MXGP of Germany Written Recap, Video Highlights, Results, and Standings - Racer X (2024)

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Over the weekend, the eighth round of the FIM Motocross World Championship took place in Germany. In MX2, Kay de Wolf entered the weekend 52 points ahead of Simon Laengenfelder as Lucas Coenen entered in third as de Wolf claimed the qualifying race win, adding another 10 points to his championship total. Coenen took both moto wins as de Wolf came through second in both motos, giving the #96 his third straight overall win. Coenen now jumps Laengenfelder for P2 as de Wolf leaves round eight with a 59-point gap over his Husqvarna teammate.

In MXGP, Tim Gajser entered the weekend up five points on 2023 MXGP Champion Jorge Prado. Gajser claimed the qualifying race win over P2 Prado, then the two found themselves battling early in the moto. Prado took the lead from Glenn Coldenhoff and took off, taking the race win—his ninth of the season. Gajser, who was reportedly dealing with arm-pump, finished third behind a charging Jeffrey Herlings.

Prado got out front when the second moto started and that was the last anyone would see of him. Gajser bested Herlings after a battle but the #1 was too far out of reach for the #243 Honda HRC rider. Prado’s sixth overall win of the season will see him head to Latvia next weekend by just two points over Gajser.

The following press release is from Infront Moto Racing:

TEUTSCHENTHAL (Germany) – For the third GP out of the last four, wet weather affected the conditions for the gladiators of the MXGP World Motocross Championships this weekend, but the Liqui Moly MXGP of Germany provided more fantastic confrontations between the leading contenders in both classes at the Talkessel!

What the weather could not affect, however, was the enthusiasm of the German fans, who created an incredible atmosphere in the tight valley of the Teutschenthal venue. The hosting MSC Teutschenthal clubalso worked very hard with the MXGP track crew to keep the circuit in the best racing condition possible.

After struggling more than most in muddy conditions so far this season, reigning World Champion Jorge Prado took his sixth Grand Prix win of the season in MXGP, with two race wins for Red Bull GASGAS Factory Racing, achieved in his customary style of getting out early and holding off all challengers, although he certainly had challenges to contend with! He leaves Germany with the red plate back on his machine, and a slender two-point lead in his pocket heading to Latvia.

In MX2, the Nestaan Husqvarna Factory Racing duo of series leader Kay de Wolf and Lucas Coenen battled hard, with the Belgian teenager coming out on top to make it three straight GP wins for the #96 rider. This moves him up to second in the Championship table, 59 points behind his teammate.

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Tim Gajser took to the starting line first for Team HRC and knew that the start would be more vital than ever on the sticky circuit, which still had a hard base to affect traction amongst all the ruts. The Slovenian led the championship by six points over Jorge Prado after winning the RAM Qualifying Race .

For the first time this year, Glenn Coldenhoff took the Fox Holeshot Award for Fantic Factory Racing, with Henry Jacobi again getting involved on his Sarholz Racing KTM with the front runners, as Prado ran the German hero wide, allowing Gajser to briefly grab 2nd from the reigning Champ! However, Prado was having none of it and the pair got aggressive with each other in the first few corners! Just after completing the move on Gajser, the Spaniard made a decisive move up the inside of Coldenhoff to take the lead halfway around the first lap!

Gajser took some time to get past Coldenhoff, and when he finally did on lap four, Prado was already eight seconds down the track. Leading as well as usual and setting the fastest lap on lap four to immediately squash Gajser’s hopes of catching, it was the 9th GP race win of the year for the #1 plate holder.

There was more battling going on behind him, though, as Calvin Vlaanderen worked his way forward for Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MXGP, along with Red Bull KTM Factory Racing’s Jeffrey Herlings, who was outside of the top ten around the first corner! Romain Febvre, meanwhile, started touring, and pulled out of the weekend’s racing, turning straight into the Kawasaki Racing Team paddock on the third lap.

Gajser seemed to not have his full speed available to him, and later confessed to suffering with intense arm-pump issues. Herlings fought past both the Slovenian and, on lap 14 of 17, Vlaanderen to take what would be a solid second place. Calvin passed Tim, but fell in a right hander by the start straight and gifted the position back. They swapped places twice more, a loss of traction on a jump costing the Dutchman third position, and keeping the Honda man in the Championship lead by a single point going into race two!

Standing Construct Honda man Pauls Jonass made a late move on Coldenhoff to claim 5th, but ultimately no-one could touch Prado who took a win by 13 seconds from Herlings after backing off for the last few easy laps.

