The next press launch is from Infront Moto Racing:
26 September 2024 – It’s time for the Champions to be topped in each lessons of the 2024 MXGP Motocross World Championships, because the Spanish venue of Cozar hosts the twentieth and closing spherical of the collection, the MXGP of Castilla La Mancha!
Named after the landlocked autonomous group that it’s set in, the circuit is a part of the Circuito Motor Ranch, to be discovered round 240km south of the capital Madrid and 130km west of town of Albacete. The venue would be the nineteenth circuit in Spain to ever host a Motocross Grand Prix, and the second within the Castilla La Mancha area after Talavera de la Reina. That is our third go to to Spain this season, and residential hero Jorge Prado has taken victory in each earlier rounds for Purple Bull GASGAS Manufacturing facility Racing in MXGP. Kay de Wolf took the victory in MX2 at intu-Xanadu Arroyomolinos, however his Nestaan Husqvarna Manufacturing facility Racing teammate Lucas Coenen received total at Lugo for the MXGP of Galicia in Might.
The MXGP world title will likely be determined between reigning World Champion Prado and Crew HRC’s Tim Gajser, who misplaced the factors lead in China and now sits simply seven factors behind his rival! Jeffrey Herlings has a slim mathematical probability for Purple Bull KTM Manufacturing facility Racing, however a 48-point hole to Prado makes his probability a really distant one.
The year-long tussle for the MX2 World Championship between Dutchman De Wolf and Belgian Lucas Coenen is nearer than it’s been for the reason that opening spherical, with the chasing Coenen closing in with the final two GP wins to trim the hole to 36 factors. As in MXGP, it’ll go all the way down to the final day of the Championship, which additionally simply occurs to be De Wolf’s twentieth birthday!
There will likely be extra Champions topped at Cozar, because the EMX250 European Championship has its closing spherical to determine the three-way battle between collection chief Mathis Valin, the Frenchman on the Bud Racing Kawasaki, Italian Valerio Lata for Beddini GASGAS Manufacturing facility Juniors, and Dutch flyer Cas Valk, who’s contemporary from successful the British MX2 Championship for Gabriel SS24 KTM final weekend! Valin holds a 21-point lead over Lata, so may clinch the title in race one, and Valk is ten factors additional again in third. All three are MX2-bound for 2025, so that is their final probability for claiming EMX Championship glory!
The EMX125 Championship Introduced by FMF additionally involves its conclusion this weekend, and this one is even nearer than MXGP, with simply six factors between new chief Gyan Doensen, the Dutchman on the Racestore KTM Manufacturing facility Rookies crew, and Hungarian Noel Zanocz for Fantic Manufacturing facility Racing EMX125, who additionally discipline the Italian Simone Mancini, who has a small mathematical probability in third place, 32 factors behind Doensen.
So with 4 Championships being determined over the weekend, the MXGP of Castilla La Mancha appears set to be an occasion filled with celebration!
Whereas the highest three within the Championship have a complete of 13 World Championships between them, with this yr being the 14th, solely two of these titles have really been determined within the closing spherical of a collection!
Jorge Prado technically did clinch the 2018 MX2 world title, his first, within the closing spherical, however his chief rival that yr, Pauls Jonass, had already dominated himself out of that race with damage. Tim Gajser’s solely final-round title win was additionally his first, in 2015, in opposition to Jonass as nicely, when he got here in with an 18-point benefit over his essential chaser.
After all, the massive closing spherical showdown in recent times was the 2021 MXGP World Championships, the place Jeffrey Herlings clinched the title within the closing race of the yr, forward of Romain Febvre and Gajser! This yr’s state of affairs is actually a brand new one for each contenders, and with the additional issue of Prado being in entrance of a house crowd, will probably be intriguing to see who will come out on high!
Total the highest contenders have had assorted success in Spain, as Herlings has essentially the most amongst them with 4 victories, two in every class, whereas Prado has three wins, two at Xanadu and one at Lugo. Tim Gajser has to look again to his first MXGP title yr in 2016 for his solely win on Spanish soil, at Talavera de la Reina. Maxime Renaux, having fun with a powerful return from damage for Monster Vitality Yamaha Manufacturing facility MXGP, has received twice on Spanish soil earlier than, as soon as in every class at intu-Xanadu Arroyomolinos. Valentin Guillod of Crew Ship-to-Cycle Honda Motoblouz SR has received on this space earlier than, taking the MX2 class at Talavera in 2015!
Cozar may even see the second look in MXGP for the Ducati Manufacturing facility MX Crew, with Italian pilot Alessandro Lupino on the controls of the Desmo450 MX this time. They are going to be with us full-time in 2025 with Jeremy Seewer, who races for the final time with the Kawasaki Racing Crew in Cozar and is seeking to seal fourth within the collection forward of teammate Febvre!
Dwelling followers may even be eager to see a powerful displaying for Ruben Fernandez, who was unable to compete on dwelling soil earlier within the yr for Crew HRC, though for positive most of their assist will likely be given to Prado, who goals to make it a clear sweep of Spanish victories in 2024 and win his second straight world title within the course of!
In distinction to MXGP, the MX2 class will see a brand new World Champion in 2024, and for the primary time since Alessio Chiodi received within the 125cc class in 1999, it’ll go to a Husqvarna rider, the seventeenth title for the model and the primary beneath its present Austrian possession!
Kay de Wolf is seeking to defend his 36-point benefit over Lucas Coenen, and the pair have every received a GP on Spanish soil this season. If Lucas makes lower than 11 factors on Kay by the RAM Qualifying Race and the primary GP race on Sunday, then the Dutchman will likely be topped Champion earlier than the ultimate gate drop of the marketing campaign. Nonetheless, Lucas Coenen has been on scintillating kind, taking victory in each Türkiye and China to assist his probabilities of wrestling the glory from his teammate!
Simon Laengenfelder is the one different rider within the discipline who has additionally received earlier than on Spanish floor, having received the 2023 MX2 GP at intu-Xanadu Arroyomolinos. He’s confirmed because the bronze medallist for the season however has nonetheless but to win a Grand Prix for Purple Bull GASGAS Manufacturing facility Racing this season. With the stress off, the German will likely be going all out to say a first-place trophy on his favoured exhausting pack floor!
One other one eager to interrupt his report of no GP wins for the yr will likely be outgoing MX2 World Champion Andrea Adamo, who’s sixth within the standings for Purple Bull KTM Manufacturing facility Racing, whereas his teammate Liam Everts is confirmed in fourth regardless of being knocked out of the collection along with his crash in Shanghai. All of us want him a speedy restoration.
Mikkel Haarup will likely be seeking to crown a profitable debut season for the Monster Vitality Triumph Racing crew by holding onto fifth within the collection and hoping for not less than a podium in what will likely be his final MX2 Grand Prix.
Thibault Benistant received the RAM Qualifying Race at Lugo for Monster Vitality Yamaha Manufacturing facility MX2 and has had a powerful return from damage for the reason that MXGP of Switzerland. His teammate Rick Elzinga is confirmed in seventh place for the yr and will likely be seeking to finish 2024 in type!
Spanish riders Oriol Oliver for WZ Racing KTM, David Braceras for Fantic Manufacturing facility Racing MX2, and Yago Martinez for TM Moto Racing will all be wanting ahead to the house crowd environment.
The racing is certain to be intense with the title on the road in MX2, and because it has been all yr the outcomes are virtually unattainable to foretell! Don’t miss it!
