Bring on Mexico and BrazilBrazil always brings technical circuits and big jumps, but Mexico is really an unknown as far as what type of track we can expect.After three rounds of the FIM World Motocross Championship have been run in Holland, Bulgaria, and Italy the MX1 class has three different winners in; Italian Antonio Cairoli, and Frenchmen Gautier Paulin and Christophe Pourcel, while the MX2 class has Jeffrey Herlings (The Netherlands) with two wins and Tommy Searle (Great Britain) with one win.
Five times World Motocross Champion Cairoli is looking forward to visiting Mexico and Brazil and just as he tries to do at every event he visits, it’s not just about being a racer, but also being a tourist. "I really like these new countries, places like Mexico, it’s good for the sport and it’s also nice to see the different cultures and explore different things. I try to visit the country and not just go from one hotel to the next. Mexico seems like a pretty cool place and we will make sure we enjoy it.” Of course American Michael Leib has also been invited back to the Monster Energy Yamaha team of Steve Dixon and Leib will be looking to improve on his podium finish at the Grand Prix of Italy last weekend. Leib will again fill in for the injured Arnaud Tonus and Zach Osborne. This will be the first Grand Prix of Mexico and while Mexico has had a number of good riders in the past, they are yet to claim a Grand Prix victory, or have a World Motocross Champion. Former FIM World 125cc and 250cc Motocross Champion Sebastien Tortelli of France has worked hard to make sure that the Mexican people can enjoy a special event when the Grand Prix of Mexico arrives on May 12 and 13. "We have put a lot of work into this event and I know from races I have run in the past the Mexican riders and people really love their Motocross. I had an International race in Mexico and that was a big success with riders like Stefan Everts racing in it. I know it’s a new Grand Prix, but it is a very special race as we have never seen the leading MX1 or MX2 riders in this country and that is going to be really interesting.” With the MX1 class full of possible GP winners and the MX2 class really hotting up with Herlings and Searle in tough battles, anything is possible in Mexico and Brazil and it won’t be long before all the leading FIM World Motocross Championship riders start to board their planes for these countries as the sport gets another breath of fresh air from two new circuits on the GP calendar. |
