Monster Energy Yamaha rider Maxime Renaux has scored the ninth GP victory of his career and third in the MXGP class. His first GP victory since Switzerland two years ago, and finally he seems over his horrible foot injury, which he picked up soon after the last GP win in Switzerland.

The Frenchman, who won the MX2 World championship in 2021 went 2-1 for victory and looks the goods to battle Romain Febvre and Tim Gajser for the championship this year. Those two finished second and third overall, Febvre with 1-2 scores and Gajser 3-3.

Maxime Renaux: It is amazing. It is a bit like a movie, you know. I have worked really good and have a good crew and people, my physical trainer, they always trusted me. This is amazing. It was a nice race the second one, holeshot and I managed the race. We have many races to come, so lets concentrate on that.

Romain Febvre: I am happy with the first one of a long season. We are where we want to be and I feel good. Second moto I didn't get the jump, but I turned good and was third, but I was too slow to pass Guadaganini and the gap was too big. Second overall, good points, feeling good. Lets go back to Europe.

Tim Gajser: It was okay, the speed was good, but I need to work on the starts again. I need to be mroe at the front and we three are similar in speed and we know what we need to work on. I cannot wait to go again in two weeks.

MXGP Moto Two

Guadagnini led from Renaux, Lucas Coenen, Febvre, Gajser, Horgmo, Guillod, Jonass, Toendel, and Coldenhoff 10th. Renaux into the lead and after a lap it was Guillod who passed both Coenen and Gajser, and Febvre all over Guadagnini for second place.

Lap one was Renaux, Guadagnini, Febvre, Guillod, Gajser, Coenen, Jonass, Coldenhoff, Horgmo and Gifting. Renaux already a five second lead and on this track, its hard to make up time. Gajser again nine seconds off the leader early and struggling somewhat. Renaux extended his lead to 7.4 seconds.

Lap two and the gap was 8.3 seconds and Gajser moved into fourth place, but 11.3 seconds off Renaux. Febvre doing everything in his powers to get past the Italian in second place. Febvre into second place and Gajser now onto the back wheel of Guadagnini. While Renaux is gone, second, third, fourth and fifth all very close.

Gajser into third and on lap three it was Renaux, Febvre, Gajser, Guadagnini, Guillod, Coenen, Coldenhoff, Gifting, Jonass and Horgmo. Febvre and Gajser closing slightly on Renaux, but hard to get the pace of the leader. Gifting out of the race with mechanical issues.

Febvre clocking better laps than Renaux for the last two laps and the gap was 8.5 seconds, with Gajser 11.1 off the leader of the moto. Geerts into the top ten with the Gifting failure. Top ten on lap six was Renaux, Febvre, Gajser, Guadagnini, Guillod, Coenen, Coldenhoff, Jonass, Horgmo and Geerts.

Make those three laps as Febvre continued to do better laps than the leader, and Gajser also quicker than Renaux. The lead was 7.5 on lap seven and Gajser 9.9 seconds back in third. Lap seven and the lap time of Febvre two seconds quicker than Renaux. Seewer back in 16th spot, Fernandez 17th and Bogers 18th. Coldenhoff then crashed and dropped to 11th.

The gap was still 7.5 on lap nine and Renaux maybe just controlling his position and not pushing too hard. Down to 7.3 seconds, the closest since the start of the moto. Geerts dropped to 12th as Bonacorsi into 10th as he passed both Vlaanderen and Geerts. Renaux got the gap back to 8.1 seconds and Febvre also extended the gap between himself and Gajser.

On lap 13, Gajser onto Febvre, but these two now 12 seconds off the leader. Renaux now clocking the quickest laps of the race and showing real maturity. Fourth placed Guadagnini on the Ducati was 33 seconds off the pace. Seewer a crash and he dropped back in the field to 18th place. Renaux wins the moto and the GP, with Febvre and Gajser second and third in the moto and the overall.

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