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THE BIG MOVE STORY BY GEOFF MEYER IMAGES BY SIMON CUDBY

It doesn’t take a smart person to see that the biggest story in motocross at the moment is the move of Ryan Villopoto to the FIM motocross world championships. If you know the people who are involved in this operation, then it seems it’s a done deal. All we are waiting on is the fitness of Villopoto, but as I’ve what I have been told he wants to come, the deal is done and the chances of it happening are like 90%. What does this all mean for the sport and more importantly what does it mean for the FIM motocross world championship and our Grand Prix riders.

Well, firstly it means the American public that for many years have ignored the Grand Prix series will suddenly be more interested in watching as their best rider goes in against the best riders in the World. Of course the diehard fans of American motocross have always followed the sport in Europe, but now new fans will start to take notice in the GP series and that is huge for the growth Youthstream, KTM, Husqvarna, Honda, Yamaha, Suzuki and Kawasaki are looking for. Monster Energy will be over the moon with this change as their leading rider will battle in a series that is backed with their own money.

After years of not really having a challenge Antonio Cairoli will be challenged, and probably challenged more than he has ever been in his long and legendary career. It isn’t too strange that Villopoto wants to take on this battle. He like Cairoli has had a brilliant career, one that has seen him grow into (along with Cairoli) the best of the best. Their 2006 battle at the Matterley Basin held MXoN will be replayed over and over in 2015 and I just can’t wait to see the outcome.

With companies like Monster Energy, Parts Unlimited and Kawasaki really putting a lot of money into this move it means the GP series will have the best paid rider in the sport, something that hasn’t been the case for probably 40 years. All three companies have also been long-time supporters of the Grand Prix series and it’s growth will also be a major part of their long term plan.

The growth that Youthstream have been searching for is finally coming to its greatest level as not only do we have the fastest MX2 rider in the World (Jeffrey Herlings), but also the two fastest 450/350 riders in the World racing in Europe and other parts of the World.

But let us dare to dream, let us look at this in a positive manner and what is without question the best thing for the sport. Ryan Villopoto is coming to race the 2015 GP season and he will come up against the other best in the world rider Antonio Cairoli.

It’s mouth-watering, probably the greatest thing to happen in our sport in the last 40

years. Yes, better than RC winning everything in USA and better than Stefan Everts dominating in Europe. This is a whole lot bigger, because it will answer the questions we all have.

We all knew RC and Everts were the best, that wasn’t that difficult, and while we marvelled at their performances, it was one way traffic. Similar to Villopoto and Cairoli now, apart, as two riders winning in their chosen series.

What it will be is two legends of the sport coming together, and on many occasions nearly on neutral territory. Let us take a look what is possible and what might make one better than the other.

The 2014 season has not been one of Antonio Cairoli’s best, he himself has admitted that and if there is one thing the Italian legend is, he is honest with himself.

In saying that, he still has more than 80 points on the second best guy Jeremy Van Horebeek leading into the last two rounds.

Cairoli has been consistent again, but not as dominant as previous years. He’s been number one now for 10 years and that is a long time to be at the top. Not really battle worn though I am sure Cairoli has another year or two to be number one, and a challenge as big as Villopoto is just what he needs to stay right on top of the GP podium.

As for Villopoto in 2014, he was the best at supercross, but like Cairoli not at his best and he was beatable, but he still came through and took the title and he still went into the AMA motocross season as the favourite (until he pulled out with injury).

Villopoto has shown a lack of interest in his chosen sport, it seems he’s bored and not really into the racing anymore. A world trip sure should give him the hunger back, a new challenge and new competition.

Let’s face it, at the moment the GP riders are dominating the MXoN, and that is the only even we have to really compare the two, as uneven the comparison can be, as the American riders need to get used to the difficult GP circuits.

How about the calendar these two warriors will face. Fortunately for Villopoto we start at night in Qatar, a circuit that

isn’t that familiar for the GP riders, who have ridden there just twice. We then go onto Thailand, and it is more than likely we will visit a new circuit, so again Villopoto doesn’t have the disadvantage of going to a place like Lommel or Valkenswaard where the GP riders have a huge advantage. Round three will also be held outside Europe, in Argentina. What more could a young person want than spending a month in Qatar, Thailand and Argentina to start his World tour?

Starting well in those early rounds might just be the most important aspect of the whole season for the American.

Of course the disadvantage is that Villopoto has NEVER raced outside America, apart from the Motocross of Nations, where he has had good success in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2011. In those races outside America he has gone 1-3-1-10-1-3 add his 1-1 from Budds Creek and that is pretty impressive. Spending a week away from home is a lot different than spending six months. How will he deal with that?

tent of World motocross and never rides over his head. What haven’t we seen of Cairoli at his best is maybe yet to come?

