Sebastien Pourcel and Marvin Musquin took the overall class victories in the second round of the French championship at the classic Pernes-les-Fontaines track, but neither are contesting the full series so the significant honours on the day went to Xavier Boog and Steven Frossard.

With Greg Aranda battered and bruised from a big get-off on Saturday, Boog grabbed his chance to pull back some points. Only 9th in the opener after stalling, he even headed KRT teammate Pourcel in race two and only lost out to his team leader in the closing stages of the final moto as all of the 450s chased Musquin, the world champion winning a moto in the combined class racing at Pernes for the second year in a row. Boog now trails Aranda by just one point – 122 to 121 - in the standings with consistent Anthony Boissiere a close third on 115.

Musquin hadn't been able to live with Frossard in the opener as the Kawasaki pushed Pourcel to the finish, but the KTM reversed their positions in the second encounter before heading even the 450s in the final moto. But Frossard, slowed in race three when he took a rock in the stomach, had the satisfaction of extending his lead in the MX2 series to 18 points over CLS Pro Circuit teammate Jeremy Van Horebeek.

The third round of the Italian series took the teams to the famous Malpensa track next to Milan international airport, and saw Honda dominate the 450 racing.

Hawkstone supremo Tanel Leok bounced back for a second moto win after being forced to chase through the field from 36th on lap one in the opener after a first lap crash. His LS teammate Davide Guarneri had won that race, but the overall went to Martin Honda’s Jimmy Albertson from 3-2 moto finishes; a remarkable performance from the young American who had been unable to train all week after going down with flu.

Josh Coppins made his comeback from injury on the Aprilia with a new gearbox and holeshot race two before settling down to 6th on the day.

In MX2 Christophe Charlier ran way with both motos and now has a 16 point advantage over Marcus Schiffer in the series.

In the Dutch championship opener at Mill David Philippaerts destroyed the locals to win both MX1 motos, and Monster Rinaldi Yamaha teammate Gautier Paulin completed the misery for the Dutch and Belgian sand experts by taking the MX2 overall from Joel Roelants and Jeff Herlings.

Ken De Dycker chased home Philippaerts for a YZ450F 1-2 in the first moto, but Marc de Reuver was second on the day from 4-2 motos with Beursfoon Suzuki teammate Kevin Strijbos joining him on the podium after third in each moto. Defending champion Patrick Ross was edged out of 4th by Swede Tom Söderstrom on the Van Beers Yam.

Roelants won the MX2 opener from Paulin and Herlings, but had no answer to the two factory riders in race two; Dennis Verbruggen crashed out hard in race one and did not figure in the second moto results.

But the most sensational win was surely Ken Roczen's double defeat of Max Nagl at Frankenbach in Germany. The Teka Suzuki teenager led the opener all the way to win by 20 seconds after the KTM factory man ran out of track mid-moto in his effort to run down the 250F, and then they fought a fantastic duel in the second half hour moto.

Nagl led initially but Roczen ran him down mid-moto. This may be a chicken-shit race but the MX1 world number two has his pride and came storming back, setting a sub 1-36 lap to enter the last two laps just a tenth of a second down; it was all-or-nothing and, the leaders colliding as they went for the same line past lappers, Max went down to trail home 20 seconds back again. Their pace was so hot that third-placed Arnaud Tonus was well over a minute down at the end of 30 minutes in each race, with virtually all of the remaining riders lapped at least once !

Down in Spain Jonathan Barragan had little opposition at Sevilla, but had the satisfaction of a second consecutive maximum score in his national series as he continues to get acquainted with the Kawasaki.

The girls were racing on three fronts. Livi Lancelot ran away with two motos at Pernes, but Elien De Winter took the overall as the the 08 world champion was too late for the pre-parc of race one !

Up in Holland Maria Franke took a double victory for Diga KTM, while in Germany Steffi Laier went 13-8 against the support class boys at Frankenbach.

PERNES

MX1: 1 Sebastien Pourcel (KRT Kawasaki) 1-2-2, 2 Xavier Boog (KRT Kawasaki) 9-1-3, 3 Anthony Boissiere (Fazza KTM) 4-3-5, 4 Greg Aranda (Bud Rockstar Kawasaki) 5-8-4

MX2: 1 Marvin Musquin (Red Bull KTM) 3-4-1, 2 Steven Frossard (CLS Pro Circuit Kawasaki) 2-5-7, 3 Jeremy Van Horebeek (CLS Pro Circuit Kawasaki) 6-6-6



MALPENSA

MX1: 1 Jimmy Albertson (Martin Honda) 3-2, 2 Manuel Monni (3C Yamaha) 2-3, 3 Davide Guarneri (LS Honda) 1-5, 4 Tanel Leok (LS Honda) 9-1, 5 Julien Bill (JK Datch Aprilia) 7-4, 6 Josh Coppins (Aprilia) 4-8

MX2: 1 Christophe Charlier (Monster Gariboldi Yamaha) 1-1, 2 Marcus Schiffer (AXO Silver Action KTM) 2-2, 3 Harri Kullas (Monster Gariboldi Yamaha) 3-4



MILL

MX1: 1 David Philippaerts (Monster Rinaldi Yamaha) 1-1, 2 Marc de Reuver (Beursfoon Suzuki) 4-2, 3 Kevin Strijbos (Beursfoon Suzuki) 3-3, 4 Tom Söderstrom (Van Beers Yamaha) 6-4

MX2: 1 Gautier Paulin (Monster Rinaldi Yamaha) 2-1, 2 Joel Roelants (JM Nestaan KTM) 1-3, 3 Jeff Herlings (Red Bull KTM) 3-2


FRANKENBACH

MX1/MX2: 1 Ken Roczen (Teka Suzuki 250F) 1-1, 2 Max Nagl (Red Bull KTM) 2-2, 3 Arnaud Tonus (Teka Suzuki 250F) 3-3