MXGP

From a single television deal in 1996 to the world's most complete off-road motorsport ecosystem, three decades of innovation have turned the Motocross World Championship into MXGP, and opened a clear, credible path for every rider who dreams of reaching it.

UDDEVALLA (Sweden) 15th August 2026 – In 2026, the machines that carried motocross's greatest champions to World Championship glory stand on display in Lommel, marking thirty years since Action Group first acquired the FIM's television rights to the Motocross World Championship. It is a fitting way to mark the anniversary, because the story of the last thirty years is not really about machines. It is about the two men who decided, in 1996, that a fragmented collection of national Grands Prix could become a single, professional, globally distributed sport, and who spent the next three decades proving it.

Giuseppe Luongo built the foundation. His son David Luongo, now President and CEO of Infront Moto Racing, has carried it into the digital era. Between them, and the organisations they led, Action Group, then Youthstream, now Infront Moto Racing, they have rebuilt motocross from the ground up: its television production, its commercial structure, its rider pathway, its fan experience, and its safety standards. Almost nothing about how a Grand Prix looks, sounds, sells tickets or reaches a screen today existed in its current form when they started.

David and Giuseppe Luongo

1996–2003: Building a Championship Out of a Calendar

Before 1996, the Motocross World Championship was, in practice, a series of independently organised national events loosely tied together by a shared points table. Action Group's acquisition of the FIM's television rights in 1996, followed a year later by the promotional, commercial and calendar rights, changed the operating model at its root. For the first time, every Grand Prix received coordinated television coverage, and a single organisation was responsible for how the Championship looked and how it was sold, no longer dependent on what each local promoter could individually deliver.

The effect showed up fast. Between 1997 and 1998, a consistent visual identity began appearing at every round: coordinated podiums, advertising boards, and event presentation that made a Grand Prix in one country instantly recognisable as the same Championship as a Grand Prix in another. In 1999, Action Group organised the FIM World Champions Awards and the Moto Winter Week in Monte Carlo and Sestriere, the first major international celebration built jointly around the FIM and its champions, and an early signal that this Championship intended to be treated, and marketed, like a major sport. Between 2000 and 2002, an international distribution agreement with Fox Sports carried the Motocross and Supercross World Championships to television markets that had never reliably seen the sport before.

2004–2010: Youthstream Takes the Wheel

On 1 January 2004, Youthstream formally became the promoter of the Motocross World Championship, and with that came the authority to rebuild the sport's identity from the paddock outward. The 125cc, 250cc and 500cc class names were retired in favour of MX1 and MX2, a small change on paper that signalled a larger ambition: this was now a modern, marketable World Championship, not a collection of engine-capacity categories. Stefan Everts won that first MX1 title of the Youthstream era in 2004, on his way to becoming the most decorated rider in the sport's history, and his career effectively ran alongside the Championship's own professionalisation.

Stefan Everts, 2004

Between 2004 and 2006, paddocks, hospitality areas, team facilities and media zones were progressively standardised across every round, the beginning of the idea that a rider, a sponsor or a broadcaster should find the same operational quality whether the Grand Prix was in Belgium or Brazil. In 2005, Youthstream launched the Women's Motocross World Cup, the first world-level women's competition in the sport, which earned full FIM Women's Motocross World Championship status in 2008. By 2006, the Championship was reporting 702 hours of worldwide television coverage and a cumulative audience of 590 million, numbers that would have been unthinkable for the sport a decade earlier. Centralised television production, consistent international direction, graphics, filming and highlights, became the standard, and the physical presentation of circuits, from starting gates to paddocks to signage, became as recognisable a part of the MXGP brand as the racing itself.

It was during this period that Youthstream developed one of its most visible and enduring innovations: The Pitlane. Until then, a motocross pit lane was little more than a strip of ground where mechanics waited with a spare wheel. Youthstream turned it into a working, two-storey building, installed at every round. On the ground floor, mechanics were given live timing and timekeeping at their own stations for the first time in the history of the sport, so the team side of the fence knew exactly what the broadcast audience knew, lap by lap. On the floor above, teams could receive their own guests, sponsors, partners and invited media, in a hospitality space sitting directly over their own bikes, with the track in front of them. It was the first time a motocross team could service a rider and promote its brand from the same structure, at every Grand Prix, to the same standard. The pit lane stopped being a service area and became the place where teams did business.

Alongside it came the VIP Restaurant, the direct ancestor of today's VIP Skybox. The structure that now stands behind the start gate at every European round took its current form for the first time in 2013. Conceived as a travelling hospitality structure with a restaurant and a terrace overlooking the start straight, the Skybox would go on to become the single most photographed non-racing structure in the sport, but its full public unveiling was still to come.

2011–2014: The Digital Leap, and the Skybox Goes Live

If one four-year stretch defines the transformation of MXGP into a modern sports property, it is this one.

In 2011, Youthstream launched MX-Life.tv, one of the very first OTT platforms dedicated to a single World Championship anywhere in motorsport, offering live race coverage, video on demand and season packages directly to fans, years before streaming became the industry default. The same year, a permanent television studio arrived in the paddock at every Grand Prix, and live streaming was added to the Saturday qualifying race, a format first introduced in 2009, as the first in international motorsport to set the next day's gate picks. The Championship also began building out a dedicated social media ecosystem, the infrastructure that would let MXGP talk directly to its fans instead of relying solely on broadcasters and print media. Around 2012, the MXGP Academy was launched, an international programme built to train young riders and coaches in emerging motocross nations, the first concrete building block of what would become the Championship's full sporting pyramid.

That Saturday qualifying race deserves more than a passing line, because it is one of the clearest examples of MXGP arriving somewhere first. In 2009, the Grand Prix weekend was rebuilt around a simple conviction: fans come to watch racing, not to watch a stopwatch. So Saturday stopped being a timed session and became a race. Free practice, a pre-qualifying practice (today’s Time Practice) that set the gate pick for the qualifying race, then a full qualifying race, roughly twenty-five minutes of it in that first season. Real starts, real passes, real consequences, because the result set the gate picks for Sunday. The format has been refined since, running today at twenty minutes plus two laps, but the principle has not moved in seventeen years: two race days, not one, and a Saturday ticket worth buying on its own.
At the time, no other major international motorsport championship was doing it. MXGP's Italian rounds, Mantova above all, became the shop window for the format. Formula One for example introduced its own Saturday sprint format in 2021, while MXGP had already made Saturday racing the backbone of its weekend. The Championship got there first, and it got there by starting from the only question that has ever really mattered: what do fans actually want to see?

