Guillén Farrés’ season has gone from being solid to being spectacular. After winning in Portugal and South Africa, this weekend the Triumph Factory Racing rider arrived at the British GP with a new challenge: the assault on Sacha Coenen’s leadership. And the best way to assault him was to go all out.
Ahead was one of the most emblematic tracks of the MXGP, Foxhills. An old school track with unevenness and huge jumps, in which Farrés shone with his own light from the beginning. And the Spaniard was the fastest in both free practice and timed practice.
In the qualifying round Guillén once again showed his speed, and from the opening stages he took the lead to gain space with the rest of the rivals. Victory seemed practically assured until on the last lap, Farrés suffered a fall that cost him the victory although, yes, he achieved second position behind the current champion Simon Längenfelder and ahead of Camden Mc Lellan.
On Sunday Farrés came out ready to take no prisoners
With the lesson learned from Saturday’s day, the highlight of the weekend arrived on Sunday. So when the race started after the fence fell, he began to cement his new victory. Despite not reaching the first corner first, he was able to find the gap to take the lead and score the holeshot. From there he led lap after lap again, controlling the race and taking victory ahead of Längenfelder and Liam Everts, while Sasha Coenen struggled to finish tenth.
The second race on Sunday was not so easy and, in fact, Farrés did not carry the weight of the race for much of it. And it was Längenfelder who was at the front of the race until he made a mistake that allowed Farrés to reach first position. Even so, the Triumph pilot had to fight against the German pilot, with whom he fought a beautiful battle that ended in the hands of the Spanish.
A great heat victory, the eleventh of the season, which helped him achieve his fourth GP victory this year at the controls of the TF 250-X, and also the provisional leadership of the general classification. Farrés’ great performance added to Coenen’s difficult weekend leaves the Spaniard with an 11-point advantage, which means that he has achieved 52 more points than the German in the last 3 GPs.
Of course, neither Farrés nor Triumph Factory Racing can let their guard down, because next weekend the Czech GP arrives, and on August 1st the Belgian GP. Then Sweden, the Netherlands, Türkiye, China and Australia will come, but that will already be in the second half of August and the month of September.
