Spain and Australia were second and third in qualifying and both factor in as potential champions today with a lot of attention on Jett Lawrence and Hunter Lawrence for the Australians. Their teammate Dean Ferris crashed in the Open qualifying race but checked out fine.

Not going to the line today is The Netherland's Glenn Coldenhoff who also crashed in the Open race but sustained a concussion and broken rib. The Dutch still will roll out with Calvin Vlaanderen and Kay De Wolf, but they will have to take at least one very high score and will be lucky to get into the top five overall today.

The B-Final warm up just rolled onto the track and in a couple hours the qualified groups will also each have warm ups this morning. The B-Final will commence at 11 a.m. local time, or 5 a.m. Eastern. From there, racing begins with MXoN Race 1 starting at 1:10 p.m. local time, or 7:10 a.m. Eastern, and then we are off to the races from there. We'll be with you throughout the day providing updates as the action progresses, but be sure to follow our broadcast guide below for when and where you can watch. Here we go!

Warm Up Sessions

The warm up sessions headed out at 10 a.m. with the first group featuring France, Switzerland, Australia, Belgium, and Great Britain to name a few. Fevbre and Renaux for France both acknowledged the crowd as they rolled around slowly then it was time to get on with it.

Jett Lawrence set the early pace dipping down to the 1:48s but then the Swiss duo of Jeremy Seewer and Valentin Guillod were able to jump up top with Seewer going all the way down to a 1:46.845 and then Guillod putting in a solid 1:47.887. Febvre jumped up at the end into second with a 1:47.053 but it was Seewer’s time that would remain up top for the first group.

1. Jeremy Seewer – 1.46.845
2. Romain Febvre – 1:47.053
3. Valentin Guillod – 1:47.887
4. Jett Lawrence – 1:48.159
5. Lucas Coenen – 1:48.354

The final set from the warm up groups headed out next and this one featured the United States, Spain, Germany, and Italy amongst others. Team USA led the field around with Aaron Plessinger, RJ Hampshire, and Christian Craig eager to get some final laps in before the races. Both Hampshire and Craig came into the mechanics area one to get some changes done during the session as they look to dial in before the motos.

Spain’s Jorge Prado was once again the man who set the pace as he jumped to the top early on and stayed up there for nearly the entire session. His 1:48.160 was still a bit off from what the first group was doing but the track was also wearing in a bit more. Germany’s Ken Roczen was second fastest with the Americans of Hampshire, Plessinger, and Craig ending up 7^th, 8^th, and 18^th, respectively.

1. Jorge Prado – 1:48.160
2. Ken Roczen – 1:49.288
3. Alberto Forato – 1:49.439
4. Tim Gajser – 1:49.809
5. Hakon Fredriksen – 1:50.241

B Final

Canada had found themselves in the B Final after Dylan Wright crashed out of the MXGP race and then another crash for Jess Pettis in his qualifying race left their score too low and they were forced to the B Final. Unfortunately, nothing got better on Sunday for Canada as Dylan Wright was swallowed up and fell going into the first corner. Jess Pettis had actually grabbed the holeshot but then he crashed in the third corner from the lead.

That put Portugal’s Paulo Alberto into the lead, and he pulled away to a big lead from there. Sweden’s Alvin Ostlund moved up to second and that duo essentially ran away at the front. Much of the race boiled down to Sweden versus Portugal as Sweden’s Filip Bengtsson was working his way forward and eventually made it all the way to third. Portugal’s Luis Outeiro was moving through the top 10 trying to get into fourth to match Sweden’s result and they would hold the tiebreaker with their third rider Afonso Gomes running 20^th.

Sweden had it until the very end when word came down from the officials that Bengtsson would be docked two positions for not respecting waved yellow flags. That pushed him down to fifth as the checkered flag waved and moved Outeiro up to fourth. Portugal would qualify through with five points in the end. More bad news for Canada as along with not qualifying, Dylan Wright crashed again late in the race, and it sounds like he suffered a leg injury. Tough luck for Canada all around.

Race 1 (MXGP & MX2)

Off the start in the opening moto of the day, which combined the MXGP and MX2 riders from each nation, it was Jorge Prado for Spain jumping out to the lead with France’s Romain Febvre right behind him. Team USA’s RJ Hampshire went down on the first lap and was outside of the top 20 while Australia’s Jett Lawrence went down in the third corner and was just about dead last.

Early movers in the race came from Germany’s Ken Roczen who found his way around USA’s Aaron Plessinger for fourth as they were both behind Switzerland’s Jeremy Seewer. Suddenly it appeared like Hampshire may have gone down again as he was up inside of the top 20 but then was way back to about 28^th by the second lap.

While a lot of eyes were watching Jett Lawrence’s progress forward from last place, Febvre began to challenge Prado for the race lead and put the pressure on the Spaniard. The crowd was electric as Febvre started dicing with Prado, but Prado seemed keen to hold steady. Then Febvre squared back underneath him in a beautiful move on the switchbacks to take the lead and the noise from the crowd was deafening.

Ken Roczen continued to march forward as he found his way around Jeremy Seewer into third and for a few laps at least it looked as though he may even close down onto the leaders. Then he fell just past the halfway mark and slipped back into fifth behind Plessinger. Then Seewer fell or had a moment which allowed Plessinger up to third and moving Roczen back to fourth.

Tom Vialle was running a strong sixth at halfway as France’s MX2 rider and he was also the lead MX2 rider. He looked like he might settle in sixth but then he also had a moment and lost a lot of time to Slovenia’s Tim Gajser who was able to work his way by him.

