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Matthias Walkner World MX3 Champion - In Germany

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News Monday 24th September 2012

As they did in the FIM World MX1 and MX2 Championships KTM have totally dominated the FIM World Motocross Championships with victory in the MX3 Championship last weekend in Germany. Matthias Walkner steered his KTM machine to victory in the last World title decided in 2012.
Matthias Walker was second overall, but it was enough to obtain the Title. 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. It was day full of surprises and a joy because the season 2012 is over now and we can pay tribute to World Champions.

Two amazing wins produced the rider who just appeared on the MX3 scene during this round, Czech Filip Neugebauer on Kawasaki. Armed of knowledge of the Teutschenthal´s track from the German championship where he is a leader, he overcame everyone on the way. He was very satisfied with such a result.

HILLINGER KTM MX-RACING TEAM´s Matthias Walkner enjoyed his followers by the holeshots he made in both heats and after the first one he was crowned MX3 World Champion so he could rode more relaxed in the second. With 3-2 result he reached the podium of German round as the second. His dream about title came truth and now he can prepare himself for the Monster Energy Motocross of Nations in Lommel.

RSC - Racing Service Correggio´s Martin Michek had a day full of competition as he couldn´t resisted Neugebauer´s effort to overcome him in the first heat and in second he were fifth and seven laps to go he rode just behind Bauderxl´s rear wheel so he finished 2-4 and the third overall. As far as taking whole season into an account, he was very satisfied of being the second. He did a great progress since start of the season and he said that next year he is ready to fight for a title.

Team Mibag Schmidinger World MX´s Günter Schmidinger whose result was 4-5 missed the podium with the fourth place overall. He build upon the point advantage from previous round and completed the top three runners up of 2012 season. The third place was not what he was fighting for since the beginning of the year, but on the other hand he admitted, that he made mistakes whole season long so he is not surprised.

Surprisingly the German Dennis Baudrexl managed to race about the top of the pack with the best ones. In first heat he made a good start but afterwards he came down to eight. Next heat was much better as he was able to keep Michek behind and finished third. To sum it up he obtained 5 place overall.

Petr Bartoš from Czech Republic ride very consistent without any serious mistakes and thanks to the 6th place he obtained in the second heat he was sixth overall. That´s one of his best results of the 2012 season.

Michael Staufer took the seventh and Matevz Irt the eight position overall. Lukasz Lonka ahead of Petr Bartoš and Ludvig Söderberg fulfilled the top ten ranking of the round.

Klemen Gercar was expected to take part in the fight for title, but he was not able to do it as he finished the round on 16th place. This result put him down from the second to the fourth position of Championship standings. That was pity, because he was one of the contenders for the World Champion title.

Since MX GP Festival in Great Britain is known, that Antti Pyrhonen is retired now so he quitted season untimely and attended this round just as spectator. Instead of this fact he has enough point for the fifth place in Championship.

Next event
As usual the season will end with the Monster Energy Motocross of Nations which will take place in Lommel in Belgium this year. Most of the riders will gutter in Belgium on upcoming weekend.

MX3 Race 1 top ten:
1.Filip Neugebauer (CZE, Kawasaki), 35:26.802; 2. Martin Michek (CZE, KTM), +0:07.390; 3. Matthias Walkner (AUT, KTM), +0:28.358; 4. Günter Schmidinger (AUT, Honda), +0:34.383; 5. Petr Smitka (CZE, Kawasaki), +0:38.683; 6. Levy Batista (FRA, KTM), +0:41.854; 7. Lukasz Lonka (POL, Honda), +0:50.702; 8. Dennis Baudrexl (GER, KTM), +0:53.202; 9. Petr Bartos (CZE, KTM), +0:56.214; 10. Jilani Cambre (BEL, Yamaha), +0:59.285;

MX3 Race 2 top ten:
1. Filip Neugebauer (CZE, Kawasaki), 36:01.342; 2. Matthias Walkner (AUT, KTM), +0:01.659; 3. Dennis Baudrexl (GER, KTM), +0:17.048; 4. Martin Michek (CZE, KTM), +0:17.882; 5. Günter Schmidinger (AUT, Honda), +0:38.483; 6. Petr Bartos (CZE, KTM), +0:52.917; 7. Ludvig Söderberg (FIN, Honda), +0:53.929; 8. Jilani Cambre (BEL, Yamaha), +0:56.033; 9. Lukasz Lonka (POL, Honda), +0:58.574; 10. Levy Batista (FRA, KTM), +1:09.753;

MX3 Overall top ten:
1. Filip Neugebauer (CZE, Kawasaki), 50 points; 2. Matthias Walkner (AUT, KTM), 42 p.; 3. Martin Michek (CZE, KTM), 40 p.; 4. Günter Schmidinger (AUT, Honda), 34 p.; 5. Dennis Baudrexl (GER, KTM), 33 p.; 6. Petr Bartos (CZE, KTM), 27 p.; 7. Lukasz Lonka (POL, Honda), 26 p.; 8. Levy Batista (FRA, KTM), 26 p.; 9. Ludvig Söderberg (FIN, Honda), 24 p.; 10. Jilani Cambre (BEL, Yamaha), 24 p.;

MX3 Championship top ten:
1. Matthias Walkner (AUT, KTM), 337 points; 2. Martin Michek (CZE, KTM), 306 p.; 3. Günter Schmidinger (AUT, Honda), 299 p.; 4. Klemen Gercar (SLO, Honda), 277 p.; 5. Antti Pyrhönen (FIN, Honda), 230 p.; 6. Matevz Irt (SLO, Suzuki), 194 p.; 7. Michael Staufer (AUT, KTM), 185 p.; 8. Petr Bartos (CZE, KTM), 185 p.; 9. Lukasz Lonka (POL, Honda), 175 p.; 10. Ludvig Söderberg (FIN, Honda), 147 p.;

Complete results available at www.motocrossmx1.com/reslists.aspx
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