The Motocross of Nations is the biggest and brightest motocross event of the year and the 2023 edition, set for France, will be upon us before we know it.
The MXGP World Championship reached the halfway point at the weekend and, while the AMA motocross nationals in the United States started just a few weeks ago, the Ernée Moto Club in northern France has been working hard to prepare the 2023 Motocross of Nations who will end the motocross season on October 7-8.
In exactly four months, the gates will drop for the 76th edition of the MXoN, and in Ernée the club has already start working to prepare this event that they already host twice in the past.
After Team USA in 2005 and Team France in 2015, it’s anyone’s guess who will lift aloft the Chamberlain Trophy at Ernee on the afternoon of October 8 (actually, the morning of October 9, NZ time).
It is plainly impossible to make any bets until the various competing nations officially announced their selection, which has to be done in early September, but can we already figure Australia (with the Lawrence brothers, Jett and Hunter, perhaps?) or Spain (maybe with Jorge Prado and Reuuben Fernandez?), or The Netherlands (likely with Jeffery Herlings, Glenn Coldenhoff, Calvin Vlaanderen, Roan Van De Moosdijk or Kay de Wolf?) or France (maybe with Romain Febvre, Maxime Renaux, Thibault Benistant, Dylan Ferrandis or Tom Vialle?) being among the warm favourites?
Who would you pick to represent Team New Zealand … Maximus Purvis, Hamish Harwood, Cody Cooper, Dylan Walsh, Josiah Natzke or Brodie Connolly?
The photo above shows Team New Zealand’s Cody Cooper, racing at the Motocross of Nations at Ernee in 2015.
© Words and photo by Andy McGechan, www.BikesportNZ.com
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