Then, over the Easter weekend of 2013, at the Grand Prix of the Netherlands in Valkenswaard, Youthstream pulled back the curtain on the Skybox. On the Saturday before the race, every team and rider gathered at the new double-decker structure, fifteen boxes on the ground floor where mechanics parked bikes beneath the Sky-Flag bearing each rider's name and nationality, and twelve VIP boxes on the second floor, split by a podium positioned directly on top of the structure so that Skybox guests had an exclusive view of both the podium ceremony and the start of the races. Teams and riders toured the facility and shared a meal on the upper floor before racing began. It was a genuinely new idea in the sport: hospitality, operations and the podium ceremony itself, combined into a single piece of travelling infrastructure that would be installed at every European round from that point forward. 2013 also saw the launch of MXGP Mag, a monthly magazine that ran strong for 145 issues until its final edition in March 2026.

MXGP of Qatar, 2013

That same 2013 season, Antonio Cairoli won the MX1 World Championship, his fifth consecutive premier-class title and the seventh world championship of his career. It was the kind of season the sport's new infrastructure was built to showcase: a dominant Italian champion, a paddock experience being reinvented in real time, and a hospitality product exclusive enough that VIP guests were watching him take the checkered flag from a terrace built specifically for that view.

In 2014, Cairoli won again, his eighth world title, in the very year the premier class itself was rebranded from MX1 to MXGP, giving the whole Championship a single, stronger global identity that folded the top class and the overall series name into one recognisable brand. The same year, MX-Life.tv became MXGP-TV.com, live coverage returned to Eurosport across Europe with a 26-minute highlights magazine, high-definition production expanded internationally, and Youthstream partnered with Milestone to launch the first official MXGP video game, putting the Championship into living rooms in a format none of its rivals had reached yet.

2015–2019: Going Global, Going Deeper

Between 2014 and 2016, onboard action-camera footage began putting fans directly on the bike for the first time, and in 2015 one-make development programmes, including Yamaha's bLU cRU, began formally connecting national competition to the World Championship paddock, extending the pathway the MXGP Academy had started building three years earlier. That was the same year a 23-year-old Romain Febvre won the MXGP title as a rookie, the first French premier-class champion in the sport's history, a reminder of how directly a strengthened development pipeline and a marketable global platform now fed each other.

2016 brought an experiment few other motorsports had attempted: the Monster Energy SMX Riders' and Manufacturers' Cup, blending motocross and supercross with official factory teams, the same year Tim Gajser took the first of what would become four MXGP titles. That event also served as the testing ground for a metal starting grid in place of the traditional dirt gate, a change rolled into the full MXGP season in 2017 and now standard at every round. Between 2017 and 2018, the calendar globalised aggressively, with rounds added across Asia, Indonesia, the United States and Argentina, and the VIP Gold Skybox, the hospitality product built around the terrace and podium integration unveiled in 2013, began opening progressively to individual fans through online sales, becoming a standalone, directly bookable product by 2019. It was in 2017 that Antonio Cairoli claimed his ninth and final world title, closing out the most decorated career of the modern era on a Championship that, in the space of his own lifetime as a competitor, had gone from a European series to a genuine world tour.

Tony Cairoli and KTM Team or his 9th Title, 2017

In 2018, Jeffrey Herlings became the first Dutch rider ever to win the premier class, winning 31 of 38 races that season, a level of dominance broadcast in HD, live-streamed, and distributed globally through infrastructure that simply did not exist when the Championship began. Then, in 2019, Infront acquired Youthstream, bringing the Championship into a network with global reach in media rights, sponsorship, digital marketing and distribution. The same year, MXGP introduced an air fence specifically engineered for motocross and installed along the pit lane, one of the first inflatable safety barriers of its kind purpose-built for the sport, while Tim Gajser added his second world title.

The pitlane itself kept evolving as one of the Championship's clearest physical statements of how far the sport's infrastructure had come. What began as a functional service area was rebuilt, floor by floor, into a genuine second-storey structure, team operations below, elevated viewing and functions above, a novelty David Luongo himself has pointed to as one of the defining physical transformations of the modern Grand Prix when the Championship marked its thirtieth anniversary in 2026.

Jefrey Herlings World Champion, 2018

2020–2022: Built to Withstand Anything

When the pandemic forced racing to adapt overnight, the Championship leaned on infrastructure it had spent a decade building. Multiple Grands Prix were run consecutively at the same circuit under strict health protocols and, at times, no public access at all, and MXGP-TV, social media and video content, rather than the physical event, became the primary way fans experienced the Championship. Jeffrey Herlings won the 2021 title in a season defined as much by the sport's broadcast and digital resilience as by racing itself. Through 2021 and 2022, editorial production deepened further: television programmes, magazines, interviews and also the Studio Show  as well as behind-the-scenes storytelling became a season-long narrative rather than a collection of race-day highlights, and by 2022 the Championship had begun a formal sustainability strategy, reducing single-use materials, addressing waste, noise and emissions, and working directly with the FIM's Environmental Policy.

2023–2026: The Complete Ecosystem

The most recent chapter has been about turning every touchpoint of a Grand Prix weekend, timing, entertainment, data and access, into part of the product. In 2023, MXGP launched the Paddock Show, a Saturday entertainment programme putting riders and guests on stage to create a moment for fans to be as close as it gets to their heroes which the proximity is unique to the sport. That same year, the Saturday qualifying race stopped being a curtain-raiser and became part of the title fight itself. From 2023, World Championship points were awarded on Saturday: ten for the winner, scaling down to a single point for tenth place, on top of the first gate pick for both of Sunday's races. Small on paper, large in effect. Teams could no longer treat Saturday as a rehearsal, riders had something concrete to race for on both days, and a fan holding a Saturday ticket was now watching the Championship actually being decided rather than previewed. Fourteen years after MXGP put a real race on Saturday, it made that race count even more.

Also, Behind the Gate refreshed into its current 26-minute format from an earlier, longer magazine show and produced for every Grand Prix, covering racing, team life and exclusive interviews; all of it week after week and in real time which is a unique feat in the motorsport world. The same year introduced MXE, a dedicated championship for riders aged six to eight on KTM electric motorcycles, extending the sporting pyramid all the way down to its youngest possible entry point, all while Jorge Prado won his first MXGP world title.

