Gajser won the Italian GP and Prado, leaving Maggiora injured, pulled away from the lead

The Slovenian Tim Gajser (Honda) took the turn in the world championship of the premier motocross category (MXGP) by winning the Italian Grand Prix, the tenth round of the championship held in Maggiora, where his great rival, the Spaniard Jorge Prado, was injured ( GasGas) , victim of a spectacular fall in the second corner of the second race.

After being second in the first race right after Gajser, the Galician tried to return the coin, but bad luck came to him as soon as the second race started, when he fell to the ground with the Swiss Valentin Guillod, the pilot with him. is fighting to put himself in provisional third place.

The Lugo rider ended up in the middle of the track and was run over by three other speeding drivers, Dutchman Calvin Vaanderen and Italian Andrea Bonacorsi. Prado tried to continue, but was forced to leave with visible signs of pain and limping with a problem left leg, so two team members had to help him back up.

Therefore, Gajser, who in the first round knew how to resist the push of Prado himself and the Dutchman Jeffrey Herlings, who won the second ahead of the Slovenian, opened a gap in his desire to achieve his fifth world title in the highest category after what was achieved in 2016, 2019, 2020 and 2022.

After the new victory in the Grand Prix, Gajser has 511 points and now has a difference at the top of the general classification of 34 points over Prado, while Herlings is close to the Spaniard with 440.

The next round of the MXGP World Championship will take place in two weeks. This is the Nusa Tenggara Grand Prix, in Lombok (Indonesia), where the second competition will be held a Sunday later.

Daniela Guillén, 3rd in the Women’s World Cup

In the Women’s World Cup, the Spanish Daniela Guillén (GasGas) qualified third in the only race held after Saturday’s race had to be canceled following a red flag when he was dominating with remarkable clarity.

For a few seconds the race was not declared valid and set for this Sunday, respect the order and start times as they finished on Saturday, but a new decision of the judges is against Guillén, because of the last moment must have been suspended by them. said race and set the Grand Prix to an event.

Guillén was unable to dominate but was only overtaken by Dutch Lynn Valk (KTM) and Italian Kiara Fontanesi (GasGas) and came within three points of the World Championship leader, Dutch Lotte van Drunen (Yamaha), who was the only the best. is sixth, with two tests remaining.

“I think the decision to raise the red flag was hasty and clearly hurt me. In any case, I was left on the positive side, with points recovered and looking forward to the next tests,” he said.