By this point, Jett Lawrence had made it all the way back into the top 10 as he was closing on Belgium’s Jago Geerts, and he moved around his brother Hunter Lawrence to move into the top 10. Ken Roczen was able to recatch and pass Plessinger for third in the late stages.

Suddenly, Prado had found his way onto the back of Febvre again for the race lead and the fight was on. Within about a lap, Prado went from catching him to passing him and the crowd was less than pleased. Febvre wasn’t done though as he put his head back down and went right back after Prado. Two laps later, he once again passed Prado for the lead in what would be the final time.

Romain Febvre took the win in the opening moto ahead of Jorge Prado, Ken Roczen, Jeremy Seewer, and Aaron Plessinger inside of the top five. Jett Lawrence made it all the way back to sixth with a last lap, last turn pass on Tim Gajser to push him up to the spot. So far, France sits on just 9 points after one moto with Australia in second on 16 points and Germany on 17 points in third. Team USA appears to be in fourth right now on 21 points after RJ Hampshire was able to come back to 16^th in the end.

Race 2 (MX2 & Open)

The second race of the day combined the MX2 class and Open class from each nation together and a lot of nations elected to put their MX2 riders on the inside trying to get a good start. Spain was one of the few nations to put their Open class rider on the inside gates and Ruben Fernandez used it to his advantage to rocket out to the holeshot.

France’s Maxime Renaux was in second place early on with Belgium’s Liam Everts, France’s MX2 rider Tom Vialle, and Italy’s Andrea Adamo all inside of the top five. Australia’s Hunter Lawrence was in sixth place for the opening lap but made a mistake on the second lap and slipped back to eighth, quite a ways back of the lead group.

RJ Hampshire started outside of the top 20 for Team USA with an inside gate pick but Christian Craig was running just outside of the top 10 early on. Craig would eventually have a small crash though and ended up drifting all the way back to 20^th due to the crash.

Tom Vialle was on the move for the entire moto as he quickly found his way through on Everts for third and then hung in the draft of Fernandez and Renaux out front, never letting them get more than about five seconds away. Meanwhile, Renaux up front was running fastest laps of the race closing the gap down to Fernandez ahead of him. At one point around the halfway mark, he jumped off the track on the big uphill quad and ended up losing a couple of seconds, but he immediately made the time right back to get onto Fernandez for the lead.

As the second half of the race began, Febvre pounced to take over the lead and the crowd erupted. Fernandez seemed a bit flustered in the moments after losing the lead and then he ended up crashing on the step up at the top of the hill. The crash would drop him back to eighth behind Kay De Wolf of the Netherlands.

Renaux and Vialle were then running 1-2 in the race and the crowd was eating it up. They had opened a sizeable lead over Everts who was now in third with Adamo still just hounding him for the position. De Wolf had a late crash that pushed him back to ninth and promoted Fernandez back to seventh with Italy’s Andrea Bonacorsi now sitting in eighth.

Vialle ended up closing the lead down to Renaux out front, but Renaux also appeared to be saving some energy for the last moto of the day coming up after this one. In the end, Renaux still held on by about a second over Vialle with Liam Everts hanging on for third ahead of Andrea Adamo and Hunter Lawrence. France are firmly in control of the overall by a healthy margin coming into the final moto.

Race 3 (MXGP & Open)

The final moto of the day combined the MXGP and Open class riders together as France looked to seal the deal on a massive day for France. Ken Roczen grabbed the holeshot in the final moto just ahead of Jett Lawrence and Maxime Renaux while a huge pileup stacked up behind them.

Team USA’s Christian Craig went down in the pileup as did Belgium’s Jago Geerts and Germany’s Tom Koch. Aaron Plessinger didn’t fare much better off the start as he was about mid-pack and dealing with the chaos that goes with it. Tom Koch was forced to come into the pits for repairs which put Germany’s chances well down.

Ruben Fernandez was in a strong sixth to back up his countryman Jorge Prado who was running in fourth as Spain looked to get on the podium, but then Fernandez had a big crash just before the finish line jump and did some damage to his bike. He would head into the pits for repairs and come back out well outside of the top 20 spoiling Spain’s shot at a podium.

Aaron Plessinger was struggling in the middle portion of the race and then had a fall which just seemed to compound the issues. He continued to slide back down the order outside of the top 15 while Craig had climbed up to 20^th. Neither of the Americans had a good final moto and they were forced to take some pretty high scores on the board in what ultimately ended up being an eighth-place finish.

Jett Lawrence stalked Roczen out front for about half the race and eventually found his way into the lead. Roczen stuck with him as they both put a considerable amount of time on the rest of the field. Renaux in third place seemed to be cruising to make sure he brought it home for France, but he did start to feel some pressure for Jorge Prado.

The podium fight was a foregone conclusion that France and Australia would get up there, but Italy needed to keep things together with Alberto Forato running seventh and Andrea Bonacorsi in 11^th. Forato would lose a spot to Romain Febvre as he moved forward later in the race, but that was it. Italy sealed the deal with a very fine moto out of their 450 challengers to land on the podium just a few points ahead of Germany in the end.

But the day belonged to France when it was all said and done as Renaux grabbed a third-place finish and Febvre finished up in seventh. They were able to drop Tom Vialle’s eighth from the first moto and win with an extremely low score of 14. It really felt like France’s to lose once the weekend got away and they took it all the way with single digit scores in every moto from all of their riders. A truly remarkable victory for France.