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As we count down the days to the 2015 Monster Energy FIM Motocross of Nations, we are looking back at each of the twenty-two winning lineups for Team USA since 1981. Today the Monster Energy Racer X Countdown reaches 1991 and a nail-biter in the Netherlands.
After Jeff Ward, Jeff Stanton, and Damon Bradshaw dodged a bullet in Sweden and won the 1990 Motocross des Nations over Team Belgium by a single point, the FIM went looking for another sand circuit to host the 1991 event (and ’92, looking ahead) and the Swiss-based organization pinpointed the Eurocircuit in Valkenswaard, Holland. More to the point, this part of Europe is the epicenter of the Grand Prix world, smack in the middle of the Low Countries, lined with notorious sand circuits like Lommel, Mol, Genk, Oss, and Valkenswaard.
Heading toward the Dutch border, Team USA drove directly through Lommel, Belgium, as fate would have it, where the winning streak had started back in 1981. Jeff Stanton, Damon Bradshaw and Mike Kiedrowski were the men picked to defend America's decade-long win streak in 1991. The sand-loving Dutch and Belgians were at their battle stations and waiting for yet another new lineup of Americans—not once since the beginning of the streak had Team USA sent over the same team.
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World SX - The History
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Lommel - The Winners
The traditional stop for the Belgian Grand Prix over recent years has always been at the toughest motocross circuit in the World, Lommel and while this current generation probably see Lommel as a really old school circuit, old buggers like me see it differently.
It was in 1990 that Finnish great, Pekka Vehkonen won the 250 Grand Prix, the first time the Lommel circuit was used as a Grand Prix facility. Of course, the circuit had held the 1981 Trophee des Nations, won historically by Team USA, but for GP battle, Lommel was a newbie. Now, some 34 years later, it remains as one of the most popular stops for fans and racers alike. They ran the 250cc class twice more at Lommel in the 1990s, in 1993 and 1994, with Belgian legends, Marniqu Bervoets and Stefan Everts winning.
Three years later, in 1997 underdog, Avo Leok of Estonia raced through the mud of Lommel to lead home a bunch of heavy favourites to take his first and only Grand Prix victory.
Leok finished that opening round of the 500cc championship with 4-2 results in a really weird day of racing. Moto winners were Belgians Jacky Martens and Johan Boonen (the current promoter of the GP), but both Martens and Boonen struggled in their other motos.
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