What a race today at the MXGP of Flanders – Belgium and with one name shining at the highest level: Jeffrey Herlings. In both race one and two, the KTM rider overturned huge disadvantages and showed why many put him alongside some of the best names ever in the category.
At Lommel in race one, Jorge Prado was in the lead and gaining time on the competition, but he didn’t expect Herlings to react, gradually gaining ground after being 17s behind the Red Bull GASGAS Factory rider.
In the end he would win, and not by a small margin, as he took the win with 10.374s over Prado, while Calvin Vlaanderen (Monster Energy Yamaha Factory) took the last place on the podium. Romain Febvre (Kawasaki Racing Team MXGP) was fourth, ahead of Tim Gajser (Team HRC).
In race 2 the scenario was partly similar, with Herlings going from the back to the front and Prado leading, but just as he did in the first race, Herlings was on an unstoppable pace and showed why his nickname is ‘The Bullet’.
After a less than perfect start, he recovered positions and didn’t give his rivals a chance, again beating everyone until he reached Prado, who he overtook once more and from there it was history.
He won again and did an encore this year, for the second time. Prado was second again, Febvre was third. Gajser was fourth and Jeremy Seewer (Kawasaki Racing Team MXGP) rounded off the top five.
In the overall accounts, Gajser remains the leader with 705 points. Prado is second with 681 and Herlings third with 667.