2024 MXGP of Italy at the notorious Maggiora Park MX Track
Round 10 - MXGP of Italy - FIM Motocross World Championship
Our supported MXGP team - JWR Honda Racing and rider Alvin Östlund, competed at the MXGP of Italy, Maggiora Park at the weekend. As has been the case at a lot of rounds this year, the heavens opened intermittently all weekend, making the Saturday especially a mudder!
Conditions in Maggiora were tricky, especially on the Saturday. Ph. Niklas Hampinen
2024 MXGP of Italy - Timed Practice & Qualifying Race
After a Friday night of rain, the track on Saturday was testing to say the least - deep mud which was sticky as well as slippy! Putting together a quick lap in Timed Practice was just not about skill, it was also about having luck. Yellow flags went up and down throughout due to riders coming off, so it was difficult to put together a decent lap. Östlund managed the 16th fastest time and carried that solid form on to the Qualifying Race, coming home P13 on his Honda CRF 450 R, after a great start. Click here for a video of Alvin Östlund leaving the Pit Lane on the Saturday.
Under heavy skies, Östlund came home P13 in the MXGP Qualifying Race. Ph. Niklas Hampinen
2024 MXGP of Italy - Race 1
Compared to the torrential downpours that affected the track overnight, the sun came out on Sunday morning and baked the track hard! Ruts were deep and stone-like, making riding conditions extremely treacherous. Östlund got a tremendous start in Race 1, but was a bit out of his comfort zone due to the sketchy track conditions. Nevertheless, he rode a solid race to come home in P15. Click here to see a video of Alvin Östlund in action.
Alvin Östlund on his way to P15 in MXGP of Italy Race 1. Ph. Niklas Hampinen
2024 MXGP of Italy - Race 2
Östlund got a great start yet again, but unfortunately got caught up in a domino-effect crash that took the GasGas of Jorge Prado out of the race completely. Östlund had to work his way up through the field from the back and did a great job to get to P16, where he finished. This gave him and the JWR Honda Racing team P16 overall for the weekend and 11 more FIM MX World Championship points. Östlund now has a total of 95 points and sits 19th in the Championship with 9 rounds to go. Congrats to the whole team from all of us at AS3 Performance.
Alvin Östlund had work to do in Race 2 after a first lap crash. Ph. Niklas Hampinen
Who won the 2024 MXGP of Italy?
Honda Racing Corporation’s (HRC’s) Slovenian rider Tim Gajser (#243) won the 2024 MXGP of Italy. Gajser finished 1st in Race 1, winning with a time of 35 minutes and 55 seconds, only 1 second in front of 2nd placed finisher Jorge Prado with 3rd placed finisher Jeffrey Herlings only another second behind on his KTM! Gajser took a P2 in Race 2, with a time of 35 minutes and 25 seconds and was 11 seconds behind race winner Jeffrey Herlings. This gave Gajser the overall win with a points total of 47, two points more than Jeffrey Herlings on 45. Prado crashed out at the start of Race 2 and had a DNF.
How many MXGP overall wins does Tim Gajser have?
Since entering the MX2 class championship in 2012 and moving to the MXGP class champiosnhip in 2016, Tim Gajser has a total of 47 GP wins. He won 5 GPs in the MX2 class and has 42 wins in the MXGP class. In the MXGP class, he has also amassed 97 race wins and has been on the podium 90 times.
Who was the highest placed Italian MXGP Class rider competing in Maggiora?
Monster Energy Yamaha MXGP Team's Andrea Bonacorsi came 9th overall with 22 points after a P8 in Race 1 and P12 in Race 2. Bonacorsi got caught up in the first lap crash just after the start in Race 2, so like Östlund and many others, had to come back up through the field.
Alvin Östlund JWR Honda Racing took 16th overall at Maggiora Park. Ph. Niklas Hampinen
Who won the MX2 Class overall at the 2024 MXGP of Italy?
Red Bull KTM Factory Racing's Sacha Coenen won the MX2 Class overall for the second weekend in a row, for his 2nd ever GP win! He finished P4 in Race 1 and P1 in Race 2, collecting 43 points. This was actually the same points total as his teammate Liam Everts, who went P1 in Race 1 but a P4 in Race 2 gave Coenen the overall win and a Belgian 1-2!
Where was the 2024 MXGP of Italy?
The 2024 MXGP of Italy was at Maggiora Park motocross track. It is one of the most iconic mx tracks in the World and is classed as a hard pack track, with a total length of 1730 metres (1.075 miles). Maggiora Park has hosted 11 MXGP events as well as 5 Motocross Of Nations (MXoN) events in its near 60 year history. Click here to see a video of the track by Niklas Hampinen / JWR Honda Racing.
2024 MXGP of Italy Results - Who were the MXGP Class Top 5 overall?
P1 - Tim Gajser (#243), Honda
P2 - Jeffrey Herlings (#84), KTM
P3 - Jeremy Seewer (#91), Kawasaki
P4 - Calvin Vlaanderen (#10), Yamaha
P5 - Brian Bogers (#189), Fantic
2024 MXGP of Italy Results - Who were the MX2 Class Top 5 overall?
P1 - Sacha Coenen (#79), KTM
P2 - Liam Everts (#72), KTM
P3 - Valerio Lata (#53), GasGas
P4 - Andrea Adamo (#80), KTM
P5 - Simon Längenfelder (#516), GasGas
