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Jeremy Van Horebeek takes a hard knock in France

08/06/2009

Reaching the mid way point in the 2009 MX2 World Championship, Jeremy Van Horebeek made the journey to Ernee in France this weekend, as one of the few non French riders capable of running up front in this year’s MX2 class.

Saturday’s short qualifying race saw the ‘Jerre’ get a good start, rounding up the opening lap in 6^th position. Unfortunately fighting for 4^th position on lap 3 Van Horebeek made a mistake and went down. Quickly re-mounting, the KTM Factory Junior rider put on a charge to get back through to 15^th position by the chequered flag, salvaging a reasonable gate pick for Sunday.

In Heat 1 the ‘Jerre’ was pretty quick out the gate, and up in 12^th position on the opening lap. Whilst charging hard and up to 10^th position on lap 6, Van Horebeek struck bad luck when French rider Nioco Aubin jumped skew and landed on his hand in mid air. In too much pain to continue racing the ‘Jerre’ had no choice but to pull out the race and seek medical attention.

Still unsure as to the extent of his injuries, the determined Belgian made the call to start Heat 2 with the hope of at least scoring some World Championship points. Riding in a lot of pain Van Horebeek managed to complete the race, eventually crossing the finish line in a well deserved 11^th position.

The ‘Jerre’ had this to say at the end of a painful day: “In qualifying and the warm up today I felt very good. Then in that first heat Aubin slipped and jumped onto my hand, which left me on the floor and unable to even hold onto the bike to rejoin the race. In the second moto I just had to try and keep it smooth and just finish the race. Tommorrow I will get my specialist to check it all out, but hopefully my hand is just badly knocked and not broken!”

Round 9 of the World Motocross Championship takes place in Germany in 2 weeks time on the 20-21^st June.

Race results:

MX2 Race 1
1 Musquin, Marvin FRA KTM
2 Boissiere, Anthony FRA KTM
3 Frossard, Steven FRA Kawasaki
4 Larrieu, Loic FRA Yamaha
5 Tonus, Arnaud SUI KTM
6 Teillet, Valentin FRA KTM
7 Rombaut, Loic FRA Kawasaki
8 Paulin, Gautier FRA Kawasaki
9 Aubin, Nicolas FRA Yamaha
10 Goncalves, Rui POR KTM
11 Roelants, Joel BEL KTM
12 Bobryshev, Evgeny RUS Yamaha
13 Boog, Xavier FRA Suzuki
14 Guarneri, Davide ITA Yamaha
15 Roczen, Ken GER Suzuki
35 van Horebeek, Jeremy BEL KTM

MX2 Race 2
1 Musquin, Marvin FRA KTM
2 Roczen, Ken GER Suzuki
3 Guarneri, Davide ITA Yamaha
4 Paulin, Gautier FRA Kawasaki
5 Larrieu, Loic FRA Yamaha
6 Monni, Manuel ITA Yamaha
7 Boissiere, Anthony FRA KTM
8 Aubin, Nicolas FRA Yamaha
9 Roelants, Joel BEL KTM
10 Teillet, Valentin FRA KTM
11 van Horebeek, Jeremy BEL KTM
12 Goncalves, Rui POR KTM
13 Pocock, Mel GBR Yamaha
14 Frossard, Steven FRA Kawasaki
15 Bobryshev, Evgeny RUS Yamaha

MX2 GP Overall
1 Musquin, Marvin FRA KTM 50
2 Boissiere, Anthony FRA KTM 36
3 Larrieu, Loic FRA Yamaha 34
4 Paulin, Gautier FRA Kawasaki 31
5 Roczen, Ken GER Suzuki 28
6 Guarneri, Davide ITA Yamaha 27
7 Frossard, Steven FRA Kawasaki 27
8 Teillet, Valentin FRA KTM 26
9 Aubin, Nicolas FRA Yamaha 25
10 Roelants, Joel BEL KTM 22
11 Goncalves, Rui POR KTM 20
12 Monni, Manuel ITA Yamaha 19
13 Rombaut, Loic FRA Kawasaki 16
14 Tonus, Arnaud SUI KTM 16
15 Bobryshev, Evgeny RUS Yamaha 15
16 Pocock, Mel GBR Yamaha 11
17 Boog, Xavier FRA Suzuki 11
18 van Horebeek, Jeremy BEL KTM 10

MX2 World championship standings:
1 Musquin, M. FRA 284
2 Paulin, G. FRA 250
3 Guarneri, D. ITA 235
4 Goncalves, Rui POR 222
5 Frossard, S. FRA 205
6 Boog, Xavier FRA 177
7 Aubin, Nicolas FRA 161
8 Monni, Manuel ITA 134
9 van Horebeek, J. BEL 128
10 Roczen, Ken GER 120
11 Larrieu, Loic FRA 115
12 Tonus, Arnaud SUI 108
13 Roelants, Joel BEL 103
14 Boissiere, A. FRA 100
15 Osborne, Zach USA 100

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