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Pichon comes out swinging in Zolder

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Under clear skies and perfect conditions, Frenchman Mickael Pichon has dominated qualifying at the opening round of the FIM World Motocross Championhsip at Zolder in Belgium, Saturday (Apr-2). Pichon only made seven attempts at the number one gate pick during the 30 minute session in which the former world champion clocked his fastest time of 1:42.097 in his second lap. ‰ÛÏThis track is pretty difficult and it‰Ûªs really easy to do a mistake. You have to be focused when you do a fast lap and when I ended my pole time I knew that I had made a couple of mistakes but I also knew that it was a good lap. I did it pretty early in the session and I didn‰Ûªt need to do another one as nobody beat me,‰Û
MX1 Qualifying
Pos Rider
Nat
Bike
Best
in lap
Gap
Laps
1
 Pichon, Mickael
FRA
Honda
1:42.097
 2 0:00.000
7
2
 Ramon, Steve
BEL
KTM
1:42.292
 10 0:00.195
10
3
 Townley, Ben
NZL
KTM
1:42.454
 8 0:00.357
9
4
 de Dijcker, Ken
BEL
Honda
1:42.523
 8 0:00.426
13
5
 Smets, Joel
BEL
Suzuki
1:42.817
 5 0:00.720
13
6
 van Daele, Marvin
BEL
Honda
1:43.076
 6 0:00.979
11
7
 Pyrhonen, Antti
FIN
TM
1:43.307
 6 0:01.210
11
8
 Cooper, Paul
GBR
Honda
1:43.528
 8 0:01.431
9
9
 Everts, Stefan
BEL
Yamaha
1:44.088
 8 0:01.991
12

MX2 Qualifying Race 1
Pos Rider Nat.
Bike
Time
Laps
Gap
In lap
1
 Rattray, Tyla RSA
KTM
 24:45.754 0 0:00.000 3
2
 McFarlane, Andrew AUS
Yamaha
 24:59.187 0 0:13.433 4
3
 Melotte, Cedric BEL
Yamaha
 24:59.699 0 0:13.945 7
4
 Sword, Stephen GBR
Kawasaki
 25:12.082 0 0:26.328 5
5
 Brown, Mike USA
Honda
 25:24.763 0 0:39.009 2
6
 Church, Tom GBR
Kawasaki
 25:26.683 0 0:40.929 3
7
 Leok, Aigar EST
KTM
 25:27.514 0 0:41.760 5
8
 Nunn, Carl GBR
KTM
 25:31.341 0 0:45.587 4
9
 Eggens, Erik NED
Honda
 25:37.800 0 0:52.046 5
10
 Mackenzie, Billy GBR
Yamaha
 25:48.483 0 1:02.729 7

MX2 Qualifying Race2
Pos Rider Nat.
Bike
Time
Laps
Gap
In lap
1
 Cairoli, Antonio ITA
Yamaha
 23:41.920 0 0:00.000 5
2
 Chiodi, Alessio ITA
Yamaha
 23:42.269 0 0:00.349 13
3
 Pourcel, Christophe FRA
Kawasaki
 23:47.644 0 0:05.724 3
4
 Caps, Patrick BEL
Honda
 23:55.167 0 0:13.247 5
5
 Pourcel, Sebastien FRA
Kawasaki
 23:57.537 0 0:15.617 5
6
 Guarneri, Davide ITA
Yamaha
 24:08.641 0 0:26.721 2
7
 Philippaerts, David ITA
KTM
 24:11.729 0 0:29.809 5
8
 Boissiere, Anthony FRA
Yamaha
 24:14.424 0 0:32.504 4
9
 Aubert, Johnny FRA
Yamaha
 24:16.408 0 0:34.488 7
10
 Seistola, Matti FIN
Honda
 24:25.893 0 0:43.973 8

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