MXGP of France Race 1

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Sun 24th May 2026 Local
Sun 24th May 2026 12:00pm UTC

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MXGP

Season
2026

Round
6

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Scoring just fifth in the Qualifying Race, reigning World Champion Romain Febvre took the fastest time in morning Warm-Up to give the early rising fans something to cheer for, while yesterday’s winner Jeffrey Herlings took second spot, and Maxime Renaux showed that he was fired up for his home round with third for Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MXGP.

Febvre was nose-to-nose with Lucas Coenen down the start straight for race one, however, and the Belgian held the inside line to take his third Fox Holeshot Award of the season, ahead of a pitched battle between Red Bull KTM Factory Racing’s Andrea Adamo and Tom Vialle, who briefly took second for Honda HRC Petronas before the Italian fought back.

This helped Coenen to power away in the early laps, as Herlings passed Vialle around the outside into the final corner before the start of the first full lap. Nestaan Husqvarna Factory Racing’s Dutch flyer Kay de Wolf held fifth ahead of the duelling Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MXGP pairing of Renaux and Tim Gajser, but Febvre, having been pushed wide in that first corner, came around in ninth behind his Latvian Kawasaki Racing Team MXGP teammate Pauls Jonass.

It took until the fourth lap for Herlings to get past Adamo, which he did by out-jumping the Italian out of the furthest corner of the circuit. Vialle tipped over in a cambered corner shortly afterwards to drop from fourth to seventh, behind De Wolf and the two factory Yamaha men. Instantly putting in the fastest lap of the race, Herlings got to within 3.5 seconds of Coenen, but the teenager responded with a similar time immediately after, and put in enough of a margin to keep Herlings in second to the flag.

Gajser put in a real shift of work in the first half of the race, passing Renaux on lap five, De Wolf on lap nine, and finally Adamo with a sweet outside move on lap ten! Adamo was unable to prevent his successor as MX2 World Champion, De Wolf, from pulling an aggressive pass to take fourth for good on lap 14 of 20. He was able to keep Renaux back though, as the Frenchman with the special “X-Ray” kit slid to the ground while trying to pass the Italian.

He had to remount quickly to salvage sixth from his chasing countrymen, as Febvre and Vialle came home seventh and eighth. Ruben Fernandez fought hard to claim ninth, ahead of a season-best ride from Red Bull Ducati Factory MXGP Team rider Andrea Bonacorsi.