In MXGP the only two riders capable of winning this year’s World Championship took the top two positions, with Lucas Coenen taking a start-to-finish victory for Red Bull KTM Factory Racing, ahead of Kawasaki Racing Team MXGP’s red plate holder Romain Febvre. Behind him was the other Red Bull KTM Factory Racing rider Lucas Coenen, only two thousandths of a second ahead of Honda HRC’s Tim Gajser. Tim Gajser had also managed to pass Geerts to sit in seventh spot, while Geerts’ Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MXGP teammate Calvin Vlaanderen held eighth ahead of the other Honda HRC pilot Ruben Fernandez. Ninth was the third Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MXGP machine of Maxime Renaux, behind Geerts in eighth, and a fighting Herlings who came through to a dissatisfied seventh. Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MX2 pilot Rick Elzinga held eighth ahead of the Monster Energy Triumph of Camden McLellan.