

Herlings then made it into second by the end, but the one guy he couldn’t afford to win slipped through the cracks early to do so. But after a four-minute duel, conceded fourth to the KTM rider. The Spaniard, who had been running MX2 for the whole year gave Herlings everything he had. However, if there is one guy in this MXGP field that could make up for an early error with raw speed, Herlings is that rider.Īfter making it up to fifth, he faced heavy resistance from a new face in the MXGP class, Ruben Fernandez. The Bullet was scored in 15th place on lap one, an absolute disaster given the circumstances. That ended up being a 10 position penalty, Gajser lucked out big time here, only losing five spots.Īnother big championship moment was Herlings falling over, then having Seewer fall on top of him with nowhere to go. This was almost identical to what Alessandro Lupino did in the final Des Nations Moto, nearly costing Team Italy the event.

Gajser got bumped off track in the first corner, then proceeded to blatantly cut the track and re-entered past turn two. Jeremy Seewer picked up his third holeshot of the year, but there was a move on the start that had big points implications for a title contender. After injuries forced him out of Moto 2 last weekend, Geerts only sits back seven points of Vialle entering Wednesday. While his Championship hopes are gone, his chances to finish second are alive again. Geerts was then able to check out on Renaux to pick up his fourth Grand Prix win of the season. His teammate Renaux then followed suit before the end of that lap as well.

Later on, Geerts would rail and outside corner to take the lead away from Vialle. A podium could have been possible if not for outside factors/mistakes. The Austrian ended up with a 6-9 day which does not tell the whole story. Hofer, however, got tangled with Geerts before the end of the first lap to break it up. Mattia Guadagnini was right behind to make this a Red Bull KTM one-two-three. 21 in Moto 2, but this time was able to box out Hofer and get out to an early lead.
