After a muddy Saturday, bright sunshine burst through onto the mighty Maggiora Park for the main Grand Prix races on the Sunday afternoon of the MXGP of Italy and the ever-drying surface provided an incredible day of racing across both GP classes!
In MXGP, the leading three Championship contenders provided a nail-biting first race, won by Team HRC’s red plate holder, Tim Gajser. Race two saw a multi-rider pile-up between turns one and two, which saw reigning World Champion Jorge Prado pull out of the race with his Red Bull GASGAS Factory Racing machine. After a late fall by Gajser, Jeffrey Herlings took the second race win for Red Bull KTM Factory Racing, but it was not enough to deprive the Slovenian of his 47th career Grand Prix win as he extends his series points lead.
The MX2 class was won, for the second weekend in a row, by Red Bull KTM Factory Racing’s Sacha Coenen, after two wildly different races saw crashes for several riders and resulted in a reduced points lead for Nestaan Husqvarna Factory Racing’s red plate holder Kay de Wolf.
