The 2nd day of the Fiat Professional MXGP of France started out with the FIM Women’s Motocross World Championship Race 2. Over the two days of racing French motocross superstar, Team One One Four’s Livia Lancelot was consistently fast and claimed her first overall of the year and she did it in front of her home crowd.

Both the WMX races were epic with several lead changes and battles abound. In Race 1 MXFonta Racing’s Kiara Fontanesi had the lead with a lap and a half remaining but she fell on the uphill and lost out to Nancy Van de Ven, Livia Lancelot, and several other riders. With one lap to go and Van de Ven in the lead Lancelot charged to the front, passed Van de Ven, and won Race 1 in an epic fashion in front of the roaring French fans.

Larissa Papenmeier rallied her way into 3rd just ahead of Fontanesi. The last spot in the top 5 of Race 1 went to the German rider, Stephanie Laier.

After leading and then crashing out of Race 1 Altherm JCR Yamaha’s Courtney Duncan came back with a vengeance making her way to the front of Race 2 by lap 2 even after a near 10th place start. Livia Lancelot took the Holeshot but she was quickly passed by Nancy Van De Ven on the first jump. Lancelot didn’t let Nancy lead for long though and by the end of the first lap was in first. After Duncan’s pass on Lancelot it was a game of cat and mouse for the lead but Lancelot knew she had the overall and wisely settled for second.

Kiara Fontanesi started in a similar position as Duncan but didn’t move forward as quickly. On lap 4 Duncan passed Van De Ven for 3rd, the pair remained 3rd and 4th through to the finish. 5th was taken by Papenmeier and 6th was Sara Andersen.

Overall on the weekend Lancelot’s 1-2 prevailed and the 47 championship points earned have her only 1 point of the lead of Fontanesi. Van De Ven’s 2-4 took second, Fontanesi’s 4-3 took third, and the final spots in the top five went to the consistent Papenmeier and Andersen.

WMX Race 1 Top Ten:
1. Livia Lancelot (FRA, Kawasaki), 25:28.122;
2. Nancy Van De Ven (NED, Yamaha), +0:02.773;
3. Larissa Papenmeier (GER, Suzuki), +0:31.741;
4. Kiara Fontanesi (ITA, Yamaha), +0:40.648;
5. Stephanie Laier (GER, KTM), +0:50.780;
6. Nicky van Wordragen (NED, Yamaha), +1:07.974;
7. Francesca Nocera (ITA, Suzuki), +1:53.114;
8. Sara Andersen (DEN, Yamaha), +2:09.223;
9. Justine Charroux (FRA, Yamaha), +2:11.920;
10. Amandine Verstappen (BEL, KTM), +2:19.465.

WMX Race 2 Top Ten:
1. Courtney Duncan (NZL, Yamaha), 26:01.080;
2. Livia Lancelot (FRA, Kawasaki), +0:03.241;
3. Kiara Fontanesi (ITA, Yamaha), +0:15.978;
4. Nancy Van De Ven (NED, Yamaha), +0:23.338;
5. Larissa Papenmeier (GER, Suzuki), +0:38.129;
6. Sara Andersen (DEN, Yamaha), +0:46.374;
7. Amandine Verstappen (BEL, KTM), +1:00.540;
8. Nicky van Wordragen (NED, Yamaha), +1:21.001;
9. Stephanie Laier (GER, KTM), +1:39.352;
10. Jessie Joineau (FRA, Honda), +1:42.510.

WMX Overall Top 10:
1. Livia Lancelot (FRA, KAW), 47 points;
2. Nancy Van De Ven (NED, YAM), 40 p.;
3. Kiara Fontanesi (ITA, YAM), 38 p.;
4. Larissa Papenmeier (GER, SUZ), 36 p.;
5. Sara Andersen (DEN, YAM), 28 p.;
6. Nicky van Wordragen (NED, YAM), 28 p.;
7. Stephanie Laier (GER, KTM), 28 p.;
8. Courtney Duncan (NZL, YAM), 25 p.;
9. Amandine Verstappen (BEL, KTM), 25 p.;
10. Justine Charroux (FRA, YAM), 20 p.

WMX Championship Top 10:
1. Kiara Fontanesi (ITA, YAM), 115 points;
2. Livia Lancelot (FRA, KAW), 114 p.;
3. Courtney Duncan (NZL, YAM), 108 p.;
4. Nancy Van De Ven (NED, YAM), 103 p.;
5. Larissa Papenmeier (GER, SUZ), 99 p.;
6. Nicky van Wordragen (NED, YAM), 87 p.;
7. Amandine Verstappen (BEL, KTM), 81 p.;
8. Shana van der Vlist (NED, KTM), 63 p.;
9. Francesca Nocera (ITA, SUZ), 61 p.;
10. Virginie Germond (SUI, YAM), 54 p.