Kawasaki factory rider Romain Febvre has won the Saturday MXGP qualification race with a comfortable victory in slightly muddy conditions at the St Jean d’Angely circuit in France. Febvre won ahead of Tim Gajser and Jeremy Seewer, with two of the big guns, Jorge Prado and Jeffrey Herlings in fourth and 10th respectively. World championship points are now 305 each for Prado and Gajser.

Romain Febvre: Actually, I injured my thumb this morning and I tried to do some laps times this morning, but I couldn't do all the jumps and when it started raining I thought this is my chance to get some points. I don't know sometimes how I do it, I wasn't going to race today and just tomorrow.

Seewer and Febvre led the MXGP qualifier in somewhat dryer conditions to the MX2 qualifier, Prado was third, then Guadagnini, Vlaanderen, Paturel, Horgmo, Gajser, Nagy, Bogers in 10th and Herlings back in 18th after a wild first corner ride. Guadagnini crashed in fourth place and dropped back, and Herlings quickly into 10th place.

One lap in the lead by Febvre was 4.6 seconds over Prado, with Seewer third, then Vlaanderen, Gajser, Horgmo, Paturel, Coldenhoff, Bogers and Herlings. Jonass out of the race. Febvre eight seconds ahead of Prado on lap two and Herlings all over Bogers for ninth place. Gajser moved past Vlaanderen and into fourth place.

Gajser into third place as he passed Seewer and you get the feeling he will be on Prado soon. Coldenhoff crashed and dropped well back and on lap three it was Febvre with a 10 second lead over Prado, then Gajser two seconds behind Prado, followed by Seewer, Vlaanderen, Horgmo, Paturel, Herlings, Bogers and Watson 10th.

Gajser suddenly all over Prado for second place and as we all expected, these guys are putting pressure on Prado. Gajser into second as Prado made a small mistake. Seewer now chasing after Prado and the Spaniard really not comfortable on muddy conditions. Seewer into third and the championship points are equal again between Prado and Gajser.

Herlings into seventh as he passed Paturel, and Febvre still 10 seconds ahead of Gajser, who was slipping and sliding his way around the track. Prado was 25 seconds off the lead of Febvre and the top ten on lap eight was Febvre, Gajser, Seewer, Prado, Horgmo, Vlaanderen, Herlings, Paturel, Bogers and Watson. Febvre wins from Gajser and Seewer. Herlings a mistake and dropped from seventh to 10th in the final lap.

MXGP - RAM Qualifying Race - Classification

1. Romain Febvre (FRA, Kawasaki), 24:56.195; 2. Tim Gajser (SLO, Honda), +0:06.656; 3. Jeremy Seewer (SUI, Kawasaki), +0:14.755; 4. Jorge Prado (ESP, GASGAS), +0:44.402; 5. Kevin Horgmo (NOR, Honda), +0:45.597; 6. Calvin Vlaanderen (NED, Yamaha), +0:49.634; 7. Benoit Paturel (FRA, Yamaha), +1:02.116; 8. Brian Bogers (NED, Fantic), +1:05.095; 9. Ben Watson (GBR, Beta), +1:08.094; 10. Jeffrey Herlings (NED, KTM), +1:16.739; 11. Valentin Guillod (SUI, Honda), +1:35.699; 12. Kevin Brumann (SUI, Husqvarna), +1:57.199; 13. Josh Gilbert (GBR, KTM), +2:00.555; 14. Andrea Bonacorsi (ITA, Yamaha), +2:04.172; 15. Mattia Guadagnini (ITA, Husqvarna), +2:09.130; 16. Jan Pancar (SLO, KTM), +2:19.443; 17. Emilio Scuteri (ITA, Honda), +2:23.117; 18. Ivo Monticelli (ITA, Beta), -1 lap(s); 19. Tom Grimshaw (GBR, Honda), -1 lap(s); 20. Adam Sterry (GBR, KTM), -1 lap(s); 21. Anton Nagy (SWE, Yamaha), -1 lap(s); 22. Glenn Coldenhoff (NED, Fantic), -1 lap(s); 23. Pierre Goupillon (FRA, KTM), -1 lap(s); 24. Mark Scheu (GER, Husqvarna), -1 lap(s); 25. Giuseppe Tropepe (ITA, Honda), -1 lap(s); 26. Cornelius Toendel (NOR, KTM), -1 lap(s); 27. Nikolaj Skovgaard (DEN, KTM), -1 lap(s); 28. Cato Nickel (GER, Husqvarna), -6 lap(s); 29. Pauls Jonass (LAT, Honda), -11 lap(s); 30. Isak Gifting (SWE, Yamaha), -11 lap(s);

MXGP - World Championship Classification

1. Jorge Prado (ESP, GAS), 305 points; 2. Tim Gajser (SLO, HON), 305 p.; 3. Romain Febvre (FRA, KAW), 277 p.; 4. Jeffrey Herlings (NED, KTM), 247 p.; 5. Pauls Jonass (LAT, HON), 217 p.; 6. Jeremy Seewer (SUI, KAW), 201 p.; 7. Calvin Vlaanderen (NED, YAM), 196 p.; 8. Glenn Coldenhoff (NED, FAN), 179 p.; 9. Kevin Horgmo (NOR, HON), 121 p.; 10. Valentin Guillod (SUI, HON), 120 p.; 11. Ben Watson (GBR, BET), 99 p.; 12. Cornelius Toendel (NOR, KTM), 91 p.; 13. Brian Bogers (NED, FAN), 91 p.; 14. Isak Gifting (SWE, YAM), 77 p.; 15. Jan Pancar (SLO, KTM), 65 p.; 16. Maxime Renaux (FRA, YAM), 63 p.; 17. Alvin Östlund (SWE, HON), 56 p.; 18. Ivo Monticelli (ITA, BET), 46 p.; 19. Benoit Paturel (FRA, YAM), 41 p.; 20. Tom Koch (GER, KTM), 40 p.; 21. Andrea Bonacorsi (ITA, YAM), 38 p.; 22. Mattia Guadagnini (ITA, HUS), 35 p.; 23. Maximilian Spies (GER, KTM), 27 p.; 24. Adam Sterry (GBR, KTM), 25 p.; 25. Tim Edberg (SWE, HON), 13 p.; 26. Josh Gilbert (GBR, KTM), 10 p.; 27. Jere Haavisto (FIN, KTM), 8 p.; 28. Kevin Brumann (SUI, HUS), 7 p.; 29. Ander Valentin (ESP, YAM), 7 p.; 30. Emilio Scuteri (ITA, HON), 6 p.; 31. Todd Kellett (GBR, YAM), 5 p.; 32. Lars van Berkel (NED, HON), 5 p.; 33. Miguel Cordovez (ECU, YAM), 4 p.; 34. Fabio Aparecido dos Santos (BRA, YAM), 3 p.; 35. Anton Nagy (SWE, YAM), 3 p.; 36. Nicolas Rolando (URU, HUS), 2 p.; 37. Andres Benenaula (ECU, KAW), 1 p.; 38. Sergio Ignacio Villaronga Muga (CHI, HON), 1 p.;