Romain Febvre and Kawasaki Racing Team MXGP finished runners-up in the Portuguese round of the FIM World MXGP Motocross Championship at Agueda to go into third in the series. The Frenchman displayed his experience through the wide sweeping first two turns of the opening moto to emerge second and immediately settled into a good rhythm as he tracked the leader at arm's length. Having dropped the chasers off his rear wheel after three laps the Kawasaki leader closed significantly on the rider ahead through the next three laps but could not quite get close enough to present the opportunity for a pass and he eventually settled back into a good rhythm. Another charge during the closing stages saw him pull back the race-long leader to come up less than two seconds short of victory at the checkered flag.

Momentarily losing momentum through the second turn of Race 2 as a rider directly ahead of him lost traction saw the Frenchman fifth the first time past the timekeepers but he immediately pounced to sweep under the series leader halfway round the first lap for fourth. Looking to chase down the leaders he faced a frustrating quarter-of-an-hour as the rider in third made it awkward to pass. He eventually lined up a scintillating move through the waves but by then the two leaders were too far ahead for him to run them down. However, third in moto two earned him second overall on the day and, more significantly, saw him pull back points on the series leader as he moves third in the points chase.