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Roczen makes history in Germany

Ken Roczen on his way to victory number one - Geoff Meyer image

News Sunday 21th June 2009 By Geoff Meyer

Teka Suzuki Europe World rider Ken Roczen made history today as he became the youngest Grand Prix winner of all time. The 15 year old finished with 2-2 results for the overall win, finishing ahead of Steven Frossard and Marvin Musquin.

In the MX1 it was series leader Antonio Cairoli who won with 2-1 results, while second place was Max Nagl with 1-3 and third overall was Ken De Dycker with 7-2 results.

The opening moto of the day was the first MX2 race and it was mister holeshot Marvin Musquin who lead early. The Frenchman controlled the race for the first seven laps; although he was taking huge pressure from Steven Frossard and while negotiating a sharp left hand corner he slipped over and gave the lead to Frossard, who then lead until the finish.

Musquin who fell back to fifth position worked hard to try and get past Goncalves, and Guarneri, although he made another mistake and dropped back to seventh place, finally fighting his way back to sixth at the end.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Others to look strong in this race were Germany hero Ken Roczen, who actually closed in on the leader and showed that he is ready to win a moto, finally finishing in second place, just two seconds behind Frossard.

Xavier Boog was third, followed by Davide Guarneri, Gautier Paulin, Musquin, Goncalves, Aubin, Nicholls, and Monni in tenth place. It would also be Musquin's first moto loss since moving to the Red Bull KTM team.

The second MX2 race started perfectly for the crowd as most of the top riders held the top positions. Goncalves led from Musquin, Roczen, Schiffer and Paulin. After four laps both Musquin and Roczen passed Goncalves and Schiffer soon followed the two leaders past the rider from Portugal. Up front the crowd began to sense something special.

Xavier Boog was out of the race early, his chances of a GP victory gone, but his team-mate Roczen looked a good chance to make up for that as he and Musquin moved away from the rest of the field.

At this point Roczen had the best results from the two motos and was the leading in the overall results. A good battle began with Schiffer, Goncalves and Paulin as the three circulated the circuit together.

Frossard was also coming on strong as he started making ground on that three. Paulin passed Goncalves on lap eight, and Roczen and Musquin continued to move away from the rest, Musquin with a two second lead over Roczen and Schiffer 12 seconds back in third place.

The German sensation started closing in on Musquin and obviously not content with just the overall victory also wanted a moto win. Paulin passed Schiffer for third place on lap nine. Suddenly Roczen was onto the back wheel of Musquin and it looked only a matter of time before he would pass for the lead.

On lap 11 Roczen tried a block pass on Musquin that didn't work out, but a corner later he did it again, and this time he took the lead the applause of the huge crowd in attendance. Musquin to his credit held onto Roczen, although the German kid was looking really motivated and riding like a mini Ricky Carmichael.

Race one winner Frossard was still struggling to get past Schiffer and Goncalves, and was now 21 seconds behind Roczen, thus the GP victory was looking like it was already in the pocket of the little German.

Musquin repassed Roczen, although it didn't make any difference to who was going to win this GP as the German held a handy point’s lead over everyone else for the overall honors.

As expected Musquin won the moto, Roczen the GP and in taking his first ever GP win he also became the youngest rider to ever win a Grand Prix, before him it was Sebastien Tortelli who was 16 years old.

The first MX1 moto was slow to start as Max Nagl took the early lead with Josh Coppins in second, Antonio Cairoli in third, and then came Mickael Pichon, Tanel Leok Gregory Aranda, Clement Desalle, Billy Mackenzie, David Philippaerts, and Ken De Dycker in 10th place.

Nagl controlled the race up front, although Cairoli was making slow progress and as the race came to its close moved really close to the German rider. The last lap was classic Motocross and the two rode side by side, Cairoli doing anything he could to make a move, but Nagl holding his ground and looking calm.

The German spectators went wild as their local hero crossed the line with air horns and screams filling the valley of Teutschenthal. Nagl won, from Cairoli, Coppins, Philippaerts, Desalle, Leok, De Dycker, Vuillemin, Pichon and Aranda.

