Noble pulls out with injured shoulder
September 22, 2007
Team GB now face a tough test for the remaining races at the 2007 MXDN at Budds Creek in the USA.Tommy Searle held his own in the MX2 qualifying race and finished in 5th after battling with numerous riders including Cairoli, Swanepoel, and Aubin.
Eventual race winner Ryan Villopoto stole the show and cruised to an emphatic win in front of the patriotic home crowd. Ricky Carmichael did exactly what Villopoto did in his race raced – he demolished the rest of the field, even after a slight mishap mid-race this didn’t stop from re-passing Grant Langston to win by more than 30 seconds. Britain’s Billy Mackenzie gated perfectly and was keeping ahead of world champion Steve Ramon for most of the race but on lap eight he went down in the middle section of the circuit and lost valuable time and finally finished in eighth. The USA made it a clean sweep in the final class of the day, Tim Ferry swept to yet another American victory in the open class passing Michael Byrne and Joaquim Rodriques to place team USA as firm favourites going into tomorrow’s main event. James Noble had to pull out of the race due to a badly bruised shoulder and it looks like Team GB’s 2007 challenge is now over for a possible win but we still did enough to qualifying in 9th. 1 USA 2 1 QualRace 3 3 FERRY, Tim AMA Kawasaki Open 1 QualRace 1 1 CARMICHAEL, Ricky AMA Suzuki MX1 (1) QualRace 2 2 VILLOPOTO, Ryan AMA Kawasaki MX2 2 Republic of South Africa 5 2 QualRace 1 19 LANGSTON, Grant MSA Yamaha MX1 3 QualRace 2 20 SWANEPOEL, Gareth MSA Kawasaki MX2 (7) QualRace 3 21 AVIS, Wyatt MSA KTM Open 3 Italy 5 2 QualRace 2 11 CAIROLI, Antonio FMI Yamaha MX2 3 QualRace 1 10 PHILIPPAERTS, David FMI KTM MX1 (27) QualRace 3 12 GUARNERI, Davide FMI Yamaha Open 4 Australia 8 2 QualRace 3 33 BYRNE, Michael MA Suzuki Open 6 QualRace 2 32 MCFARLANE, Andrew MA Suzuki MX2 (21) QualRace 1 31 REED, Chad MA Yamaha MX1 5 Belgium 9 4 QualRace 3 6 DE DYCKER, Ken FMB Honda Open 5 QualRace 1 4 RAMON, Steve FMB Suzuki MX1 (11) QualRace 2 5 VAN HOREBEEK, Jeremy FMB KTM MX2 6 Germany 9 4 QualRace 1 37 NAGL, Maximilian DMSB KTM MX1 5 QualRace 3 39 SCHIFFER, Marcus DMSB KTM Open (13) QualRace 2 38 SIEGL, Daniel DMSB Yamaha MX2 7 Portugal 10 3 QualRace 3 42 RODRIGUES, Joaquim FNM KTM Open 7 QualRace 2 41 GONCALVES, Rui FNM KTM MX2 (20) QualRace 1 40 GONCALVES, Paulo FNM Honda MX1 8 France 10 4 QualRace 2 14 AUBIN, Nicolas FFM Yamaha MX2 6 QualRace 1 13 POURCEL, Sebastien FFM Kawasaki MX1 (28) QualRace 3 15 RENET, Pierre A. FFM Honda Open 9 Great Britain 13 5 QualRace 2 17 SEARLE, Tommy ACU KTM MX2 8 QualRace 1 16 MACKENZIE, Billy ACU Kawasaki MX1 (30) QualRace 3 18 NOBLE, James ACU Honda Open 10 Spain 16 7 QualRace 1 22 BARRAGAN, Jonathan RFME KTM MX1 9 QualRace 3 24 LOZANO, Alvaro RFME KTM Open (10) QualRace 2 23 CAMPANO, Carlos RFME Yamaha MX2 11 Japan 16 6 QualRace 3 36 ATSUTA, Yoshitaka MFJ Honda Open 10 QualRace 1 34 NARITA, Akira MFJ Yamaha MX1 (15) QualRace 2 35 MASUDA, Kazumasa MFJ Honda MX2 12 Canada 20 8 QualRace 2 53 FACCIOTTO, Colton CMA Kawasaki MX2 12 QualRace 3 54 MORGAN, Blair CMA Yamaha Open (12) QualRace 1 52 ROY, Jean Sebastien CMA Yamaha MX1 13 Switzerland 23 9 QualRace 1 49 BILL, Julien FMS Honda MX1 14 QualRace 2 50 TONUS, Arnaud FMS KTM MX2 (18) QualRace 3 51 RISTORI, Marc FMS Honda Open 14 Ireland 24 9 QualRace 2 114 BARR, Martin MCUI Yamaha MX2 15 QualRace 3 115 GARRETT, Wayne MCUI KTM Open (22) QualRace 1 113 MORTON, Tommy MCUI Honda MX1 15 Estonia 27 8 QualRace 3 27 LEOK, Aigar EMF Yamaha Open 19 QualRace 1 25 LEOK, Tanel EMF Kawasaki MX1 (19) QualRace 2 26 KRESTINOV, Gert EMF KTM MX2 16 Czech Republic 27 11 QualRace 3 48 KADLECEK, Michal ACCR Honda Open 16 QualRace 1 46 CEPELAK, Jiri ACCR KTM MX1 (23) QualRace 2 47 BRABEC, Jan ACCR Honda MX2 17 Sweden 28 14 QualRace 3 57 THURESSON, Filip SVEMO Suzuki Open 14 QualRace 1 55 HULTMAN, Andreas SVEMO Honda MX1 (18) QualRace 2 56 KARLSSON, Frederik SVEMO Yamaha MX2 18 Chile 30 13 QualRace 1 101 ISRAEL, Jeremias FMC Honda MX1 17 QualRace 3 103 ISRAEL, Benjamin FMC Honda Open (20) QualRace 2 102 ISRAEL, Vicente FMC Honda MX2 19 Latvia 31 10 QualRace 3 75 FREIBERGS, Lauris LAMSF Yamaha Open 21 QualRace 2 74 STEINBERGS, Ivo LAMSF Honda MX2 (26) QualRace 1 73 DAVIS, Livs LAMSF Honda MX1
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