LANCELOT GRIPS THE WMX WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

MATTERLEY BASIN (Great Britain), 24 May 2015 – On the rolling hills of Matterley Basin, which are situated close to the city of Winchester, England, the third round of the FIM Women’s Motocross World Championship took place where Team One One Four’s extremely talented French lady Livia Lancelottook control of the championship with a double race victory.

When the gates dropped under the clouded skies today, it was the former five times WMX world champion Stephanie Laier who took her second holeshot of the weekend but was quickly passed by yesterday’s race winner and the new championship leader Team One One Four’s Livia Lancelot. Lancelot, the 2008 FIM Women’s Motocross World Champion, was on a whole other level this weekend and blitzed everyone for her second double race victory of the season.

Yamaha MXFontaracing’s Kiara Fontanesi was around fifth around turn one but managed to slam her Yamaha into the second position before the end of lap two. Laier tried to respond but eventually lost site of the defending champion and was forced to settle for third.

Back in fourth Yamaha’s Nancy Van De Ven was in a killer battle with Honda’s Natalie Kane, but was soon gifted that position when Kane stalled her engine mid-race. With Kane struggling to fire her bike back up, Australian Maddison Brown happily took over fifth.

At the end of the weekend, Team One One Four’s Livia Lancelot placed a firm grip on the championship with two unchallenged race wins for the overall victory ahead of Stephanie Laier and Nancy Van De Ven who both stood on the podium for the first time this year.

Livia Lancelot now leads the championship by twenty-three points over the three times FIM WMX World Champion Kiara Fontanesi and will carry the red plate next weekend at her home round in Villars sous Ecot, France.

WMX Race 1 Top Ten: 1. Livia Lancelot (FRA, Kawasaki), 26:02.434; 2. Stephanie Laier (GER, KTM), +0:08.743; 3. Nancy Van De Ven (NED, Yamaha), +0:17.442; 4. Natalie Kane (IRL, Honda), +0:20.871; 5. Amandine Verstappen (BEL, KTM), +0:39.611; 6. Madison Brown (AUS, Yamaha), +0:46.335; 7. Francesca Nocera (ITA, Suzuki), +0:55.262; 8. Genette Vaage (NOR, KTM), +1:10.273; 9. Marianne Veenstra (NED, Husqvarna), +1:19.908; 10. Virginie Germond (SUI, Suzuki), +1:40.516

WMX Race 2 Top Ten: 1. Livia Lancelot (FRA, Kawasaki), 25:59.157; 2. Kiara Fontanesi (ITA, Yamaha), +0:14.292; 3. Stephanie Laier (GER, KTM), +0:21.285; 4. Nancy Van De Ven (NED, Yamaha), +0:33.293; 5. Madison Brown (AUS, Yamaha), +1:14.397; 6. Amandine Verstappen (BEL, KTM), +1:29.272; 7. Francesca Nocera (ITA, Suzuki), +1:29.440; 8. Marianne Veenstra (NED, Husqvarna), +1:33.829; 9. Natalie Kane (IRL, Honda), +1:37.871; 10. Justine Charroux (FRA, Yamaha), +1:43.601

WMX Overall Top Ten: 1. Livia Lancelot (FRA, KAW), 50 points; 2. Stephanie Laier (GER, KTM), 42 p.; 3. Nancy Van De Ven (NED, YAM), 38 p.; 4. Madison Brown (AUS, YAM), 31 p.; 5. Amandine Verstappen (BEL, KTM), 31 p.; 6. Natalie Kane (IRL, HON), 30 p.; 7. Francesca Nocera (ITA, SUZ), 28 p.; 8. Kiara Fontanesi (ITA, YAM), 27 p.; 9. Marianne Veenstra (NED, HUS), 25 p.; 10. Virginie Germond (SUI, SUZ), 21 p.

WMX Championship Top Ten: 1. Livia Lancelot (FRA, KAW), 144 points; 2. Kiara Fontanesi (ITA, YAM), 121 p.; 3. Nancy Van De Ven (NED, YAM), 99 p.; 4. Francesca Nocera (ITA, SUZ), 91 p.; 5. Amandine Verstappen (BEL, KTM), 82 p.; 6. Meghan Rutledge (AUS, KAW), 78 p.; 7. Genette Vaage (NOR, KTM), 77 p.; 8. Justine Charroux (FRA, YAM), 62 p.; 9. Virginie Germond (SUI, SUZ), 56 p.; 10. Larissa Papenmeier (GER, SUZ), 52 p.

WMX Manufacturers: 1. Kawasaki, 144 points; 2. Yamaha, 136 p.; 3. KTM, 100 p.; 4. Suzuki, 94 p.; 5. Honda, 62 p.; 6. Husqvarna, 45 p.