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News Wednesday 01st September 2010 By Geoff Meyer

This years Red Bull FIM Motocross of Nations will miss some of the top riders from Australia, Italy, South Africa, and America. Out of this years event due to injury, lack of racing or just plain stupid Federations will be leading riders Chad Reed, Antonio Cairoli, David Philippaerts, Tyla Rattray, Ryan Villopoto and James Stewart, but there are still some interesting match-ups in all three classes.
The MX1 class sees Ryan Dungey leading the way. Also contenders for the MX1 class are Steve Ramon, Christophe Pourcel, Max Nagl, Shaun Simpson, Brett Metcalfe, Tanel Leok, Josh Coppins, Jonathan Barragan, Rui Goncalves and Evgeny Bobryshev.
 
In MX2 it is a host of riders who will look for big success, those being Marvin Musquin, Trey Canard, Ken Roczen, Dean Wilson, Jeremy Van Horebeek, Arnaud Tonus, Martin Davalos and Zach Osborne.
 
The Open class is like both the MX1 and MX2 classes very exciting with Clement Desalle, Ben Townley, Tommy Searle, Kyle Regal, Xavia Boog, and Andrew Short all vying for the overall win.
 
Here is how I see the class results ending.
 
MX1 Dungey, Ramon, Nagl, Metcalfe, Pourcel, Bobryshev, Simpson, Goncalves, Leok, Barragan, and Coppins
 
MX2 Musquin, Canard, Roczen, Wilson, Osborne, Van Horebeek, and Davalos
 
Open Desalle, Townley, Short, Boog, Nicholls, Regal, Tonus
 
Some of the battles I look forward to seeing will be Dungey versus Pourcel in MX1, Musquin, Canard, and Roczen in MX2 and Desalle versus Townley in the Open class.
 
Obviously can't add the final points up, but here is a rough idea just from how I think the riders overalls.
 
Team USA 13 points
Team Belgium 18 points
Team France 20 points
Team Great Britain 32 points
 
Look out for Germany and maybe New Zealand to also be in the mix.
The Teams
 
USA: Ryan Dungey, Trey Canard, Andrew Short
France: Christophe Pourcel, Marvin Musquin, Xavier Boog
Belgium: Steve Ramon, Jeremy Van Horebeek, Clement Desalle
Germany: Max Nagl, Ken Roczen, Marcus Schiffer
Great Britain: Shaun Simpson, Dean Wilson, Jake Nicholls
Italy: Davide Guarneri, Alessandro Lupino, Manuel Monni
Australia: Brett Metcalfe, Dean Ferris, Jay Marmont
Estonia: Tanel Leok, Priit Rätsep, Gert Krestinov
Switzerland: Gregory Wicht, Valentin Guillod, Arnaud Tonus
New Zealand: Josh Coppins, Brad Groombridge, Ben Townley
Spain: Jonathan Barragan, Jose Butron, Carlos Campano
Portugal: Rui Goncalves, Hugo Basaula, Luis Correia
Brazil: Marcello Lima, Cristopher Castro, Antonio Balbi
Ireland: Stuart Edmonds, Martin Barr, Gordon Crockard
Latvia: Ivo Steinbergs, Matiss Karro, Lauris Freibergs
Finland: Toni Eriksson, Harri Kullas, Jon Söderberg
Sweden: Tom Söderström, Fredrik Noren, Alex Eriksson
Russia: Evgeny Bobryshev, Aleksandr Tonkov, Sergey Astaykin
Austria: Matthias Walkner, Pascal Rauchenecker, Günther Schmidinger
Puerto Rico: Christian Ruiz, Zach Osborne, Kyle Regal
Canada: Jeremy Medaglia, Kaven Benoit, Kyle Keast
Croatia: Nenad Sipek, Marko Tumbri, Danijel Bozic
Iceland: Gylfi Gudmundsson, Eythor Reynisson, Hjalmar Jonsson
Lithuania: Mindaugas Kazakevicius, Nerijus Rukstela, Rimantas Päzemeckas
Venezuela: Giovanni Perrotta, Humberto Martin, Raimundo Trasolini
Philippines: Jolet Jao, Ralph Alvarez, Kenneth San Andres
Ukraine: Oleksandr Paschynskyi, Mykola Paschynskyi, Roman Morozov
Japan: Akira Narita, Takuya Mihara, Yoshitaka Astuta
Costa Rica: Johan Mora, Alejandro Rojas, Roberto Castro
Ecuador: Felipe Espinosa, Martin Davalos, Andres Benenaula
Guatemala: Rodolfo Fernandez, Esteban Castillo, Tomas Castillo
Mexico: Martin Garcia, Alberto Herdia, Giovanni Blanco
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