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CMRC Racing News
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(Stouffville, ON – August 8, 2010)
Kornel Nemeth wins MX1 – Clean sweep for Tyler Medaglia in MX2
Round 8 of the Monster Energy Motocross Nationals in Richmond, Ontario, on Sunday, saw the Hungarian Kornel Nemeth claim the MX1 overall on the strength of 2-1 motos. In MX2 action, Tyler Medaglia lived up to expectations by dominating on his home track and deliver his first clean sweep of the season.
In the Women’s Nationals presented by Honda, Heidi Cooke won the overall on the strength of 2-1 motos and at the same time finished the eastern segment of the points chase as champion.
The threatening overcast skies, which plagued the Ottawa area all day, started sprinkling a light rain on the Sand Del Lee track during the first MX1 moto. It would hold off for a while, only to start again at the beginning of the second women’s moto. From there it went from bad to worse, ensuring a hard rain and muddy track by the time the MX1 contingent gated for their final moto of the day.
Yamaha/Red Bull/Blackfoot/Fox Racing’s Dusty Klatt shot his way into the first MX1 holeshot with Rockstar Energy/OTSFF/Troy Lee Designs/Two Wheel Suzuki Bobby Kiniry, Machine Racing Honda’s Kyle Keast, Royal Distributing KTM’s Kornel Nemeth and Rockstar Energy/OTSFF/Troy Lee Designs/Two Wheel Suzuki’s Freddy Karrle following.
Klatt wasted no time to check out on the chase group and rode unchallenged to the win. Behind him Keast settled into second place doing his best to keep Nemeth behind him. Kiniry tangled with another rider shortly after the first turn, went down, and could not restart his stalled bike.
For the rest of the moto, the race was for a top-three finish with Nemeth dogging Keast and finally passing him around the halfway point. By this time, Karrle had also disappeared from the track after stalling his bike while running in fourth.
Monster Energy/Cernic’s/Kawasaki’s Troy Adams, who inherited fourth from Karrle, then set out to chase down Keast. Charging hard he reeled in Keast and stuck a pass on him on the final lap to claim the remaining podium slot. Redemption Racing Kawasaki’s Mason Phillips sealed the top-five, a position he held down for the second half of the moto.
Keast grabbed the second moto holeshot ahead of Klatt, Nemeth, Bulldog Racing Kawasaki’s Kevin Urquhart and Kiniry. Within a few laps, however, an unleashed Klatt took over the lead and would dominate the rain-soaked moto till the closing laps when an on fire Nemeth passed him. It was the first overall victory for Nemeth on Canadian soil.
In a relatively uneventful moto—other than the rain and mud providing an additional challenge and Nemeth passing Klatt—Keast cruised to a third place finish, which gave him third overall on the day. Adams greeted the checkered flag in fourth followed by Urquhart to seal the top-five.
On the strength of 1-2 motos, Klatt took second overall on the day, but more importantly he cemented the championship and will not have to worry where he finishes this coming Sunday in Walton.
As in the first moto, Kiniry again succumbed to a mechanical problem and found himself on the sidelines some three laps into the moto. A real disastrous day, thus, for Kiniry, who was in second place in the points chase—a position that now has been taken over by Nemeth.
In the first MX2 moto, Yamaha/Red Bull/Blackfoot/Fox Racing’s Tyler Medaglia nailed down the holeshot ahead of his teammate Kyle Beaton, Orange Motorsports KTM’s Jeremy Medaglia, Monster Energy/Leading Edge Kawasaki’s Teddy Maier, and Duroy Racing KTM’s Kaven Benoit.
In a moto that saw the top-five candidates race the wheels off their bikes, Tyler Medaglia proved to be invincible on his home track. Despite a number of challenges from his brother Jeremy, and towards the end of the moto Teddy Maier, Medaglia convincingly won the race in championship style.
For a good portion of the moto, the action centred on the remaining podium finishes which went to Maier in second and Benoit in third. Beaton, who ran with the front-runners from the start, finished fourth while Jeremy Medaglia, dealing with a rear brake problem, finished fifth.
Orange Motorsports KTM’s Richard Grey grabbed the second MX2 moto holeshot only to be passed by Tyler Medaglia, Maier, Beaton, and Benoit on the first lap.
Medaglia and Maier would race on the edge for the entire moto. Defending champ Maier challenged Medaglia for the lead to the bitter end but was unable to get by him. Although Beaton was all over Maier for a while, he exited the track with mechanical problems while running in third.
Meanwhile, Jeremy Medaglia put a last lap pass on Benoit, who had inherited third from Beaton.
Second overall on the day went to Teddy Maier, thanks to his 2-2 motos; Benoit snagged third overall on the strength of 3-4 motos.
Rockstar Energy/OTSFF/Troy Lee Designs/Two Wheel Suzuki’s Heidi Cooke grabbed the holeshot of the first Women’s Nationals presented by Honda moto. She was passed by Royal Distributing KTM’s Kate McKerroll right after the first turn; not long after that WMXTremel Honda’s Taylor Miller stuck a pass on the defending champion as well.
Within three laps, Cooke was back in second place but despite a number of challenges to reclaim the lead, was unable to get by Miller.
Cooke pegged the second moto holeshot as well only to lose the lead to McKerroll again after the first turn. Cooke’s teammate Jocelyn Killough also got by, but this time around Cooke reclaimed the lead on the second lap and kept it to the checkered flag. She finished some 10 seconds ahead of second place Miller and third place McKerroll.
With her 1-2 moto results, Cooke snared the overall and along with it the eastern segment of the Women’s Nationals. The overall national championship will be decided next week in Walton when east meets west in a final shootout.
Jacqueline Ross, who was second in the points chase, did not show up at Sand Del Lee due an injury she sustained at Round 7.
MX1 Overall Results
1 Kornel Nemeth (Hungary)
2 Dusty Klatt (BC)
3 Kyle Keast (ON)
4 Troy Adams (USA)
5 Travis Sewel (USA)
6 Mason Phillips (NZ)
7 Kevin Urquhart (USA)
8 Willy Shatrau (USA)
9 Michael Willard (USA)
10 Ryan Millar (MB)
MX2 Overall Results
1 Tyler Medaglia (ON)
2 Teddy Maier (USA)
3 Kaven Benoit (QC)
4 Jeremy Medaglia (ON)
5 Jared Allison (AB)
6 Parker Allison (AB)
7 Jerry Lorenz (USA)
8 Kyle McGlynn (AB)
9 Richard Grey (ON)
10 Nicky Beatty (ON)
Women’s Nationals Overall Results
1 Heidi Cooke (NS)
2 Taylor Miller (USA)
3 Kate McKerroll (ON)
4 Kirsten MacDonald (ON)
5 Jocelyn Killough (ON)
For complete results and points standings please go to www.cmrcracing.com.
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Sand Del Lee MX Park is home to round 8 of the CMRC Canadian National MX Series. After 7 rounds of sunny skies, things were about to change this weekend as overcast skies were the order of the day. Light rain was felt during the first MX-1 moto changing to hard rain and mud by the time the day’s racing was over making things interesting at the SDL sand track.
