
MXGP sweated through a second stifling race meeting in one week as the rough and fast orangey-soil at Agueda was home to the Grand Prix of Portugal – the first visit to the country in four years by the FIM Motocross World Championship – and the temperatures again ramped-up after the furnace of Ottobiano, Italy eight days previously. The first two spots on the podium remained in the grip of MXGP series leader Tony Cairoli with Jeffrey Herlings runner-up for the fourth time in 2017 and Arminas Jasikonis became the first Lithuanian to uncork a Grand Prix champagne bottle in third spot.