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The Red Bull KTM Factory Racing team is anticipating a two-rider premier class line-up for the Grand Prix of Sardinia at the Riola Sardo circuit this week with MXGP icon Jeffrey Herlings edging closer to race fitness.
It was podium time for 17-year-old Kiwi rider Cole Davies at the weekend as he stepped onto the top step of the podium for the first time in his career, securing a breakthrough victory in Seattle.
The signage pictured at the junction of Herbert Road and Korito near Egmont Village says ‘No Exit’ no matter which way you go and that sounds kind of ominous.
After two incredibly successful Australian Superbike Championship (ASBK) night races in the past, Australia’s fastest riders will again return to the world-class Sydney Motorsport Park (SMSP) for the same electrifying ASBK action in 2025.
The annual Korito Technical Matrix event in Taranaki will run again for an eighth year this coming weekend, only this time it’s part of a two-day spectacular and also now an integral segment of a major national series.
An MX2 class victory for Andrea Adamo and Grand Prix of Europe thriller for team-mate Lucas Coenen, who earned his first MXGP podium result, were highlights of the weekend for the KTM factory.
Changeable conditions with sunshine and showers couldn’t dampen proceedings in south-western France, as the glorious Circuit du Puy de Poursay hosted the MXGP of Europe, round three of the FIM Motocross World Championships.
Frenchman Mathis Valin was back on his Kawasaki KX250-SR this week after being forced to sit out the second moto in Spain following a crash during the first race.
The 2025 New Zealand Motocross Championships wrapped up at the weekend with an action-packed second visit to the Phillips’ farm track south-west of Rotorua.
The New Zealand cross-country motorcycle racing community will wrap up their national series with back-to-back rounds three and four near Gore in just a few days’ time.
Bay of Plenty-based Honda rider Mitch Rees was in scintillating form again this season, winning almost everything that came his way in the 2025 New Zealand Superbike Championships.
The MXGP of Castilla La Mancha in Spain, round two of the motocross world championships, saw Slovenian former world champion Tim Gajser win the weekend and zoom to the top of the standings.
It’s job done for Whakatane’s Mitch Rees after the first of three races and the first of two days of racing at the fourth and final round of the 2025 New Zealand Superbike Championships in Taupo.
It’s an incredible 17 years since these photos of then future Kiwi motocross greats Josiah Natzke and Maximus Purvis were taken at the New Zealand Mini Motocross Championships in 2008.