Jorge Prado served his second match-ball for the historic MXGP title

The Galician Jorge Prado This weekend in Maggiora, he will deliver his second match-ball for making history for Spanish motorcycling and becoming, at the age of 22, the first world champion of the premier category of MXGP motocross with the added victory of surrendering the leader’s red plate throughout the season.

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To do so, the Gas Gas driver must finish first or lose less than six points with the Frenchman from the KRT Team Romain Febvre, second place in the World Cup, at the Italian Grand Prix held in Maggiora. Prado will get points both in Saturday’s qualifying race (from 10 to 1 point for the Top 10) and in the two rounds on Sunday, where 25 points are distributed for the winner of each race, 22 for second, 20 for in the third, 18 for the fourth, 16 for the fifth, 15 for the sixth and so on to a point for the twentieth.

If February To take the lead this Saturday in the qualifier, the Galician needs to be at least second this Saturday, win at least one of the two races on Sunday and the other, if he wins. February, be in the top-5 to take the crown in the absence of the Matterley Basin (Great Britain) event next week. It came 67 points ahead of Kawasaki and the others were mathematically ruled out.

The schedules

Saturday September 16
10:35 – MX2 ​​is free
11:15 – MXGP free practice
13:20 – MX2 ​​​​Time Practice
14:00 – MXGP Time Practice
15:25 – MX2 ​​qualifying race
16:15 – MXGP Qualifying Race
Sunday September 17
10:20 – MX2 Warm Up
10:45 – MXGP Warm Up
10:30 – EMX250 Race 2
12:15 – MX2 ​​Race 1
13:15 – MXGP Race 1
15:10 – MX2 ​​Race 2
16:10 – MXGP Race 2
TV: Eurosport/Telesport

Prado has dominated the World Championship since the first race, at the Argentine GP, where his victory in the qualifying round was key to moving into first place overall. From there he signed up for 13 rounds, even the Frenchman Romain Febvre He closed a lot of distance in the last three tests; The preceding Turkish GP was especially painful, where a crash in the first race and a motorcycle failure in the second, relegated him to 10th place overall and the Frenchman dropped 25 points at the same time.

Spanish motocross has only two world champions, to him Jorge Prado who won the MX2 title in 2018 and 2019 and Carlos Campano, MX3 champion in 2010. He still needs to win the crown in the premier category that Prado already has in his fingers.

In MX2 The crown can also be decanted. There are four candidates: Andrea Adamo, Liam Everts, Yago Geerts and Simon Laegenfelder.