The Sicilian might just come out in 2015 and bring us something new, something we didn’t realize he even had, and as he himself knows, he will need it to combat the American champion.

Cairoli is a great, a legend in a sport than doesn’t always reward its competitors, but Cairoli has everything he could want.

A beautiful partner in Jill, a new house on the sea in his homeland, a bank full of the riches he has earnt with hard work and a lot of spilt sweat. Not to mention thousands and thousands of fans (the idea of Cairoli versus Villopoto at Maggiora already gives me goose bumps).

Like Villopoto the Italian has nothing to prove, he’s proven himself time and time again, he has dominated every single rider the sport has thrown at him. Sure Cairoli beat Villopoto in that stunning ride in the 2006 Motocross of Nations, passing the American champion like he was sitting still, but Antonio also remembers the MXoN in 2007, and in 2011, when Villopoto was in another class.

He is a quality rider and will succeed wherever he goes, his mind set for this, his last hurray might be the same, or he might take it as a holiday, but looking at his career to date, I don’t think Ryan Villopoto races any other way than full gas.

When these two line-up together the respect for eachother is going to be huge, I wouldn’t even be surprised if they become friends, both have a similar character, both are 100% business, but a little shy, and reserved. Both have battled the best and beaten them.

Will the change in cultures trouble him, nobody knows this, not even Villopoto could know, but travelling with his partner and enjoying some of the beauty of Europe and the rest of the World sure sounds better than heading to Los Angeles hundreds of times for racing, or testing, or whatever is needed to race in America. He’s seen it all before, and seemingly has seen enough.

Like I said in the intro to this little story, this is the biggest thing to happen in the sport of motocross for more than 40 years.

But what about the guy he will race in 2015, Antonio Cairoli. He could eventually be the greatest motocross rider of all time, his stats are already impressive with 72 GP wins and his 8th world title around the corner.

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Please Ryan Villopoto, come and race our World Champion, come and show us how much you love this sport and find out what a great people we have in the Grand Prix paddock. If you do come, you can count on everything, all over the World applauding your decision. But most importantly, come for yourself, because the dream of any young man is to travel to World, and enjoy the cultures that it offers. That is the reason the FIM World Motocross Championships is the most historical, and cultured series in the World.

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STORY GEOFF MEYER IMAGES RAY ARCHER If you were a mind reader, there isn’t much way you could have written the script for the 2014 FIM MX2 world championship. Red Bull KTM Factory rider Jeffrey Herlings has had a nightmare season and if he can get himself fit for the last round in Mexico, and actually win himself a third straight MX2 championship, then he deserves a huge slap on the back.

Injuries, crashes, more injuries and just terrible luck, but he is still leading the MX2 points race with two rounds to go (I bet he wished he went to Brazil for round three now).

When Herlings got himself injured at the Everts and Friends race in Genk, Belgium just prior to the Grand Prix of Belgium three Frenchmen smiled a little. While none of them would want the Dutchman to get injured, all of a sudden Jordi Tixier, Romain Febvre and Dylan Ferrandis had a shot a winning the 2014 MX2 title.

After Lommel three weeks ago though only Herlings team-mate Tixier is really a serious shot at the title and he knows it.

The smiling Frenchman deserves some credit for coming back from a shocking start to the season to stamp his name as the next best thing in MX2, and his Lommel performance was also full of confidence and resolve.

“Of course I never wanted Jeffrey to get injured, he is my team-mate and we get

on well. Being put in the position of fighting for a World title is my dream and I will do my best to make that dream become a reality. In the second race in Lommel I told myself ‘now you have to do it’. I had a very good start and I pushed to the limit for the whole moto and now I got some very good points for the championship.

Last week I won on hard pack and today I came second in the sand so I’ve shown everyone I can ride on all kinds of surfaces.”

In the MXGP class one man is still the king, and that is Sicilian Antonio Cairoli. Taking yet another GP victory in Lommel the Red Bull KTM Factory rider opened up a nice points gap over second placed man Jeremy Van Horebeek and looks a sure bet to win his 8th motocross world championship in Brazil in three weeks time.

“I’m happy about my seventy-second victory in the land of the best rider, number 72, Stefan Everts, it’s a coincidence but it’s nice. I had two difficult heats, in the first one, I had a good start but then I had some arm-pump and I was struggling with my riding, the track was a bit strange today, I think because so many classes were

competing in the morning and it was full of strange lines and ruts but then I found my rhythm and I could take back the lead and make some good laps in order to have a good gap that was enough to win. In the second moto, I had again a good start and the feeling with the track was better, so I’ve pulled away from the others, then the storm started and at one point I could almost not see the track, so in some places it was really dangerous, I slowed down a lot to survive till the end.

