Exciting Qualifying Heats Give Poles to De Dycker and Musquin

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Posted: 04/08/09

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SEVLIEVO (BULGARIA), 4 April 2009 – Again two exciting qualifying moto’s decided the start gate positions for tomorrow’s Grand Prix with Ken de Dycker taking the MX1 pole and Marvin Musquin the MX2.

De Dycker had to battle it out with team mate Ramon and Desalle before wrapping up the qualifying heat win as Musquin dominated the MX2 heat after a stunning pre-qualifying.

MX1

KTM Silver Action’s Barragan took a storming start and led the pack into the first corner followed by a hungry Desalle of LS Motors Honda. The Spaniard tried to pull away but crashed and handed the lead to Desalle.

Towards the end of the heat the Teka Suzuki WMX1 duo Ramon-De Dycker came close to the Belgian. Ramon was the first to move past but an attempt to fight back saw Desalle run wide in a corner and lose more positions.

De Dycker found himself in second and attacked Ramon to take the eventual win from his team mate. Barragan, who also exploited Desalle’s mistake, ended in third while Desalle was an eventual fourth.

Max Nagl rounded off the top five ahead of Josh Coppins, who crashed throughout the heat. Cairoli took a hard fought seventh by passing last year’s Sevlievo GP winner Philippaerts at the very last lap. Championship leader Tanel Leok ended in ninth ahead of Strijbos, who put in some strong laps in the early stages.

Last year’s poleman Sebastien Pourcel struggled again with his left shoulder and ended in 17th place.

MX1 Qualifying Race top ten: 1. Ken de Dycker (BEL, Suzuki), 24:15.227; ; 2. Steve Ramon (BEL, Suzuki), +0:01.888; 3. Jonathan Barragan (ESP, KTM), +0:03.382; 4. Clement Desalle (BEL, Honda), +0:05.460; 5. Maximilian Nagl (GER, KTM), +0:06.267; 6. Joshua Coppins (NZL, Yamaha), +0:08.830; 7. Antonio Cairoli (ITA, Yamaha), +0:10.484; 8. David Philippaerts (ITA, Yamaha), +0:12.273; 9. Tanel Leok (EST, Yamaha), +0:13.081; 10. Kevin Strijbos (BEL, Honda), +0:14.855;

Complete results available at www.motocrossmx1.com/reslists.aspx

De Dycker took his first Lovemytime Pole Position Award of the season today

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MX2

NGS’ Marvin Musquin was the dominator of a thrilling MX2 qualifying heat in Sevlievo where the French had shown an impressive speed already in the pre qualifying through an impressive lap time-two seconds faster than second placed Aubin.

Once Musquin got rid of early leader Rui Goncalves of Red Bull KTM Factory Racing he pulled away with the lead reaching an advantage of 12 seconds. Eventually he slowed down and secured his maiden qualifying heat win.

Third placed Goncalves let CLS’ Steven Frossard by but the Portuguese rode solid and took a much better result than last weekend, when his qualifying was hampered by a crash at the first corner.

Frossard put in a strong moto by passing both Goncalves and French countryman Aubin of Yamaha Monster Energy Ricci Motocross Team, who ended in fourth ahead of other French Xavier Boog.

Championship leader Gautier Paulin of Bud Racing recovered to sixth after starting from the 16th place.

Red Bull KTM Factory Racing’s Simpson crashed at mid race distance and dropped off the top four to finish in eighth.

Faenza’s qualifying heat winner Tonus ended 19th after a crash at the first lap as KTM fellow rider Van Horebeek crashed.

MX2 Qualifying Race top ten: 1. Marvin Musquin (FRA, Honda), 24:09.946; ; 2. Steven Frossard (FRA, Kawasaki), +0:06.431; 3. Rui Goncalves (POR, KTM), +0:08.132; 4. Nicolas Aubin (FRA, Yamaha), +0:09.448; 5. Xavier Boog (FRA, Suzuki), +0:09.544; 6. Gautier Paulin (FRA, Kawasaki), +0:16.828; 7. Zach Osborne (USA, Yamaha), +0:20.356; 8. Shaun Simpson (GBR, KTM), +0:24.147; 9. Davide Guarneri (ITA, Yamaha), +0:24.754; 10. Pascal Leuret (FRA, Honda), +0:27.312;

Complete results available at www.motocrossmx1.com/reslists.aspx

Musquin on the gas

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THE GP OF BULGARIA – QUICK FACTS

Circuit length: 1680 mt

Sunday: WMX Warm Up 8:45-9:05; MX2 Warm Up 9:15-9:35; MX1 Warm Up 9:45-10:05; 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.

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