Brent van Doninck of JM Racing Honda has achieved a strong eighth place in his home Grand Prix in Lommel. Van Doninck managed to cross the finish line in this position in the second moto. In the first moto he came back to seventeenth place after a crash at the start.
On Saturday, things didn’t go perfectly for van Doninck in the beginning. He had some difficulties with the track but this got better and better during the day. However, he suffered a setback at the start of the qualifying heat as he crashed and had to get back to the front from last place. Van Doninck managed to get an eighteenth place out of it. He was pleased with his speed and was looking forward to the race on Sunday.
He started in the first moto motivated but unfortunately he collided with another rider at the start, which resulted in a crash. Van Doninck hit his head and came back in the race with a big deficit. He didn’t give up and came back to fourteenth place during the race.
In the second moto he didn’t had any problems at the start. However, he had to do a lot of work because he had to work his way up from fifteenth place. He was able to keep going until the closing stages and managed to get an eighth place out of it.
With these results, van Doninck finished in twelfth place in the general classification.
Maximilian Werner managed to finish eleventh in the EMX250 class. In the first moto it went well in the first fifteen minutes but then he changed lines and lost several places. Exhausted, he crossed the finish line in ninth place. He added a twelfth place in the second moto, which gave him an eleventh place in the day’s classification.
There was a setback for Delvintor Alfarizi as he had to deal with a mechanical problem during the first moto of the MX2 class which forced him to retire from the race.
In the second moto he couldn’t get into his rhythm and struggled with pumped up arms. Because this got more worse as the race went on he wasn’t able to ride normally. Due to this he decided to retire from the race.
The team now has a weekend off and will then travel to Uddevalla in Sweden for the next round of the World Championship.
Overall MXGP Lommel:
1 Jeffrey Herlings 50 Pnt
2 Jorge Prado 44 Pnt
3 Romain Febvre 38 Pnt
4 Tim Gajser 34 Pnt
5 Glenn Coldenhoff 30 Pnt
12 Brent van Doninck 17 Pnt
Photocredits – Fullspectrum Media
