American rider Thomas Covington has won the Grand Prix of Mexico with a 4-1 results. The Factory Husqvarna rider copied his Mexican victory from last year, and moved inside the top ten in the MX2 standings. Jeremy Seewer the red plate owner finished with 1-4 for second overall and third overall was Julien Lieber with 3-3 results.

Thomas Covington: Its unbelievable, so glad to be here, travelling and racing my dirt bike. Its probably the best moto of my career that second moto. I wasn’t sure I could pass for the lead, but I got through. The team do so much for me, even when I am struggling. I just can’t believe it.

Jeremy Seewer: First moto I took the lead and could control the lead, second moto I came to third and made a small mistake and lost energy and finished second overall. Disappointed, but happy with the red plate. Going back to Europe with it.

Julien Lieber: I am really happy with my weekend. We had a lot of battled and the track was really tough. I got third in both motos and third overall.

Jonass took the holeshot in the opening MX2 moto, but it was Seewer who took the lead early from Jonass, Lieber, Vlaanderen, Covington, Bogers, Paturel, Sterry, Van Doninck, and Brylyakov in 10th. Sterry made a mistakes and dropped to 17th place, and Prado was back in 18th place.

Jonass dropped back to fourth, but started to look for a way past Lieber as he tried to get to Seewer. Bogers moved into fifth place as he passed Covington. Covington made his way back past Bogers and started closing in on Jonass, but then suddenly Paturel made his way past Covington to drop him back to sixth.

Seewer pulled it to three seconds ahead over Vlaanderen, and behind them a big group of riders were fighting for fifth place, with Paturel, Covington, Bogers, Van Doninck and Olsen all together.
Brylyakov went down, and lost a bunch of positions. Meanwhile Vlaanderen was starting to get pressure from Lieber and Jonass who were closing in on the South African. Paturel was also making up time on those three guys.

Olsen was riding well, moving into 8th place after a poor start. Sterry, Lawrence and Prado were 13th, 14th and 15th.

The battle between Vlaanderen, Lieber and Jonass was very close as Jonass moved into second place. Paturel is all over those three, as the racing continued to be brilliant in the MX2 class. Lieber also gets Vlaanderen as the three riders nearly collided with each other in a wild moment. Paturel also went past and into fourth place. Seewers lead was nine seconds after nine laps.

Top ten after nine laps was Seewer, Jonass, Lieber, Paturel, Vlaanderen, Covington, Van Doninck, Olsen, Cervellin, and Sterry. Covington had also worked his way up to Vlaanderen and was pushing hard to get past. Lieber moved into second, dropping Jonass to third.

Paturel then made his way past Lieber for second place, as Jonass dropped to fourth. Seewer was cruising up front with a 12 second lead. Covington, who had passed Vlaanderen, then caught and passed Jonass for fourth place. Top 10 after 16 laps was Seewer, Paturel, Lieber, Covington, Jonass, Vlaanderen, Olsen, Van Doninck, Cervellin, and Sterry.

Seewer won though from Paturel and Lieber.

In the second MX2 moto Covington took the holeshot, but Jonass quickly took the lead, followed by Covington, Lieber, Prado, Van Doninck, Sterry, Prado, Seewer, Vlaanderen, Bogers and Cervellin in 10th.
While Jonass led, once again the battle for second was exciting with Covington closing on the leader, and Lieber, Van Doninck and Seewer all close together. Lieber, Van Doninck and Seewer were all over eachother in a great battle, as Jonass and Covington pulled away.

Seewer got past Van Doninck, and Covington was also all over Jonass for the lead.

Top 15 after six laps was Jonass, Covington, Lieber, Seewer, Van Doninck, Sterry, Olsen, Brylyakov, Vlaanderen, Bogers, Cervellin, Bernardini, Paturel, Prado, and Lawrence.

Covington moved into the lead and also held the GP overall. Seewer though was all over Lieber and a pass would see him take the overall victory.

Suddenly both Lieber and Seewer were closing on Jonass in second place. Seewer passed Lieber to take third and the lead in the overall points.

Top fifteen after nine laps was Covington, Jonass, Seewer, Lieber, Van Doninck, Sterry, Olsen, Brylyakov, Bogers, Cervellin, Paturel, Vlaanderen, Bernarnini, Lawrence and Larranaga.

Seewer nearly went down after losing the front end, and kept control of this Suzuki, losing a place to Lieber and the overall.

Covington had opened his lead to seven seconds with two laps to go, and still held the overall points lead.

With a lap to go Lieber made a small error and Seewer got a little closer, but the Belgian was giving it everything to stay in third place behind Covington and Jonass. Covington wins the moto and the GP.

MX2 – Grand Prix Race 1 – Classification

1 91 Seewer, Jeremy SUI FMS Suzuki 35:36.310
2 6 Paturel, Benoit FRA FFM Yamaha 35:44.232
3 33 Lieber, Julien BEL FMB KTM 35:49.401
4 64 Covington, Thomas USA MUL Husqvarna 35:54.861
5 41 Jonass, Pauls LAT LAMSF KTM 35:56.223
6 10 Vlaanderen, Calvin NED KNMV KTM 35:58.467
7 19 Olsen, Thomas Kjer DEN DMU Husqvarna 35:59.595
8 172 Van doninck, Brent BEL FMB Yamaha 36:03.763
9 747 Cervellin, Michele ITA FMI Honda 36:09.504
10 811 Sterry, Adam GBR ACU Kawasaki 36:16.085