Team HRC‰Ûªs Gautier Paulin and Evgeny Bobryshev finished the 2015 MXGP season in the USA today placed second and third respectively in the World Championship.
Aboard the factory Honda CRF450RW, Paulin won five motos and Bobby won a further two qualifying races this season, and the duo shared a total of nine Grand Prix podiums.
Sealing second and third in the world, it is just the second year that the team has been a fully-fledged factory HRC effort, and coupled with a World Championship title in European MX250 and the MX2 World title on the works CRF250RW, it‰Ûªs been a strong year for Honda.
At the finale in Glen Helen this weekend, a pair of 8th place finishes for Paulin put him 7th overall in the MXGP of the USA, just behind Bobby who was sixth overall with a ninth and a fifth, having been running as high as second in race two.
‰ÛÏIt‰Ûªs great to end the season with second overall, and top Honda." Paulin commented. "It‰Ûªs been a hard season with many up and downs, with winning in Valkenswaard and then also having some really bad moments like with my knee.
"Towards the end of the season I was pushing but trying to control the knee, and in motocross it‰Ûªs difficult to do that. Now we concentrate on the Motocross of Nations, and then I have a full check on my condition to come back 100 per cent next season.
"I want to thank Honda and HRC, and all my partners, for this season and for all the hard work.‰Û