Prado defended it in 2024, becoming a back-to-back premier-class champion, Throughout this period, live timing and race-graphics technology matured into an essential part of how fans and broadcasters follow a Grand Prix in real time, every lap, gap and sector time now delivered as a continuous data layer alongside the television picture, feeding both the live broadcast and the second-screen experience fans expect from a modern World Championship. By the mid-2020s, MXGP's social channels had grown to more than six million combined followers worldwide, and guided tours, paddock access, starting-area visits and other experiential upgraded packages rounded out a fan offering that, thirty years earlier, did not exist at all.

In 2025, Romain Febvre won his second MXGP title a decade after his first, a gap no rider in the sport's history had bridged before, for Kawasaki. The same year, MXGP launched its own dedicated show, MXGP: The Podcast, extending the Championship's storytelling into audio. And in 2026, the Championship marked thirty years since that first television-rights agreement with an exhibition of World Championship–winning motorcycles in Lommel, a direct line, in steel and plastic, from Stefan Everts's 2004 MX1 machine to the bikes racing for the title today.

The Details That Do Not Come With a Date

Not every innovation arrives with a press release. Across these same three decades, MXGP also added a paddock restaurant serving teams, staff and industry guests as a standard fixture of every Grand Prix weekend, and, some years after the pit lane itself was first professionalised, a dedicated pit lane suite for team members. The paddock as a whole was rebuilt to host bigger, better-resourced team structures while still giving fans closer access than almost any other motorsport allows. Track presentation modernised alongside it: rigid, broadcast-ready advertising boards replaced improvised banners and temporary signage around the circuit, and dedicated track markers replaced the green safety netting that once lined the circuit. Inside the pit lane, mechanics gained live timing and live race coverage at their own stations, keeping the team side of the fence as informed in real time as the broadcast audience. And once the Skybox folded the podium into its own structure, the way riders were presented to the crowd before the start of every race became noticeably more polished, in step with the professionalism the Skybox itself introduced. None of these changes carries a single anniversary. Together, they are as much a part of MXGP's thirty-year transformation as the ones that do.

The Pathway

None of this was built for its own sake. Every piece, the MXGP Academy, the Women's Motocross World Championship, the European Championships integrated into MXGP weekends since 2011, built programmes like Yamaha's bLU cRU, MX2, and now MXE for riders as young as six, exists to connect a young rider on a national track to a start gate at a Grand Prix. That is the sporting pyramid Giuseppe and David Luongo's organisations spent thirty years constructing: a structure where talent identified at six years old has a defined, professional, internationally broadcast route all the way to the premier class, with every rung of the ladder now running under the same production standards, the same digital platforms and the same commercial infrastructure as MXGP itself.

That is also the case for anyone weighing where to invest, sponsor or compete in off-road motorsport today. Few championships anywhere in motorcycling can point to a documented, uninterrupted thirty-year build: centralised rights management, a purpose-built OTT platform launched years ahead of the market, a broadcast and infrastructure that held up through a global pandemic, hospitality products that scaled from a single paddock structure to an internationally ticketed experience, and a development pyramid that runs from six-year-olds on electric bikes to multiple-time world champions. MXGP did not arrive at that position by accident. It was built, deliberately, year by year, by two men who treated a motorcycle racing series like a sport worth professionalising, and it is still being built today.

LINKS

Infront Moto Racing

FIM

UDDEVALLA (Sweden) 14 August 2026 – The countdown to round 15 of the FIM Motocross World Championship began away from Glimminge Motorstadion on Friday, as the stars of MXGP and MX2 met the Swedish public at Torp Köpcentrum for the traditional pre-event signing session.

Now a fixture of the Uddevalla weekend, the Torp gathering has grown year on year into the opening event of the MXGP of Sweden. Friday's edition was no exception, with the entrance of the shopping centre packed well before the late-afternoon start.

The warm-up came courtesy of a freestyle motocross demonstration, the roar of two-strokes and a series of big-air tricks setting the tone and pulling in shoppers from across the centre. By the time the riders were introduced, the crowd was ready.

Leading the line-up was Honda HRC Petronas' Jeffrey Herlings, joined by his teammate Tom Vialle. Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MXGP brought Tim Gajser and Maxime Renaux, while Kawasaki Racing Team MXGP was represented by Pauls Jonass. Red Bull KTM Factory Racing came with Andrea Adamo alongside MX2 duo Simon Längenfelder and Sacha Coenen. Team Honda Motoblouz SR Motul's Kevin Horgmo, the Norwegian who knows this corner of Scandinavia better than most, was joined by Switzerland's Kevin Brumann and Sweden's own Leopold Ambjörnsson. They were accompanied by many  local Swedish riders form MXGP, MX2 and EMX classes too.

And then there was Isak Gifting. The JK Racing Yamaha rider was the name the crowd had come for, and the reception he received made that clear from the moment he stepped forward. Viking helmets and homemade flags filled the front rows.

After a family photo with the full line-up, a surprise was that the Swedish Federation SVEMO announced Isak Gifting and Alve Callemo on stage to present the Team Sweden MXoN.  Third rider on the team Alve Callemo. Alvin Östlund could not make it to the event but he was confirmed in the team.

Meanwhile the riders settled in behind the tables to sign posters, caps, flags, race jerseys and anything else the fans could hold up. The queue was massive which shows once more the passion that Swedish fans have for motocross.

Gifting stayed on well beyond the scheduled end of the session, working through every remaining fan and making sure no child left without a signature, a photo and a moment of his time. It is the kind of gesture that turns a home Grand Prix into something more than a race weekend.

The evening then belonged to the generations that came before. A holeshot competition brought the legends of the sport back to the gate, with five-time World Champion Joel Smets and 2004 MX2 World Champion Ben Townley lining up alongside Rasmus Jørgensen, Jörgen Nilsson, Mats "Lappen" Nilsson, Anders Eriksson, Brian Jørgensen, Kenneth Gundersen, Filip Thuresson and Joakim Ljunggren. 

So many riders answered the call that the start straight was full, and the atmosphere they created, part reunion, part race, was matched only by the exchange they shared with the fans who had stayed to watch.

The fans were not the only audience. A large slice of the current MXGP and MX2 grid stayed on for the show, and the reaction from the paddock's younger generation said plenty: the reflexes, the aggression and the sheer commitment to their start had not gone anywhere.

When the gate stopped dropping, it was Rasmus Jørgensen who had been declared victorius and the Nestaan Husqvarna Factory Racing team manager took the trophy home. Watching from the sidelines were his own riders, Liam Everts and Kay de Wolf, who had turned up to cheer and maybe offering their insights beforehand.

