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Leok A Fighting Fifth in Saturated Spain
21 April 2008
Kawasaki Racing Team’s Tanel Leok and Manuel Priem battle it out in the worst conditions imaginable at round two of the MX1 World Championship at Bellpuig in Spain.
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Podiums for Paulin & Sword at Bellpuig
21 April 2008
Molson Kawasaki celebrate in Spain as Stephen Sword takes third overall in MX2 while Gautier Paulin takes his maiden moto podium finish and Tom Church scores a scorching seventh in MX1.
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Teka Suzuki One-Two In World MX1
21 April 2008
The Team Teka Suzuki WMX1 win-streak continues in the 2008 FIM MX1 Motocross World Championship with reigning World Champion Steve Ramon taking overall victory in deep, difficult and some might say dangerous conditions at Bellpuig in Spain on his factory RM-Z450 while Ken De Dycker finished third to stay on top of the series standings.
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De Dycker Sixth for CAS Honda In Spanish Weather Reversal
16 April 2007
CAS Honda's Ken de Dycker raced to sixth position overall at a surprisingly sunny and warm Bellpuig venue for the Grand Prix of Spain, the second round of the 2007 MX1 World Championship. After the near perfect conditions at the series opener in Holland two weeks ago the April rains fell hard over Catalunya as the event opened. Saturday's practice and qualification schedule were scraped after heavy downpours on Friday evening washed out the venue and flooded the track. On Sunday morning the sky was again ominous but the clouds dispersed and warm spring sunshine rapidly dried the course creating a rough, rutty and predominantly one-line track.
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Suzuki's Strijbos And RM-Z450 Podium
16 April 2007
Team Suzuki's Kevin Strijbos walked the podium with runner-up position in the MX1 class at a sunny Bellpuig circuit for the Grand Prix of Spain and the second round of 15 in the 2007 FIM Motocross World Championship. The Belgian, with his RM-Z450, obtained his standing with second and third places in two motos held in front of a 22,000 crowd. Team mate Steve Ramon was frustrated to take ninth overall after a weekend marked by extremely contrasting weather.
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Church Top Performer In Quiet Day For Kawasaki's Molson
16 April 2007
Tom Church finished fourteenth overall and was the best performer for Molson Kawasaki at a surprisingly weather-hit Bellpuig circuit for the Grand Prix of Spain and the second round of the FIM MX2 Motocross World Championship. The trip to the Iberian Peninsula is the first of two meetings inside a week as the British crew the heads immediately west for the Portuguese round next weekend.
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Kawasaki's Mackenzie Ends Spanish Outing With 5th
16 April 2007
Billy Mackenzie narrowly missed out on equalling KRT’s best MX1 moto finish with the potent KX450F-SR this afternoon at a demanding Bellpuig circuit in Catalonia for the Grand Prix of Spain and the second round of fifteen in the 2007 Motocross World Championship. The Scot completed 15 of the 19 laps of the second moto in second position behind runaway winner Josh Coppins but was baulked by backmarkers on two occasions during the final stages and was caught by several riders who relegated the 23 year old to fifth.
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Cairoli Beats Pourcel To Win The Spanish GP
16 April 2007
In MX2 Antonio Cairoli buried the bad memories of his DNF at the 2006 Spanish round at Bellpuig with an inspiring chase of Christophe Pourcel that had the crowd cheering his efforts. In both races the 2005 World Champion experimented with different trajectories in order to shrink large margins to the escaping Pourcel. He challenged the Frenchman on the last lap of Moto one but made a mistake and opted for second place several corners before the flag. In the second race he caught up some fifteen seconds to the Kawasaki rider and gunned his YZ250F to make his three best laps of the race in the last three circulations to push his way into the lead. His emphatic celebrations - he dropped his machine and stood on it to wave and acknowledge the spectators - after the finish line showed just how much the achievement meant to him.
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Yamaha Scores Double Victory In Spain Again
16 April 2007
The Grand Prix of Spain at a sunny Bellpuig circuit in Catalunya for the second round of the FIM Motocross World Championship has been a memorable day for Yamaha with Josh Coppins winning both motos in the MX1 class, for his second consecutive success with the YZ450FM. Antonio Cairoli won a thrilling duel with World Champ Christophe Pourcel on the last lap of the second MX2 moto to seal his second GP victory in a row, watched by an appreciative 22,300 crowd.
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Podium For KTM's Tyla Rattray In Bellpuig
16 April 2007
Tyla Rattray put the KTM Red Bull Racing Team on the podium for the Grand Prix of Spain with 3rd overall in the 2nd round of the MX2 World Championships. The MX2 KTM factory team’s result was further boosted by an overall 4th place by young teenager Tommy Searle of Britain.
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KTM’s Riders Overcome Mud At Bellpuig
16 April 2007
KTM Red Bull Racing Team MX1 Factory riders scored a 4th and 8th place at the Spanish Grand Prix with factory supported rider Max Nagl riding to an excellent third place. The event at Bellpuig was a real test of rider endurance on Sunday with MX1 riders having to face heavy, muddy conditions after solid rain that wiped out training on Saturday. KTM Factory-supported rider Germany’s Max Nagl nevertheless had a golden day and ended on the podium in third place overall after a fifth and a second in the two motos.
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Mackenzie Walks The Podium In Spain After Dramatic Grand Prix For Yamaha
16 April 2006
Bike it Yamaha Dixon Racing's Billy Mackenzie gained his first podium of the season this afternoon at a warm and sun-kissed Bellpuig circuit in Cataluyna. The steep inclines of the hard and short track that despite constant watering proved to be dry, dusty and very rough with the formation of unforgiving ruts and numerous braking bumps. It was not easy to overtake. Excessive watering to help the terrain cope with all four motos meant that the initial race of the day, MX2 moto1, was a particularly slimy affair.
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89 and Counting For Yamaha's Everts After Further Fiesta In Spain
16 April 2006
The Grand Prix of Spain at Bellpuig has turned out to another positive meeting for the Yamaha Intur Sports Motocross team and the YZ450FM motorcycle. Stefan Everts won the second MX1 moto to claim his 89th career victory and also seize control of the current World Championship standings while Cedric Melotte produced a hard-earned seventh position overall without having too much luck.
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