{"id":827652,"date":"2026-07-27T20:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T20:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/827652\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T20:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T20:38:13","slug":"mxgp-of-czech-republic-recap-lucas-coenen-out-herlings-taking-control-in-mxgp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/827652\/","title":{"rendered":"MXGP of Czech Republic Recap: Lucas Coenen Out, Herlings Taking Control In MXGP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Gajser was holding sixth in front of his fellow Slovenian\u00a0Jan Pancar<\/a>,\u00a0who is always strong here on his\u00a0TEM JP253 KTM,\u00a0then\u00a0Kay de Wolf<\/a>\u00a0was eighth on his return for\u00a0Nestaan Husqvarna Factory Racing.\u00a0 Ruben Fernandez<\/a>\u00a0did not get the best start, down in ninth for\u00a0Honda HRC Petronas\u00a0as the\u00a0MRT Racing Team Beta\u00a0of\u00a0Jago Geerts<\/a>\u00a0started inside the top ten!<\/p>\n

On lap two, Herlings made an outside pass at the bottom of the steepest descent on the track to take the lead from Vialle, and proceeded to power away from the field, as De Wolf and Fernandez both got past Pancar.\u00a0 Febvre started to make some ground after a few laps, relegating Adamo to fourth with a sharp pass on an uphill jump on lap five, and it took him another five laps to haul in and pass Vialle for second with a drag race from a slow corner up a long hill!\u00a0 Meanwhile, Van Doninck held onto fifth until half distance, when Fernandez overtook him into the corner before Pit Lane.<\/p>\n

Gajser had crashed while catching the Fantic man on lap five, and caught him again by lap 13, but with three laps to go he crashed through a choppy corner, allowing De Wolf and Van Doninck back through into sixth and seventh. It was a season-best finish for the Belgian, as was eighth place for his countryman Geerts!\u00a0Isak Gifting<\/a>\u00a0also got past Gajser after his crash to claim ninth for\u00a0JK Racing Yamaha,\u00a0putting the ex-Champ into tenth at the flag.<\/p>\n

Up front, however, Herlings claimed his ninth race win of the year to take the Championship lead, with Febvre and Vialle over 18 seconds behind, and Adamo taking a fine fourth ahead of Fernandez.<\/p>\n

It looked like Vialle had taken yet another\u00a0Fox Holeshot Award\u00a0to equal Lucas Coenen<\/a>\u2019s total for the year in race two, but closer inspection revealed that\u00a0Jeremy Seewer<\/a>,\u00a0who had retired early in race one, claimed that prize for\u00a0Venrooy KTM Racing,\u00a0his first one since Sardegna in April 2025!\u00a0 Vialle soon restored normal order as he passed the Swiss rider on the first uphill, with Gajser and Herlings also moving ahead on the following few sections. Fernandez and Pancar were also inside the top six, ahead of Maxime Renaux<\/a>, who had suffered a heavy crash that put him out of race one.\u00a0Tom Koch<\/a>\u00a0was eighth initially for\u00a0KTM Sarholz Racing Team,\u00a0with local rider\u00a0Jakub Teresak<\/a>\u00a0within the top ten for\u00a0HT Racing Group KTM,\u00a0and\u00a0Roan Van De Moosdijk<\/a>\u00a0also in there for\u00a0Kosak KTM Racing.<\/p>\n

Herlings was in emphatic mood, and put together a solid pass through a right-left sequence of corners to get past Gajser for second on lap two, then pulled almost exactly the same move on Vialle to lead just a lap later! Meanwhile, his teammate Fernandez was working on Seewer, moving up to fourth on lap five.\u00a0 From there, the top four were set for the race!<\/p>\n

Romain Febvre<\/a> had been caught in a pile-up with De Wolf and Gifting in the first corner, and then Van Doninck and Horgmo hit the floor together in turn two! Adamo had also suffered a first lap crash, and although De Wolf retired from the race almost immediately, Febvre put in a stunning charge to reach the top ten by lap five!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gajser was holding sixth in front of his fellow Slovenian\u00a0Jan Pancar,\u00a0who is always strong here on his\u00a0TEM JP253…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[400999,64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-827652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-2026-mxgpcoenen-brothers-racer-x-motocross-magazine-supercross-dirt-bike-mx-racerx-illustrated-dirtbike-motorcycle-racing-freestyle-video-news","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}