Attention now turns to Glimminge Motorstadion, where the 2026 MXGP of Sweden runs on Saturday and Sunday.

All the photos from the MXGP of Sweden will be available HERE.

You can find the complete results HERE.

TIMETABLE

SATURDAY:
07:40 EMX125 Group 1 Free Practice, 08:10 EMX125 Group 2 Free Practice, 08:40 EMX250 Group 1 Free Practice, 09:10 EMX250 Group 2 Free Practice, 09:50 EMX125 Group 1 Qualifying Practice, 10:30 MX2 Free Practice, 11:00 MXGP Free Practice, 11:50 EMX125 Group 2 Qualifying Practice, 12:25 EMX250 Group 1 Qualifying Practice, 13:00 EMX250 Group 2 Qualifying Practice, 13:40 MX2 Time Practice, 14:15 MXGP Time Practice, 15:00 EMX125 Race 1, 15:45 EMX250 Race 1, 16:35 MX2 Qualifying Race, 17:25 MXGP Qualifying Race.

SUNDAY:
09:40 EMX125 Race 2, 10:25 MX2 Warm-up, 10:45 MXGP Warm-up, 11:30 EMX250 Race 2, 13:15 MX2 Race 1, 14:15 MXGP Race 1, 16:10 MX2 Race 2, 17:10 MXGP Race 2.

LINKS

Infront Moto Racing

FIM

FIM Europe

MXGP Sweden

UDDEVALLA (Sweden) 14 August 2026 – The 2026 FIM Motocross World Championships takes a trip to Scandinavia this weekend, as the Glimminge Motorstadion circuit near the town of Uddevalla hosts the MXGP of Sweden in the south-west of the country which has one of the most glorious histories in the sport!

Jeffrey Herlings has, by his standards, a not so impressive record here as he leads the MXGP series for Honda HRC Petronas, and he will be looking for his first Swedish GP win here in the premier class! Defending World Champion Romain Febvre, now up to second in the standings, won his most recent Grand Prix here with a perfect 1-1-1 weekend in 2025, so he could challenge “The Bullet” around Uddevalla this year! Watch out though, for the dynamic home hero Isak Gifting, who got everybody roaring for him with an incredible ride last year, so who knows what he can do in 2026?!

The MX2 class is being led by the Spaniard Guillem Farres, confirmed as staying with the Triumph Racing Factory Team for an MXGP assault next year, and he would dearly like to move up as Champion! Sacha Coenen and Camden McLellan will be doing their best to deny him that chance, while reigning Champ Simon Längenfelder has never finished off the podium at this venue!  MX2 could be wide open!

The EMX250 European Motocross Championship sees the return of its series leader this weekend, and the EMX125 European Championship Presented by FMF Racing could well have its Champion crowned as it comes to its penultimate round!

The entire weekend’s races will be broadcast LIVE on MXGP-TV.com, with the MXGP of Sweden brought to you by Paul Malin, Lisa Leyland, and Ben Rumbold, while Saturday’s Time Practice sessions are also being broadcasted LIVE with Paul and Lisa.

Below you can find a list of all TV channels worldwide that will air LIVE and delayed action, as well as the 26-minute Behind The Gate magazine show featuring the best moments from the races, exclusive interviews and more, will be available on MXGP-TV.com and via our TV magazine partners following the Grand Prix.

All you need to do is log onto www.MXGP-TV.com to check out the action from one of the sport’s most historic venues, as one of the craziest crowds on the calendar bring the noise to your living rooms!

USA CANADA

CBS Sports Network

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MX2 Race 2 – 10:00 ET – LIVE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 2 – 23:00 ET – Delayed

BRAZIL

Bandsports

Saturday 15 August 2026 – EMX 250 Race 1 – 15:40 CET – LIVE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – EMX 250 Race 2 – 11:25 CET – LIVE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MX2 Race 1 – 13:00 CET – LIVE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 1 – 14:00 CET – LIVE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MX2 Race 2 – 16:00 CET – LIVE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 2 – 17:00 CET  – LIVE

CENTRAL AMERICA

Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama and Mexico

FOX ONE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 1 – 14:00 CET – LIVE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 2 – 17:00 CET  – LIVE

TUBI

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 1 – 14:00 CET – LIVE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 2 – 17:00 CET  – LIVE

Tubi México

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 1 – 14:00 CET – LIVE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 2 – 17:00 CET  – LIVE

LATIN AMERICA(Except Brazil)

Youtube “Somos FOX”

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 1 – 14:00 CET – LIVE Stream

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 2 – 17:00 CET  – LIVE Stream

EUROPE

Eurosport 2

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MX2 Race 1 – 13:00 CET – LIVE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 1 – 14:00 CET – LIVE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MX2 Race 2 – 16:00 CET – LIVE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 2 – 17:00 CET  – LIVE

MAX

Andorra, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech republic, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden.

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MX2 Race 1 – 13:00 CET – LIVE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 1 – 14:00 CET – LIVE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MX2 Race 2 – 16:00 CET – LIVE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 2 – 17:00 CET  – LIVE

BELGIUM 

PLAY SPORTS 3

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MX2 Race 1 – 13:00 CET – LIVE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 1 – 14:00 CET – LIVE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MX2 Race 2 – 16:00 CET – LIVE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 2 – 17:00 CET  – LIVE

CZECH REPUBLIC 

TV NOVA

NOVA Sport 1

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 2 – 17:00 CET  – LIVE

ESTONIA

Go3 Sport Open

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MX2 Race 1 – 13:00 CET – LIVE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 1 – 14:00 CET – LIVE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MX2 Race 2 – 16:00 CET – LIVE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 2 – 17:00 CET  – LIVE

Go3

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MX2 Race 1 – 13:00 CET – LIVE Stream

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 1 – 14:00 CET – LIVE Stream

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MX2 Race 2 – 16:00 CET – LIVE Stream

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 2 – 17:00 CET  – LIVE Stream

FINLAND

MTV MAX 

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 2 – 18:00 Finnish timing  – LIVE

FRANCE

Eurosport 2

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MX2 Race 1 – 13:00 CET – LIVE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 1 – 14:00 CET – LIVE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MX2 Race 2 – 16:00 CET – LIVE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 2 – 17:00 CET  – LIVE

AUTO MOTO TV

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MX2 Race 1 – 13:00 CET – LIVE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 1 – 14:00 CET – LIVE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MX2 Race 2 – 16:00 CET – LIVE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 2 – 17:00 CET  – LIVE

