It was a typically hot and sunny weekend in the Italian town of Cingoli when three new Junior Motocross World Champions were crowned at the weekend.

Spain’s Jorge Prado Garcia (65cc, KTM), Latvia’s Pauls Jonass (85cc, KTM) and American Joseph Savatgy (125cc, Suzuki) (pictured above) won their categories at the big annual event.

65cc CLASS

Round one of 65cc started with the holeshot of Gabriele Oteri (ITA, KTM). He lead for more than two laps and started to make pretty comfortable lead behind the rest of the pace. But he made a mistake on one of the jumps and fallen down.

That opened the way to Garcia (KTM), who could make comfortable lead as the gap behind him to the remaining riders was almost 10 seconds. Tamur Talviku from Estonia (KTM) took the second position but the fight for the last podium post was still open. Finally, Italian Riccardo Lauretti (KTM) was the fastest one in group of five riders who were changing their positions in almost every turn and battling for the podium.

The second round just confirmed the domination of Garcia. He took the holeshot and then just kept sufficient gap behind the rest of the riders. Second position was occupied by Enzo Lopes (BRA, KTM) and third had been taken after constant battling from Australian Hunter Lawrence (KTM).

85cc CLASS

The start first round of 85cc category was set shortly after noon, so the riders got to fight not only with the track and opponents but also with burning sun and temperatures over 30°C. Although it might have seen simple victory for Jonass (LAT, KTM), he had to resist numerous attacks from Thomas Do (FRA, KTM). American Chase Bell (Kawasaki) showed really good speed as he climbed up to 3rd place from 12th after the start.

The second heat started with a holeshot to Bas Vaessen (NED, KTM), but he could not match the speed of Bell. Bell was not threatened and was the only rider in 85cc category to jump the step-ups.

As Bell’s position in 1st was pretty stable, while the real battling was happening behind him. It was the winner of the first round, Jonass, who finished runner-up in the second round, enough to win the title of 85cc Monster Energy FIM Junior Motocross World Champion 2011. The third position was taken by Do.

So the final classification is 1st Pauls Jonass (LAT, KTM), 2nd Chase Bell (USA, Kawasaki) and 3rd Thomas Do (FRA, KTM).

125cc CLASS

The fastest category of the day offered another bunch of great battles in the first round of 125cc. Tim Gajser (SLO, KTM) took the holeshot, but was soon overtaken by James Dunn (GBR, KTM) and Luca Moroni (ITA, KTM). Moroni could not hold the pace, made a mistake and crashed.

The same happened to Dunn, whose front wheel had slipped in one of the turns and so he let Gajser get back to the lead. American Savatgy showed amazing speed as he progressed from 9th place after the start to 2nd in the finish making many great overtakes. The final standing of the first round was 1st Tim Gajser, 2nd Joseph Savatgy and 3rd James Dunn.

The second round has showed another bunch of great battles. Damon Graulus (BEL, KTM) took the holeshot and lead for about lap until he was overtaken by Savatgy. At that moment everything looked as it is going to be a piece of cake for Savatgy to win the race and also to gain the title, but there was still more to come. On lap five Jeremy Seewer (SUI, Suzuki) took the lead, looked very confident and also built a comfortable gap.

Another American was also battling at the front, Chris Alldredge (Yamaha).

In the fight on the finish straight, he finally made it through to third.

The winner of 1st round, Slovenian Gajser, had some bad luck in this race as he had crashed out of 2nd position and had to fight back from the back. He made it to 14th, so he finished the event 5th in overall.

The second round decided who would be the 125cc Monster Energy FIM Junior Motocross World Champion for 2011: Joseph Savatgy from USA riding on a Suzuki. Vice-champion is Jeremy Seewer, from Switzerland, also on Suzuki, and third Chris Alldredge, from USA, on Yamaha.

The best juniors of the world will fight for another FIM Junior Motocross World Championship titles on 12th August 2012 in Sevlievo, Bulgaria.

RESULTS

65cc – Race 1: 1. Jorge Prado Garcia (ESP, KTM), 16:30.105; ; 2. Tamur Talviku (EST, KTM), +0:02.424; 3. Riccardo Lauretti (ITA, KTM), +0:05.150; 4. Enzo Lopes (BRA, KTM), +0:05.768; 5. Rayner Reece (AUS, KTM), +0:08.391; 6. Roan Van De Moosdijk (NED, KTM), +0:11.221; 7. Jakub Teresak (CZE, KTM), +0:13.135; 8. Lawrence Hunter (AUS, KTM), +0:13.234; 9. Gabriel Jairala (USA, KTM), +0:25.369; 10. Tom Vialle (FRA, KTM), +0:28.380

65cc – Race 2: 1. Jorge Prado Garcia (ESP, KTM), 16:42.460; ; 2. Enzo Lopes (BRA, KTM), +0:09.739; 3. Lawrence Hunter (AUS, KTM), +0:21.654; 4. Riccardo Lauretti (ITA, KTM), +0:30.182; 5. Jakub Teresak (CZE, KTM), +0:30.233; 6. Gabriele Oteri (ITA, KTM), +0:38.211; 7. Alexander Brown (GBR, KTM), +0:40.678; 8. Danne Karlsson (SWE, KTM), +0:43.729; 9. Tamur Talviku (EST, KTM), +0:46.295; 10. Oliver Mahr (AUT, KTM), +0:49.019

