Jago Geerts won the overall in Sweden’s MX2 and retained the championship lead
Jago Geerts won MX2 in Sweden with victory in the race on Sunday. The Yamaha rider is in the world title and left the Uddevalla region with the same advantage he had over Tom Vialle, who occupies second place in the championship.
The first MX2 race started with Kevin Horgo crossing the holeshot line and leading for a while. However, Tom Vialle took the lead later and Horgo would also lose the position to Jago Geerts.
The two riders would switch positions again and Vialle ended up moving away from the pair of athletes battling for second place. The KTM man ended up crossing the checkered flag to take his 13th win this season; Geerts had been second best on the track, and Horgmo had to settle for third.
In race two, Simon Laengenfelder took his seventh holeshot of the year with Thibault Benistant by his side. The GasGas rider was also able to put himself in the lead immediately after the finish of the first corner of the race and stayed there for the following moments. Later Vialle took second place and was very close to the German… until he fell in one of the corners and lost the position to Jago Geerts.
From then on, #93 bet all his chips on a chase for the leader and it was on the tenth lap that #93 managed to reach the first position of the race. Later Vialle reached Laengenfelder and also managed to return to second place, he was determined to catch up with Geerts. However, the victory was even won by Geerts with Vialle second and Laengenfelder closing access to the podium.
After the two races, Jago Geerts (2-1) was the rider who climbed to the top of the podium, although he scored the same 47 points as Vialle (1-2). By winning the second race, the Yamaha rider was crowned the big winner of this MX2 from Sweden in a top three with Simon Laengenfelder (4-3) third with 38 points. As for the championships, the gap of 23 points between Geerts and Vialle remains with the Belgian remaining in the lead now with 637 points. Laengenfelder holds third place in the championship, but the GASGAS rider already has a gap of 130 points to the lead in the general standings.
With another round of the World Motocross Championship completed, MX2 and MXGP will return next weekend for the MXGP of Finland.
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