Jorge Prado shines brightly at the Spanish GP

Jorge Prado (GasGas), current champion and overall leader of the Motocross World Championship (MXGP) top category, shone its own light at home, in Spanish Grand Prixplayed in the Intu-Xanadú circuit in Arroyomolinos (Madrid), by scoring a double and proving difficult.

The driver from Lugo arrived full of joy after winning the first race of the season, the Patagonia-Argentina GP, and wanted to confirm the good start of the season on a track where he was unable to bring joy to his fans in his last season..

The Galician, who already dominated Saturday’s classification race, more than lived up to his expectations. In both races, he was the fastest at the start and he didn’t give his other rivals any options. He went it alone and won with 8,400 and 6,133 against Slovenian Tim Gajser (Honda), quadruple world champion.

So, Prado achieved the goal and desire to win the Spanish GP again ahead of Gajser and Frenchman Romain Febvre (Kawasaki), his great rival in last season’s title fight, who were fourth and third.

Jorge Prado also leads the overall World Cup ranking with 114 points, ten more than Gajser. Third is Febvre with 92 and with 77 appears the Dutchman from KTM Jeffrey Herlings.

His compatriot Kay de Wolf (Husqvarna) took the final MX2 victory after finishing first and second, consolidating the overall lead ahead of German Simon Laengenfelder (GasGas).

Daniela Guillén (GasGas) completed the Spanish party in Arroyomolinos by also winning two Women’s World Cup events ahead of Dutch Lotte van Drunen (Yamaha), leaving her leader of the general standings with 50 points and six who is ahead of his rival. . Lynn Valk, also from the Netherlands, was third after two fourth-place finishes.

They were two colorful races where Guillen, last year’s runner-up, had to give it his all to end Van Drunen’s fightback. In the first race their advantage was 4.978 and in the second it was only 0.472.