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Lucas Coenen and De Wolf take Qualifying wins down under at the MXGP of Australia Presented by Sitzler

Darwin (Australia) 20th September 2025 – The first day of on-track action for the FIM Motocross World Championship riders took place today at the Hidden Valley Motorsports Complex, and the universal approval was apparent for the new circuit at the MXGP of Australia Presented by Sitzler! 

As expected at this final round of the series, high temperatures, with not quite the humidity levels of China, made the racing very physically demanding, and the blazing sun added an intensity to the heat that could not be denied.

In MXGP the only two riders capable of winning this year’s World Championship took the top two positions, with Lucas Coenen taking a start-to-finish victory for Red Bull KTM Factory Racing, ahead of Kawasaki Racing Team MXGP’s red plate holder Romain Febvre. Mattia Guadagnini amazingly took his best Qualifying Race result of the year with third for the Aruba.it Ducati Factory MX Team!

The MX2 class was won convincingly by title contender Kay de Wolf, as the Nestaan Husqvarna Factory Racing star had to catch and pass Red Bull KTM Factory Racing’s Sacha Coenen, who took second place ahead of Monster Energy Triumph Racing rider Guillem Farres.

None of the World Championship titles were decided today as all of the riders who are chasing the leaders won their races, so it all goes down to the final day of the season tomorrow, in front of what are likely to be packed hillsides at this stunning new Grand Prix Motocross venue!

 

Right at the last moment of Free Practice, Jeffrey Herlings pulled out some magic by jumping from the bottom of the standings to the top on the very last lap of the session! Behind him was the other Red Bull KTM Factory Racing rider Lucas Coenen, only two thousandths of a second ahead of Honda HRC’s Tim Gajser.  However, Coenen grabbed the first gate pick for the Qualifying Race in Time Practice, nearly half a second ahead of Herlings, with Romain Febvre over a second behind his title rival!

Coenen went straight for the inside gate to start the Qualifying Race from, and used it to good effect to claim the Holeshot for the fifth time on a Saturday this season! As with the previous four times, there was just no catching the teenager as he built a massive 8.7 second gap at the end of the first full lap!

Behind him, Febvre was recovering quickly from being boxed in at the start, although Mattia Guadagnini was looking good in second ahead of the Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MX2 rider Jago Geerts, who was swiftly passed by Kawasaki Racing Team MXGP’s Pauls Jonass and the Fantic Factory Racing MXGP machine of Brian Bogers.

Febvre took advantage of a mistake by Geerts along the Pit Lane straight to take fifth place, then duelled with Bogers over most of the first full lap before he could lock in fourth. He was predictably met with little resistance from his teammate Jonass to take third through the wave section.

Tim Gajser had also managed to pass Geerts to sit in seventh spot, while Geerts’ Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MXGP teammate Calvin Vlaanderen held eighth ahead of the other Honda HRC pilot Ruben Fernandez.  Meanwhile, Herlings had got boxed in between Coenen and Febvre down the start straight and had to fight through the pack, only breaking into the top ten by passing the MRT Racing Team Beta of Ben Watson on lap five.

Guadagnini was riding well, and held off the first attack by Febvre until the Frenchman blasted around the outside of a fast right hander onto a plateau, and that made second place the property of the man in green on lap four!  A lap later, Gajser and Vlaanderen had both got past Bogers to claim fifth and sixth behind Jonass, before Geerts also moved back past the Dutchman two laps further on.

Vlaanderen was on an impressive charge, passing Gajser on lap eight and then Jonass on lap ten to take a solid fourth place, and sadly for Jonass he made a last lap mistake to drop to tenth! Ninth was the third Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MXGP machine of Maxime Renaux, behind Geerts in eighth, and a fighting Herlings who came through to a dissatisfied seventh.

Fernandez nearly caught Gajser as the Honda men came home fifth and sixth behind Vlaanderen, while Guadagnini, with only his second Qualifying Race points-scoring ride of the year, took his best finish of the season, matching Ducati’s best of third with Jeremy Seewer back at Trentino in May.

