In 2013 Shaun Simpson created one of the best stories in motocross this century when he took a rag-tag racing effort to MXGP/MX1 victory in the sand of Lierop for the final Grand Prix of that season. Last weekend in Lommel his second career success and first of 2015 did not have the same heavy emotional impact but it was a better performance and proof that the 27 year old Scot just seems to keep getting better with age.

Many will have spotted and hyped the British angle on the fourteenth round of eighteen and with wins in four of the six categories pounding the Lommel sand it was a deserved rout for the UK. So much so that Rockstar Suzuki’s Kevin Strijbos was half mystified-half disgusted that the Belgian contingent in the premier class just cannot seem to get a handle on their home Grand Prix. They’ve seen Tony Cairoli rule in the last half a decade (incidentally Cairoli was present at Lommel as he lives in the vicinity and looked forlornly at the sandy waves in pitlane before confirming that he won’t be back in action until at least round sixteen) and not since Ken De Dycker in 2009 have the host country tasted success in the sand. Strijbos went so far as to say he was “ashamed”.

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