As the Spaniard took his second consecutive win, Teka Suzuki WMX1’s Steve Ramon took his second consecutive Lovemytime Pole Position Award and even won the opening moto, mounting on the eventual podium in third place.

Ramon is closing in on GPKR’s Sebastien Pourcel in the Lovemytime standings as he is now just one point behind the Frenchman. Red Bull KTM Factory Racing’s Max Nagl put together two solid heats after holeshotting the first corner both times and he was second overall for the first time in his career, improving his best overall result by one position.

The German is the one who led the most laps in South Africa, with Ramon and second heat winner Barragan coming out only in the final stages. The red plate continues to stay on David Philippaerts’ Yamaha Monster Motocross machine.

MX1-LEATT BRACE GP OF SOUTH AFRICA RESULTS Jonathan Barragan Max Nagl Steve Ramon David Philippaerts Sebastien Pourcel

MX1 LOVEMYTIME POLE POSITION AWARD WINS Sebastien Pourcel 4 Steve Ramon 3 Ken De Dycker 2 Marc De Reuver 1

MX1 RACE WINS Sebastien Pourcel 5 Ken De Dycker 3 Jonathan Barragan 3 David Philippaerts 2 Joshua Coppins 2 Maximilian Nagl 2 Steve Ramon 2

MX1 GRAND PRIX WINS Jonathan Barragan 3 Sebastien Pourcel 2 Ken De Dycker 1 David Philippaerts 1 Marc De Reuver 1 Joshua Coppins 1 Steve Ramon 1

MX1 PODIUM POSITIONS David Philippaerts 6 Jonathan Barragan 5 Sebastien Pourcel 4 Ken De Dycker 4 Steve Ramon 4 Joshua Coppins 3 Maximilian Nagl 2 Marc De Reuver 1 Tanel Leok 1

MX1 RED PLATES David Philippaerts 8 Ken De Dycker 2

MX1 LAP RECORD (during race) David Philippaerts 4 Sebastien Pourcel 2 Ken De Dycker 1 Maximilian Nagl 1 Jonathan Barragan 1 Joshua Coppins 1

MX1 LAPS LED Maximilian Nagl 68 Jonathan Barragan 63 Sebastien Pourcel 55 Joshua Coppins 40 David Philippaerts 35 Ken De Dycker 35 Steve Ramon 28 Billy Mankenzie 25 Steve Boniface 13 Marc De Reuver 4

MX1 MANUFACTURER RACE WINS Kawasaki 5 Suzuki 5 KTM 5 Yamaha 4

With defending MX2 Champion Antonio Cairoli injuring his left knee and pulling out of the remaining part of the season after heat one at Nelspruit, the season will offer a new different finale which started with Red Bull KTM Factory Racing’s Tommy Searle winning his third GP of the year.

After eight consecutive Lovemytime Award wins, the last of which was in Nelspruit, Cairoli is likely to see his leadership disappear in the next two events.

After taking the sixth Lovemytime Qualifying Award, Searle carried on to win one heat and the overall on Sunday, as team mate and Championship leader Tyla Rattray took victory in the final moto, ending second on his home GP’s podium.

Yamaha continued to see the podium courtesy of Ricci Racing’s Nicolas Aubin, who mounted on the rostrum for his first time this year despite having taken one heat win in Mantova.

MX2-LEATT BRACE GP OF SOUTH AFRICA RESULTS Tommy Searle Tyla Rattray Nicolas Aubin Steven Frossard Shaun Simpson

MX2 LOVEMYTIME QUALIFYING AWARD WINS Antonio Cairoli 8 Tommy Searle 6 Tyla Rattray 5 Anthony Boissiere 1

MX2 RACE WINS Antonio Cairoli 7 Tyla Rattray 7 Tommy Searle 4 Nicolas Aubin 1 Davide Guarneri 1

MX2 GRAND PRIX WINS Antonio Cairoli 4 Tommy Searle 3 Tyla Rattray 2 Davide Guarneri 1

MX2 PODIUM POSITIONS Tyla Rattray 9 Antonio Cairoli 6 Tommy Searle 6 Shaun Simpson 2 Davide Guarneri 1 Manuel Monni 1 Anthony Boissiere 1 Stephen Sword 1 Nicolas Aubin 1 Steven Frossard 1 Erik Eggens 1

MX2 RED PLATES Tyla Rattray 7 Antonio Cairoli 2 Tommy Searle 1

MX2 LAP RECORD (during race) Antonio Cairoli 5 Tyla Rattray 3 Tommy Searle 1 Steven Frossard 1

MX2 LAPS LED Antonio Cairoli 117 Tyla Rattray 106 Tommy Searle 76 Shaun Simpson 39 Nicolas Aubin 16 Davide Guarneri 9 Rui Goncalves 5 Joel Roelants 4 Jeremy Van Horebeek 3

MX2 MANUFACTURER RACE WINS KTM 11 Yamaha 9

WHAT’S NEXT

The first of the remaining five Grand Prix’s will take place at Lommel, Belgium, on August 3, together with the final round of the Veterans’ World Cup. Early in that week the MX Rookie will also take place, on August 1.

The MX Rookie is an event dedicated to all the MX2 machines mounted amateur riders; they will have the privilege to race the final on the GP circuit after a selection to be carried out on Wednesday and Thursday at a separate race track.