The event at Bellpuig was a real test of rider endurance on Sunday with MX1 riders having to face heavy, muddy conditions after solid rain that wiped out training on Saturday. KTM Factory-supported rider Germany’s Max Nagl nevertheless had a golden day and ended on the podium in third place overall after a fifth and a second in the two motos.
Nagl gathered a total of 38 points to beat KTM factory rider Jonathan Barragan of Spain into fourth overall. Barragan, riding with a badly bruised shoulder from a training crash earlier in the week collected championship 33 points for his heroic fourth and sixth places in the two races.
Barragan received a pain killing injection before the race but nevertheless he found himself hampered by the injury. He struggled with his rhythm in the first race and managed to improve on that in the second. On advice from the team physiotherapist he will now return home and rest up ahead of the Portuguese Grand Prix next weekend. “I hope to do better there,