L’EQUIPE.FR

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MX2 Race 1 – 13:00 CET – LIVE Stream

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 1 – 14:00 CET – LIVE Stream

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MX2 Race 2 – 16:00 CET – LIVE Stream

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 2 – 17:00 CET  – LIVE Stream

GREAT BRITAIN

TNT Sports 9

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MX2 Race 1 – 12:00 GMT – LIVE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 1 – 13:00 GMT – LIVE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MX2 Race 2 – 15:00 GMT – LIVE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 2 – 16:00 GMT  – LIVE

ITALY

RAI Sport

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MX2 Race 2 – 16:00 CET – LIVE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 2 – 17:00 CET  – LIVE

LATVIA

Go3 Sport Open

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MX2 Race 1 – 13:00 CET – LIVE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 1 – 14:00 CET – LIVE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MX2 Race 2 – 16:00 CET – LIVE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 2 – 17:00 CET  – LIVE

Go3

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MX2 Race 1 – 13:00 CET – LIVE Stream

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 1 – 14:00 CET – LIVE Stream

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MX2 Race 2 – 16:00 CET – LIVE Stream

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 2 – 17:00 CET  – LIVE Stream

LITHUANIA
Go3 Sport Open

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MX2 Race 1 – 13:00 CET – LIVE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 1 – 14:00 CET – LIVE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MX2 Race 2 – 16:00 CET – LIVE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 2 – 17:00 CET  – LIVE

Go3

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MX2 Race 1 – 13:00 CET – LIVE Stream

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 1 – 14:00 CET – LIVE Stream

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MX2 Race 2 – 16:00 CET – LIVE Stream

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 2 – 17:00 CET  – LIVE Stream

NETHERLAND

NOS

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 1 – 14:00 CET – LIVE Stream

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 2 – 17:00 CET  – LIVE Stream

SLOVENIA

Sport TV1

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MX2 Race 1 – 13:00 CET – LIVE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 1 – 14:00 CET – LIVE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MX2 Race 2 – 16:00 CET – LIVE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 2 – 17:00 CET  – LIVE

SPAIN

TVG2

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 1 – 14:00 CET – LIVE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 2 – 17:00 CET  – LIVE

Agalega.gal

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 1 – 14:00 CET – LIVE Stream

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 2 – 17:00 CET  – LIVE Stream

ASIA

Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand
 

EUROSPORT ASIA

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MX2 Race 1 – 13:00 CET – LIVE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 1 – 14:00 CET – LIVE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MX2 Race 2 – 16:00 CET – LIVE

Sunday 16 August 2026 – MXGP Race 2 – 17:00 CET  – LIVE

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Red Bull KTM Factory Racing MXGP star Lucas Coenen will not contest this weekend’s Grand Prix of Sweden, round 15 of 19 in the 2026 FIM World Championship, as the Belgian continues to recover and rehab from his left hip injury.

Coenen has been convalescing and undergoing treatment to improve sciatic nerve damage that saw him miss races in Czech Republic and Belgium due to the pain. The former red plate holder and winner of five GPs this season, had been making progress with his rehab.

However, together with the Red Bull KTM team and the team's physio, the 19-year-old decided that the trip to Uddevalla this weekend has come too soon, and a return to racing at this point could cause a setback and more complications.

The plan is to maintain the intense course of treatment and then assess - on a day-by-day basis - Lucas’ capability to once again steer his KTM 450 SX-F in the premier class.

Lucas Coenen: “Obviously this is big shame for me and for the team. It was already tough to miss my home GP and I hoped the extra days would let me get fit for Sweden but we ran out of time. I still have some pain and another crash could put us back to the beginning or create something worse. I feel I am getting close to fitness but not yet.”

Davide De Carli, Red Bull KTM Factory Racing De Carli Team Manager: “This is hard for Lucas and his family but this is an injury that you cannot rush. You need to be as close as possible to 100% to do anything in MXGP and he is simply not ready for Sweden. All we can do is keep making treatment and keep patient. In the meantime ,we’ll do all we can to help Sacha in MX2 and just hope that both brothers can be racing together soon because the GPs will count down very fast to the end of the season.”

With a points lead of 104 points heading into the MXGP of Sweden this weekend, Honda HRC Petronas factory rider, Jeffrey Herlings must feel very confident of success at the Uddevalla circuit. He does have two previous wins there, although those wins are 12 and 13 years ago, when he raced the MX2 class.

Those wins in 2013 and 2014 were in the middle of his 250-class domination, where he often won most of the GPs in those seasons, although injuries did cost him at times. He obviously lost the 2014 MX2 championship to Jordi Tixier, after breaking his femur.

Herlings scored that second win at Uddevalla in 2014, beating Tixier and Tim Gajser, the two men who would take his injury riddled championships in 2014 and 2015. The win in 2014 meant a lot to him, leaving Sweden that year with 135-point lead over Tixier in the championship battle.

“We basically did what we had to do and that’s to win both motos and make the points gap bigger to the second place. That weekend was something I’m proud of. I won on Saturday and twice on Sunday and I had a lot of fun on the bike.”

While Herlings has those two previously mentioned wins, his results at this circuit are actually, not up to his normally high standards, with injury or returning from injury often the reason for no victories at Uddevalla since 2014.

His first appearance at the circuit in 2010, he finished second, then second again in 2011 and 2012, before winning in 2013 and 2014. In 2015 he was 7th, then MXGP didn’t race there again until 2017, where he finished 10^th overall, then in 2019, where finished 12th (coming back from injury), returning in 2023 with a fourth place overall, before finishing third and second in 2024 and 2025. Momentum at Uddevalla is on his side.

Herlings second place last year might not have been a victory, but due to coming back from injury means he wasn’t completely up for the task at hand. Two times second to Kawasaki factory rider, Romain Febvre, in the races and second overall behind the legendary Frenchman, meant he was at least close to the top step of the podium.

“Three 2nds! In the last race I felt quite close and was really pushing but I ran out of tear-offs. I didn’t have any more for the leader. 2-2 for 2nd overall is not bad for being on the bike for only two and a half weeks. My physical condition is getting better and better.”

So now, fully fit and with a 104-point lead in the MXGP championship points, Herlings will like to extend his series lead, but the main goal is consistent results and head to Arnhem a week later with a strong chance of getting even closer, to claiming his sixth world title.

