France Win Fourth Straight MXoN

It was a day of what could have been for team Australia after sitting in third place heading into the final race.

The day started well for the Aussie who qualified in third position, with Hunter Lawrence announcing himself on the world stage in grand fashion, working his way from the top ten to a 4th place outright finish in the opening MXGP - MX2 race, also finishing as the leading MX2 rider.

The race did not go as well for Dean Ferris after he needed a trip to the pits early, leaving the current Australian champion in last position and a long way behind the field. However a hard charge had him 22nd at the line.

Australia's most impressive result of the day came in race two as Kirk Gibbs fired himself into third place in the opening laps, while Lawrence quickly worked his way forward after a mid pack start.

Gibbs fell back to 4th while Lawrence put in the ride of the day as he moved all the way up to third position leaving many bigger 450s in his wake. However the 18 year old crashed with just over a lap left to run, leaving him in 8th position, while Gibbs held strong in 5th.

Lawrence's 4 - 8 results were enough to give him the individual honours in the MX2 class.

Sitting in third with a big points gap back to 4th, things took a turn for the worst for team Australia at the start of the final MXGP - MX Open race with Ferris spinning his back wheel on the gate and Gibbs also getting a bad start.

At the end of lap one, Ferris was down in 17th while Gibbs was all but last.

By race end Ferris had ran into further trouble falling back as far as 25th before finishing 23rd, leaving him 10th in the MXGP class while Gibbs was able to re-bound to a 19th place result and 6th overall in the MX-Open class.

In the end the Aussie team finished with still a very good 6th place overall result.