After several years of frustration, the once-dominant USA team re-took the Motocross des Nations championship today in France. Winning two of the three motos, and finishing second in the last, Team USA scored a total of 19 points – allowing it to defeat second place Italy by a comfortable margin. If you read the table below carefully, you can determine the finish in each moto of each rider for each nation. The moto finishes are layed out in the following order: 125/500, 125/250, 250/500.
Motocross des Nations overall classification |
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| Pos | Nation | Federation | Name/Class | Race 1 | Race 2 | Race 3 | Overall |
| 1 | USA | AMA |
Travis Pastrana (125) Ricky Carmichael (250) Ryan Hughes (open) |
10 / 1 | (15)/ 1 | 2 / 5 | 19 |
| 2 | Italy | FMI |
Thomas Traversini (125) Claudio Federici (250) Andrea Bartolini (open) |
12 / 3 | (22)/ 5 | 13 / 3 | 36 |
| 3 | Belgium | FMB |
Patrick Caps (125) Marnicq Bervoets (250) Joel Smets (open) |
15 /(NC) | 13 / 3 | 4 / 9 | 44 |
| 4 | Great Britain | ACU |
Carl Nunn (125) Paul Cooper (250) James Dobb (open) |
18 / 2 | (24)/ 4 | 8 / 15 | 47 |
| 5 | Republic of South Africa | MSA |
Grant Langston (125) Greg Albertyn (250) Ryan Hunt (open) |
6 / 22 | 11 / 10 | 6 /(27) | 55 |
| 6 | Japan | MFJ |
Akira Narita (125) Yoshitaka Atsuta (250) Ryuichiro Takahama (open) |
17 / 14 | 12 / 7 | 12 /(23) | 62 |
| 7 | Australia | MA |
Michael Byrne (125) Andrew Mc Farlane (250) Chad Reed (open) |
(NC)/ 7 | 21 / 26 | 20 / 25 | 99 |
| 8 | Finland | SML |
Jussi Vehvilainen (125) Marko Kovalainen (250) Miska Aaltonen (open) |
20 / 9 | 25 / 28 | (NC)/ 17 | 99 |
| 9 | Czech Republic | CMF |
Jan Zaremba (125) Jiri Cepelak (250) Michal Kadlecek (open) |
26 / 13 | (33)/ 19 | 19 / 26 | 103 |
| 10 | Germany | DMSB |
Marco Dorsch (125) Jochen Jasinski (250) Bernd Eckenbach (open) |
16 /(NC) | 32 / 14 | 21 / 22 | 105 |
| 11 | Ireland | MCUI |
Adam Lyons (125) Gordon Crockard (250) Trevor Cubitt (open) |
33 / 28 | (NC)/ 8 | 7 / 33 | 109 |
| 12 | Spain | RFME |
Manuel Rivas (125) Oscar Lanza (250) Francisco Garcia Vico (open) |
23 / 5 | 36 /(NC) | 30 / 16 | 110 |
| 13 | Austria | OeAMTC |
Robert Jonas (125) Siegfried Bauer (250) Erwin Machtlinger (open) |
34 / 8 | (35)/ 23 | 31 / 14 | 110 |
| 14 | Portugal | FNM |
Joaquim Rodrigues (125) Paulo Goncalves (250) Cesar Peixe (open) |
19 /(31) | 27 / 16 | 24 / 28 | 114 |
| 15 | Denmark | DMU |
Brian Jorgensen (125) Mikkel Caprani (250) Kenneth Frandsen (open) |
21 / 29 | 17 / 30 | 29 /(NC) | 126 |
| 16 | Latvia | LAMSF |
Aigars Bobkovs (125) Lauris Freibergs (250) Mairis Levans (open) |
27 / 30 | 31 / 20 | 18 /(34) | 126 |
| 17 | Croatia | HMS |
Viktor Bolsec (125) Nenad Sipek (250) Goran Goricki (open) |
32 / 25 | 34 / 18 | 32 /(35) | 141 |
| 18 | France | FFM |
Stephane Roncada (125) Sébastien Tortelli (250) Frédéric Bolley (open) |
11 /(NC) | 9 / 2 | 1 / NC | 23 |
| 19 | New Zealand | MNZ |
Shayne King (125) Joshua Coppins (250) Darryl King (open) |
24 /(NC) | NC / 6 | 11 / 10 | 51 |
| 20 | Sweden | SVEMO |
Petri Jarvela (125) Joakim Karlsson (250) Peter Johansson (open) |
(NC)/ 4 | 29 / NC | NC / NC | 33 |
