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An injury from Cairoli, however, curtailed that. Whilst Herlings was injured in the beginning of 2019, Gajser and Cairoli were the class of the field for the opening races, and it looked as though it could be a battle to the end between the two. That battle will start this weekend, where Herlings won in 2018 and Gajser took the fight to Cairoli in 2019, winning the qualifying race and the second race on Sunday, after crashing hard in the first moto and coming back to finish third behind Gautier Paulin.
#MXGP 2021 MATTERLEY BASIN FULL#
Injuries have prevented this battle playing out over a full season in the premier class before and hopefully they won’t get in the way in 2020.
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In 2020 we have the potential to see for the first time Jeffrey Herlings versus Tim Gajser. Jeffrey Herlings on his way to overall victory at the Hawkstone International.
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Whilst it might be unreasonable to expect the kind of conditions we saw in Hawkstone at the beginning of the month, those results might be something to look at when it comes to mud races, which could well be the situation for this weekend.Īnyone who has been keeping up with or watching Monster Energy Supercross so far this season will be accustomed by now to an incredibly stacked premier class, and the MXGP category for this season is no different. The S uperfinal was cancelled in Hawkstone thanks to Storm Ciara, and with the weather not looking especially pleasant for this weekend in Matterley Basin, you have to question the judgement to put the British Grand Prix in the end of February/beginning of March. Herlings took the overall in Hawkstone courtesy of a better second race result for the 2018 champion, ahead of Simpson and Coldenhoff. In Hawkstone, Shaun Simpson got off to a good start to life as a team owner, taking the win in the first rain-soaked moto, ahead of Jeffrey Herlings and 2019’s late bloomer and MXdN star Glenn Coldenhoff who this season will debut the GasGas after their capture by KTM.
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Jeffrey Herlings won the overall in Lacapelle, the Red Bull athlete finishing ahead of the Monster Energy-backed trio of Yamaha’s Jeremy Seewer and the factory Kawasaki duo of Romain Febvre and Clement Desalle. Mitch Evans in action in the Internazionali d’Italia. In particular, it was interesting to see Mitch Evans in race-winning form out in Italy, taking the Superfinal win at the final round of the Internazionali d’Italia at Mantova, besting both Red Bull KTM’s Tony Cairoli, who returned that weekend from his summer 2019 injury, and fellow HRC Honda rider, reigning World Champion Tim Gajser who took the championship overall. The 2020 season has been highly anticipated, with said anticipation heightened by some intriguing results in the preseason races in Italy, Lacapelle-Marival and Hawkstone. This weekend the 2020 MXGP World Championship gets underway in Matterley Basin for the MXGP of Great Britain.