The iconic Foxhills Moto Parc was resurrected this weekend for its return to the FIM Motocross World Championship calendar, and the awesome atmosphere that was last seen 26 years ago was back in all its glory as the main valley filled up with fans and the steep climbs and drops challenged the riders to their limit! The track preparation, always a key issue at a venue with a fundamentally hardpack clay base, was absolutely on-point and provided some truly fantastic racing to raise the volume in the valley even further! It was a phenomenal return to action for the circuit itself and the fans were also back to enjoy the experience in their thousands!
Both classes saw massive changes in their Championship pictures, unfortunately almost directly as a result of problems for the incumbent red plate holders.
At the twelfth round of the season, Jeffrey Herlings made it a 50% GP win record for himself with the Honda HRC Petronas team by taking his sixth GP win, in almost unique fashion for him with two consecutive Fox Holeshot Awards helping him on his way! Defending World Champion Romain Febvre gave chase all day long to claim second for Kawasaki Racing Team MXGP, while Tim Gajser broke his three-month podium drought with third overall for Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MXGP.
In MX2, Spaniard Guillem Farres claimed his third consecutive GP victory for the Triumph Racing Factory Team, with another perfect Sunday score, while Simon Längenfelder battled hard for second overall on his Red Bull KTM Factory Racing machine, ahead of the second factory Triumph of Camden McLellan.
Both of the Red Bull KTM Factory Racing twins Lucas Coenen and Sacha Coenen battled injury issues, and Lucas saw his MXGP series lead cut drastically to 11 points, while Sacha lost the MX2 red plate to Farres despite struggling through the pain of a collarbone injury. Everything looks massively different as we head to the MXGP of Czech Republic next weekend!
