SUPERMOTO WCH: RACE 8TH ROUND LATINA, ITALY
12 November 2005 - KTM-Sportmotorcycles AG

The 2006 FIM Supermoto World Championship finished this weekend in Italy, the country where the series although six months ago started (Castelletto di Branduzzo).

The last venue took place in Latina (located fifty kilometres south of Rome). Never before in the history of the Supermoto series the championship were so undecided at the last event.

Very close in points, the S2 riders were fighting for the last points. Boris Chambon could highlight his career with a Worldchampionship title and arrived highly motivated. Good for him, bad for Seel, was a technical problem at Seels HUSQVARNA at the warm up lap. The Belgium worked against the rules by stopping and fixing the problem. Finally Seel had to start at the end of the grid. The French Adrien Chareyre were closely in points too and very fast at the time practice. After the start his brother Thomas Chareye took the lead of the race, but due a technical defect a few laps before finish, the leader had to give up. Chambon took the chance and the victory in an errorfree race.

S2 R1
1 Chambon, Boris FRA KTM 0:00.000
2 Chareyre, Adrien FRA Husqvarna 0:00.525
3 Bolley, Frédéric FRA Aprilia 0:05.254
4 Beltrami, Massimo ITA Honda 0:07.423
5 Verderosa, Massimo ITA Honda 0:10.016
6 Bartolini, Andrea ITA Yamaha 0:15.761
7 Blot, Stephane FRA Yamaha 0:17.418
8 Balducci, Fabio ITA Honda 0:21.833
9 Girolami, Simone ITA KTM 0:24.768
10 Giraudo, Jerome FRA Aprilia 0:31.710

Everything was still possible at the second and last race of the class S2. Seels chances to take the title were nearly zero, but Chambon had to be prepared for everything. From the start he led the pack to the first turn. The Chareyre brothers didn´ t give up and attacked him hard. First Thomas, then Adrien overtook the Frenchman. Chambon knew very well how to ride for the title and stayed cool. He saved the third position until the black-white-chequered flag felt down and took his first worldchampionship title.

By a difference of three points to the second Chareyre, the French KTM Pilot crowned his long Supermoto career by taking the Worldchampionship title.

S2 R2
1 Chareyre, Adrien FRA Husqvarna 0:00.000
2 Chareyre, Thomas FRA Husqvarna 0:01.213
3 Chambon, Boris FRA KTM 0:03.803
4 Verderosa, Massimo ITA Honda 0:07.610
5 Balducci, Fabio ITA Honda 0:10.883
6 Seel, Eddy BEL Husqvarna 0:11.966
7 Bolley, Frédéric FRA Aprilia 0:13.053
8 Bartolini, Andrea ITA Yamaha 0:18.399
9 Girolami, Simone ITA KTM 0:30.779
10 Pignotti, Attilio ITA Honda 0:31.980
11 Fraikin, Marc BEL KTM 0:38.816

Overall standings after 8 rounds
1 Chambon, Boris FRA 287
2 Chareyre, A. FRA 284
3 Seel, Eddy BEL 256
4 Bolley, F. FRA 233
5 Verderosa, M. ITA 222
6 Beltrami, M. ITA 196
7 Giraudo, J. FRA 160
8 Pignotti, A. ITA 145
9 Bartolini, A. ITA 125
10 Fraikin, Marc BEL 123

Not so close like the S2 class, but close enough to make everything happen, the three KTM riders arrived on sunday morning at the track.
By taking the first three positions at the Superpole, Hiemer, Künzel and VdB gave the maximum.

Three in a row
At the first race Bernd Hiemer took the leadership in front of Thierry van den Bosch and temporary teammate Jürgen Künzel. VdB followed Hiemer very close and attacked him at the middle of the race. The French took succesfull the first position and finished without another attack of Hiemer first. Hiemer, always in distance to win the title, finished second right in front of Künzel. Delepine tried to attack Künzel at the last lap, but without success.

S1 R1
1 van den Bosch, Thierry FRA KTM 0:00.000
2 Hiemer, Bernd GER KTM 0:04.479
3 Kuenzel, Juergen GER KTM 0:07.723
4 Delepine, Gerald BEL Husqvarna 0:08.190
5 Lazzarini, Ivan ITA Husqvarna 0:18.521
6 Iddon, Christian GBR Husaberg 0:31.564
7 Mariani, Lorenzo ITA KTM 0:36.183
8 Lecoanet, Fabrice FRA Aprilia 0:37.562
9 Goetz, Marcel SUI KTM 0:40.877
10 Bertrand, Christophe BEL KTM 0:42.312

The last race for the Supermoto Championship 2005. Last time to concentrate for the riders. The last time where the red lights flashed up and signs the start.
VdB got the perfect start and took the lead from the beginning. Hiemer followed second, but no chance to attack or beat the French teammate. Untouched VdB took the victory in front of Hiemer and Lazzarini. Altough in the Worldchampionship overall result, Hiemer reached the second place.
Künzel fought for position four behind the British rider Iddon. But he got attacked hard by Delepine and Lazzarini. Delepine crashed, lost one position and finished sixth behind Künzel.

S1 R2
1 van den Bosch, Thierry FRA KTM 0:00.000
2 Hiemer, Bernd GER KTM 0:04.613
3 Lazzarini, Ivan ITA Husqvarna 0:17.003
4 Iddon, Christian GBR Husaberg 0:18.429
5 Kuenzel, Juergen GER KTM 0:22.079
6 Delepine, Gerald BEL Husqvarna 0:38.600
7 Goetz, Marcel SUI KTM 0:39.069
8 Mariani, Lorenzo ITA KTM 0:45.440
9 Baffeleuf, David FRA KTM 0:46.101
10 Hlad, Ales SLO KTM 0:48.640

Overall standings after 8 rounds
1 Delepine, G. BEL 316
2 Hiemer, Bernd GER 307
3 van den Bosch, T. FRA 302
4 Lazzarini, I. ITA 257
5 Bertrand, C. BEL 208
6 Iddon, C. GBR 205
7 Manzo, Max ITA 167
8 Bartolini, V. ITA 139
9 Goetz, Marcel SUI 129
10 Mariani, L. ITA 120

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