65cc – Championship standings: 1. Jorge Prado Garcia (ESP, KTM), 50 points; 2. Enzo Lopes (BRA, KTM), 40 p.; 3. Riccardo Lauretti (ITA, KTM), 38 p.; 4. Tamur Talviku (EST, KTM), 34 p.; 5. Lawrence Hunter (AUS, KTM), 33 p.; 6. Jakub Teresak (CZE, KTM), 30 p.; 7. Alexander Brown (GBR, KTM), 22 p.; 8. Oliver Mahr (AUT, KTM), 20 p.; 9. Andrea Zanotti (SMR, KTM), 18 p.; 10. Gabriel Jairala (USA, KTM), 17 p.

85cc – Race 1: 1. Pauls Jonass (LAT, KTM), 25:40.587; 2. Thomas Do (FRA, KTM), +0:06.244; 3. Chase Bell (USA, Kawasaki), +0:19.558; 4. Kade Walker-Tinkler (CAN, KTM), +0:24.986; 5. Tomass Sileika (LAT, KTM), +0:25.385; 6. Corentin Perolari (FRA, KTM), +0:38.231; 7. Mark Worth (USA, Kawasaki), +0:43.709; 8. Ben Watson (GBR, KTM), +0:47.702; 9. Michael Mosiman (USA, Suzuki), +0:53.303; 10. Michele Baraiolo (ITA, KTM), +0:58.407.

85cc – Race 2: 1. Chase Bell (USA, Kawasaki), 24:10.634; ; 2. Pauls Jonass (LAT, KTM), +0:09.985; 3. Thomas Do (FRA, KTM), +0:15.632; 4. Ben Watson (GBR, KTM), +0:24.541; 5. Volodymyr Tarasov (UKR, KTM), +0:24.979; 6. Corentin Perolari (FRA, KTM), +0:30.957; 7. David Herbreteau (FRA, KTM), +0:31.130; 8. Brian Hsu (TPE, Suzuki), +0:33.136; 9. Michael Mosiman (USA, Suzuki), +0:36.815; 10. Nathan Renkens (BEL, MB Tuning), +0:39.886.

85cc – Championship standings: 1. Pauls Jonass (LAT, KTM), 47 points; 2. Chase Bell (USA, Kawasaki), 45 p.; 3. Thomas Do (FRA, KTM), 42 p.; 4. Ben Watson (GBR, KTM), 31 p.; 5. Corentin Perolari (FRA, KTM), 30 p.; 6. Kade Walker-Tinkler (CAN, KTM), 28 p.; 7. Volodymyr Tarasov (UKR, KTM), 26 p.; 8. Michael Mosiman (USA, Suzuki), 24 p.; 9. Nathan Renkens (BEL, MB Tuning), 18 p.; 10. Brian Hsu (TPE, Suzuki), 17 p.

125cc – Race 1: 1. Tim Gajser (SLO, KTM), 30:19.819; ; 2. Joseph Savatgy (USA, Suzuki), +0:02.617; 3. James Dunn (GBR, KTM), +0:06.828; 4. Jeremy Seewer (SUI, Suzuki), +0:08.393; 5. Luca Moroni (ITA, KTM), +0:28.115; 6. Chris Alldredge (USA, Yamaha), +0:29.167; 7. Damon Graulus (BEL, KTM), +0:36.974; 8. Benoit Paturel (FRA, Yamaha), +0:38.938; 9. Hector Rodriguez (VEN, Yamaha), +0:40.400; 10. Alessio Della Mora (ITA, KTM), +0:44.519.

125cc – Race 2: 1. Jeremy Seewer (SUI, Suzuki), 30:36.384; ; 2. Joseph Savatgy (USA, Suzuki), +0:18.612; 3. Chris Alldredge (USA, Yamaha), +0:19.192; 4. Damon Graulus (BEL, KTM), +0:19.455; 5. Benoit Paturel (FRA, Yamaha), +0:20.142; 6. James Dunn (GBR, KTM), +0:21.365; 7. Calvin Vlaanderen (RSA, KTM), +0:22.180; 8. Hector Rodriguez (VEN, Yamaha), +0:22.680; 9. Davide Bonini (ITA, Husqvarna), +0:36.252; 10. Paul Stauder (FRA, Yamaha), +0:40.783.

125cc – Championship standings: 1. Joseph Savatgy (USA, Suzuki), 44 points; 2. Jeremy Seewer (SUI, Suzuki), 43 p.; 3. Chris Alldredge (USA, Yamaha), 35 p.; 4. James Dunn (GBR, KTM), 35 p.; 5. Damon Graulus (BEL, KTM), 32 p.; 6. Tim Gajser (SLO, KTM), 32 p.; 7. Benoit Paturel (FRA, Yamaha), 29 p.; 8. Luca Moroni (ITA, KTM), 26 p.; 9. Hector Rodriguez (VEN, Yamaha), 25 p.

Words and photos courtesy Youthstream