Febvre was content to lose just a single point to Coenen, who romped to a 21-second margin of victory, but the Frenchman only needs a 16th-place finish in either race tomorrow to claim his second world title, even if the Belgian wins both races. 

As well as the title celebrations, the MXGP class tomorrow is likely to be a full-blown no-pressure free-for-all!

 

Lucas Coenen: “I mean, we know the points gap is big, but I want to give him a run until the end. It was a good race, I was just cruising, jumping the bumps in the first laps, then I made a gap and just saved energy for tomorrow. But honestly, the track is really physical, bumpy and soft, you can’t really relax. We’ll try our best in the two races, get two good starts like we did now, and then, yeah, have fun."

 

MXGP - Qualifying Race Classification:  1. Lucas Coenen (BEL, KTM), 23:36.321; 2. Romain Febvre (FRA, Kawasaki), +0:21.099; 3. Mattia Guadagnini (ITA, Ducati), +0:27.959; 4. Calvin Vlaanderen (NED, Yamaha), +0:31.357; 5. Tim Gajser (SLO, Honda), +0:34.883; 6. Ruben Fernandez (ESP, Honda), +0:38.518; 7. Jeffrey Herlings (NED, KTM), +0:40.752; 8. Jago Geerts (BEL, Yamaha), +0:41.456; 9. Maxime Renaux (FRA, Yamaha), +0:42.057; 10. Pauls Jonass (LAT, Kawasaki), +0:47.258

MXGP - World Championship Classification: 1. Romain Febvre (FRA, KAW), 938 points; 2. Lucas Coenen (BEL, KTM), 892 p.; 3. Glenn Coldenhoff (NED, FAN), 665 p.; 4. Ruben Fernandez (ESP, HON), 604 p.; 5. Jeffrey Herlings (NED, KTM), 586 p.; 6. Calvin Vlaanderen (NED, YAM), 567 p.; 7. Maxime Renaux (FRA, YAM), 527 p.; 8. Andrea Bonacorsi (ITA, FAN), 508 p.; 9. Tim Gajser (SLO, HON), 470 p.; 10. Jeremy Seewer (SUI, DUC), 368 p.;

    

Main Photo: Lucas Coenen

Top Photo: MXGP Start Darwin

Bottom Photos: 1. Romain Febvre; 2. Mattia Guadagnini

 

 


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Once again MX2 Free Practice was topped by Sacha Coenen, with his Red Bull KTM Factory Racing teammate Simon Längenfelder nearly a second behind, just ahead of his title rival Kay de Wolf. However, Time Practice saw the defending World Champion back to the top by just nine hundredths of a second from Längenfelder, with Andrea Adamo completing the top three, also for Red Bull KTM Factory Racing.

It looked as though De Wolf had grabbed the holeshot before Karlis Reisulis fired around the outside to lead for Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MX2, but that was short-lived as Coenen chopped across the Latvian to lead out of the fourth corner. De Wolf got embroiled in a battle with Guillem Farres, as the Triumph rider fought back from the Dutchman’s first passing attempt, while Längenfelder and Adamo disputed fifth place behind them!

De Wolf and Farres battled past Reisulis by the end of the first full lap, with Adamo ahead of Längenfelder, while Mathis Valin held seventh for Kawasaki Racing Team MX2. Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MX2 pilot Rick Elzinga held eighth ahead of the Monster Energy Triumph of Camden McLellan.  The pair would battle for much of the race, whilst Kay Karssemakers held tenth from lap three to the chequered flag, scoring his first Qualifying Race points of the season!

Showing the patience that has characterised his campaign, Längenfelder worked steadily forward, passing Adamo on lap three while pushing to the inside of Reisulis on lap five.  He briefly threatened the rear wheel of Farres but couldn’t get any higher than fourth behind the Spaniard, with Adamo fifth and Valin a quiet sixth.

Sadly for Reisulis, he got swallowed up by the McLellan/Elzinga battle as the South African passed the Dutchman with three laps to go, the pair taking seventh and eighth ahead of Reisulis and Karssemakers.

