The Dutch Jeffrey Herlings (KTM) he held a plenary session in front of his fans at Netherlands GPsixteenth exam of Motocross premier class world championship (MXGP)while the Spanish Jorge Prado (GasGas) he signed two second places and is closing in on the overall leader, the Slovenian Tim Gajser (Honda).
Herlings, two-time MXGP champion and three-time MX2 champion, is especially close to Gajser and Prado, ready to fight with them and fight to get back to the top of the motocross world. The differences are even narrower with four tests to go.
Gajser leads the general classification with 801 points, Prado, the defending champion, has accumulated 792, and Herlings already has 766.
The Dutch driver, who won his last title in 2021, showed at the Arnhem circuit his usual courage and his ability to come back where he ended Prado’s hopes of taking the victory and even regaining the lead.
The pilot from Lugo had a big advantage in the first race against Herlings, but he gradually reduced it to take the lead and win with a difference of 3,244 over the Spaniard, while Gajser was fourth on 13,281.
Fellow Dutchman Glenn Coldenhoff was the best in Saturday’s qualifying round and was fastest in both starts on Sunday, but that didn’t allow him to make history and lead Fantic to its first ever victory.
In the opening race of the day he was third and in the second he was quickly overtaken by the three drivers fighting for the championship and finished fourth after failing to take advantage of the crash of Gajser, who was unable to keep pace with Prado and Herlings and who He suffered to retain third place.
The Galician took the lead on the seventh lap, but his command hardly lasted, as Herlings arrived and was soon in charge of resetting the tone to take the win irrevocably with a profit of 9,413.
Next weekend the Swiss Grand Prix will be held at the Frauenfeld circuit. Later there were those from Türkiye in Afyonkarahisar, China in Shanghai and Castilla La Mancha in Cozar.
In the Women’s World Cup, Spaniard Daniela Guillén (GasGas) missed her sixth consecutive podium, after two attempts in fourth place, behind Dutch Lotte van Drunen (Yamaha) and Lynn Valk (KTM) and by New Zealander Courtney Duncan (Kawasaki).
Guillén, fifth and third, is, with just one race remaining (the Turkish Grand Prix), second overall in the championship with 231 points, after Van Drunen, with 248, while Valk is third there are 204 .
Source: La Verdad
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