Swedish GP Gallery
There's no denying that Gareth Edmunds is one of the sport's leading spanner spinners as he's the man responsible for prepping Tommy Searle's race bikes week in, week out. But despite being smart with a socket set the young Welshman can get a bit loose with the old pitboard and pen as he proved in Uddevalla by writing ‘CLEAN HIM OUT' on Tommy's board before holding it out for the 19-year-old - and unfortunately everyone watching the races live on Motors TV - to see.
As well as Cairoli and the De Carli Yamaha squad not being best pleased with the written message meant for Tommy's eyes only, the FIM motocross president Wolfgang Srb stated "you can take it for granted that the FIM will be investigating the affair". Expect a slap on the wrists soon, young Gareth!
Steve Ramon was fastest in Saturday's dry qualification session and rode smartly on Sunday to finish third twice and lessen the points gap between the championship leader David Philippaerts and himself.
Max Nagl drops the hammer and edges away from the pack at the start of moto two.
Bad Brad Anderson had another off weekend with the Swift Suzuki and was only able to score three points with a first race 18th.
With Stephen Sword missing from two GPs now with a very painful shoulder, Rui Goncalves has made fifth place in the series his own. With Simpson moving ahead in fourth and sixth placed Frenchman Nico Aubin being very inconsistent the Portuguese KTM rider could well halve his number for the 2009 season.
Dutchman Marc De Reuver was undoubtedly the fastest man on the track in moto one as he moved form ninth to second in a short space of time on a track that most riders said was ‘impossible to pass on'. A DNF in moto kept Marc off the podium.
11-DNF is not the sort of weekend Seb Pourcel should have had in Sweden...
Inotec Suzuki's Xavier Boog is one of the revelations of the MX2 series. 17th overall for the weekend with a 12-DNF scorecard doesn't effect the Frenchman's ranking of seventh in the series.
Race Magazine's Jonas Hagren is the guy to ask about the history of Swedish motocross - if he hasn't got an amusing anecdote about it, it never happened...
This is what the action would have looked like if the weekend's weather had stayed as sweet as it was on Saturday.
Styla stayed at the head of the points table with a 1-3 scorecard that equalled Tony Cairoli's 3-1 leaving the leading two contenders on equal footing for the day.