De Wolf, meanwhile, having saved a monumental kicker on lap three, closed in on Coenen around the often soft and rutted circuit and made a nice switchback pass to take the lead on lap seven of 13.  It was his fourth Qualifying Race win of the season, matching the best of the year with Adamo and the absent Thibault Benistant.

Today’s results closed the gap at the top of the standings to just 13 points with only tomorrow’s races to go. If De Wolf wins both races, which is obviously his target, then Längenfelder needs at least a third and a fourth to bring home the title!  This one could go all the way to finish off an all-action 2025 MX2 World Championship!

Don’t miss the final day of racing to conclude the 2025 MXGP season tomorrow.  The Champions will be crowned in front of the avid Australian fans on this amazing new circuit down under! See ya there!

 

Kay de Wolf: “It was a good race. I had a good start and did what I had to do. I’ve been charging myself up all week for this and I’m just going to try and finish it this way. I’ll try to win, give all I can, and every race I will give 110% so I won’t regret anything at the end of the season. I was 70 points down after Matterley Basin, so everything I’ve been doing since has been amazing. A great qualifying win, another pole position for tomorrow, and I’m just really excited to go racing.”

 

MX2 - Qualifying Race Classification: 1. Kay de Wolf (NED, Husqvarna), 23:46.711; 2. Sacha Coenen (BEL, KTM), +0:05.720; 3. Guillem Farres (ESP, Triumph), +0:09.785; 4. Simon Längenfelder (GER, KTM), +0:11.231; 5. Andrea Adamo (ITA, KTM), +0:15.615; 6. Mathis Valin (FRA, Kawasaki), +0:30.363; 7. Camden Mc Lellan (RSA, Triumph), +0:33.419; 8. Rick Elzinga (NED, Yamaha), +0:34.329; 9. Karlis Alberts Reisulis (LAT, Yamaha), +0:35.191; 10. Kay Karssemakers (NED, Kawasaki), +0:35.658

MX2 - World Championship Classification: 1. Simon Längenfelder (GER, KTM), 891 points; 2. Kay de Wolf (NED, HUS), 878 p.; 3. Andrea Adamo (ITA, KTM), 823 p.; 4. Sacha Coenen (BEL, KTM), 765 p.; 5. Camden Mc Lellan (RSA, TRI), 616 p.; 6. Liam Everts (BEL, HUS), 606 p.; 7. Thibault Benistant (FRA, YAM), 603 p.; 8. Guillem Farres (ESP, TRI), 469 p.; 9. Valerio Lata (ITA, HON), 447 p.; 10. Mathis Valin (FRA, KAW), 439 p.

    

Top Photo: Kay de Wolf

Bottom Photos: 1. Sacha Coenen; 2. Guillem Farres

 

 

All the photos from the MXGP of Australia presented by Sitzler will be available HERE.

You can find the complete results HERE.

 

MXGP OF AUSTRALIA PRESENTED BY SITZLER QUICK FACTS:

Circuit length: 1540m

Type of ground: Red Sand

Temperature: 34°

Weather conditions: Sunny

 

 

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MOTOCROSS GP OF AUSTRALIA - SATURDAY - MX2

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FROM WELCOME TO COUNTRY TO SIGNING SESSION: MXGP HEROES SPARK AUSTRALIA’S BIG RETURN

DARWIN (Australia) 19 September 2025 – The MXGP World Championship Paddock was welcomed to Darwin today as many of the top riders attended a Signing Session at the Darwin Waterfront Precinct, organised in partnership with the Northern Territory Major Events Company, and enjoyed meeting with fans who queued in their hundreds to meet their MXGP heroes, clearly excited to see World Championship Motocross return to Australia for the first time in 24 years!

The event began with a traditional Saltwater Welcome to Country, where Trent Lee, an elder from the Larrakia people, the Indigenous Traditional Owners of the land and waters around Darwin, performed a Welcome to Country ceremony which included a blessing of the waterfront.  Riders were given a cultural explanation and then got involved with the ceremony themselves by taking a symbolic barefoot step into the water, acknowledging the Larrakia people as the Traditional Custodians, the “Saltwater People” of Darwin.

