It has been announced that Billy Mackenzie, Tommy Searle and Shaun Simpson will carry home hopes at the 2008 Motocross of Nations, to be held at
Donington Park on September 27-28.
"It will be no surprise to anybody that Billy and Tommy are in the team," said team manager Mark Eastwood. "It was the third member who was always going to be a very difficult choice. But Shaun's form has certainly stepped up a gear recently and he is regularly starting to challenge the established riders for podium places, climbing onto the podium in Bulgaria and Sweden.
"Billy's MX1 British Championship form has been devastating, leaving everybody else to fight for second place. Tommy's world championship form speaks for itself taking his first double victory and leading the Series after Round 7. Both riders like the Donington Park circuit and achieved excellent results at the MXGP in 2007, I'm sure Shaun's first appearance in the MXoN Team will spur him on even more.
"We will certainly be aiming for the win, Tommy now has much more experience of climbing to the top of a world championship rostrum, Billy's form on home soil and Shaun's determination, plus of course the support from the crowd will add inspiration to the Team.
"Budds Creek [2007] was my first MXoN as Manager and I enjoyed it immensely, unfortunately we suffered from injury early on, but beating the Americans on home soil was always going to be difficult, I'm sure we can make it as hard for other teams at Donington!"