The rain held off and let the track dry out, making it around five or more seconds per lap faster than race one, and with the confidence to move to a slightly more outside gate, Prado grabbed his 9th Fox Holeshot Award of the season, but he had company this time in the shape of “The Bullet” as Herlings held an inside line in turn two to pass the Kawasaki Racing Team rider Jeremy Seewer for 2nd. Gajser and Vlaanderen also got past the Swiss veteran to give chase to the flying Prado.

It looked like Herlings had got his claws into the reigning Champ with a series of faster laps that put him just a second shy of the leader. Then he hit a rut a little too hard and although he didn’t crash, it hurt his momentum and he was almost immediately under attack from Gajser!

On lap twelve the Slovenian made his move in the middle of the valley, and took up the chase to Prado! Vlaanderen and Coldenhoff held on to fourth and fifth, and Seewer made a late move to grab sixth from TeamShip To Cycle Honda Motoblouz SR veteran Valentin Guillod.

Gajser, just as Herlings before him, got to within a second of Prado, but the Spaniard simply would not crack and kept up his pace to break the pursuit, eventually winning by just over three seconds. The Spaniard moves onto 44 Grand Prix wins for his career, two behind Gajser for sixth in the all-time win list.

Jorge Prado: “It was overall a perfect weekend. I’m super happy with my riding. Getting back to hard pack with more normal conditions for me. It was good with good starts too. Not much to say, I’m just very happy to get another win! We keep going like this with Latvia next,, which is a good track for me so let’s get some sand riding next week!”

Tim Gajser: “With my first race I’m a bit disappointed you know, because I had a good start and was just behind Jorge (Prado) and Glenn (Coldenhoff) but couldn’t pass immediately so I lost a little bit of rhythm so I used wrong line and got arm pump and survival mode until the end. Race two was much better, we got a very pace with Jorge and Jeffrey (Herlings). I managed to make a pass toward the end but had to settle for second but riding was good and I’m happy to leave Germany with a podium. A big thank you to all my team.”

Jeffrey Herlings: “It was not easy in the second race. It was really unlucky twice for me to come back on Tim with some lappers in between us and I couldn’t get close enough to Jeffrey. But anyway 2-3 and third on the day which is not that bad. I got injured a couple of time on this track so I’m very happy to come back home safe and keep fighting for the championship as it’s still a long season. Proud of my day!"

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Liqui Moly MXGP of Germany - MXGP

June 2, 2024

Teutschenthal Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Rider Motos Bike
1 Jorge Prado MXGP of Germany Written Recap, Video Highlights, Results, and Standings - Racer X (8) 1-1 GasGas
2 Tim Gajser MXGP of Germany Written Recap, Video Highlights, Results, and Standings - Racer X (10) 3-2 Honda
3 Jeffrey Herlings MXGP of Germany Written Recap, Video Highlights, Results, and Standings - Racer X (12) 2-3 KTM
4 Calvin Vlaanderen MXGP of Germany Written Recap, Video Highlights, Results, and Standings - Racer X (14) 4-4 Yamaha
5 Glenn Coldenhoff MXGP of Germany Written Recap, Video Highlights, Results, and Standings - Racer X (16) 6-5 Fantic

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MXGP Standings - 2024

PositionRider Points
2 Tim Gajser MXGP of Germany Written Recap, Video Highlights, Results, and Standings - Racer X (18) 454
1 Jorge Prado MXGP of Germany Written Recap, Video Highlights, Results, and Standings - Racer X (20) 450
3 Jeffrey Herlings MXGP of Germany Written Recap, Video Highlights, Results, and Standings - Racer X (22) 386
4 Romain Febvre MXGP of Germany Written Recap, Video Highlights, Results, and Standings - Racer X (24) 327
5 Calvin Vlaanderen MXGP of Germany Written Recap, Video Highlights, Results, and Standings - Racer X (26) 299

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MX2

The MX2 class held the main hopes of the German crowd for some home success as their man Simon Laengenfelder, second in the points standings for Red Bull GASGAS Factory Racing, took the fastest lap in Time Practice, before a fall cost him a shot at the RAM Qualifying Race, which was won by Kay de Wolf.

It was the man in form, Lucas Coenen, who took his first Fox Holeshot Award of the year to lead immediately in race one, but crowd favourite Laengenfelder was in second, and after disposing of Red Bull KTM Factory Racing’s Andrea Adamo around the first lap, so too was De Wolf - the top three in the series briefly in reverse order!

It didn’t take the Dutchman long to get around the German, though, and took up the chase to Lucas Coenen. The top five stayed in their order throughout the race, with Adamo fourth, and Rick Elzinga fifth for Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MX2. After carving past the Fantic Factory Racing MX2 machine of Kay Karssemakers on the third lap, Quentin Prugnieres was sixth for F&H Racing, despite holding off several attempts from Team HRC rookie Ferruccio Zanchi. Liam Everts had one of those races to forget for Red Bull KTM Factory Racing, with a poor start and a further crash, just to nip past Zanchi on the final lap to salvage 7th.

