2018 MXGP ITALY | MXGP OVERALL RACE RESULTS

Jeffrey Herlings running the number 1 plate in Italy. 

At the final round of the 2018 MXGP World Championship in Italy, it was again the factory KTM rider of Jeffrey Herlings that sweep both motos. It was the veteran rider of Antonio Cairoli’s home race, although he went down hard in the Saturday qualifying race and decided to sit out the race on Sunday. Herlings already had the championship wrapped up and Cairoli had second place in the standings secured. The factory Honda rider of Tim Gajser had a solid race and went 2-2 for second overall while Clement Desalle went 3-3 for third overall.

MXGP OVERALL RACE RESULTS

Pos	Rider	Bike	Race 1	Race 2
1	Herlings, Jeffrey	KTM	1	1
2	Gajser, Tim	HON	2	2
3	Desalle, Clement	KAW	3	3
4	Lieber, Julien	KAW	5	4
5	Paulin, Gautier	HUS	4	6
6	Van Horebeek, Jeremy	YAM	8	5
7	Simpson, Shaun	YAM	7	7
8	Seewer, Jeremy	YAM	6	12
9	Coldenhoff, Glenn	KTM	11	8
10	Bobryshev, Evgeny	SUZ	10	10
11	Anstie, Max	HUS	9	13
12	Nagl, Maximilian	TM	13	11
13	Searle, Tommy	KAW	12	16
14	Butron, Jose	KTM	15	14
15	Tixier, Jordi	KTM	14	15
16	Strijbos, Kevin	KTM	29	9
17	Waters, Todd	HON	17	17
18	Leok, Tanel	HUS	16	18
19	Bonini, Davide	KTM	18	28
20	Monticelli, Ivo	YAM	31	19
21	Desprey, Maxime	KAW	19	22
22	Petrov, Petar	HON	21	20
23	Irwin, Graeme	KTM	20	29
24	Gercar, Klemen	HUS	22	21
25	Renkens, Nathan	HON	24	23
26	Bengtsson, Jonathan	KTM	23	24
27	Bertuzzo, Pier Filippo	KAW	26	25
28	Muratori, Francesco	KTM	30	26
29	Pezzuto, Stefano	SUZ	25	27
30	Valentin, Ander	HUS	27	DNS
31	Lupino, Alessandro	KAW	28	DNS

 

OVERALL POINT STANDINGS (ROUND 20 OF 20)

Pos	Rider	Nat.	Total
1	Herlings, J.	NED	933
2	Cairoli, A.	ITA	782
3	Desalle, C.	BEL	685
4	Gajser, Tim	SLO	669
5	Paulin, G.	FRA	574
6	Febvre, Romain	FRA	544
7	Coldenhoff, G.	NED	534
8	Seewer, Jeremy	SUI	469
9	Van Horebeek, J.	BEL	433
10	Anstie, Max	GBR	386
11	Lieber, Julien	BEL	291
12	Bobryshev, E.	RUS	289
13	Lupino, A.	ITA	283
14	Strijbos, K.	BEL	267
15	Simpson, Shaun	GBR	263
16	Nagl, M.	GER	245
17	Searle, Tommy	GBR	197
18	Leok, Tanel	EST	139
19	Jasikonis, A.	LTU	111
20	Butron, Jose	ESP	109

2018 MXGP ITALY | FULL COVERAGE

Antonio Cairoli had a hard crash during the Saturday qualifying race and decided to sit out Sunday’s race.

SATURDAY MXGP QUALIFYING RACE REPORT

With the championship already decided Red Bull KTM Factory Racing’s Jeffrey Herlings could have simply just taken the weekend easy but the “Bullet” is no dud and was on fire today. Starting from the Free Practice through to the Qualifying race with Time Practice between Herlings was the fastest. Taking the lead off the start and out of the first turn Herlings led the race from start to finish.

Team HRC’s Tim Gajser was second but lost track of Herlings quickly while the Italian hero, Antonio Cairoli from Red Bull KTM Factory Racing, was back in 10th. Another Italian was impressing the crowd at the front however as Gebben Van Venrooy Kawasaki’s Alessandro Lupino was 3rd ahead Monster Energy Kawasaki Racing Team’s Clement Desalle and Julien Lieber.

Following the 3 Kawasakis were the Yamaha triplets of Wilvo Yamaha Official MXGP Team’s Shaun Simpson, Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MXGP’s Jeremy Van Horebeek, and another Wilvo Yamaha ridden by Jeremy Seewer. Desalle took 3rd from Lupino on lap 3 and at the same time Seewer made his way by Van Horebeek as did Cairoli.

One lap later Cairoli was also past Seewer as Lupino fought Desalle to take 3rd back. Cairoli however went off track on the following lap and hit the ground hard. Slow to get up Cairoli decided to pull out of the remainder of the race but has since confirmed that he will race tomorrow.

Fellow Italian and friend of Cairoli, Lupino, lost positions on the following laps to Desalle and Lieber while Seewer worked his way past Simpson to take 6th. At the finish it was a massive win for Herlings finalizing his total number of 2018 pole positions to 13. Desalle took second after passing Gajser on the final laps while Lieber was 4th and Lupino took 5th.

Jeffrey Herlings: “The main goal is to win the championship and we have done that in Assen but I don’t want to just come here and ride around. I still want to go and prove myself. I will do my best to get some good starts. It would be nice to finish out a great year like this with my 84th career GP win, so that is the goal for tomorrow.”