It is with great sadness that Kawasaki must announce that on the morning of the 4th June 2007 Kawasaki Racing Team Manager and Team Green bastion Jan de Groot passed away after succumbing to a serious illness which had hospitalized him for more than a week.

Yamaha is pleased to announce that current FIM MX2 World Championship leader Antonio Cairoli has signed a new contract to remain in blue colours for a further three years and will contest the MX2 series for the 2008 campaign.

Frenchman Yves Demaria (FRA, Yamaha) was looking forward to this fifth round of the series in Brou, France, to make up some ground on series leader Sven Breugelmans (BEL, KTM).

On a wet track, the KTM mounted Belgian arrived second on the podium behind Demaria, winner of the event, who shortened up the gap in the Championship by five points.

In a warm and windy day, Sugo’s Sportsland played host to the four heats of this sixth FIM Motocross Grand Prix of 2007. 24000 spectators gathered in the Japanese venue for the only Oriental appearance of the series, that was won by Billy Mackenzie (GBR, Kawasaki) in the MX1 class, and Christophe Pourcel (FRA, Kawasaki) in the MX2.

Today the Sportsland of Sugo – venue of the FIM Motocross World Championship since 2005 - demonstrated the high quality of its ground by hosting a complete day of racing after yesterday’s rain.