    

Some of the riders, including Andrea Adamo, Lucas Coenen and Sacha Coenen from Red Bull KTM Factory Racing, Calvin Vlaanderen from Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MXGP, and Aruba.it Ducati Factory MX Team leader Jeremy Seewer, met and held some local wildlife in the shape of full-grown snakes and baby crocodiles.  Some weren’t entirely as fearless as they are on a motorcycle!

    

Following the ceremony at the Lagoon Pool, for which organisers had temporarily taken down the net of the Beach Volleyball court, the riders took their places before the queue and the waiting fans eagerly collected autographs and selfies with their MXGP heroes!  Many had got stocked up at the nearby MXGP merchandise stand, or been handed free event posters to fill with signatures!

The first on many autograph shopping lists was record GP winner Jeffrey Herlings, who was on the first table with teammate Adamo, while Sacha and Lucas Coenen were next along for Red Bull KTM Factory Racing. Nestaan Husqvarna Factory Racing teammates Liam Everts and MX2 World Champion Kay de Wolf were also in the first row of stars ready to sign their souvenir posters, cards, or indeed any of the shirts, flags, and even body parts put before them!

     

    

Vlaanderen was joined by his Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MXGP teammates Jago Geerts and Maxime Renaux, while the three Honda HRC riders Tim Gajser, Ruben Fernandez, and Valerio Lata also lined up with pens at the ready. Italians Andrea Bonacorsi for Fantic Factory Racing MXGP and Mattia Guadagnini from the Aruba.it Ducati Factory MX Team sat together, neither claiming to have signed more than the other!

    

The banter continued at the Monster Energy Triumph Racing table, with Camden McLellan and Guillem Farres joking with fans while their press officer did a very good Australian accent for someone from his part of Europe!  Kawasaki Racing Team riders Pauls Jonass and Mathis Valin also enjoyed the event alongside Bike-It Kawasaki’s Kay Karssemakers, JK Racing Yamaha’s Isak Gifting, and MX-Handel Husqvarna Racing’s Kevin Brumann.

Karlis Reisulis of Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MX2, like many of the riders, found fans of his own nationality in amongst the crowd.

Many Australian wildcards also joined in the event, with Todd Waters, Zac Watson, Cody O’loan, Cooper Holroyd, and MX2 rider Byron Dennis enjoying the atmosphere. WMX racers were also getting their signatures requested, and regulars including Kiara Fontanesi, Larissa Papenmeier, Aneta Cepelakova, Alexandra Massury, and Nellie Fransson were joined by Australian wildcards Charli Cannon and Taylah McCutcheon.

     

During the session, fans who had got their souvenirs already were then entertained by the Flair Trials showcase, with rider Jack Field switching between one- and two-wheeled motorcycles, as well as his “pushie” cyclo-trials bike, scaring his “Human Obstacle” assistant by bouncing his bike around the prone body on the floor!

    

Towards the end of the signing session was a real treat, as MC “Rusty”, Greg Rust, introduced the Jet Pack Entertainment show, with their Hydroflight Sport athlete Jake Jones entertaining the crowd with an amazing aerial performance that included freestyle whips, back-flips, amazing dolphin lunges into the water itself, and the daring “Thread the Needle” manoeuvre that involved the leading Australian in the sport backflipping through a loop in the water hose that powered his own board!  Free merchandise was given to the kids in the audience who got closest and therefore drenched by Jake during one of his amazing tricks!

    

All in all, it was a brilliant evening that built a lot of interest in the event, which is already enjoying healthy advance ticket sales.  The on-track action gets underway tomorrow morning as the MXGP of Australia Presented by Sitzler starts in earnest at the Hidden Valley Motorsports Complex outside Darwin!