I’m not specially looking at the points, for sure the Championship is going to the end but I want to be on the podium at every race and we will see at the next race, after so long break what will be my feeling with an unknown track.”

Of course the MX2 winner in Lommel was British rider Max Anstie. Having struggled all season long with mechanical issues it was nice to see Anstie return to the podium, a place he had visited in the second round in Thailand. We can all still remember Anstie going DNF-DNF in round one in Qatar and his battle in Thailand was a piece of brilliance from a young rider who is so often forgotten in the midst of sensational Herlings and Roczen performances over the last five years.

“We didn’t make things easy for ourselves but everyone has worked so hard,” Anstie said about Lommel. “From where we started at the beginning of the year the thoughts going through my head today were ‘I have to finish the job I started in Qatar with the ’13 YZ250F’. I said to the guys in Czech Republic that if we had a good Saturday here then we would put ourselves in the position for a good finish and we did that. It is amazing to see the effort that has been put in, and this is the day that we lived for. Before that second race I was thinking ‘this is what I am here for’ and I was nervous..but we got it done. It was a very difficult race and this track is obviously the hardest both on the bike and also physically of the year. I’m over-the-moon but I don’t think it has really hit me yet.”

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For two European riders the latest round of the Lucas Oils AMA Nationals proved to be a huge success. German rider Ken Roczen won the 450 class overall and extended his series points lead over American Ryan Dungey to 19 points. French rider Marvin Musquin who started the season injured has been in sensational form of late and took victory in the 250cc class.

To make the matter even more European flavoured both were riding KTM machines build in Austria.

Red Bull KTM Factory rider Roczen moved another step closer to the US Pro MX championship title on Saturday when he won the mud soaked round at Crawfordsville Indiana.

Ryan Dungey, KTM factory teammate and rival for the title picked up overall third at the Ironman race course, the penultimate stop of the 450 MX Championship. Roczen’s win extended his lead over second placed Dungey with just one round to go. Both Roczen and Dungey, official Red Bull athletes ride the KTM 450 SX-F factory machine.

Four of the first five riders in the 450 class rode the ‘Made in Austria’ KTM machines, a result that was further underlined by a 1-2 in the 250 class

by Red Bull KTM factory rider Marvin Musquin of France and KTM rider Joey Savatgy. Musquin and Savatgy are ridiing the KTM 250 SX-F. The scene was already set in the morning practice sessions when heavy rain fell on the Ironman course, Roczen managed the third fastest while Dungey was twelfth fastest in difficult conditions.

Recognizing that getting away cleanly was the key in these conditions, Roczen selected a solid gate and pulled a large holeshot the first moto.

Dungey had a decent jump but was pushed off the track and re-entered in fifteenth position.

Dungey moved into ninth place by the end of the opening lap and continued to pick off riders and by lap three he was up to third but some 15 seconds behind Trey Canard. He caught Canard a few laps later and began to hunt down Roczen.

The German rider knew he needed to take a win at this race to strengthen his lead and he rode hard to maintain the gap between him and his American teammate. He finished the race with a 17-second advantage over Dungey.

“It feels great to get a win here,” stated Roczen on the podium. “I thought this track looked really good when it was dry but it was also a lot of fun wet. This might be my new favorite.”

In the second moto Roczen again got away well and was in second behind Canard while Dungey found himself back at seventeenth after the first few corners. As the race progressed Dungey had to discard his goggles because visibility in the muddy conditions was so difficult. He did man-

age to climb back to ninth by the end of the moto. Roczen went on to pick up a 1-2 on the day to take the overall while Dungey wrapped up his day with a 2-9 for overall third.

“I’m really happy to gain some points toward the championship today,” said Roczen. “I haven’t lost the red plate since the second race of the series and I don’t plan on losing it now.” It is the German teenager’s rookie season in the premiere class.

Despite getting stuck in a large mud hole in the morning practice session, Musquin went into the first mud race of the season with a positive attitude, saying: “The mud definitely makes the course challenging but it is very exciting too.”

Musquin pulled a decent start from fifteenth place in his opening 250-class moto and was fourth around the first corner. He moved into third a lap later when the rider in front went down in the mud and held onto that position right to the drop of the flag.

“It was really slick the first moto and the lappers definitely made it challenging,” stated Musquin. “I am happy to finish with a podium result and hope the rain holds off for the second moto.”

