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Wilson quits GPs

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Aussie Jay Wilson has announced he's quitting the GPs after racing six rounds for the JK Yamaha team. He started with the team in the UK Arenacross series then decided to stay in Europe to do GPs. There is no news yet of a replacement. But The team's Ken Bengtson

Women’s champ Fontanesi to race MX2 GP

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Four-times world women's champ Kiara Fontanesi will make history this weekend in the sand of Valkenswaard as the first ever female to race the FIM MX2 World Championship on Dutch soil. The Italian star will make her MX2 debut as a temporary replacement for the injured Jorge Zaragoza on the

Simpson battles through ankle pain

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Former British champ Shaun Simpson hurt his ankle at the weekend's Dutch Masters race but should be OK to race at the Italian GP on Sunday. In the Dutch Masters of Motocross at Hafsen, he qualified well, and was holding steady in fourth place in the first heat. A spurt near the

Shipton bounces back from shaky start

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Yamaha’s Jake Shipton came into the 2017 season looking fast and strong and was one of the men many thought would challenge for MX1 podium places. But he had a shaky start to the season with a disastrous couple of races in the opening Maxxis British championship round at muddy

Ryno: I can make Febvre faster!

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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

Vertex rules Argentine MXGP!

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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

Yamaha’s 2018 YZF450 gets electric start!

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Yamaha has unveiled its new factory race bike which is based on the new 2018 production YZF450 that features a brand new frame, swingarm, bodywork and an electric start. The machine, to be raced in the All-Japan championship by Yu Hirata, has some factory or aftermarket parts already fitted but

A week in the life of an MXGP winner!

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From mastering the mud of Indonesia to take the MXGP win to having fun on a BMX bike on an indoor track, these two videos show what the past week has been like for former British champion Shaun Simpson! https://youtu.be/mXxHS3n3NA0

Deadlines looms for YZ125 Cup

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If you've ever dreamed of being an Official Yamaha rider, you currently ride a YZ125 and you are born between 2001 and 2005 then there are three more days for you to enter the EMX125 Championship for your chance at a dream come true! Registrations so far have been a

Simpson talks about his GP win!

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Mastery of the slime, slippery and grim conditions at the new Pangkal Pinang circuit gave Shaun Simpson his first Grand Prix win of 2017 for what was round two of nineteen and the first visit by MXGP to Indonesia in twenty years. The rainy season was hardly full of restraint for

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