There was a nice battle between the two French legends Pichon and Vuillemin for some time, although watching these two battle for 10th place just didn’t seem right.

The second MX1 moto started with Nagl in the lead, although Cairoli and De Dycker both fought hard with the German rider, Cairoli taking the lead quickly and then pulling a couple of seconds on Nagl, while De Dycker remained in third place.

The second MX1 race was a procession as Cairoli lead to the finish, Nagl held second and De Dycker held third early, although De Dycker passed Nagl as the German tired. An antic-climax to a brilliant days racing.

Grand Prix of Germany - Results

MX1 Moto one: 1. Max Nagl (KTM); 2. Antonio Cairoli (Yam); 3. Josh Coppins (Yam); 4. David Philippaerts (Yam); 5. Clement Desalle (Hon); 6. Tanel Leok (Yam); 7. Ken De Dycker (Suz); 8. David Vuillemin (Kaw); 9. Mickael Pichon (Hon); 10. Gregory Aranda (Kaw)

MX1 Moto two: 1. Antonio Cairoli (Yam); 2. Ken De Dycker (Suz), 3. Max Nagl (KTM); 4. David Philippaerts (Yam); 5. Josh Coppins (Yam); 6. Clement Desalle (Hon); 7. Tanel Leok (Yam); 8. Mickael Pichon (Hon); 9. Aigar Leok (TM); 10. Julien Bill (Aprilia)

MX1 O/A: 1. Antonio Cairoli 47pts, 2. Max Nagl 45pts, 3. Ken De Dycker 36pts, 4. David Philippaerts 36pts, 5. Josh Coppins 36pts, 6. Clement Desalle 31pts, 7. Tanel Leok 29pts, 8. Mickael Pichon 25pts, 9. Aigar Leok 21pts, 10. David Vuillemin 20pts

MX1 Championship points: 1. Antonio Cairoli 338pts, 2. David Philippaerts 297pts, 3. Max Nagl 293pts, 4. Josh Coppins 274pts, 5. Clement Desalle 268pts, 6. Ken De Dycker 264pts, 7. Tanel Leok 252pts, 8. Jonathan Barragan 215pts, 9. Aigar Leok 139pts

MX2 Moto one: 1. Steven Frossard (Kaw); 2. Ken Roczen (Suz); 3. Xavier Boog (Suz); 4. Davide Guarneri (Yam); 5. Gautier Paulin (Kaw); 6. Marvin Musquin (KTM); 7. Rui Goncalves (KTM); 8. Nicolas Aubin (Yam); 9. Jake Nicholls (KTM); 10. Manuel Monni (Yam)

MX2 moto two: 1. Marvin Musquin (KTM); 2. Ken Roczen (Suz); 3. Gautier Paulin (Kaw); 4. Rui Goncalves (KTM); 5. Steve Frossard (Kaw); 6. Anthony Boissiere (KTM); 7. Marcus Schiffer (KTM); 8. Nicolas Aubin (Yam); 9. Jeremy Van Horebeek (KTM), 10. Davide Guarneri (Yam)

MX2 O/A: 1. Ken Roczen 44pts, 2. Steve Frossard 41pts, 3. Marvin Musquin 40pts, 4. Gautier Paulin 36pts, 5. Rui Goncalves 32pts, 6. Davide Guarneri 29pts, 7. Nicolas Aubin 26pts, 8. Marcus Schiffer 24pts, 9. Xavier Boog 20pts, 10. Jeremy Van Horebeek 19pts

MX2 Championship points: 1. Marvin Musquin 324pts, 2. Gautier Paulin 286pts, 3. Davide Guarneri 264pts, 4. Rui Goncalves 254pts, 5. Steven Frossard 246pts, 6. Xavier Boog 197pts, 7. Nicolas Aubin 187pts, 8. Ken Roczen 164pts, 9. Manuel Monni 153pts, 10. Jeremy Van Horebeek 147pts

More soon....................................

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