of Osborne. The latter struggled after a top five start.
Championship leader Musquin instead rode a calm qualifying to take a seventh place ahead of Tonus while holeshotter Paulin was ninth. Roelants completed the top ten.
Coming back to MX2, Michek took 17th ahead of Leib.
MX2 Qualifying Race top ten: 1. Jeffrey Herlings (NED, KTM), 25:51.995; 2. Ken Roczen (GER, Suzuki), +0:01.074; 3. Steven Frossard (FRA, Kawasaki), +0:14.014; 4. Jeremy van Horebeek (BEL, Kawasaki), +0:14.722; 5. Shaun Simpson (GBR, KTM), +0:19.681; 6. Zach Osborne (USA, Yamaha), +0:21.783; 7. Marvin Musquin (FRA, KTM), +0:24.768; 8. Arnaud Tonus (SUI, Suzuki), +0:25.661; 9. Gautier Paulin (FRA, Yamaha), +0:26.575; 10. Joel Roelants (BEL, KTM), +0:55.593;
Complete results available at www.motocrossmx1.com/reslists.aspx
Photos available at www.motocrossmx1.com/gallery
EMX 125
Tixier and Clermont will be the first to line up in the races of the EMX 125 German round here in Teutschenthal. Winning the first qualifying race, Championship leader Tixier will start from pole ahead of Clermont. In race one Lafont and D’Angelo completed the top three while Jaulin and Ferrandis were second and third respectively in heat two.
GP OF GERMANY – QUICK FACTS
Circuit length: 1710 mt
Type of ground: hard pack
Temperature: 24° C
Weather conditions: cloudy, light rain in the morning
Sunday: EMX 125 Warm up 8:00; WMX Warm up 8:30; MX2 Warm up 9:00; MX1 Warm up 9:30; EMX 125 Race 1 10:20; WMX Race 2 11:15; MX2 Grand Prix Race 1 12:10; MX1 Grand Prix Race 1 13:10; MX2 Grand Prix Race 2 15:03; MX1 Grand Prix race 2 16:03; EMX 125 Race 2 17:20.
As the whole FIM Motocross World Championship, this Grand Prix and the FIM Women’s World Championship Race 2 will be broadcast live and delayed. Click here to see schedule and coverage online.
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Photo: Desalle took his first Lovemytime Award of 2010
