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Teka Suzuki Dominate Balen International
25 August 2008
It was a busy weekend of race action for the Teka Suzuki WMX1 team as they took in National championship action in both Belgium and Germany. Friday's Balen International saw a display of dominance from the factory RM-Z450 mounted riders as Ken de Dycker won two motos while his team mate Steve Ramon won the other. Unfortunately crashes suffered by both riders meant that neither rider took the overall win.
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Ramon Aims to Increase Series Lead
08 August 2008
Wearing the series leader's red plate for the first time this season, Team Teka Suzuki WMX1 rider Steve Ramon enters round 12 of the FIM MX1 Motocross World Championship at Loket in the Czech Republic looking to extend his points lead while his on-form team-mate Ken De Dycker is expecting to stand on the podium for the second week in a row after his stunning second place overall at the Grand Prix of Belgium. For the reigning MX1 World Champion the Grand Prix of Czech Republic has not been a happy hunting ground in the past but with his confidence riding high he's more than ready to make amends for past results and is hoping to win - or at the very least podium - in Loket on his factory RM-Z450.
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Barragan Takes Third Consecutive Win at Belgian GP
07 August 2008
The Grand Prix of Belgium-GP Flanders was a great Motocross show entertaining a massive crowd of 27000 spectators throughout the weekend. Jonathan Barragan took his third consecutive GP win courtesy of an incredible performance on the sand while Estonian Gert Krestinov wrapped up his maiden GP win after he celebrated his 18th birthday yesterday.
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Coppins 7th Through Tough Belgian Sand
07 August 2008
The Yamaha Monster Motocross Team endured one of their hardest and most dramatic days of the 2008 FIM MX1-GP world championship as Josh Coppins finished 7th and David Philippaerts 10th through the notoriously heavy and difficult sand of the Lommel circuit for the Grand Prix of Belgium and the eleventh round of fifteen in the current campaign. Arguably one of the toughest tests for man and machine on the GP calendar, the rough and absorbing sand in central Belgium was suitably demanding, and the racing conditions were not helped by occasional light showers. 27,000 spectators saw two action-packed MX1 motos in which constant position changes took place thanks to varying race speed across the bumps and crashes and mistakes due to fatigue and miscalculation.
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Yamaha Stars Roll Back The Years at Spa
10 July 2008
There are few more historic and scenic motorsport circuits in the world than Spa Francorchamps, situated in the depths of southern Belgium. The venue was an appropriate setting for the 2008 Bikers’ Classics, an event attended and enjoyed by 40,000 people over three days that saw a glittering and nostalgic array of machinery and former world champions, Grand Prix victors and racers from a by-gone era turn back the clock. The Bikers’ Classics is unique and nowhere is there such a gathering of motorcycles and riders able to offer such a splendid visual reminiscence of a very different racing age. From the immaculate gleam of the restored and preserved engines to the black leathers and the polished ‘pudding bowl’ helmets, Spa seemed to revel in the echo of the past and brought ‘black and white’ images to life for new generations.
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Prumm Title Ambitions Thwarted by Broken Collarbone
27 June 2008
Double Women’s World Cup winner and current leader of the inaugural FIM Women’s Motocross World Championship, Yamaha Van Beer’s Katherine Prumm, will miss this weekend’s Grand Prix of Germany at Teutschenthal after breaking her left collarbone while training in Belgium on Tuesday. The 20 year old suffered a relatively slow speed tumble on her YZ250F but the impact was enough to force a complicated fracture to the collarbone and the New Zealander underwent surgery immediately to have a plate inserted and fragments of bone cleaned from the break.
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Official Recognition for the Yamaha Classic Racing Team
15 May 2008
Yamaha Motor Europe NV has officially announced its support for the Yamaha Classic Racing Team, founded and managed by former Yamaha GP mechanic Ferry Brouwer. In addition to a financial element, the support will include technical as well as promotional aspects. The Yamaha Classic Racing Team (YCRT), born out of passion for racing heritage is aimed at conserving Yamaha’s history from their early golden years of road racing. This truly magnificent period started in the sixties and continued into the seventies. Ferry Brouwer, now 59 yrs old has been into racing since he was 6 years old after being introduced to it by his father.
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Teka Suzuki Dominate in Tongeren
08 May 2008
Team Teka Suzuki WMX1's Steve Ramon won the overall at the Flanders Trophy motocross in Tongeren, Belgium ahead of team-mate Ken De Dycker and Jonathan Barragan. The reigning MX1 World Champion won both the first and third motos of the non-championship international event held in the eastern region of Belgium and finished third in the other to take a relatively easy overall victory.
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Unique Participation of Stefan Everts
25 April 2008
'The 3rd edition of the ‘Everts & Friends Charity Race’ will take place on the 23rd of August at the motocross track Horenbergsdam at Genk (Belgium), a unique event for a good cause. Specially for this occasion, Stefan Everts, 10 time World Champion and now team manager at KTM, will race against his colleagues in MX1 once again. Don’t miss this rare chance to see ‘The Legend’ himself one more time on the job, and this in a very special program. You will have the opportunity to see new and different formats of races including future and current GP stars and not to forget the ladies. The schedule will include a ‘Women’s chase’, an ‘American race’ and a ‘Wrong Way Pitstop Race’.
