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September 14th. 11:00 p.m.

One more year of world motocross has ended up succesfully.  Tyla Rattray and David Philippaerts are the new MX2 and MX1 world champions. Parties, smiles and confetti.

But the motocross community will never be the same. Motocrossvirtual is now IN.

In this past season, Motocrossvirtual has born, and collected more than 1500 virtual teams from 51 different countries around the world.

A new way of living races raised up, and now it will be a reference for races in the future.

Congratulations to Willem from Eerbeek (Netherlands) for his global victory and to all national winners. In the next days a list with all of you will be published.

Motocrossvirtual is working hard to be ready to the Motocross of Nations, and next will be the AMA Supercross Championship. Guys, get your minds around, it’s only the beginning, and the word will never be the same.

In the next few days you’ll receive instructions to subscribe to the Motocross of Nations.

THANKS TO ALL FOR THIS GREAT SEASON

Grand Prix Kawasaki Racing’s Kevin Strijbos is almost certain to miss the next three rounds of the MX1 World Motocross Championship after undergoing minor surgery to repair an injured thumb.

It was in a free practice session at the Spanish GP in Bellpuig. Although in a lot of pain, Strijbos pushed on through the power-sapping slop on his factory KX450F-SR to an impressive sixth placed finish in Sunday’s one and only points paying moto.

Joaquim Rodrigues  rode hard at Valkenswaard, and he had the speed at Bellpuig, but a crash on the start of the first moto and he broke a rib. He will be out for around six weeks.

Guys, review your teams for Agueda before Friday!

Today is 5th. 30 days left to the first GP at Valkenswaard (Netherlands). 30 days to make your team and select your riders. Maybe to stay agile for last-hour injuries or new riders incoming, as the announcement Joaquim Rodrigues made this weekend about his coming to GP’s on 2008. Or having a look to our statistics.

It’s been 4 days from the launch of Motocross Virtual to the world. It’s not bad, we are 193 teams so far and we still have a month to get new managers. You probably like to know something about our statistics, specially if I say that UK is the country with more teams: 99, followed by Spain with 51, Belgium with 10 and USA and Australia with 8. Where are the french, italian, dutch and all nordic motocrossers? We are waiting for you! Latin American fans have to come too.

Riders. Interesting… as I said before, please stay alert, probably new riders are coming, as former USA Factory Connection team contenteder Joaquim Rodrigues, who announced last weekend that he will ride the GP’s on 2008. He will be a crack to consider, sure.

But you want to know about the most selected riders, don’t you? Ok, here we go. The rider on most teams so far is… NOT JOSHUA COPPINS! Yes, call it a surprise, he is Tommy Searle! He is selected for 124 teams, and second in the list is Coppins, with 121. Next is Cairoli, followed far by Rattray, Mackenzie and Ramon. De Reuver, Barragan, Seb Pourcel and Strijbos are in the middle of the table and then there are a lot of riders between 10 and 20 selections: Philipaerts, Brown, Swanepoel…

Things surely will change when Italian and French teams have their incoming to Motocross Virtual.

Please, remember to read the rules and don’t forget that you can’t select riders you selected in last 3 races.

Surprises are coming… GOOD LUCK!

Although the original diagnosis of a broken shoulder blade has proved to be correct Tanel and the Kawasaki Racing Team remain focussed on round one of the world championship at Valkenswaard in April.

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