Musquin got his wish. He second moto was slightly less wet and he got away in the top five at the start. He gained a position early on and then made a pass on Christophe Pourcel to move up to third. Soon Musquin, Pourcel and second placed Rockstar KTM ride of Joey Savatgy began to pressure Jessy Nelson for the lead. They each eventually moved around Nelson while maintaining a tight battle for the overall win. Musquin finally made his move on Savatgy with just two laps to go only to see Pourcel continue to apply pressure. He challenged Musquin hard throughout the final lap and the two French riders were within a bike length of each other when Musquin crossed the finish line to take the win.

Musquin’s 3-1 finishes earned him the overall for the day and a place in the record books as the first 250 MX rider to win at the first-ever Ironman Motocross National.

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Frenchman Romian Febvre is a really cool guy. Very honest and open his 2014 season has been a good one. Third in the MX2 series points and with a factory ride for the 2015 MXGP series he will for sure be one of the riders to watch next season. We caught up with his for a quick chat about his non-selection in the French MXoN team and also his chances for 2015.

Motocross Illustrated: Romain, first what is your opinion in not being selected in the French Motocross of Nations team?

Motocross Illustrated: Do you know why he was selected ahead of you, did you hear something about that?

Febvre: Sure I am disappointed, first I thought Jordi Tixier would get selected because he was the first Frenchman in the MX2 points, then I thought if he didn’t get selected I had a chance of being selected, but they went with Dylan Ferrandis and I think not too many people understand this selection. I cannot say something, it isn’t my decision, but I am disappointed.

Febvre: I don’t know why he was selected, I mean the guy from the French Federation was in Finland and Dylan rode good there and maybe that is why he took this decision, because in the championship he he is third behind Jordi and myself.

Motocross Illustrated: When Jeffrey Herlings got injured you had a small chance to be World MX2 Champion, did that

worry you at all in the last couple of rounds?

Febvre: I didn’t look so much at the championship because I didn’t want to put pressure on myself, it was still possible after Loket that I could be World champion and I wanted to just take it race to race.

I just want to beat Jordi and try and take second place. It would have been good to be World champion.

Motocross Illustrated: You looked good in Lommel.

Febvre: I was happy with my performance in Lommel. Finishing second in qualification was a big help. I got two good starts and was able to run a strong pace. I really wanted to put two strong rides together and I felt I did that this weekend. Of course I wanted to make the podium but I was consistent and scored more important points for the championship.

Motocross Illustrated: And for next year there are rumours you will be racing for the Yamaha Factory.

Can you give any details on that?

Febvre: I cannot say at the moment. I know where I am going, and I will stay in MXGP and I have a good team. It will be known in the next weeks. In Lommel we did a lot of talk and it should be official soon where I go.

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STORY BY GEOFF MEYER IMAGES SIMON CUDBY AND RAY ARCHER The 2014 Monster Energy Motocross of Nations, set for the Kegums circuit in Latvia on the weekend of September 26 and 27 is just around the corner and it’s going to be a massive event. Young American 250cc champion Jeremy Martin will get his shot at the big time as he comes up against the best riders in the World in what is without question the biggest motocross race on the planet.

Of course for Martin the clash with World MXGP Champion Antonio Cairoli will be the highlight of the weekend, and with names like Dean Ferris, Dylan Ferrandis and Tommy Searle also looking to shine the MX2 class could be massive.

The other question will be are Grand Prix heroes Jeremy Van Horebeek and Gautier Paulin up to the job against American riders Eli Tomac and Ryan Dungey, and can any team combat the brilliance of Team USA, who must come into the event as heavy favorities.

The event might be without Jeffrey Herlings, Ken Roczen, Ryan Villopoto, Jordi Tixier and Clement Desalle, but there are

still a bunch of match-ups that will make this a special MXoN. The Teams – 2014 Monster Energy Motocross of Nations Team Belgium: Julien Lieber (MX2), Jeremy Van Horebeek (MXGP), Kevin Strijbos (Open) Team USA: Jeremy Martin (MX2), Ryan Dungey (MXGP), Eli Tomac (Open) Team Italy: Antonio Cairoli (MX2), Davide Guaneri (MXGP), David Philippaerts (Open) Team Australia: Dean Ferris (MX2), Chad Reed (MXGP), Brett Metcalfe (Open) Team France: Dylan Ferrandis (MX2), Gautier Paulin (MXGP), Steven Frossard (Open) Team Switzerland: Jeremy Seewer (MX2), Valentin Guillod (MXGP), Arnaud Tonus (Open) Team Great Britain: Tommy Searle (MX2), Shaun Simpson (MXGP), Dean Wilson (Open) Team The Netherlands: Glenn Coldenhoff (MX2) , Ceriel Klein Kromhof (MXGP), Marc De Reuver (Open)

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