Weekend Ketchup – Simpson dominates MX2 and De Reuver shows good early season form

Posted by Ray | 2 March 2009 | Comment

One of the UK’s most popular motocross events took place on Sunday and it was a Brit that showed everyone else how it’s done, Shaun Simpson stole the show with two devastating victories from Redbull KTM team mate Rui Goncalves.

The young star had heaps of support from the cheering crowd and so he should as the Scottish star is really flying the flag for British motocross in 2009.

In MX1 the story was slightly different as two riders shared the wins, Marc De Reuver took moto one but big Ken De Dycker put his first race DNF behind to him to control from the front and win race two.
Top British rider was CCM’s Tom Church in sixth.

Here’s what happened at Hawkstone in pictures:

Simpson was dominate right from the drop of the gate in both races, if there’s one person to get behind in this years British and world championship it has got to be Simmo.

A rider who went slightly under the radar at Hawkstone was Shane Carless who ripped to a fourth place finish in moto one, “I had a great start and just went for it,” explained the welsh rider afterwards. Let’s hope this continues next week at Canada Heights.

Teka Suzuki has a young rider to keep an eye on in 2009 and that is Xavier Boog, he chased Simpson and Goncalves all day but had to settle for two third place finishes in both moto’s.

Mark Jones talks to his fans about his recent “Moto Cribs video” and probably explaining what life is like as a landlord and Porsche driver.

After a horrific start straight crash Gordon Crockard is being attended to by the medics, let’s just hope Gordy makes a full recovery and returns to the track soon – all the best GC from MOTO.

Inches from disaster as the newly styled Samsung truck misses both the CAS Honda and CCM awning in what could have been a costly reversing exercise on day one of the season.

Kevin Strijbos is showing great early season form but Billy Mackenzie’s first race third position was cancelled out with a second moto DNF after a get off early in the race.

The crowds were out in force this year, thankfully the sun shined for most of the day and CCM rider Jason Dougan showed that he has the pace after last week’s disaster at Little Silver – is Dougie going to be a dark horse for the MX1 British title this year we wonder?

Eric Eggens still has it, another good day for the Dutch sand master finishing fifth overall.

Don’t forget folks the MOTO Motion video will be online tomorrow – best get your popcorn supply in as its going to be darn good.

[u][b]MX1 Results
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1 14 Marc De Reuver 45 25 20
2 100 Kevin Strijbos 44 22 22
3 11 Steve Ramon 36 18 18
4 10 Cedric Melotte 31 16 15
5 80 Erik Eggens 29 15 14
6 24 Tom Church 26 14 12
7 9 Ken De Dycker 25 – 25
8 46 Jason Dougan 25 12 13
9 4 Mark Jones 23 13 10
10 23 Carl Nunn 21 5 16

[u][b]MX2 Results
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1 4 Shaun Simpson 50 25 25
2 5 Rui Goncalves 44 22 22
3 121 Xavier Boog 40 20 20
4 34 Joel Roelants 31 16 15
5 272 Neville Bradshaw 30 12 18
6 91 Mattis Karro 29 13 16
7 60 Scott Elderfield 21 7 14
8 128 Rasmus Jorgensen 20 8 12
9 47 Pascal Leuret 20 9 11
10 79 Lars Oldekamp 19 11 8

Images by Ray Chuss