
Fast, unrelenting cambers, climbs and drops matched with slick, stony hard-pack: welcome to Loket. The picturesque circuit close to the German border and deep in the west of the Czech Republic gathered MXGP together for the first event back in Europe and for the seven-round run towards the end of September and to the culmination of the 2018 contest.
Loket is typically tight, quick (and on this occasional very bumpy) but also stingy with open overtaking opportunities, and the long start straight and unusual uphill first turn held the key to possible podium results.
Under cloudy and occasionally leaky skies it was 2018 MXGP supremo Jeffrey Herlings who aced the premier class for the eleventh time from fourteen rounds and is looking a championship-cert this season once more.