His memories of that 135-point lead in 2014 might not be on his mind, but he knows, the most important thing this coming weekend, is to leave the circuit healthy and with a swag of points, as his confidence will grow heading into Arnhem, Turkey, China and Australia.

Triumph Factory Racing is excited to announce that Guillem Farres will compete in the MXGP class in 2027, as Triumph makes its first official factory entry into the premier category. The current FIM MX2 Motocross World Championship leader has signed a new three-year agreement with the team and will race the TF 450-X alongside Mikkel Haarup. Farres’ teammate Camden Mc Lellan will remain with the team to compete in MX2 in 2027.

Farres has played an integral role in Triumph's rapidly developing motocross programme since joining the team ahead of the 2025 season. After establishing himself as a regular frontrunner aboard the TF 250-X, the Spaniard has taken another significant step forward in 2026. With five rounds remaining in the 2026 MX2 World Championship, he comfortably leads the series following an exceptional campaign that includes five Grand Prix victories and a further five overall podium results.

Guillem’s performances this season have underlined his speed, consistency, and versatility across a wide variety of circuits and conditions. Together with the strong relationship he has developed with Triumph Factory Racing, Farres' continued progression makes the move into MXGP a natural next step as both rider and manufacturer embark on an exciting new chapter.

For Triumph, the 2027 season will mark another significant milestone in its global racing programme. Having successfully established the TF 250-X in MX2 competition, Triumph Factory Racing will officially expand into the premier MXGP category for the first time with the TF 450-X.

Joining Farres in MXGP will be Mikkel Haarup, creating a two-rider line-up for Triumph in the premier class. The Dane has already played an important role in the development of Triumph's motocross racing programme in both MX2 and AMA Pro Motocross, and will bring valuable experience to the team for its first season in the MXGP class.

Camden Mc Lellan will continue with Triumph Factory Racing in the MX2 World Championship for 2027. The South African has established himself as one of the leading riders in the category and, together with Farres, has contributed to a hugely successful 2026 campaign for the team.

With Farres, Haarup, and Mc Lellan confirmed, the team will field a three-rider line-up across the two classes in 2027 as the manufacturer enters the next phase of its FIM Motocross World Championship programme.

Before their attention turns fully to 2027, Farres and McLellan remain firmly focused on the current MX2 World Championship campaign. With Farres leading the standings and McLellan third, the fight for further success with the TF 250-X continues with rounds in Sweden, the Netherlands, Turkiye, China, and Australia completing the 2026 season.

Guillem Farres

“Staying with Triumph means a lot to me and was always my priority. This is where I started my professional career in Europe after racing in America, and since then the team has become like a family to me. I feel at home here, so I'm incredibly grateful to have the opportunity to continue with everyone for the next three years. To be part of Triumph's first factory team in the MXGP class is a dream come true and a real privilege. At the same time, I know it's going to be a big challenge and there will be a lot of work involved. But I have complete trust in the people around me. We know each other really well, they understand how I work, and we've already shown together what we can achieve with the 250. That gives me a lot of confidence that we can get to where we want to be with the 450 as well. I've already had the chance to ride the 450 a little and really enjoyed it, so I'm excited to start working with the bike properly. I'm also really happy to continue alongside Camden, as we have a great relationship and do a lot of our training together. I've got to know Mikkel a little as well, and I think having the three of us together will be really positive because we can all learn from and push each other. For me, this team is about much more than just racing. From the mechanics and trainers to everyone behind the scenes, we all care about each other and work towards the same goal. That's what makes our relationship so strong, and I'm really looking forward to taking this next step together.”

Vincent Bereni – Triumph Factory Racing Team Manager

“We are very pleased to have Guillem with us for the next three years. We know he was very keen to stay with the team and continue making history with Triumph. We believe in him, and he believes in us, and that's an important part of any relationship when you want to achieve great things together. It goes without saying that Guillem's results have been incredible this year, and we see a lot of potential in him as we step into the MXGP category with the TF 450-X. Our team is like a family. Everyone knows their role and works extremely hard together, and our riders also have great relationships with each other, which is another important dynamic with a project like this. We still have work to do this year and we remain completely focused on the job at hand, but we have a solid plan in place as we move towards 2027.”

Thierry Chizat-Suzzoni – MXGP & MX2 Team Owner, Triumph Factory Racing

“We are delighted to be able to officially announce Guillem’s contract with Triumph for the coming years. He has developed significantly over the last two years alongside the whole team, and his dedication, team spirit and progress make him one of the best riders in the championship.

It is with great confidence that the Triumph team will be able to continue to develop and achieve the best possible results in the MXGP category. We would like to thank Mr. Bloor and everyone at Triumph who are working towards our collective goals.”

Ian Kimber – Head of Global Racing Programmes, Triumph Motorcycles

“Today is a really important day for Triumph Factory Racing. It was special to welcome Guillem and Thierry to the home of Triumph here at the factory in Hinckley to extend Guillem's contract into MXGP for a further three years, and we couldn't be prouder. The team and Guillem have done an incredible job with the TF 250-X, achieving more than we could have dreamed of in only three years of MX2 competition. Not only that, but Guillem is a fantastic ambassador for Triumph and the sport, plus he’s a great person to work with. He and Camden work extremely well together, even in the toughest moments, and that means an awful lot. We've needed that cohesion within the team to collectively move our project forward and the results speak for themselves. We knew Guillem was a talented rider from the start, and week after week he's demonstrating his ability across different tracks, conditions, and scenarios, often under intense pressure. We really believe his talent, approach, work ethic, and attitude will pay dividends as we step into MXGP with the TF 450-X – a whole new class and battlefield for Triumph. To have a 2027 line-up of Guillem, Mikkel, and Camden – three riders we've nurtured as our project has grown – is something we're incredibly excited about. There's still some important work to do this season, but we're also really looking forward to what lies ahead in 2027.”

Uddevalla (Sweden) – 12th August 2026 – The epic rocky hillsides of the Glimminge Motorstadion near the town of Uddevalla in Sweden will rock to the sound of Viking-hatted Motocross fans this weekend, as round 15 of the 2026 FIM Motocross World Championships takes place in the Västra Götaland County. It’s time for the crazy Nordic fans to make some noise at the MXGP of Sweden!

The only Scandinavian stop of the tour sees the final quarter of this wild season get underway, and it will be the 28th World Championship Motocross event to rattle around the tight but steeps slopes of the Glimminge circuit.  It’s easy to forget that Sweden dominated the early years of MXGP racing, with eight of the first nine world titles being claimed by riders from this country, and the first world-level GP here in 1958 saw a Swedish podium sweep for Sten Lundin, on a Swedish Monark machine to boot, ahead of the Matchless-mounted duo of Raymond Sigvarsson and Gunnar Johansson.

