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Sixth GP Win of the Season for Romain Febvre
Romain Febvre of Kawasaki Racing Team MXGP raced to his sixth victory of the last seven GPs in the Dutch round of the FIM World MXGP Motocross Championship at a rugged track on the outskirts of Arnhem.
Coming off a dominant victory during Qualifying on Saturday the Kawasaki leader was confident headed into race one and had already made second secure by the end of the opening lap. He was then content to keep a watching brief before mounting an attack for the lead at half-distance, surging past in dramatic style at the end of the ninth of eighteen laps to immediately open up a gap. Suddenly two laps later the Frenchman ground mysteriously to a halt in deep soft sand on landing from a jump; the E-starter responded immediately but there was no forward momentum and it cost more than fifteen seconds before he realized that the cause was a stone which had jammed the rear brake mechanism. Once more lapping several seconds faster than his rivals he had closed to within sight of the moto winner at the checkered flag. A perfect second moto - the fifth holeshot of the season and consistently fast lap-times at the head of the field - secured yet another overall GP victory - his sixth in the last seven rounds - from a 2-1 day. With three rounds of the championship remaining he is now a secure second in the series, ninety-two points behind the pace-setter and seventy-seven clear of third.
