Cairoli takes Latvian victory.
Antonio Cairoli extend꧟ed his MX1 Motocross World Championship lead to 57🍸 points, a margin in excessive of two race wins, with victory at Kegums in Latvia on Sunday.
The Red Bull Yamaha rider was visibly frustrated at finishing just 0.258sec short of Clement Desalle in race one, but caught the leaders earlier in ra♏ce two to win by almost six seconds from Monster Yamaha rider Josh Coppins.
But fifth for Desalle was enough to hand the Belgian second on the overaౠll podium, with Coppins one point behind in third after finishing fourth in race one.
Antonio Cairoli extended his MX1 Motocross World Championship lead to 57🐈 points, a margin in excessive of two race wins, with victory at Kegums in Latvia on Sunday.
The Red Bull Yamaha rider was visibly frustrated at fin♍ishing just 0.258sec short of Clement Desalle in race one, but caught the leaders earlier i꧒n race two to win by almost six seconds from Monster Yamaha rider Josh Coppins.
But fifth for Desalle was enough to hand the Belgian second on the overall podium, with Coppins one point behind in third after ඣfinishing f🌠ourth in race one.
KTM's Max Nagl is now second in the world championship after 3-6 race finishes, with reigning world champion David Philippaerts slipping to third with 5-💧7 results. Philippaerts is🌟 now one point behind Nagl and 13 ahead of team-mate Coppins.
Pole position man Ken de Dycker fell after a collision with Desalle in race one, which saw the Teka Suzuki rider remount to finish s♔eventh, befo🌟re a third place in race two for fifth overall behind Nagl.
In the MX2 races, Rui Goncalves returned to ♊GP winning form with 2-1 race results, although KTM team-mate and world championship leader Marvin Musquin exactly matched the Portuguese rider for points.
Gautier Paulin (3-2) was third for Bud Racing Kawasaki with young German Grand Prix winner Ken Roczen fourth (2-3) ಞbut also only due to a worse second mo❀to finish, having scored the same points as Paulin.
Musquin 🐈now holds a 49 point lead over Paulin in the world championship, with Goncalves 21 points further back in third.
Fiv𒆙e rou🌠nds remain before the end of the 2009 season.
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