De Wolf made several runs at Lucas, but this time the Belgian did not crack, and in fact it was Kay who made the mistakes as he chased, ultimately having to settle for second despite claiming the fastest lap of the race. It was Lucas’ fourth straight GP race win and left him just a point behind Laengenfelder for second in the series.

A fired up Laengenfelder took the Fox Holeshot Award ahead of Adamo and Elzinga, but De Wolf and Lucas Coenen battled past the Dutch Yamaha star and the reigning World Champion to try and chase down the crowd favourite as the valley vibrated to the sound of horns, hooters, and revving chainsaw engines encouraging their man to greater heights!

Despite this, De Wolf was through into the lead on the second lap, and Lucas got through on lap six. Adamo also took advantage of a mistake by the German to grab third, but a few corners later he was on the ground after over balancing on a corner jump. He would recover to finish sixth. Just in front of the pit lane a lap later, De Wolf tipped over in a deep rut and handed the lead to his teammate! As Mikkel Haarup moved up to take a fine fourth place finish for Monster Energy Triumph Racing, so a pitched battle between the leading two men in the series took place. De Wolf had issues in several deep ruts just as he was looking to attack, then in front of a bank of spectators on a long left-hander made a stunning move around Laengenfelder on lap 15!

It wasn’t over there though, as the red plate holder again made a mistake in a rut and allowed the German back past, only to repeat his earlier move to the anguish of the crowd and finally clinch second place!

It was all too late to stop Lucas Coenen, however, who cruised to a win that buried the memories of a broken chain denying him his first GP win here 12 months ago. It was a 9.5 second win that builds his streak to five straight race wins and three Grand Prix wins, and it moves him ahead of Laengenfelder to second in the Championship, 59 behind De Wolf.

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Now the teams and crews head 1,400 km north-east to the sandy terrain of Kegums in Latvia, where The Bullet took his most recent Grand Prix win, and the battle will be joined in both classes once more!

Lucas Coenen: “That’s three in a row, it’s amazing to see how everything can go perfectly let’s say. During the last few laps, I was quite nervous because of what happened last year but I can now get over it finally with winning Teutschenthal. I saw Kay crash which is a bummer as I wanted us to do the same as in the first race but I got the win so I’m happy. I can’t thank enough everybody around me.”

Kay de Wolf: “In general I had a very great weekend and o showed great speed all weekend long. I was really happy with my riding. I just did a small mistake and tipped over and got my leg stuck under the bike but in the end it went okay. It was hard to pass in the second race and all of a sudden, I found this outside line that helped me to pass Simon twice in a row. Now, we’ll go to Latvia where I had my first GP win so I’m really looking forward to it!”

Simon Laengenfelder: “I’m happy to be on the podium for my home GP but for sure I want to be more in front of course. It’s a 2-3 today after some mistakes yesterday. I’m happy with my start and also riding that I think was great. I feel also good physically and my fitness is getting where I want it to be so let’s keep going for the next races.”

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Liqui Moly MXGP of Germany - MX2

June 2, 2024

Teutschenthal Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Rider Motos Bike
1 Lucas Coenen MXGP of Germany Written Recap, Video Highlights, Results, and Standings - Racer X (33) 1-1 Husqvarna
2 Kay de Wolf MXGP of Germany Written Recap, Video Highlights, Results, and Standings - Racer X (35) 2-2 Husqvarna
3 Simon Laengenfelder MXGP of Germany Written Recap, Video Highlights, Results, and Standings - Racer X (37) 3-3 GasGas
4 Andrea Adamo MXGP of Germany Written Recap, Video Highlights, Results, and Standings - Racer X (39) 4-6 KTM
5 Rick Elzinga MXGP of Germany Written Recap, Video Highlights, Results, and Standings - Racer X (41) 5-5 Yamaha

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MX2 Standings - 2024

PositionRider Points
1 Kay de Wolf MXGP of Germany Written Recap, Video Highlights, Results, and Standings - Racer X (43) 443
2 Lucas Coenen MXGP of Germany Written Recap, Video Highlights, Results, and Standings - Racer X (45) 388
3 Simon Laengenfelder MXGP of Germany Written Recap, Video Highlights, Results, and Standings - Racer X (47) 381
4 Liam Everts MXGP of Germany Written Recap, Video Highlights, Results, and Standings - Racer X (49) 341
5 Andrea Adamo MXGP of Germany Written Recap, Video Highlights, Results, and Standings - Racer X (51) 327

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MXGP of Germany Written Recap, Video Highlights, Results, and Standings - Racer X (2024)
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