 

 

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TIMETABLE

SATURDAY: 08:25: Blåkläder Start Practice MX2, 08:55 Blåkläder Start Practice MXGP, 09:45 WMX Free practice, 10:15 MX2 Free practice, 10:45 MXGP Free practice, 12:10 WMX Qualifying practice, 12:50 MX2 Time practice, 13:30 MXGP Time practice, 14:40 WMX Race 1, 15:25 MX2 Qualifying Race, 16:10 MXGP Qualifying Race

SUNDAY: 09:45 WMX Race 2, 10:25 MX2 Warm-up, 10:45 MXGP Warm-up, 12:15 MX2 Race 1, 13:15 MXGP Race 1, 15:10 MX2 Race 2, 16:10 MXGP Race 2.

 

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THE FINAL SHOWDOWN IS ON DOWN UNDER AT THE MXGP OF AUSTRALIA PRESENTED BY SITZLER!

DARWIN (Australia) 17 September 2025 – It all comes down to this! Round 20 of the FIM Motocross World Championships, the final round of the season, takes place this weekend to decide the fate of all three world titles at the brand-new Hidden Valley Motorsports Complex not far from the centre of the Northern Territory’s capital city of Darwin.  The 2025 MXGP, MX2, and WMX World Champions will all be crowned at the MXGP of Australia Presented by Sitzler!

This will be only the fifth time that World Championship Motocross will be run within the world’s biggest island nation, at adult level anyway, as the first event was held way back in 1992, when the Team USA line-up of Billy Liles, Mike LaRocco, and Jeff Emig won the Motocross des Nations at the south-eastern venue of Manjimup. The first GP was held at the same circuit a year later, and saw Dutchman Pedro Tragter clinch the 125cc World Championship with second overall behind Italian Andrea Bartolini. Eight years later and the 500cc class visited these shores, at the south-western venue of Broadford near Melbourne. Current Red Bull KTM Factory Racing Team Manager Joel Smets was victorious in Victoria that day, and he was back there the following year as the 2001 three-class format was run for the most recent Grand Prix in Australia. James Dobb, Mickael Pichon, and Stefan Everts took the single-race GP wins that weekend.

Australia also hosted a World Junior Motocross Championship event in 2018, at the Horsham venue, also in the southern state of Victoria.  Local riders Bailey Malkiewicz and Braden Plath took titles that day, as did American Caden Braswell.  Several riders who are lining up this weekend were also there at Horsham seven years ago, and will be hoping to take advantage of their southern hemisphere experience!

Fast forward to 2025, and Smets’ top rider Jeffrey Herlings brings a three-GP winning streak to the event down under for Red Bull KTM Factory Racing.  However, the Championship battle is between French veteran Romain Febvre, red plate holder for Kawasaki Racing Team MXGP, and the teenage Belgian tearaway Lucas Coenen for Red Bull KTM Factory Racing. For the second year running, Coenen heads to the final round with a mountain to climb if he is to come away with gold, but he also knows that nothing is over until the final chequered flag flies!

As per usual, things are much closer in MX2, with Red Bull KTM Factory Racing’s red plate holder Simon Längenfelder holding a slim margin over reigning World Champion and Nestaan Husqvarna Factory Racing rider Kay de Wolf. The German is looking to end a run of three years of bronze medals by striking gold this weekend, and top three positions in all three races will do the job, even if his Dutch rival takes all three race wins. In the wild and unpredictable MX2 class, however, anything is possible with a hatful of contenders able to get amongst the title combatants!

In the Women’s World Motocross Championships, there’s another teenager versus veteran battle as reigning World Champion Lotte van Drunen leads the series for De Baets Yamaha by just 16 points from six-time WMX Champ Kiara Fontanesi on her MX FontaRacing GASGAS.  Just a point behind Fontanesi is the RFME Spain National Team rider Daniela Guillen, also in with a chance of depriving Van Drunen of her second straight world title. Amazingly, Lotte finished fourth in the 65cc class of the 2018 Junior World Championships in Australia, and will be looking to add to her good memories of life down under! With many fast Australian wildcards likely to get in the mix this weekend, the Championship finale might not be as straightforward as some would think!

As with last weekend’s event in Shanghai, the heat will be higher than most Europeans will be used to, so the physical challenge will be tangible for every competitor in the final Grand Prix of what has been an epic 2025 season!

