250cc
Jorge Lorenzo's unrelenting march towards his second consecutive 250cc World Championship took another step forward with victory in Sunday's Czech Republic Grand Prix.
Lorenzo led the race from start to finish, although closest title rival Andrea Dovizioso was at least in touch for all but the closing stages, when the #1 Fortuna Aprilia rode into the distance.
Lorenzo eventually clinched his seventh win of the season by 7.708secs over the Honda mounted Italian, while Mika Kallio took third place for KTM after a collision with Alex de Angelis three laps from the finish left the San Marinese in the gravel. Lorenzo now holds a 30 point lead over Dovizioso in the world championship standings.
125cc
Hector Faubel overturned Aspar Aprilia team-mate Gabor Talmacsi's pole position, and world championship lead, with victory in the 125cc Czech Republic Grand Prix. Talmacsi and Mattia Pasini took an early lead in the 19 lap race, but were caught during the second half by Sergio Gadea, Lukas Pesek and Faubel.
With three laps to go Gadea fell from second position, allowing Pasini to pull a slight advantage, but that was erased by a later mistake and Faubel pounced for the lead soon after. Talmacsi demoted Pasini a further position, then led the race with half a lap to go, but subsequently lost out to all three of his rivals to cross the line a disappointed fourth.
Faubel beat Pasini by just 0.070secs at the flag with home hero Pesek taking a well deserved third after a poor start left him tenth on the opening lap. Faubel's victory means he now leads Talmacsi by 10 points in the world championship standings.
World Supermoto Championship
On, Sunday, July 22, the Bulgarian Grand Prix was disputed at Pleven, the sixth round of the World Supermoto Championship. The race was disputed in extreme conditions thanks to an oppressive heat that practically melted the Bulgarian asphalt. In the first heat of the S1, Van Den Bosch made a spectacular comeback that brought him from 9th place to his 3rd-place finish behind brothers Adrien and Thomas Chareyre. However, at the start of Race 2 he was involved in a fall. In fact, three bikes made contact with each other at the first curve, hitting VDB’s Aprilia near the rear brake. The current 450 world champion literally flew in the air and violently hit the ground. He attempted to start up again but the rear brake lever was blocked under the carter, making it impossible to continue racing. Decisively better was the S2 class where Christian Iddon (Aprilia SXV 5.5), placed 2nd overall in the day’s classification.
X-Games Supermoto
Ben Carlson and Darryl Atkins riding SXV 450's finished 11th and 16th among some of the biggest supermoto stars in the world.
MX1 Motocross
The Aprilia Offroad team tried out a new Big bang configuration on the MXV. The riders really liked it and they achieved the best results of this year during the belgian GP. Chiodi finished 14th and 15th. Cedric Melotte had a unlucky first race with a DNF but he finished the second race in 16th place. Hopefully this is the beginning of better results for the Aprilia MX team.
250cc Grand Prix
Alex Debon will be replacing Jorge Lorenzo at Fortuna Aprilia in the 2008 season. Alex Debon is Aprilia's test driver who helped developing the new RSW250. Jorge Lorenzo will be joining Valentino Rossi at Yamaha.
Jorge Lorenzo's unrelenting march towards his second consecutive 250cc World Championship took another step forward with victory in Sunday's Czech Republic Grand Prix.
Hector Faubel overturned Aspar Aprilia team-mate Gabor Talmacsi's pole position, and world championship lead, with victory in the 125cc Czech Republic Grand Prix. Talmacsi and Mattia Pasini took an early lead in the 19 lap race, but were caught during the second half by Sergio Gadea, Lukas Pesek and Faubel.
