Teutschenthal hosted the final Motocross World Championship round of the season overnight with about 40,000 spectators watching Antonio Cairoli and Tommy Searle win the German Grand Prix.

Three New Zealand riders also featured at the German GP with Motueka’s Josh Coppins, celebrating the final GP of his long and illustrious career, finished 12th and 11th in the two MX1 race, good enough for 11th overall on the day.

In the MX2 class it was the turn for Takaka’s Hamish Harwood and Elsthorope’s Kieran Scheele to step up.

Harwood finished 24th and 23rd in his two MX2 outings, while Scheele managed 29th and 26th.

The last round of the FIM MX3 World Championship also took place today in Teutschenthal, where Matthias Walker obtained the Title after finishing second overall.

It was Filip Neugebauer who won the German round and Martin Michek completed the MX3 podium and finished second in the Championship. Günter Schmidinger was fourth today, but he was very happy at the end of the day because he managed to obtain the third position in the MX3 point standings.

Chiara Fontanesi did not take part in the last round of the FIM WMX World Championship because she was still recovering from a crash she suffered in a race in Italy, but she was present on the podium to receive the gold medal.

Livia Lancelot was the one who won the German race, ahead of Larissa Papenmeier and Meghan Rutledge. Natalie Kane finished fourth in the German round, but she was on the podium to receive the silver medal, and Britt Van Der Wekken achieved the third final place in the WMX point standings.

In the MX1 class, Cairoli achieved his seventh overall victory in a row, his 11th in the season and his 58th in his career. The Italian was really happy for having been able to win the last MXGP of the season by winning the two heats with superb authority.

Cairoli admitted that in the beginning of the first heat he had some pain on the right little finger he injured yesterday and he had to adapt his riding position, but once he got used to it, he managed to overtake Germans Ken Roczen and then Nagl. In the second heat Cairoli was the first one to reach the first corner and he succeeded in leading the heat until the chequered flag.

His team-mate Ken Roczen was able to finish second overall on his debut in the MX1 class after finishing third and second in today’s races. The Red Bull KTM Factory Racing rider had a really good start in the first heat and he even managed to overtake Cairoli, but he then stalled the bike and lost two positions.

Later in the race, a stone hit his goggles and he had a lot of dirt coming into his eye, but he managed to finish third. The second heat went much better and he was able to ride consistently in the second position and he assured the second overall place of the German round.

Rockstar Energy Suzuki World’s Clement Desalle was very happy with his performance today after finishing second and fourth in the races and being on the third step of the podium at the end of the day. The Belgian rider is not 100% recovered from his hand injury, but step by step he is getting his speed back and he is now looking forward to do well next weekend in Lommel at the Monster Energy FIM Motocross of Nations and help Team Belgium to be on the podium.

Home rider Max Nagl was a little disappointed today, as he would have loved to finish on the podium in front of his home crowd.

The Red Bull KTM Factory rider managed to take the holeshot in the first race and he led almost all the first half of the heat, but his teammate Cairoli was coming faster from behind and Nagl dropped down to second.

In the following lap, Nagl made a mistake and crashed, which made him go down to the seventh place behind Bobryshev. The German could not recuperate any position, so the third place in the second heat only helped him to finish fourth overall of the German MXGP.

Kawasaki Racing Team’s Gautier Paulin had a good start in the first heat and he managed to overtake De Dycker by the middle of the race and he finished fourth. In the second moto his start was not that good, but he managed to pass Bobryshev and he then found the good lines to keep the Russian behind during the whole heat and finished fifth in the race and fifth of the Grand Prix, tight in 34 points with Nagl. The French rider explained that he is very satisfied with his third position in the MX1 championship even if his goal at the beginning of the season was to fight for the Title. Paulin is now focused to do well at the MXoN and get ready for the 2013 season.

Evgeny Bobryshev damaged his right thumb ligament yesterday, but he decided to take part in the races today, and in fact he rode both motos with a great rhythm. In the first one he did not have a good start, but he managed to finish sixth, whereas in the second one he rode consistently in the sixth place, which gave him the sixth overall position in the GP.

Ken De Dycker had been struggling with a cold before coming to Germany and he was still felling a bit sick during the whole weekend. The Belgian did his best and he finished seventh overall thanks to his fifth and tenth result. Xavier Boog was eighth, and Christophe Pourcel and Sebastien Pourcel completed the top ten.

Meanwhile, in the MX2 class, Team Floride Monster Energy Kawasaki Pro Circuit’s Tommy Searle finished the season with an overall win after winning both motos in Teutschenthal. The British rider succeeded in finishing first in the moto, but he admitted that he had riding very tight and he was about to crash in several occasions.

In the second moto everything went much better, he started at the front and dominated the heat until the chequered flag. The German Grand Prix has been the last race of Searle on the 250cc before he takes the bigger bike to take part in the MXoN and focuses on the upcoming season in the MX1 class.

Second overall was Monster Energy Yamaha’s Zach Osborne, who did an excellent first moto finishing second, but he had to make an impressive recovery in the second race to finish on the podium after he started down in the seventeenth position.

The American was determined to do well at his last MXGP before he goes back to the USA, so that extra motivation helped him to find the perfect lines to move up until the fourth place.

