MOTOCROSS
FIM MOTOCROSS OF NATIONS
MOTOCROSS OF NATIONS / OCTOBER 6-7, 2018
REDBUD RACEWAY / BUCHANAN, MICHIGAN
P70
end" of his motorcycle and could
only muster 13th.
Coldenhoff led the entire
moto and his teammate Herlings
ended up second, which meant
The Netherlands won all three
MXoN motos overall and won
two of the three overall individual
classes (MXGP and Open).
But behind them there was
plenty of drama near the front of
the field, as Paulin was fighting
it out with Cairoli for the overall
MXoN victory. France's Tixier
was struggling around 15th while
Cairoli led Paulin, and Lupino ran
as high as third in the moto, but
Paulin dug in under the pressure
and managed to clear himself
from the battle to take third over
Cairoli, who had a midrace fall,
MXGP/OPEN
In the final moto of the day, Cold-
enhoff continued his hot hand,
taking the holeshot over Italy's
Lupino, France's Paulin, Germa-
ny's Ken Roczen, Herlings, Max
Nagl, Cairoli and the rest of the
field. Barcia and Tomac rounded
the opening lap in 12th and 14th,
respectively. They both started
working their way forward, and
a few laps into the race Barcia
let up and let Tomac by for 10th,
as Tomac was definitely going
faster, only for Tomac to fall and
remount behind Barcia again.
Tomac eventually went by Barcia
a second time and worked his
way up to seventh at the finish
while Barcia struggled with a
"mechanical issue with the rear
side was difficult to get a start.
That's the way they set it up and
it didn't work out in our favor
there. So that was unfortunate."
Coldenhoff led every lap while
Lawrence came through from
outside the top five to grab sec-
ond on the last lap from Prado.
Then came Watson, Seewer and
Belgium's Van Horebeek.
France's Jordi Tixier scored
a DNF when his KTM over-
heated, which would go on to be
France's throwaway moto.
After two motos, without
throwing away a score, Australia
actually had the lead, but once
the worst moto was dropped
from each team, the order was:
France 17, Australia 20, Spain 23,
Belgium 24, Italy 28, USA 29.
Team Puerto Rico—
Ryan Sipes, Travis
Pastrana and Kevin
Windham—qualified
for the main events
through the B Final.
