Rockstar Energy Suzuki World MXGP’s Clement Desalle will undergo treatment on his right shoulder and will try to contest the Grand Prix of France – round eight of 18in the FIM MXGP Motocross World Championship – tomorrow morning after suffering two crashes during practice and qualification around the short and compact Villars sous Ecot circuit near the Swiss border today. A large turnout of spectators found vantage points around the steep hillside venue and the hard-pack terrain was tough to deal with in terms of grip and lines. The French soil was watered before the 20-minute Qualification Heat and became even trickier to judge. Desalle had a problem earlier in the Timed Practice session when he clipped a stone and fell. Holding his shoulder, the Belgian – who had set the second-fastest lap-time – needed some attention for discomfort and pain around the joint. Able to take to the line for the Qualification Heat ‘#25’ made a good start but felt a twinge in his shoulder after over-jumping a table-top before the finish line. Unfortunately he hit the dirt again immediately after as he was struck by Todd Waters and then once more by Nico Aubin and this led to his retirement and the end of a heavy day. Nursing his left knee as well as his upper torso Desalle was unsure of his condition to compete on Sunday but left the facility Saturday evening with the goal of trying to compete and take points. Clement Desalle: “At the moment I don’t know if I will ride but I will try. I have some pain in my shoulder and my left knee also. I need to make some checks in the medical centre and I will know more later.” -- Two injuries and this guy is still gonna try to ride? Stud either way and he has 2 weeks to recover after this race till the GP of Italy 14 June.
These FIM guys are all new names to me really... This guy was picked to be on top battling with AC222 for the championship before the season... He was sitting in 2nd place right behind Max before the French leg of the season... I'll have to follow up on him, but I think I read where he tried to ride a lap at the last race and get some points but could not. He's got 2 weeks off before the next race on Italy.
Desalle is really good. Romain Febvre is good as well. He rode Husky in the MX2 Class last season. He's in his rookie year in the 450 Class on a YZ450 and really pushing. They also race TM's in the GP. You NEVER see TM's here in the U.S. at Nationals but you see them in the GP.
AMA will not homologate TMs as well as TM is unprepared to spend the cash for AMA legalization for it's low sales rate and ROI would be counterproductive for the way they operate.
a small stand alone Italian artisan family owned company that build entire bikes and world championship winning Kart engines. the internet is wonderful tool....use it wisely.hahahaa http://www.tmracing.it/
Sounds like a successful company to date. But not even comparable to the Japan and Austrian companies who are not standalone bike companies ... Does anyone remember the bwm and KTM buyouts? I do and it was a real education process... -- TC, there is the honda crew also that stick their heads out from time to time in the results this yr ...These are the rider(s) that won at the MXoN last yr ....
Off-topic, but TMs are very sexy. Love the airbox/tank location swap, very well made from what I've read, I recognize those forks too! Best wishes to DeSalle, was great having him in the mix.