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Suzuki Launches Motocross Teams
09 April 2008
The riders from the 2008 full factory Suzuki squad Team Teka Suzuki WMX1 and Suzuki supported teams of Swift Suzuki, Inotec Suzuki and Teka-Suzuki Bodo Schmidt have been introduced to over 100 members of the global motocross media at the clinically clean workshops of Geboers Racing Promotions in Lommel, Belgium.
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New Rookie MX Series Set For 2008
09 April 2008
A brand new event to encourage rookie motocross riders will take place at the 11th World MX1 Championship round at Lommel in Belgium on August 1st.
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Suzuki MX Teams’ Presentation
04 April 2008
In occasion of the FIM Motocross Grand Prix of the Netherlands to take place this weekend, April 5th and 6th, at Valkenswaard, Suzuki decided to present its Motocross racing activities at the GRP (Geboers Racing Promotion) headquarters, in Lommel, Belgium. 2008 will see Suzuki’s strong involvement both in the MX1 and in the MX2 classes with the RM-Z machines.
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Podium Second For Philippaerts In MX1 In Belgium
07 August 2007
KTM Red Bull Racing Team's David Philippaerts made it a double podium for the KTM factory riders this weekend at Nemur, Belgium, when he amassed enough points for second overall on Sunday in the two MX1 races. But while Philippaerts and team boss Stefan Everts were pleased with the podium, both admitted it was disappointing to miss absolute victory by a single point. Earlier in the day, the team's MX2 rider, Tommy Searle was also second in his GP, but also missed the top of the podium by just two points.
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Ramon Closes on Series Lead
07 August 2007
Steve Ramon has closed to within 43 points of injured World MX1 Championship leader Josh Coppins after taking fifth place at his home GP at Namur in Belgium - round 12 of the series. The fourth-to-last meeting in the 2007 campaign saw both Ramon and Kevin Strijbos guide their works RM-Z450s to fifth and sixth positions respectively in what was a busy home Grand Prix for the squad. The Namur circuit provided its usual perilous test: The bumpy and dusty tree-lined track was extremely narrow and permitted very few clear-cut passing opportunities. Both slippery and rough the mud also saw occasional tree roots coming through the terrain presenting an additional hazard in what was an already very quick course.
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Guarneri's First GP Win Only Highlight For Yamaha In Namur
07 August 2007
With FIM MX1 World Championship leader Josh Coppins out of action due to a small shoulder break and second rider Marc de Reuver unable to get to grips with narrow and fast circuit at Namur, Yamaha Motocross Team were unfortunately without a representative for the Grand Prix of Belgium and the twelfth round of fifteen in the 2007 series watched by a 31,000 crowd last weekend.
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Ramon 4th On Namur MX1 Gate
05 August 2007
Glorious sunshine greeted the first day of the Grand Prix of Belgium at the Citadelle in Namur and Team Suzuki's Steve Ramon registered the fourth quickest lap-time in Timed Practice. Team-mate Kevin Strijbos was 10th as four seconds split the top 10 on the fast and technical course. The riders had to contend with the narrow course, the close proximity of the many trees, near vertical drops, the high speed, emerging tree roots through the rough terrain and the differences in light between shade and sun as well as plumes of dust thanks to the good weather. The characteristics of 2457m layout in Namur make the Belgian Grand Prix unique.
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Golden Chance For Ramon
01 August 2007
Team Suzuki will head to the historic setting of Namur and the Citadelle for their home event; the Grand Prix of Belgium, this weekend and the 12th round of the FIM MX1 Motocross World Championship. Kevin Strijbos and Steve Ramon both have reasons to enter the meeting with renewed vigour. Strijbos claimed his third career success last week and seems to be back to full fitness and top form, while Ramon is buoyed by news that series leader Josh Coppins will miss the GP due to a shoulder injury and the Belgian champion has a fantastic chance to place himself back in the title chase.
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Heat Win And Podium For Christophe Pourcel
20 May 2007
Christophe Pourcel won this weekend his first heat aboard a 450 bike, during the fourth round of the Belgian championship in Kester. Third and sixth of the other races, Christophe finished ths event in third position and is now second in the standings behind Ramon. Home of several GP of Belgium in the past, Kester is one of the most technical but also most popular race in the country and more than 7000 spectators enjoyed nice racing with numerous GP riders.
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Jason Dougan Fired Up For World MX Season Opener
31 March 2006
The British and World Motocross (MX) Championships’ rising star, Jason “Dougie” Dougan, is fired up for this weekend’s opening round of the 2006 World MX Championship at the Grand Prix of Flanders (Zolder circuit) in Belgium. The nineteen year old from Portsmouth, riding in the MX2 class on a 250cc 4-stroke for the Bury St Edmunds based RWJ Honda Racing team, is no stranger to the motocross scene having ridden motocross bikes since he was three and working his way up through the competitive racing ranks since the age of nine.
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