In the opening day of the 2010 Motocross des Nations Italy’s Antonio Cairoli secured the top time in qualifying ahead of Australia’s Brett Metcalfe. With a time of 26:29.965, Cairoli led the field by more than six seconds on Saturday, and secured his country at the top of the MX1 class. Gautier Paulin of France qualified in third with his time of 26:36.744, while Team USA’s Ryan Dungey finished just outside of the top-three with a time that was close to 10 seconds behind Cairoli’s.
2010 Motocross des Nations MX1 Qualifying Results:
Antonio Cairoli crossed the line first in the qualifying round of the MX1 class.
1. Antonio Cairoli, Italy (KTM) 26:29.965
2. Brett Metcalfe, Australia (Honda) 26:36.003
3. Gautier Paulin, France (Yamaha) 26:36.744
4. Ryan Dungey, USA (Suzuki) 26:39.053
5. Jonathan Barragan, Spain (Kawasaki) 26:41.833
6. Steve Ramon, Belgium (Suzuki) 27:07.881
7. Tanel Leok, Estonia (Honda) 27:09.865
8. Rui Goncalves, Portugal (KTM) 27:10.052
9. Jake Nichols, Great Britain (KTM) 27:37.011
10. Joshua Coppins, New Zealand (Aprilia) 27:49.747
11. Tyler Medaglia, Canada (KTM) 27:50.821
12. Matthias Walkner, Austria (KTM) 27:55.672
13. Akira Narita, Japan (Yamaha) 28:01.927
14. Gerald Gonzalez, Costa Rica (Kawasaki) 28:02.678
15. Maximilian Nagl, Germany (Suzuki) 28:03.491
In the MX2 class it was USA’s Trey Canard who came out on top with a final time of 24:45.677 to secure the leading position. Germany’s Ken Roczen was second and turned the fastest individual lap of the session. Belgium rider Jeremy van Horebeek took the third-fastest time aboard his Kawasaki, followed by Portugal’s Zach Osborne and France’s Marvin Musquin in fourth and fifth, respectively. Dean Wilson only finished seven laps before pulling off.
2010 Motocross des Nations MX2 Qualifying Results:
1. Trey Canard, USA (Honda) 24:45.677
USA's Trey Canard was quicker than the rest of the 250F world on Saturday and took first in MX2 qualifying.
2. Ken Roczen, Germany (Suzuki) 24:52.684
3. Jeremy van Horebeek, Belgium (Kawasaki) 25:06.239
4. Zach Osborne, Puerto Rico (Yamaha) 25:07.604
5. Marvin Musquin, France (KTM) 25:13.289
6. Martin Davalos, Ecuador (Yamaha) 25:33.188
7. Matiss Karro, Latvia (Suzuki) 25:49.868
8. Alessandro Lupino, Italy (Yamaha) 25:55.076
9. Dean Ferris, Austria (Honda) 25:56.832
10. Harri Kullas, Finland (Yamaha) 25:58.907
11. Valentin Guillod, Switzerland (KTM) 26:06.884
12. Martin Barr, Ireland (Honda) 26:10.669
13. Fredrik Noren, Sweden (Honda) 26:22.230
14. Brad Groombridge, New Zealand (Honda) 26:23.833
15. Kaven Benoit, Canada (KTM) 26:25.167
In the MX3/Open division, local rider Andrew Short topped the time charts on his Red Bull Honda. Shorty used his knowledge of the track and altitude conditions to lay down the fastest lap during qualifying. New Zealand’s Ben Townley was nine seconds behind at the checkers on his Lucas Oil TLD Honda. Kyle Regal made it a CRF450R sweep in third, proving that the riders who contest the AMA series have an advantage. Germany’s Max Nagl, Belgium’s Clement Desalle and Antonio Balbi followed.
Andrew Short has his starts dialed and led the Open division in qualifying.
1. Andrew Short, USA (Honda) 24:49.054
2. Ben Townley, New Zealand (Honda) 24:58.102
3. Kyle Regal, Puerto Rico (Honda) 24:59.077
4. Max Nagl, Germany (KTM) 25:06.678
5. Clement Desalle, Belgium (Suzuki) 25:31.072
6. Anotonio Balbi, Brazi (Kawasaki) 25:35.117
7. Arnaud Tonus, Switzerland (Suzuki) 25:34.823
8. Brad Anderson, Great Britain (Honda) 25:42.699
9. Yoshitaka Atsuta, Japan (Suzuki) 25:44.737
10. Jay Marmont, Australia (Yamaha) 25:46.125
11. Manuel Monni, Italy (Yamaha) 26:10.422
12. Gunter Schmidinger, Austria (Suzuki) 26:11.848
13. Alvaro Lozano, Spain (Yamaha) 26:29.565
14. Kyle Keast, Canada (Honda) 26:30.932
15. Luis Correia, Portugal (Yamaha) 26:31.141
Team USA qualified in the first position with two points after tossing out Dungey's fourth place in the MX1 class. Germany collected six points with Roczen' second and Nagl's fourth. Next is the "Puerto Rican" team of Regal, Zach Osborne, and Christian Ruis with seven points. Belgium, France and Italy follow just behind in that order. Team Ireland just missed out for the main race in 20th place and will go to the B-Final to gun for the last position in the main event. Tomorrow's racing kicks of with the B-Final at 11 a.m. followed by the three main motos beginning at 1:08 p.m.
2010 Motocross des Nations Team Qualifying Results
No shortage of national pride here.
1. USA - 2 Points
2. Germany - 6 Points
3. Puerto Rico - 7 Points
4. Belgium - 8 Points
5. France - 8 Points
6. Italy - 9 Points
7. Australia - 11 Points
8. New Zealand - 12 Points
9. Great Britain - 17 Points
10. Spain - 18 Points
