Race results: MXGP World Championship RD18 – Afyonkarahisar  – Herlings wins

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Race One: Lucas Coenen was leading on the first lap and there was no looking back as he edged away from the rest of the field.

It was Jeffrey Herlings second – his starts seemed to have improved in recent weeks! Tim Gajser was third before Romain Febvre made a move to end up in third.

Race Two: It was a brilliant second moto with Romain Febvre holding the early lead but he had Herlings for company. It was difficult to pass but as usual, Herlings found away to get into the lead.

After passing Gajser for third, Coenen couldn’t quite get close enough to Febvre until two laps to go and on the last lap he tried everything but Febvre held on!

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It was a good race for Gajser finishing fourth but managed to keep the leading three in his sights for the majority of the race.

Ruben Fernandez ended up a solid fifth on his Honda HRC machine.

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