Herlings Wins 102 and Counting

In front of a huge Spanish crowd and in very warm conditions around a very rough circuit, Red Bull KTM Factory rider Jeffrey Herlings won the Spanish GP with 1-1 scores and became the greatest Grand Prix winner of all time. The five time World motocross champion picked up his 102^nd GP victory to pass the record held for the last two decades by Stefan Everts.

Jeffrey Herlings: It is pretty insane, at Jorges home place and I did it. I want to thank myself. The team did their job and its a long journey and to have this record for myself now and we want to continue improving. The most motos wins I broke a couple of years ago now the most GP wins and the most World title I don't think I can get. So many wins with KTM and I want to thank Pit (Beirer) for this one.

The 1-1 win by Herlings is also bad news for the competition as he is starting to look like the 2018 version of “The Bullet”, who completely dominated his opposition and won the title with ease. Now just six points behind Prado, the Dutchman must be excited for the next round in France.

GasGas factory rider Jorge Prado, who still owns the red plate finished with a strong second place in the opening moto and then put together top five finish. Second overall was Mattia Guadagnini with 3-3 scores and third overall was Ruben Fernandez with 5-2 scores.

Ruben Fernandez moved to third in the championship points as the Spanish do have something to celebrate. The championship points are now Jorge Prado 294, Jeffrey Herlings 288, Ruben Fernandez 224, Romain Febvre and Maxime Renaux 202.

Seewer led the second MXGP moto from Guadagnini, Fernandez, Herlings,  Paturel, Vaanderen, Prado, Coldenhoff, Guillod and Forato. Fernandez into the lead as he passed Seewer and Herlings all over Seewer. Guadagnini passed Seewer and Herlings follows him through.

Prado moved past Paturel for fifth and on lap three the lead by Fernandez over Guadagnini was 2.6 seconds. Herlings was just behind Seewer and Prado starting to build his speed. Coldenhoff also passed Paturel.

Herlings moved into third place as he ducked up the inside of Seewer. The Dutchman quickly up to Guadagnini and looking likely to do the same thing as the opening moto and make history. Herlings tried a pass on Guadagnini and nearly got it, but both are now all over Fernandez for the lead.

Herlings into second and now onto the leader and on lap eight into the lead and victory number 102 is right in front of him. As it is now, the points lead in the championship from Prado is just three points. Herlings wins the moto and GP and closed down the series lead by local rider Jorge Prado.

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