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man Gautier Paulin (Yamaha),
followed by Jeremy Seewer
(Yamaha) and Clement Desalle
(Kawasaki). For Paulin and De-
salle, it was their final races of
their careers. Both Desalle and
Paulin had earlier announced
their retirements from profes-
sional racing.
"I'm super happy to win my
fourth title on Wednesday,"
Gajser said. "Today the goal was
to just go out there and have fun
and we did that; we won the last
overall of the year. So, couldn't
end better. I am so thankful. I
want to say a huge thanks to ev-
eryone, to all my team, we were
really working hard, and every-
body was putting so much effort
into preparing the bike, getting
better and better."
The race for second in the
championship came down to the
final moto, with Seewer leading
Cairoli by one point, but Cairoli
went down in the first moto and
retired with a broken shifter. It
was Cairoli's 14th top three in the
MXGP Championship.
Gasjer officially finished out the
season with 720 points, followed
by Seewer with 618 and Cairoli
with 599 points. Febvre and Pau-
lin rounded out the top five overall.
Great Britain's Ben Watson
closed out the MX2 Championship
with the overall victory over Red
Bull KTM's Tom Vialle, who had
clinched the class championship
just four days earlier, and French-
man Maxime Renaux (Yamaha).
"It was an incredible day for
me," Vialle said. "To take my first
world title was just amazing. The
last two days were really good, I
enjoyed them a lot. In the second
race, I crashed in the start and
I came back from last to fifth. I
crashed again two times I think,
so I was a little bit angry, I was
hoping for better starts and better
positions but I'm happy to finish
second overall."
Vialle finished out the year
with 759, followed by Belgium's
Jago Geerts (Yamaha) with 679
and Frenchman Maxine Renaux
(Yamaha) with 581. CN
MXGP of Pietramurata (Nov 4)
MXGP
1. Tim Gajser (Hon) 2-1
2. Jeremy Seewer (Yam) 1-3
3. Romain Febvre (Kaw) 5-2
4. Clement Desalle (Kaw) 4-4
5. Antonio Cairoli (KTM) 6-5
MX2
1. Jago Geerts (Yam) 5-1
2. Ben Watson (Yam) 4-2
3. Jed Beaton (Hus) 2-4
4. Maxime Renaux (Yam) 3-5
5. Thibault Benistant (Yam) 7-3
MXGP of Garda Trentino (Nov 8)
MXGP
1. Tim Gajser (Hon) 2-1
2. Romain Febvre (Kaw) 1-2
3. Gautier Paulin (Yam) 4-3
4. Jeremy Seewer (Yam) 3-4
5. Clement Desalle (Kaw) 7-7
MX2
1. Ben Watson (Yam) 3-1
2. Tom Vialle (KTM) 1-5
3. Maxime Renaux (Yam) 2-4
4. Jed Beaton (Hus) 7-2
5. Isak Gifting (GG) 6-3
