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tens' racing team [Wilvo] was
simple," said Pit Beirer, KTM's
Director of Motorsport. "Both are
already proven as two of the most
professional and driven outfits in
the race paddock. With their in-
put it's clear that Husqvarna will
be back racing in a very serious
and concerted manner, ensuring
future champions will be added
to the list of greats like [Torsten]
Hallman, [Malcolm] Smith and
P31
[Heikki] Mikkola."
Jacky Martens, a former
World Motocross Champion,
has already been named team
manager for the Wilvo Nestaan
Husqvarna Factory Racing Team.
CAIROLI TURNS 60
PHOTOGRAPHY BY RAY ARCHER/KTM IMAGES
W
inning never gets
old, even when Antonio
it's something that An- Cairoli
tonio Cairoli does on a claimed his
60th career
regular basis in the Mo- MX GP win in
tocross World Champi- Sweden.
onship – 60 times to be
precise. For the Italian,
aboard the Red Bull
KTM, the victory at the
Swedish Grand Prix at
Uddevalla on June 30,
was sweet - not only because of the milestone,
but because it was a
great way to redeem
last year's nightmare
double DNF at this venue.
"Last year was one
of the worst GPs of my
career and this year one
of the best, with winning my 60th second moto, only to have it takGP," Cairoli said. "Everything was en back with three laps to go.
perfect. I didn't risk too much in
Rockstar Energy Suzuki's
qualifying because of my knee in- Clement Desalle finished third
jury in the last GP, but today I was overall. Desalle moved up a notch
riding well, I got the holeshots and in the second moto after Tommy
I could control the race."
Searle was penalized for not
Cairoli's teammate Ken de obeying a yellow caution flag.
Dycker also had a good day, finMax Nagl finished fourth overishing second overall with a 4-2 all.
tally. At one point, De Dycker
In the MX2 class, Cairoli's
took the lead from Cairoli in the teammate Jeffrey Herlings was
able to keep his undefeated
season alive with his 10th overall win. He didn't make it easy
on himself, though, after crashing in the first turn of the first
moto. He made a valiant effort to
go from last to third by the end
of the moto and then received
help from his teammate Jordi
Tixier who beat moto-one winner
Christophe Chalier. That gave
the overall to Herlings.
