Donny Schmit Fritz Schneider Darrell Schultz Tommy Searle Gary Semics Andrew Short Shaun Simpson Joël Smets
Maximilian Nagl Kurt Nicoll Bill Nilsson Jorgen Nilsson Graham Noyce Carl Nunn Johnny O Mara Zach Osborne
After watching the first three supercross races of the 2011 season, I'll share with you what I see at this point.
Two riders that have really impressed me so far are Ryan Villopoto and Trey Canard. Looking at their fitness, their riding technique, their ability to get thru traffic on the race track, both are far beyond what I thought they would be.
I knew Ryan would be fast. But when a rider has been away from racing for a while, as he has, sometimes it takes a while to knock off the rust. Ryan has looked great after his heat races - obviously the training with Aldon Baker has helped him a lot. I can see his fitness, how much he is sweating, and his ability to retain his breath and breathing after both his heats and main events. It's visible that Ryan has leaned down together with Aldon, and he's in awesome condition.
I thought it would take Trey Canard at least half a season in the premiere Supercross class to where he was really comfortable. As I watch Trey in these first three races, there are certain section of the different tracks where he is faster than either Villopoto or James Stewart. Once Trey puts together the whole track, and an entire 20 laps like that - look for him to win some races this year.
Goat Breker Sven Breugelmans Larry Brooks Mike Brown Rick Burgett Jimmy Button Michael Byrne Antonio Cairoli
Willy Bauer Jean Michel Bayle Pit Beirer Christian Beggi Mike Bell John van den Berk Marnicq Bervoets Fritz Betzlbacher
Rui Goncalves Josh Grant Billy Grossi Davide Guarneri Thomas Hahn Torsten Hallman Bob Hannah Donnie Hansen
It's Thursday, September 15, 2011. We just arrived at the Motocross of Nations track in St. Jean d'Angely, France. Although only Thursday, lots of things are happening as the most prestigous MX race of the year gets ready to 'blast off'.
If you want to watch the Motocross of Nations, either live or VOD, you can do so thru Youthstream's video system, which is available here on Supercross.com: http://www.supercross.com/mx-gp-vod
On Saturday, Septebmer 17, there are five and half hours of video programming available. Noon to 5:30pm local time. That is 6am Eastern Time start, 3am Pacific Time start.
On Sunday, video programming starts at 1pm local time, which is 7am Eastern Time, and 4am Pacific Time.
Here is a page with all the links we think you'll find useful for the 2011 Motocross of Nations.
More coming from the 2011 FIM Monster Energy Motocross of Nations on Supercross.com every day!
Here are some photos to give you a taste of what's happening here in France. Tomorrow (Friday) all the teams and riders are expected to arrive, and we'll have our next report on that tomorrow:

Panorama of track at St. Jean d'Angely. Click on the photo to view the panorama in Full-Size.
More photos below:
Nicolas Aubin Rene Baeten David Bailey John Banks Mark Barnett Jonathan Barragan Andrea Bartolini Willy Bauer