RESULTS, GERMAN GP:

MX1 CLASS:

MX1 Race 1 top ten: 1. Antonio Cairoli (ITA, KTM), 40:20.857; 2. Clement Desalle (BEL, Suzuki), +0:04.984; 3. Ken Roczen (GER, KTM), +0:23.134; 4. Gautier Paulin (FRA, Kawasaki), +0:29.686; 5. Ken de Dycker (BEL, KTM), +0:33.895; 6. Evgeny Bobryshev (RUS, Honda), +0:35.278; 7. Maximilian Nagl (GER, KTM), +0:36.056; 8. Christophe Pourcel (FRA, Kawasaki), +0:53.085; 9. Xavier Boog (FRA, Kawasaki), +0:53.887; 10. Sebastien Pourcel (FRA, Kawasaki), +0:57.687.

MX1 Race 2 top ten: 1. Antonio Cairoli (ITA, KTM), 40:24.135; 2. Ken Roczen (GER, KTM), +0:04.862; 3. Maximilian Nagl (GER, KTM), +0:07.977; 4. Clement Desalle (BEL, Suzuki), +0:10.607; 5. Gautier Paulin (FRA, Kawasaki), +0:25.935; 6. Evgeny Bobryshev (RUS, Honda), +0:30.107; 7. Xavier Boog (FRA, Kawasaki), +0:46.263; 8. Sebastien Pourcel (FRA, Kawasaki), +0:50.282; 9. Christophe Pourcel (FRA, Kawasaki), +1:09.831; 10. Ken de Dycker (BEL, KTM), +1:10.953.

MX1 Overall top ten: 1. Antonio Cairoli (ITA, KTM), 50 points; 2. Ken Roczen (GER, KTM), 42 p.; 3. Clement Desalle (BEL, Suzuki), 40 p.; 4. Maximilian Nagl (GER, KTM), 34 p.; 5. Gautier Paulin (FRA, Kawasaki), 34 p.; 6. Evgeny Bobryshev (RUS, Honda), 30 p.; 7. Ken de Dycker (BEL, KTM), 27 p.; 8. Xavier Boog (FRA, Kawasaki), 26 p.; 9. Christophe Pourcel (FRA, Kawasaki), 25 p.; 10. Sebastien Pourcel (FRA, Kawasaki), 24 p.

MX1 Championship top ten:

1. Antonio Cairoli (ITA, KTM), 692 points; 2. Clement Desalle (BEL, Suzuki), 594 p.; 3. Gautier Paulin (FRA, Kawasaki), 536 p.; 4. Christophe Pourcel (FRA, Kawasaki), 521 p.; 5. Ken de Dycker (BEL, KTM), 505 p.; 6. Kevin Strijbos (BEL, KTM), 405 p.; 7. Xavier Boog (FRA, Kawasaki), 398 p.; 8. Tanel Leok (EST, Suzuki), 381 p.; 9. Evgeny Bobryshev (RUS, Honda), 325 p.; 10. Rui Goncalves (POR, Honda), 315 p.

MX2 CLASS:

MX2 Race 1 top ten: 1. Tommy Searle (GBR, Kawasaki), 41:00.578; 2. Zachary Osborne (USA, Yamaha), +0:03.344; 3. Jordi Tixier (FRA, KTM), +0:20.997; 4. Jake Nicholls (GBR, KTM), +0:25.850; 5. Valentin Teillet (FRA, Kawasaki), +0:30.966; 6. Arnaud Tonus (SUI, Yamaha), +0:34.382; 7. Romain Febvre (FRA, KTM), +0:35.401; 8. Julien Lieber (BEL, Suzuki), +0:36.349; 9. Alexander Tonkov (RUS, Honda), +0:45.887; 10. Alessandro Lupino (ITA, Husqvarna), +0:57.672.

MX2 Race 2 top ten: 1. Tommy Searle (GBR, Kawasaki), 39:26.109; 2. Jeffrey Herlings (NED, KTM), +0:03.491; 3. Arnaud Tonus (SUI, Yamaha), +0:25.175; 4. Zachary Osborne (USA, Yamaha), +0:32.372; 5. Jake Nicholls (GBR, KTM), +0:37.332; 6. Valentin Teillet (FRA, Kawasaki), +0:44.191; 7. Glenn Coldenhoff (NED, KTM), +0:49.395; 8. Jordi Tixier (FRA, KTM), +0:56.916; 9. Elliott Banks-Browne (GBR, KTM), +0:58.846; 10. Romain Febvre (FRA, KTM), +0:59.409.

MX2 Overall top ten: 1. Tommy Searle (GBR, Kawasaki), 50 points; 2. Zachary Osborne (USA, Yamaha), 40 p.; 3. Arnaud Tonus (SUI, Yamaha), 35 p.; 4. Jake Nicholls (GBR, KTM), 34 p.; 5. Jordi Tixier (FRA, KTM), 33 p.; 6. Valentin Teillet (FRA, Kawasaki), 31 p.; 7. Romain Febvre (FRA, KTM), 25 p.; 8. Jeffrey Herlings (NED, KTM), 22 p.; 9. Glenn Coldenhoff (NED, KTM), 22 p.; 10. Alexander Tonkov (RUS, Honda), 22 p.

MX2 Championship top ten:

1. Jeffrey Herlings (NED, KTM), 694 points; 2. Tommy Searle (GBR, Kawasaki), 651 p.; 3. Jeremy van Horebeek (BEL, KTM), 559 p.; 4. Jake Nicholls (GBR, KTM), 443 p.; 5. Jordi Tixier (FRA, KTM), 434 p.; 6. Joel Roelants (BEL, Kawasaki), 367 p.; 7. Max Anstie (GBR, Honda), 333 p.; 8. Jose Butron (ESP, KTM), 291 p.; 9. Glenn Coldenhoff (NED, KTM), 273 p.; 10. Dylan Ferrandis (FRA, Kawasaki), 272 p.

Words and photos courtesy Youthstream