MOTOCROSS
FIM/MONSTER ENERGY MOTOCROSS OF NATIONS
MOTOCROSS OF NATIONS / SEPTEMBER 28-29, 2019
TT CIRCUIT ASSEN / ASSEN, HOLL AND
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on Seewer for the spot. Seewer
was fifth over van Horebeek,
Prado, Anderson and the UK duo
of Nathan Watson and Shaun
Simpson. Watson and Simpson
both benefited from a late-race
mechanical DNF from France's
Paulin on the penultimate lap.
Osborne started around 15th, but
a midrace crash hurt his forward
progress, and he finished 13th.
After each team threw away
their worst score, Team Nether-
lands took the win with 18 points
(1-1-2-4-10) over Belgium (47
points, 6-6-7-11-17), Great Britain
(58 points, 3-9-10-12-24), Esto-
nia (64 points, 4-12-13-14-21) and
France (58 points, 5-6-16-18-23),
whose Motocross of Nations win
streak got snapped at five.
Team USA ended up sixth on
the day, tied on points with France
at 68, with 5-8-13-17-25 moto
scores. Next year, Team USA
Despite Gajser pressuring him
late in the race, Coldenhoff
stayed calm, cool and collected
to win his fourth-straight MXoN
moto and ice the overall win for
Team Netherlands. Gajser ended
up second over Jonass and Her-
lings, who made a last-lap pass
Jonass eventually caught and
passed Simpson for second, but
Coldenhoff was long gone. He
grabbed his third MXoN moto win
in a row (including last year) over
Jonass, Simpson, Kullas and
Osborne, who fought his way into
the top five in the closing laps.
Behind Osborne came
France's Jordi Tixier, Belgium's
Jago Geerts, Olsen, Germany's
Dennis Ullrich and Vlaanderen
coming through for his second
top-10 on his 250cc Honda.
Cooper fell twice and ended
up 29th.
MXGP/OPEN
In the third and final moto of
the day (MXGP/Open), Gajser
grabbed the holeshot over van
Horebeek, Jonass and Colden-
hoff, while Herlings found himself
off the track and coming from
way behind.
Coldenhoff made short work
of the leaders to take over the
top spot in the rain on lap four.
Jason Anderson
went 17-8 in the
MXGP class.
Zach Osborne had Team USA's best moto
finish with a fifth. Obviously, it was not a good
day for the American squad.
