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Romain Febvre Consolidates Third in MXGP Standings
Romain Febvre of Kawasaki Racing Team MXGP consolidated his third place in the FIM World MXGP Motocross Championship standings at the halfway stage of the series at Teutschenthal in Germany.
The Frenchman was quickly on the move in race one as he soared into fourth over an uphill triple-jump on lap two and he had already set his sights on the front three as the front wheel slipped away on the exit from a muddy left-hand turn, pushing him back to eighth. Lapping faster than the leaders he ran down the rider in seventh on lap ten of eighteen but could only advance one more position, at the expense of the fallen leader, before the finish. The Kawasaki leader rocketed out of the gate in race two to secure third place on the opening lap and was closing down the leaders when a slip on lap three pushed him momentarily back to fifth. He was soon on the move again, matching the pace of the leaders as he surged back to third on lap eight of eighteen, but the front-two were ten seconds down the track and he had to be satisfied with third at the finish. Fifth overall on the day, just three points from the podium, he has consolidated his top-three world ranking headed into the second half of the series and has reduced his deficit to second to thirty-nine points.
KRT teammate Mitch Evans, gaining in confidence by the day after his season-best Qualifying on Saturday, raced to a superb seventh overall from ninth- and sixth-placed moto finishes. The Australian rode an aggressive opening lap in moto one to advance quickly into the top-ten and pushed for the entire thirty-five minutes to take over ninth three laps from the close. Race two was even better as he took over sixth within a few corners and raced fifth for most of the race before a title-candidate slipped past four laps from the end.
