Farres wins in Turkey as McLellan makes it a Triumph 1-2
By Team TMX on 7th Sep 26
Guillem Farres has put Triumph firmly in control of the MX2 World Championship with a dominant victory in Türkiye.
The Triumph Racing Factory Team rider returned to the top step at the Afyon Motor Sports Centre with a 2-1 scorecard, securing his sixth GP victory and moving the British-based team into a historic championship one-two with teammate Camden McLellan.
And the timing couldn't be better.
The three main title contenders arrived in Türkiye knowing that nerves could play as big a part as outright speed. By the end of the weekend, Sacha Coenen's championship challenge had been left hanging by a thread after a huge race-one crash and an early retirement from race two.
Farres, meanwhile, kept his head.
The Spaniard made an aggressive start to race one, diving through to the lead almost immediately after Simon Laengenfelder grabbed the Fox Holeshot. Farres sliced between Janis Reisulis and Liam Everts before scrubbing past Laengenfelder to take control.
Laengenfelder fought back and reclaimed the lead on lap seven, eventually taking his first Sunday race win since Sardegna back in April. Farres followed him home in second, while Everts completed the top three.
Sacha Coenen's day was rather less successful.
The Red Bull KTM rider had already had a nervous moment when the gate dropped, but after charging his way up to sixth he suffered a massive crash over one of Afyon's fastest jumps on lap two. The impact was severe enough to prevent him from restarting and appeared to aggravate his already injured right collarbone.
Remarkably, Coenen made it back to the gate for race two and then promptly took the Fox Holeshot. It was short-lived.
Farres again came charging through the pack and, after pushing past Coenen into the lead, the Belgian pulled into Pit Lane after just a few laps, unable to continue.
From there, Farres was in a class of his own.
He opened up a lead of more than six seconds and cruised to his sixth Grand Prix victory, completing a weekend that could hardly have gone better.
“I definitely feel good,” said Farres. “I put myself in a good position from the beginning and from there I was setting my pace, riding comfortable and not making mistakes.
“I’m happy that I didn’t really make any big mistakes in any race.”
Behind him, Liam Everts held off Laengenfelder to finish second in race two and claim third overall, extending his own run of podium finishes to three GPs.
Laengenfelder's race-one victory was enough to give him second overall, while McLellan's fourth place ended his run of five consecutive podiums.
But the big story was the championship.
Farres now leads McLellan by 50 points, with the Triumph teammates occupying the top two positions for the first time in the team's history.
Coenen is another 10 points back, although his title hopes now depend on getting healthy enough to make it to China and then beating Farres there.
Even Laengenfelder has hauled himself back into the conversation, sitting just 20 points behind Coenen.
With Shanghai next on the calendar and only two rounds remaining, Triumph suddenly has one hand on the MX2 crown and Farres is the man holding the red plate.
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