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Off-form Mewse out of Mexico GP

Briton Conrad Mewse is not to racing in the weekend's Mexico GP. His factory Husqvarna team have told him to stay at home and will only be back in GPs once any problems have been ironed out. So for this season in the six MX2 motos, he has had a single

Is this the turning point for Herlings?

By Dave Willet. All racers have the fighting spirit – it’s in their DNA. The will to win and overcome all the odds is what separates one rider from the next. For example, let's look at Jeffrey Herlings’ battle at the moment. He's in a hard place and he's clearly analysing everything

It always goes off with a bang in Mexico!

The last fly-away of the early MXGP season goes to Leon in Mexico and the round always offers exciting racing – for lots of reasons! It could be because it's the last fly away of the MXGPs before heading back to Europe or even the man-made track combined with the high

Todd seeks funds to race GPs

After finishing on the podium in the opening MX2 British championship round at Culham, 20-year-old privateer Brad Todd is trying to raise money by crowdsourcing support to get him to some GPs. "I'm trying to take my racing career to the next level by getting into MX2 GPs. As most of

Pootjes out of Mexico GP

Less than a week after he announced he'd would be racing in the Mexico GP, Dutch KTM ace Davy Pootjes has been forced to miss out the race due to his recently-injured shoulder. "It's painful. I need to rest two weeks more with my shoulder. Feels like the man above us

Tixier out of Mexico GP

Former world champ Jordi Tixier is having surgery to repair a damaged tendon in his leg after an Argentina GP crash, and on doctor’s advice will be out of action for a few weeks. He'll miss the weekend's Mexican GP. Tixier said: “You can’t imagine how disappointing it is to be

Ryno: I can make Febvre faster!

Former AMA champ-turned trainer Ryan Hughes has spent some time with ex-world champ Romain Febvre in California and reckons he knows how the Frenchman can be even better. Febvre, along with some GP riders like Evgeny Bobryshev and Jorge Prado, decided to spend the two weeks between the Argentina and

MXGP heads to Mexico!

The 4th round of the FIM Motocross World Championship is about to take to the dirt at the MXGP of Leon-Mexico this weekend. This will be the only time this year that the riders of the MXGP and MX2 world championships are in Central America under the Mexican heat. Hosting

Vertex rules Argentine MXGP!

The MXGP podium in the recent Argentinian GP was dominated by riders using Vertex pistons. HRC Honda, Monster Energy Yamaha Factory and Kawasaki KRT factory teams all use Vertex. In the first race, the top five riders were all using Vertex pistons. Then the overall podium of Honda's Tim Gajser, from

Herlings gets ready for sand track test

Jeffrey Herlings has had a hard time since he moved up to the MXGP, riding with an injured time and suffering with a lack of bike time. This weekend he faces many of the top MXGP men in his home country on the sand in the Dutch Masters. Can he

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