PEICK CROWNED KING
The winner on Saturday, the first night of the Supercross in Lille, American Weston Peick became the new ‘King of Lille’ after scoring a second position the following night behind Frenchman Christophe Pourcel.
Maxime Desprey won for the second time the ‘Prince of Lille’ title, and France beat the United States in the Nations classification.
More than 40,000 spectators enjoyed both days of the event, and on Sunday the Stadium sang the Marseillaise in memory of the Parisian tragedy.
Winner of his heat race and the main event on Saturday, Peick had more troubles today as he had to qualify for the main through the last chance after crashing in the heat race.
With a bad pick gate his start in the main was not so great, but the American came back in second position behind Christophe Pourcel who led the entire race. Both Cooper Webb and Malcom Stewart crashed while pushing behind the Frenchman, losing all chances of podium; they also helped Peick to come back second on the podium, between Pourcel and Fabien Izoird.
With a win on Saturday and a second position Sunday, Peick won the overall classification, with Christophe Pourcel (3/1) second and Cooper Webb (2/5) third. Swiss Valentin Guillod was the best Euro rider with another fourth position in the main, and France won the Nations classification.
In the SX2 classification Maxime Desprey got his second consecutive ‘Prince of Lille’ title, even if he didn’t won both races tonight.
Winner of one race each night and runner up behind Florent Richier in the second one, Desprey will now move to US to race the West coast SX series. Third of the overall SX2 behind Desprey and Richier, Thomas Do remains leader of the French SX2 series.
Leading results:
Results SX2. Finale 1 : 1.Desprey (Kawasaki); 2.Hsu (ALL, Suzuki) ; 3.Richier (Yamaha) ; 4.Verhaeghe (Kawasaki) ; 5.Do (Honda).
Finale 2 : 1.Richier ; 2.Desprey ; 3.Do ; 4.Sanayei (USA, Kawasaki) ; 5.Hsu.
Overall on the night : 1.Desprey ; 2.Richier ; 3.Hsu ; 4.Do ; 5.Verhaeghe.
Prince of Lille : 1.Desprey, 6 points ; 2.Richier, 10 ; 3.Do, 13 ; 4.Irsuti (Yamaha), 28 ; 5.Sallefranque (Honda), 30.
Results SX1. Semi Finale 1 : 1.Stewart Malcom (USA, Honda) ; 2.Ferrandis (Kawasaki) ; 3.Febvre (Yamaha) ; 4.Teillet (Honda) ; 5.Aubin (Suzuki).
Semifinal 2: 1. Webb (USA, Yamaha) ; 2. Soubeyras (Yamaha); 3. Pourcel (Husqvarna) ; 4. Simpson (GBR, KTM) ; 5. Izoird (Honda).
Last chance: 1. Peick (USA, Yamaha) ; 2. Guillod (SUI, Yamaha) ; 3. Rombaut (KTM) ; 4. Coulon (Kawasaki).
Superpole : 1. Pourcel, 37’’877 ; 2. Ferrandis, 38’’657 ; 3. Stewart Malcolm, 38’’990 ; 4. Simpson, 39’’398 ; 5. Webb, 39’’425.
Main event : 1. Pourcel ; 2. Peick ; 3. Izoird ; 4. Guillod ; 5. Webb ; 6. Soubeyras ; 7. Febvre ; 8. Rombaut ; 9. Ramette ; 10. Ferrandis.
King of Lille : 1. Peick, 3 pts ; 2. Pourcel, 4 ; 3. Webb, 7 ; 4. Guillod, 8 ; 5. Izoird, 10 ; 6. Soubeyras, 11 ; 7. Febvre, 13 ; 8. Rombaut, 18 ; 9. Ferrandis, 23 ; 10. Stewart Malcolm, 23.
Nations classification: 1. France, 24 points ; 2. USA, 35.

