The irony of the sand is that the bumpiest and roughest terrain on the MXGP calendar is the best leveller. At a sun-coated Lommel today the UK reigned, with Shaun Simpson barrelling his privateer KTM to a first ever MXGP Pole Position and Max Anstie taking his third consecutive Pole in MX2.
A torrid 2015 Grand Prix campaign of pain and points for Red Bull KTM’s Jeffrey Herlings can to a brutal conclusion at Loket in the Czech Republic today with the former champion now having to recover from his third injury in sixth months. Full report…
Electronics are more noticeable than ever in MXGP thanks to the habits seen at the last few Grands Prix on hard-pack tracks and the presence of cables and laptops the moment a bike enters a team awning. We spoke to the FIM and a few of the technicians in the paddock responsible to see where the technology is heading and how it is going to affect the racing…
An exclusive with the MXGP World Champion on his difficult season and a number of other topics fresh from the current issue of OTOR
Changeable conditions for round twelve of MXGP and a track that riders can finally get their teeth into. Gautier Paulin, vanquisher of all peers at the Nations here last September, took his second pole position of the season ahead of sure-fire 2015 Nations team-mate Romain Febvre…
Jeffrey Herlings could attempt this weekend’s Grand Prix of Latvia nursing yet another injury but what keeps driving this amazing talent onwards? We grabbed an exclusive interview with the Dutch twenty year old in Germany to chat winning and the strange sphere of racing in which he exists…
Heat and head-scratching at a dusty Uddevalla as Strijbos bangs in a first MXGP Pole Position and Herlings surprises with the top spot in MX2. Report and notes from Scandinavia…
