New Zealanders have only very rarely been able to race a motorcycling world championships event on home turf, certainly not top-level motocross.
Kawasaki factory rider Romain Febvre is building momentum and hoping that’ll serve him well as he races in Portugal this weekend.
After a two-week break, the 2024 MXGP Motocross World Championship takes riders to the MXGP of Portugal, at the Crossódromo Internacional de Águeda, in the north-western part of the country.
The revs are starting to build with massive support arriving and overseas interest being shown ahead of the 2024 Suzuki International Series.
With the AMA Supercross series winding down, