Motocross

0-times motocross world champion Stefan Everts of Belgium ended his active career as a racer at the close of the 2007 season and accepted the new challenge of leading the KTM Red Bull factory team.
He goes into the season determined that riders should work together for the joint success of the KTM team in 2007.

How has it been for you to move from the active side of the sport into training?
Well, I am still very new, but I had to start from somewhere and now time will tell me if I am working in the right direction?

What is your main philosophy for working with the factory riders as a trainer?

PICKERINGTON, Ohio (April 12, 2007) – AMA Racing has announced the creation of the AMA Western Region Youth Hare Scramble Championship Series. In its inaugural year the series will feature three rounds; two in California and one in Oregon. Future plans call for the series to expand into all AMA Regions.

i rember my first bike i had gotten it was a ttr-90 i had gotten it for christmas about 5 years ago, my brother had gottan a honda 50, my first impresion was that i would not like the sport called motocross at all, and i didnt even like the bike but when i first rode, something happend. i really started to get into dirtbiking at this time my step dad had a 2004 yz250f way faster than me when i had my ttr-90. lol i didnt care though i rode for a long time and every time i rode i got better at the sport and i started liking it more, my ttr-90 was cool i didnt understand dirtbikes well then so i thought this was a very fast bike and i didnt need another bike.

Could round 9 be a breaking point in the championship where Sven attacks Yves Demaria for the championship-lead?Teammanager Jacky Martens comment´s;"Out here the track is very special. It is hardtrack with a layer of loose dirt which was soaked with water after a cloudburst on saterday.Weatherconditions today were hot and the stinging sun dried out the surface just enough to provide exeptionally good grip to the tyres.In the first race Yves Demaria had a bad start.By the time Yves had worked himself thru the pack to 3rd position, leader Sven Breugemans and Honda mounted Christian Beggi where long gone. As a professional Yves is very critical to his bike-setup, so for the second race we changed to a more flat powerband with more torque on low rpm and it paid off. This time he got a good start and reversed the situation by winning and leaving Beggi and Sven 2nd and 3rd place"

David Philippaerts shone again in the FIM Motocross World Championships with his second victory inside a week on the 250 SX-F, this time in front of 39,000 fans at the Matterley Basin circuit for the British Grand Prix.

The brand new venue was hard, sun-baked and dusty as blue skies bore down on the track located on England’s south coast. The layout was suitably impressive within the bowl-setting as rolling countryside providing a scenic backdrop but the long drags and wide banked curves meant a course that was hard on the throttle and little else.

Philippaerts passed Nicolas Aubin (again impressive on his KTM France machine) within the first stages of the opening moto and then pulled away from Billy Mackenzie and Christophe Pourcel for his third race win in a row. He was leading again in the second outing but pressure from World Champion Antonio Cairoli proved too much and he had to relinquish first spot. His 1-2 results were still sufficient for the overall win and a neat compliment to his Italian success last Sunday. His recent good form means that he has risen to third and is only fourteen points from second.

Mickael Pichon is back. The Frenchman raced to two wins in a round of the ADAC Masters, held at the Mehrnbach circuit in Austria. The KTM factory rider who had missed the Grand Prix of Germany last weekend beat home fellow KTM rider David Philipparts and Belgian rider Danny Theybers.

Overall
1 Mickael PICHON
2 David PHILIPPAERTS
3 Danny THEYBERS
4 Wyatt AVIS
5 Jerome HEMERY
6 Oswald REISINGER
7 Lauris FREIBERGS
8 Dennis SCHRÖTER
9 Marcus SCHIFFER
10 Collin DUGMORE

Rinaldi Yamaha rider Stefan Everts claimed his third victory in four weeks after winning both MX1 heats of the Hawkstone Park International in Shropshire, England.

The nine times World Champion dominated the first of two heats in bright and sunny but cold conditions. A packed crowd attended one of the more prestigious pre-season events of the winter calendar and the dark Hawkstone sand was in its usual rough and demanding state. The circuit is dwarfed by the large hill section that sees the riders climb a near-vertical 100m slope and the gradient caught out a number of top riders as the International once again boasted an array of Grand Prix stars.

The reigning British Champion looked fit, fast and assured over the rough English sand, under some winter sunshine in low temperatures. A large crowd travelled to the renowned pre-season meeting in Shropshire, just west of the city of Birmingham.

Nunn blasted away from main rival Billy Mackenzieand young Kawasakirider Tommy Searle to win the first moto of 25 minutes and 2 laps and then took a steady 2nd position later in the day to confirm the overall victory. In the last race of the meeting, the ‘Grand Final’ between the best classified riders of MX1 and MX2, Nunn was holding a top six position before he crashed on the long, steep hill section and struggled to restart his machine. He did however manage to complete the race and was ranked 6th from the MX2 group.

AURORA, Ill. (March 2, 2006) – The culmination of an 19-year supercross/motocross career will unfold for Honda’s Mike LaRocco at Las Vegas’ Sam Boyd Saturday, May 6. Announced today during the pre-race press conference at Indianapolis’ RCA Dome, LaRocco stated, “I’ve had a long, great career in motocross and supercross, but it’s time to call it quits. Unless you are winning, it’s hard to keep racing.

Rinaldi Yamaha rider Stefan Everts clinched his second victory of the 2006 pre-season motocross period last weekend with a comprehensive display at the Pernes Les Fontaines International meeting in France.

Under sunny skies and good racing conditions the nine times world champion and factory Yamaha star claimed both MX1 motos onboard his 2006 spec YZ450FM, defeating a number of his world championship peers including Honda's Josh Coppins, KTM's Mickael Pichon and Sebastien Tortelli and Suzuki's Steve Ramon.

The 33 year old has won the MX1 World Championship for the last two seasons and will be pushing for a tenth career title in his final Grand Prix campaign this term. Everts hole-shotted the first race and kept a healthy distance over Coppins. The Belgian was forced to hold off Pichon in the second moto and also overtook Coppins who had started very quickly. A battle raged until the flag with Everts able to defeat the 2005 MX1 runner-up by less than three seconds at the finish.