Herlings made history by winning the Spanish GP and closing in on Jorge Prado

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the dutch Jeffrey Herlings (KTM) made history by winning the Spanish GP of the top category of the Motocross World Championship, MXGP, and with 102 victories it left the Belgian. Stefan Evertswhich also allows you to get closer to Jorge Prado (GasGas) in the overall championship.

herlingsfive-time universal champion (twice in MXGP and three in MX2), flew the circuit Intu Xanadu of Arroyo Molinos (Madrid). He again showed his amazing comebacks to win both sleeves, leading the Italian Mattia Guadagnini (Gas Gas) and Spanish Ruben Fernandez (Honda), respectively, and will be crowned the driver who has won the most Grand Prix.

Jorge Prado, who won the qualifying race on Saturday, was unable to stay on the podium this timesomething he has achieved in all previous grand prix this season, and after being second and fifth he gave up his place in third place to Fernandezas despite finishing tied on points, the latter was leading at the final test.

Jorge Prado continues to lead

All in all, Jorge Prado continue sending. He leads the table with 294 points, compared to 288 for Herlings, which is still going on. Fortunately for the Spaniard, two other contenders for the title, Frenchmen Maxime Renaux and Romain Febvre, were unable to compete in Arroyomolinos due to injuries.

first sleeve

In the first round, the fiery start of the Swiss Jeremy Seewer (Yamaha) was quickly stopped by the Italian Mattia Guadagnini, who seemed to get away with no forgiveness. Instead, Herlings and Prado gradually improved to finish first and second, while Rubén Fernández also knew how to react and finish fifth.

second sleeve

In the second, Seewer’s new plethoric output was immediately answered by Rubén Fernández. The man from Vigo also gave the impression that he was on his way to victory. It’s not like that. Herlings flew past all his rivals to win again with authority.

Rubén Fernández knew how to manage his advantage over Guadagnini to finish second and Jorge Prado, unable to find the right rhythm, was unable to pass Seewer and ended the sleeve in fifth placewhich removed him from the podium.

Rubén Fernández is back on the podium

For Rubén, the prize was to take third place in the Grand Prix and return to a podium from the first test in Argentinaand the same place in the World Cup overall, with 224 points, before the defeat of Febvre (214) and Renaux (202).

The seventh round of the world championship will be held on May 21. It will be the French Grand Prix, in Villars sous Ecot.

Women’s World Cup Guillen, 10 points away

In the women’s World Championship, New Zealander Coutney Duncan (Kawasaki) won Sunday’s race ahead of Dutchman Lynn Valk (Fantic) and the Spanish Daniela Guillen (GasGas), while another contender for the title, Dutch Lotte van Drunen (Kawasaki), was fifth. Jana Sánchez (Yamaha) was twelfth and Gabriela Seisdedos (GasGas) was sixteenth

Duncan leads the overall standings with 135 points, ten more than Guillénand Van Drunen has 116 with three tests, France, Netherlands and Turkey, to play.

Source: La Verdad

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