Round four of the 2015 MXGP World Championship at Trentino in Italy will go down as one of the best grands prix in history, with Red Bull IceOne Husqvarna Factory Racing’s Max Nagl picking up his third overall of the season.

After taking a solid second place in race one, the German took his fourth Fox Holeshot of the season and ran away for yet another race victory which handed him his third MXGP overall.

That result has moved him up to second place in the championship, just one point shy of the series leader Rockstar Energy Suzuki World MXGP’s Clement Desalle.

Red Bull KTM Factory Racing’s Antonio Cairoli raced to a hair-raising victory in race one. A second place in race two landed the Italian on the second step of the podium in Trentino.

Meanwhile Desalle is keeping the momentum flowing. After narrowly escaping the carnage of Ryan Villopoto’s second moto crash, he later fell on his own but managed to remount for fourth in that race. In combination with his third from race one, Desalle rounded off the podium for his fourth-consecutive podium finish.

Yamaha Factory Racing Yamalube’s Romain Febvre continues to creep closer to the podium and has definitely confirmed his position as the fastest young prospect in the MXGP class, finishing fourth overall.

Team HRC’s duo of Gautier Paulin and yesterday’s top qualifier Evgeny Bobryshev were wedged off the start in both races. With the track being so gnarly and the depth of talent in the MXGP class being stronger than ever, making up ground was always going to be difficult which meant the pair finished fifth and sixth overall respectively.

Monster Energy Kawasaki Racing Team’s Villopoto had the opportunity to steal the thunder from the MXGP regulars. In race one he came close as he was a solid player in an epic four-way battle for the win, yet in race two he was lucky to walk away from one of the most bizarre and gnarliest crashes of the season.

Nagl’s teammate, Australian Todd Waters, finished one position behind Villopoto overall in 12th via 15-11 finishes, while Dean Ferris was 19th for the round after claiming 18-17 results.

It was an emotionally-charged victory for Honda Gariboldi’s Tim Gajser, who in race two passed the defending champion Monster Energy Kawasaki Racing Team’s Jordi Tixier and resisted a brief challenge from Red Bull KTM Factory Racing’s Jeffrey Herlings for his first MX2 race win of the season and his first ever grand prix overall.

Herlings was more than impressive in race one as he did what he typically does and annihilated everyone. But, race two sang a different song for the championship leader as he got off to a terrible start and was forced to do the slice and dice through the pack.

After chopping down the ten-second lead of Gajser, with half a lap to go, he lost traction and had a mini highside, which ended all chances of both the race and overall victories.

Rounding off the podium, Tixier had to settle for two thirds as he was out-classed by Gajser and Herlings. Meanwhile teammate Dylan Ferrandis made life difficult for himself with two poor starts, from which he bounced back for two top five finishes.

Fifth overall went to Monster Energy DRT Kawasaki’s Max Anstie ,who put in a solid performance in race one to take fourth, followed by a seventh in race two which was made more impressive by the fact he came back from a crash early on in the race.

2015 MXGP World Championship
Round four – Trentino, Italy

MXGP overall results:
1. Maximilian Nagl 47
2. Antonio Cairoli 47
3. Clement Desalle 38
4. Romain Febvre 34
5. Gautier Paulin 32
6. Evgeny Bobryshev 28
7. Ken de Dycker 26
8. Davide Guarneri 22
9. David Philippaerts 21
10. Shaun Simpson 20
12. Todd Waters (AUS) 16
19. Dean Ferris (AUS) 7

MXGP championship standings:
1. Clement Desalle 171
2. Maximilian Nagl 170
3. Antonio Cairoli 170
4. Romain Febvre 129
5. Gautier Paulin 128
6. Ryan Villopoto 124
7. Evgeny Bobryshev ( 100
8. Todd Waters (AUS) 78
9. Jeremy Van Horebeek 75
10. Davide Guarneri 70
19. Dean Ferris (AUS) 28

MX2 overall results:
1. Tim Gajser 47
2. Jeffrey Herlings 47
3. Jordi Tixier 40
4. Dylan Ferrandis 34
5. Max Anstie 32
6. Jeremy Seewer 29
7. Valentin Guillod 28
8. Benoit Paturel 25
9. Brent Van doninck 21
10. Julien Lieber 21

MX2 championship standings:
1. Jeffrey Herlings 172
2. Dylan Ferrandis 159
3. Pauls Jonass 133
4. Tim Gajser 126
5. Julien Lieber 101
6. Valentin Guillod 101
7. Jeremy Seewer 99
8. Aleksandr Tonkov 95
9. Thomas Covington 86
10. Jordi Tixier 75

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