Sadly for the local fans, only Bill Nilsson, in 1961, has matched that home success at Uddevalla since then, with multi-champions Stefan Everts and Antonio Cairoli setting the record of six GP wins each at this venue.  The most successful active rider here is current Venrooy KTM Racing pilot Jeremy Seewer, having taken back-to-back MXGP victories in 2022 & ’23, after his MX2 success in 2017.

The 2026 MXGP title chase is being firmly led by Jeffrey Herlings, as the Dutch legend has racked up seven GP wins this season on his new Honda HRC Petronas steed, and leads defending World Champion, and last year’s Uddevalla winner for Kawasaki Racing Team MXGP, Romain Febvre, by 104 points after his third consecutive victory at Lommel. Former red plate holder Lucas Coenen is third now for Red Bull KTM Factory Racing, five points behind Febvre and working to be fit again for this weekend after injuries have kept him from scoring in the last three GPs.

MX2 is being led by the Spaniard Guillem Farres, who put in the biggest win streak of the year before the MXGP of Flanders, and the Triumph Racing Factory Team are looking for their first world title with a 47-point lead over Red Bull KTM Factory Racing’s Sacha Coenen.

Farres’ Triumph Racing Factory Team wingman Camden McLellan moved up into third in the standings with a perfect weekend at Lommel, and he is only 13 behind the teenage Belgian as the men in black push for a Championship 1-2!  None of the top three men have seen an Uddevalla GP podium, however, while defending World Champion Simon Längenfelder has never finished off of it, so the German is hoping to capitalise on that experience and bridge his own ten-point gap to McLellan.

The EMX250 European Championship also enters its final quarter with round ten, and series leader Francisco Garcia is hoping to return strongly from injury to defend his 74-point lead for BUD Racing Kawasaki. Team SixtySeven Husqvarna Racing’s Nikolaj Skovbjerg is now second after winning at Lommel, and the Dane will enjoy the support at his most local round!  Garcia’s teammate Jake Cannon had a rough day in the Flemish sand and is now twenty points further back in third.

The EMX125 European Champonship Presented by FMF Racing returns after nearly a month away for its penultimate round, and the title could be clinched this weekend by new red plate holder Ricardo Bauer, who holds a 31-point lead over his Norman KTM Factory Rookies teammate Moritz Ernecker.  Ernecker is still recovering from his leg injuries that were sustained at the World Junior Championships, and French kid Sleny Goyer, third for Yamaha Europe Monster Energy MJC, is 61 behind Bauer coming into Uddevalla.  So if the tall Austrian can keep the gap to over 50 points, then the title will be confirmed! Denmark’s Bertram Thorius is fourth in the series for Fantic Factory Racing EMX and hoping for some Scandinavian support in the absence of any Swedish front runners, although 17 local riders are among the massive 78-strong entry list this weekend!  It’s a good job Sweden has one of the biggest Paddocks of the year!

Last year’s event was made memorable by the efforts of Isak Gifting, who led with just half a lap to go in MXGP, and he returns for JK Racing Yamaha to build up the hopes and the atmosphere again!  His compatriot Alve Callemo took a fine eighth overall in MX2 at Lommel for Young Motion Powered by Resa, so he will have high hopes of home success in EMX250 this weekend as well!  Everything is set to produce some fantastic action beneath the cliffsides! 

Jeffrey Herlings comes to the Uddevalla circuit on an amazing three-GP winning streak, but the Swedish venue is one of the few that has never seen a Herlings victory in the MXGP class. He took two straight MX2 wins here in 2013 & ’14, but since then only Qualifying Race chequered flags in 2017 & ’19 have come his way, with not even a Sunday race win to his name here in the premiere class.  If he were to break that baffling run, it would give him his first four-GP win streak since his stellar 2018 title season. “The Bullet” has no real need to push for it with such a healthy Championship lead, so the door might be open for others to capitalise on his possible caution.  

Febvre in particular will be keen to break his own barren run, that of no GP victories since this round 12 months ago.  His decisive 1-1-1 weekend in 2025 was a major factor in deciding the Championship in his favour, and was his first victory here since his 2015 title season, when he went 1-1 on the Sunday. He has taken at least one top three race finish in the last eight of his ten visits to Uddevalla, so it’s a fair bet that the Frenchman will be up the sharp end again.

Lucas Coenen had a rough GP here last year, only managing eighth overall on a day that really hit his own title run in MXGP.  He went 1-1 here in MX2 in 2024, however, and even took an EMX250 race win back in 2022.  The biggest question, of course, is whether or not he will be able to line up to try and hack back the 109-point deficit he now has between himself and Herlings.

A lonely fourth in the series is Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MXGP’s Tim Gajser, who has rarely been off the podium at this venue, although a sole Qualifying win in 2024, a Sunday race win in 2019, and his most recent GP win here in 2017, means that a return to the top step would be a surprise. He also took MX2 victory in his first title season of 2015, as well as a 1-1 EMX125 weekend in 2012.  The Slovenian will never stop chasing, and with good starts he will be a threat.

The battle for fifth in the series is the closest in the higher reaches of the table.  Red Bull KTM Factory Racing pilot Andrea Adamo took the place after top six results from each of the last three GPs, although Ruben Fernandez has been there in each of the last five events, so the Honda HRC Petronas ace is only four points behind the Italian in an entertaining side plot! Add in Maxime Renaux, who is only another 21 further back for Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MXGP, and you have three hard chargers going for that spot!  Of the three, Adamo has the best Uddevalla record with three MX2 race wins here, although the Frenchman took one in MXGP in 2022. Keep an eye out if any of them get close to each other this weekend!

Honda HRC Petronas’ Tom Vialle has returned to the status of podium contender in recent events, and he took his first ever career GP victory at Uddevalla in 2019, as well as a race win in 2022.  The Frenchman’s starting prowess will be a strong factor if he can fight for the Holeshot again this weekend! He is also only 16 points back from Renaux, while Nestaan Husqvarna Factory Racing’s Kay de Wolf is in a lonely ninth position in the table, and hoping to stay fit for his home GP a week later.  He has tasted Qualifying Race success in MX2 here two years ago, but second overall to Simon Längenfelder last season remains his only Swedish podium visit.