 

With strong consistency over the last two Grands Prix, Romain Febvre has rebuilt his Championship lead to a mighty 47 points over Lucas Coenen, who struggled in the heat of Shanghai last weekend with 12th place overall, his worst result of the entire season. After a second corner crash in race two, the young Belgian seemed resigned to his fate, and needs major issues for the red plate holder in order to deprive him of the title.

Febvre, aiming to take his second world crown, ten years and eight days (maybe seven!) after his first, could wrap things up in Saturday’s Qualifying Race if he scores four points more than Coenen.  He only needs to score 14 points across the whole weekend to be Champion even if the Belgian wins all three outings.

Behind them, Glenn Coldenhoff has wrapped up third place in the World Championship for Fantic Factory Racing MXGP.  It’s the second bronze medal of his distinguished 16-year GP career, and the 35-year-old Dutch veteran could well be lining up at a Grand Prix for the final time this weekend if some rumours are to be believed.

China saw a welcome return to form for Ruben Fernandez, taking his third podium of the year for Honda HRC, and he needs to stay on the gas this weekend as he holds just a 15-point advantage over Jeffrey Herlings for fourth in the Championship.  In the form Jeffrey’s in, he might need every point of that gap! The Bullet’s three-GP win streak has moved him past Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MXGP rider Calvin Vlaanderen for fifth in the series, while Calvin’s teammate Maxime Renaux is a further 35 points back in seventh.  Both Yamaha riders will be looking to finish their season off with a podium result after looking strong in recent GPs.

Renaux has got to watch for Fantic Factory Racing MXGP’s Andrea Bonacorsi, who is only 17 points behind him in the series, but the final two spots in the top ten are virtually sealed. Tim Gajser looked strong in China for Honda HRC, and will be out for nothing less than a victorious end to the season after looking like the title favourite before his shoulder injury.  Jeremy Seewer is pretty secure in tenth for Aruba.it Ducati Factory MX Team, which is a fine result for the Italian brand in their first full year of competition at the very top of the sport.

Jeremy’s Aruba.it Ducati Factory MX Team rider Mattia Guadagnini actually finished second in the 125cc Junior World Championship in Australia in 2018, to Bailey Malkiewicz in the 125cc class, while Aussie wildcard Zac Watson competed in the 85cc class that day too!

It will be a landmark day for many in the MXGP World Championship, with stories of many top riders likely to change teams after this race, so this might be the last time they run with the colours that we are very used to seeing many of them in! As the world title gets decided this weekend, watch for some major celebrations as history will be made, whichever way the gold medal goes!

 

MXGP - World Championship Top 10 Classification: 1. Romain Febvre (FRA, KAW), 929 Points; 2. Lucas Coenen (BEL, KTM), 882 Pts; 3. Glenn Coldenhoff (NED, FAN), 665 Pts; 4. Ruben Fernandez (ESP, HON), 599 Pts; 5. Jeffrey Herlings (NED, KTM), 582 Pts; 6. Calvin Vlaanderen (NED, YAM) 560 Pts; 7. Maxime Renaux (FRA, YAM), 525 Pts; 8. Andrea Bonacorsi (ITA, FAN), 508 Pts; 9. Tim Gajser (SLO, HON), 464 Pts; 10. Jeremy Seewer (SUI, DUC), 368 Pts.

     

Main Photo: 2025 MXGP start

Bottom photos: 1.Romain Febvre ; 2. Lucas Coenen

 

The MX2 World Championship has been incredibly entertaining all season long, with 11 different riders winning either a Qualifying Race, a GP Race, or both since the start of the campaign in Argentina!  Such has been the diversity of the results, that not one rider has taken back-to-back GP victories all year long in the class!

Simon Längenfelder nudged slightly further ahead of Kay de Wolf with his performances in China, but 16 points is not a massive gap at all over the defending World Champion, who will be hoping that the new circuit, which is described as “Sand/Clay”, will be on the softer side of that description, playing to the strengths that he has shown all year long. The Dutchman has to go all-out for three race wins, and hope that a few of the many other contenders can hold back the German, who basically needs to score 45 points across the three races, even if De Wolf takes a maximum points haul.  De Wolf also has history in Australia, finishing second overall in the 2018 85cc World Juniors at Horsham!

