British MX1 class rookie Max Anstie was the star of the huge crowd at Hawkstone Park, setting fast laps and domination the opening MX1 moto. He had such a huge lead he pitted for a change of goggles and still beat fellow factory Husky rider Max Nagl and Suzuki’s Armenas Jasikonis – out for the first time on the all-new 2018 Suzuki RMZ450WS.

Anstie holeshot race two and led for a lap, but hit a bump wrong and went down. Restarting outside of the top ten, he clawed his way back to fourth as Nagl won from Gautier Paulin, Kawasaki’s Clement Desalle and Jasikonis who just held off Anstie to the flag.

Then in the combined Superfinal, Anstie didn’t have a good start and worked his way up to third as Nagl won from Jordi Tixier who’d had DNFs in both earlier motos despite leading for a while. So Nagl took the MX1 overall from Anstie and Jasikonis, and won the Superfinal in a great day for Husky.

British champ Shaun Simpson crashed hard in the first corner of the opening MX1 race and didn’t finish. Still in huge pain, he battled through to take eighth in the second race. Next best Brit overall in the MX1 class after Anstie was Nathan Watson, riding his enduro bike! He took two seventh places, and was eighth in the Superfinal.

In the MX2 class, KTM’s Pauls Jonass was in a class of his own as he took both race wins and the overall, from new Husky MX2 GP signing Thomas Kjer-Olsen who had third and second place rides. Thomas Covington was third overall with second and sixth place finishes. Suzuki’s new signing Hunter Lawrence was fourth overall from his team-mate and world No2 Jeremy Seewer. The best British results were by Ben Watson who took fourth in the opener, and Conrad Mewse who was fifth in the second race.

In the combined Superfinal, Jonass was best MX2 rider in fifth, a place in front of Kjer-Olsen. Lawrence was 11th and Ben Watson 13th, one place in front of Mel Pocock.

MX2 Race one: 

1. Pauls Jonass
2. Thomas Covington
3. Thomas Kjer-Olsen
4. Ben Watson
5. Jeremy Seewer
6. Hunter Lawrence
7. Jake Millward
8. Bas Vaessen
9. Mel Pocock
10. Freek van der Vlist
11. Conrad Mewse
12. Lars Van Berkel
13. Adam Sterry
14. Gavin Stevenson
15. Like Norris
16. Jago Geerts
17. Lewis Tombs
18. Taylor Hammal
19. Hardi Roosiorg
20. Lars Griekspoor

1. Pauls Jonass
2. Thomas Kjer-Olsen
3. Hunter Lawrence
4. Jeremy Seewer
5. Conrad Mewse
6. Thomas Covington
7. Bas Vaessen
8. Adam Sterry
9. Lars Van Berkel
10. Ben Watson
11. Jake Millward
12. Mel Pocock
13. Liam Knight
14. Freek van der Vlist
15. Hardi Roosiorg
16. Gavin Stevenson
17. Luke Norris
18. Lewis Tombs
19. Taylor Hammal
20. Lars Griekspoor

MX2 overall: 

1. Pauls Jonass
2. Thomas Kjer Olsen
3. Thomas Covington
4. Hunter Lawrence
5. Jeremy Seewer

MX1 Race One: 

1. Max Anstie
2. Max Nagl
3. Arminas Jasikonis
4. Kevin Strijbos
5. Jake Nicholls
6. Gautier Paulin
7. Nathan Watson
8. Brad Anderson
9. Mike Kras
10. Clement Desalle
11. Jamie Law
12. Dan Thornhill
13. Rob Holyoake
14. Ashton Dickinson
15. Chubbie Hammond
16. Jaap Corneth
17. Corie Southwood
18. Johnjoe Wright
19. Harry Bradley
20. Rob Wood

MX1 Race Two: 

1. Max Nagl
2. Gautier Paulin
3. Clement Desalle
4. Arminas Jasikonis
5. Max Anstie
6. Kevin Strijbos
7. Nathan Watson
8. Shaun Simpson
9. Mike Kras
10. Dan Thornhill
11. Chubbie Hammond
12. Rob Holyoake
13. Jaap Corneth
14. Corie Southwood
15. Harry Bradley
16. Corey Hockey
17. Ben Margetson
18. Barry Turnbull
19. Rob Wood
20. Chris Nuttall

MX1 overall: 

1. Max Nagl
2. Max Anstie
3. Arminas Jasikonis
4. Gautier Paulin
5. Kevin Strijbos

Superfinal:

1. Max Nagl
2. Jordi Tixier
3. Max Anstie
4. Kevin Strijbos
5. Pauls Jonass
6. Thomas Kjer Olsen
7. Clement Desalle
8. Nathan Watson
9. Arminas Jasikonis
10. Jake Nicholls
11. Hunter Lawrence
12. Gautier Paulin
13. Ben Watson
14. Mel Pocock
15. Freek van der Vlist
16. Lars Van Berkel
17. Bas Vaessen
18. Adam Sterry
19. Conrad Mewse
20. Hardi Roosiorg