Kawasaki Racing Team MXGP’s Pauls Jonass and Red Bull Ducati Factory MX Team rider Calvin Vlaanderen are the next two in the Championship, and both are returning to action at Uddevalla. The Latvian took an MXGP podium here at the first time of asking in 2019, while Vlaanderen achieved that last year, as well as taking an MX2 race win in 2019, so the battle at the edge of the top ten could get interesting.

MRT Racing Team Beta rider Jago Geerts won an MX2 GP here in 2022, and he has been finding the top ten recently, so could be a force again.  Jeremy Seewer, however, returns to the only circuit where he won more than a single GP, and with results like his sixth overall at Foxhills, the Swiss veteran could be a real surprise package at a place where he is bound to be feeling good!

Of course, all eyes will be on home hero Isak Gifting, who nearly caused an avalanche from the cliffs with his dynamic passes to take the lead on the final lap of MXGP last year! A month into his return from injury, the Swede has been starting well and with the energy of the crowd pulsing through him, who knows what 2026 will bring?!

The MXGP class is perhaps more unpredictable this weekend that at any other GP, so make sure you tune in to catch the action!

     
1. Isak Gifting; 2. Kevin Horgmo

MXGP - World Championship Top 10 Classification: 1. Jeffrey Herlings (NED, HON), 675 points; 2. Romain Febvre (FRA, KAW), 571 p.; 3. Lucas Coenen (BEL, KTM), 566 p.; 4. Tim Gajser (SLO, YAM), 534 p.; 5. Andrea Adamo (ITA, KTM), 450 p.; 6. Ruben Fernandez (ESP, HON), 446 p.; 7. Maxime Renaux (FRA, YAM), 425 p.; 8. Tom Vialle (FRA, HON), 409 p.; 9. Kay de Wolf (NED, HUS), 345 p.; 10. Pauls Jonass (LAT, KAW), 273 p.

MX2 Start Uddevalla 2025

Guillem Farres’ four-GP winning streak came to an end in the sand of Lommel, but he still made ground on Sacha Coenen in the Championship, and 47 points is a nice buffer for him to work with. Neither of the two leaders have fared brilliantly at Uddevalla before, however, with the Spaniard only ninth last year, and the Belgian fourth overall with 2-7 finishes.

Camden McLellan took Triumph’s seventh victory of the season last time out, completed a third 1-2 of the 2026 season for the team, but he also has had little success here, his best GP coming back in 2023 with fifth overall, a year after taking third overall in EMX250.  It’s the second Red Bull KTM Factory Racing rider Simon Längenfelder who will be the happiest to see the grey clay of Sweden on Saturday morning, as he has finished either first or third overall in each of his four GPs at the circuit, and even took second overall in the 2019 EMX125 round! It’s one of just three venues where he has won overall more than once, the others being Matterley Basin and Frauenfeld. With ten points to catch up to McLellan, the German will be keen to continue this trend!
 

Liam Everts has turned 22 years old since the last GP and the Belgian finished second overall behind Längenfelder in 2023, but since then has not caught fire here. In a lonely fifth in the Championship, the Nestaan Husqvarna Factory Racing rider will look to his last hardpack outing at Loket, when he won race two, for confidence towards seeking his first GP win of the year.

The Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MX2 teammates and brothers Janis and Karlis Reisulis are next up in the Championship, as Janis makes his GP debut at a circuit where he has got to the podium after all three of his EMX appearances here.  An EMX125 1-1 in 2023 was a particular highlight, but 2-2 in EMX250 last year got him third overall, and he is likely to be a force again, while Karlis has nothing like that record here, and will be hoping to get some tips from his younger sibling!

Valerio Lata has finally moved up to eighth in the Championship, and the Honda HRC Petronas rider is starting his second GP here after finishing 11th last year and winning the second EMX250 race in 2024. The rider who finished third overall behind him that day, Mathis Valin, is now back in ninth for Kawasaki Racing Team MX2 and still uncertain of returning from his Portugal injuries.

Julius Mikula was 12th overall behind Lata in Sweden last year, but the Osička Racing KTM   man has had a stirring 2026 season and will surely be eyeing up the top five!

With five Swedish wildcards being led by Triumph rider Nike Korsbeck, the local fans will have riders to cheer for, but this weekend’s MX2 GP could be as wide open as ever and should deliver some fantastic racing!

The MXGP of Sweden will get you wafting blue and yellow smoke from your face as it oozes through the TV screen, so let the atmosphere pull you in and enjoy this classic MXGP venue as the final quarter of the season begins in earnest!

     
1. Guillem Farres; 2. Karlis Reisulis

MX2 - World Championship Top 10 Classification: 1. Guillem Farres (ESP, TRI), 668 points; 2. Sacha Coenen (BEL, KTM), 621 p.; 3. Camden Mc Lellan (RSA, TRI), 608 p.; 4. Simon Längenfelder (GER, KTM), 598 p.; 5. Liam Everts (BEL, HUS), 542 p.; 6. Janis Martins Reisulis (LAT, YAM), 512 p.; 7. Karlis Alberts Reisulis (LAT, YAM), 416 p.; 8. Valerio Lata (ITA, HON), 355 p.; 9. Mathis Valin (FRA, KAW), 352 p.; 10. Julius Mikula (CZE, KTM), 312 p.

All the photos from the MXGP of Sweden will be available HERE.

You can find the complete results HERE.

TIMETABLE

SATURDAY:
07:40 EMX125 Group 1 Free Practice, 08:10 EMX125 Group 2 Free Practice, 08:40 EMX250 Group 1 Free Practice, 09:10 EMX250 Group 2 Free Practice, 09:50 EMX125 Group 1 Qualifying Practice, 10:30 MX2 Free Practice, 11:00 MXGP Free Practice, 11:50 EMX125 Group 2 Qualifying Practice, 12:25 EMX250 Group 1 Qualifying Practice, 13:00 EMX250 Group 2 Qualifying Practice, 13:40 MX2 Time Practice, 14:15 MXGP Time Practice, 15:00 EMX125 Race 1, 15:45 EMX250 Race 1, 16:35 MX2 Qualifying Race, 17:25 MXGP Qualifying Race.

SUNDAY:
09:40 EMX125 Race 2, 10:25 MX2 Warm-up, 10:45 MXGP Warm-up, 11:30 EMX250 Race 2, 13:15 MX2 Race 1, 14:15 MXGP Race 1, 16:10 MX2 Race 2, 17:10 MXGP Race 2.

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