Around the magnificent Matterley Basin circuit in England, Red Bull KTM factory rider, Simon Langenfelder was just a pleasure to watch. Looking in complete control with his beautiful technique the German has won another moto in his charge to become the first German rider to win a World Motocross championship since Ken Roczen in 2011.

While it is a long season, if Langenfelder can continue this form, he will join just Roczen and Paul Friedrichs as a German World motocross champion (in the men’s classes).

Langenfelder, after an average start just worked his way to the front and showed patience and maturity to take the moto win. Second was Sasha Coenen and third Oriol Oliver, who had led the major part of the moto. KTM again dominating the top three spots.

Championship points are now Simon Längenfelder 550 points, Andrea Adamo 505pts, Kay de Wolf 492pts, Liam Everts 442pts and Sacha Coenen 418pts.

Simon Langenfelder: After that start I was struggling, it was so slippery and I used so many tear offs and when I got to Sasha, I ran out. I got the win and now we try again in the second race.

MX2 Moto One

Under overcast skies, Adamo led the opening MX2 moto ahead of Oliver, Coenen, Braceras, Karssemakers, Langenfelder, McLellan, Farres, Mikula and de Wolf 10th. Everts 12th and Oliver into the lead on lap one. De Wolf moved into seventh place on lap two.

Adamo crashed and dropped back to 10th position and the top ten on lap two was Oliver, Coenen, Braceras, Farres, Langenfelder, de Wolf, Karssemakers, Valin, McLellan and Everts 10th. Something of a Spanish party up front with three Spaniard inside the top four.

The lead by Oliver was 6.2 seconds over Coenen, with Braceras and Farres 9 seconds back. Then came Langenfeldr, de Wolf, Karssemakers, Valin, McLellan and Everts, with Adamo now 11th.

Coenen slowly catching Oliver, with the lead 4.9 seconds on lap three and McLellan moved past Karssemakers to get into seventh and Langenfelder moved past Braceras to move into fourth place. Elzinga out of the race with a possible mechanical issue.

Oliver responded to Coenen with the gap 6.4 on lap five. De Wolf nearly crashed as he lost momentum and got badly out of shape, but continued on. Langenfelder all over Farres and he moved into third place, again looking to try and extend his championship points lead over Adamo and De Wolf.

A nice battle for fifth place, with Braceras, de Wolf, McLellan and Valin all together, and Everts not too far behind them. Oliver riding a brilliant race up front and looking very confident after his British championship win a week ago.

McLellan moved past de Wolf to take sixth position and Langenfelder all over Coenen for second place, those two five seconds behind Oliver. As is often typical with the MX2 class, riders settling and not huge battles like in MXGP. McLellan, De Wolf, Valin and Everts all lining up behind Braceras for fifth.

Coenen into the lead in passing Oliver and then Langenfelder into second place and 4.2 behind Coenen, with KTM first, second and third, which is often the case in MX2. Suddenly the gap was just 1.7 seconds and Coenen in danger of losing the lead. Langenfelder riding so well as he hounded Coenen for the lead.

Big changes in the top ten with Coenen first, then Langenfelder, Oliver, Farres, McLellan, de Wolf, Everts, Valin and Braceras losing places quickly. 10th place was Adamo. Langenfelder into the lead and with five minutes remaining, looking good for yet another moto win, as his championship rivals (de Wolf and Adamo) held sixth and 10th places. Langenfelder wins it from Coenen and Oliver.

