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DARWIN (Australia) 20 September 2025 – The final round of the FIM Women’s Motocross World Championship wrapped up with a standout edition of WMX Track Walk that was presented by Infront Moto Racing and the FIM Women's Commission, underscoring the initiative’s continued success in building community, sharing knowledge and empowering women in motocross.

Thirteen WMX riders gathered on Friday to walk the Darwin circuit that was designed and built by Protraxx, getting a first-hand look at the track alongside an impressive lineup of hosts. Leading the group was Protraxx Founder Josh Proctor, the mastermind behind the Australian layout, joined by a mix of national heroes and international stars. Quad Lock Honda Racing’s Charlie Cannon and Raceline Husqvarna’s Todd Waters represented the local talent, proudly showcasing their home terrain. Adding global perspective were MX-Handel Husqvarna Racing’s Kevin Brumann and Monster Energy Yamaha Factory Racing’s Rick Elzinga and Karlis Reisulis.

The walk sparked valuable discussion as the riders and guests explored the circuit's technical sections and conditions. For the Australians, it was a chance to showcase their country on home soil and share their local knowledge; for the international riders, it was a welcome opportunity to gain insights and soak in the local environment, community and culture.

Beyond the jumps and berms, what stood out most was the sense of unity. While each rider arrived with the competitive fire to win, they also shared a deep passion for the sport and many of the same challenges. The WMX Track Walk continues to evolve into much more than a pre-race tradition. It has become a vital space for mentorship, collaboration, support and connection across borders, teams and generations.

With Darwin marking the final stop of the 2025 WMX season, the impact of this initiative has never been more evident. As the championship season concludes, the WMX Track Walk remains a cornerstone of the Infront Moto Racing and the FIM Women’s Commission shared vision: to support, uplift and grow the global women’s motocross community one meaningful step at a time.

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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!

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

You can find the complete results HERE.

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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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 12^th 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!

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

You can find the complete results HERE.

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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