Other riders who raced that event include Bike-It Kawasaki’s Kay Karssemakers, who was third in the 85cc class, Camden McLellan who took fifth, and Liam Everts, who won race one but suffered a DNF in race two due to damage from a crash! Rick Elzinga, now with Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MX2, finished sixth overall in the 125cc class that day.  It will be Rick’s last ride in MX2 this weekend.

As for Red Bull KTM Factory Racing riders Andrea Adamo and Sacha Coenen, they are pretty much set in their current Championship positions of third and fourth, although Adamo has an extremely thin chance of catching De Wolf for second.  Coenen will be going all out to become the only winner of back-to-back GPs after his victory in China.

With Thibault Benistant out for the year, he is now guaranteed to finish seventh in the Championship for Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MX2. Camden McLellan has moved up to fifth for Monster Energy Triumph Racing, with Liam Everts just six points behind the South African for Nestaan Husqvarna Factory Racing, so it could be tasty between those two if they get together on track!

Behind Benistant is the second Monster Energy Triumph Racing rider, Guillem Farres, who sits 14 points ahead of Honda HRC’s rookie Valerio Lata for eighth in the standings, while Kawasaki Racing Team MX2’s French whizz-kid Mathis Valin is just 13 further back from Lata, with no-one able to knock him out of the top ten in his first World Championship campaign.

The battle for the world MX2 crown is enthralling and could go right to the very end of the final race, and what should be a memorable first MXGP event in Australia for 24 years is not one to be missed! Get a shrimp on the barbie for breakfast and tune in to the MXGP of Australia Presented by Sitzler! It could be one for the ages!

 

MX2 - World Championship Top 10 Classification: 1. Simon Längenfelder (GER, KTM), 884 Points; 2. Kay de Wolf (NED, HUS), 868 Pts; 3. Andrea Adamo (ITA, KTM), 817 Pts; 4. Sacha Coenen (BEL, KTM), 756 Pts; 5. Camden McLellan (RSA, TRI), 612 Pts; 6. Liam Everts (BEL, HUS), 606 Pts; 7. Thibault Benistant (FRA, YAM), 603 Pts; 8. Guillem Farres (ESP, TRI), 461 Pts; 9. Valerio Lata (ITA, HON), 447 Pts; 10. Mathis Valin (FRA, KAW), 434 Pts.

     

Main Photo: 2025 MX2 start

Bottom photos: 1. Simon Längenfelder ; 2. Kay de Wolf

 

 

Don’t miss your chance to watch the MXGP of Australia presented by Sitzler this weekend if you're around. Get your tickets HERE!

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TIMETABLE

SATURDAY: 08:25: Blåkläder Start Practice MX2, 08:55 Blåkläder Start Practice MXGP, 09:45 WMX Free practice, 10:15 MX2 Free practice, 10:45 MXGP Free practice, 12:10 WMX Qualifying practice, 12:50 MX2 Time practice, 13:30 MXGP Time practice, 14:40 WMX Race 1, 15:25 MX2 Qualifying Race, 16:10 MXGP Qualifying Race

SUNDAY: 09:45 WMX Race 2, 10:25 MX2 Warm-up, 10:45 MXGP Warm-up, 12:15 MX2 Race 1, 13:15 MXGP Race 1, 15:10 MX2 Race 2, 16:10 MXGP Race 2.

 

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TIMETABLE AND ENTRY LISTS FOR THE MXGP OF AUSTRALIA PRESENTED BY SITZLER

MONACO (Principality of Monaco) 16 September 2025 – The final round of the 2025 FIM Motocross World Championships is coming on 20th and 21st of September in Darwin at Hidden Valley Raceway which marks the return on the Australian soil for the first time since 24 years! All MXGP, MX2 and WMX World Champions will be crowned this weekend in Northen Territory!

Checkout the Timetable and Entry Lists for the MXGP of Australia presented by Sitzler below:

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