MX2 - Grand Prix Race 1 - Classification

1. Simon Längenfelder (GER, KTM), 35:30.890; 2. Sacha Coenen (BEL, KTM), +0:05.401; 3. Oriol Oliver (ESP, KTM), +0:10.850; 4. Camden Mc Lellan (RSA, Triumph), +0:24.946; 5. Guillem Farres (ESP, Triumph), +0:26.515; 6. Liam Everts (BEL, Husqvarna), +0:26.761; 7. Kay de Wolf (NED, Husqvarna), +0:28.999; 8. Mathis Valin (FRA, Kawasaki), +0:30.821; 9. David Braceras (ESP, Honda), +0:41.392; 10. Andrea Adamo (ITA, KTM), +0:42.153; 11. Thibault Benistant (FRA, Yamaha), +0:42.400; 12. Cas Valk (NED, KTM), +0:44.695; 13. Quentin Marc Prugnieres (FRA, KTM), +1:01.956; 14. Valerio Lata (ITA, Honda), +1:10.437; 15. Karlis Alberts Reisulis (LAT, Yamaha), +1:13.971; 16. Kay Karssemakers (NED, Kawasaki), +1:36.629; 17. Filip Olsson (SWE, KTM), -1 lap(s); 18. Collin Wohnhas (GER, Husqvarna), -1 lap(s); 19. Magnus Smith (DEN, KTM), -1 lap(s); 20. Rodolfo Bicalho (BRA, KTM), -1 lap(s); 21. Nicolas Vennekens (BEL, KTM), -2 lap(s); 22. Jens Walvoort (NED, KTM), -4 lap(s); 23. Maxime Grau (FRA, KTM), -8 lap(s); 24. Julius Mikula (CZE, TM), -8 lap(s); 25. Emile De Baere (BEL, TM), -9 lap(s); 26. Florian Miot (FRA, KTM), -10 lap(s); 27. Rick Elzinga (NED, Yamaha), -14 lap(s);

MX2 - World Championship Classification

1. Simon Längenfelder (GER, KTM), 550 points; 2. Andrea Adamo (ITA, KTM), 505 p.; 3. Kay de Wolf (NED, HUS), 492 p.; 4. Liam Everts (BEL, HUS), 442 p.; 5. Sacha Coenen (BEL, KTM), 418 p.; 6. Thibault Benistant (FRA, YAM), 397 p.; 7. Camden Mc Lellan (RSA, TRI), 346 p.; 8. Valerio Lata (ITA, HON), 272 p.; 9. Cas Valk (NED, KTM), 262 p.; 10. Oriol Oliver (ESP, KTM), 235 p.; 11. Guillem Farres (ESP, TRI), 225 p.; 12. Ferruccio Zanchi (ITA, HON), 220 p.; 13. Karlis Alberts Reisulis (LAT, YAM), 209 p.; 14. Quentin Marc Prugnieres (FRA, KTM), 196 p.; 15. Mathis Valin (FRA, KAW), 175 p.; 16. Rick Elzinga (NED, YAM), 164 p.; 17. David Braceras (ESP, HON), 157 p.; 18. Julius Mikula (CZE, TM), 139 p.; 19. Maxime Grau (FRA, KTM), 76 p.; 20. Magnus Smith (DEN, KTM), 55 p.; 21. Mike Gwerder (SUI, KTM), 32 p.; 22. Nicolas Vennekens (BEL, KTM), 24 p.; 23. Scott Smulders (NED, TRI), 23 p.; 24. Saad Soulimani (MAR, TM), 19 p.; 25. Nicolai Skovbjerg (DEN, YAM), 14 p.; 26. Filip Olsson (SWE, KTM), 13 p.; 27. Mads Fredsoe (DEN, HUS), 11 p.; 28. Kay Karssemakers (NED, KAW), 10 p.; 29. Samuel Nilsson (ESP, TRI), 10 p.; 30. Jens Walvoort (NED, KTM), 7 p.; 31. Roan Tolsma (NED, GAS), 7 p.; 32. Marc-Antoine Rossi (FRA, KTM), 6 p.; 33. Marcello Silva (BRA, YAM), 4 p.; 34. Ivano Van Erp (NED, YAM), 4 p.; 35. Liam Owens (AUS, HUS), 4 p.; 36. Collin Wohnhas (GER, HUS), 3 p.; 37. Bence Pergel (HUN, KTM), 3 p.; 38. Jules Pietre (FRA, YAM), 2 p.; 39. Manuel Carreras (ESP, HON), 2 p.; 40. Benjamin Pascual (ARG, HON), 2 p.; 41. Rodolfo Bicalho (BRA, KTM), 1 p.; 42. Pietro Piroli (BRA, YAM), 1 p.;

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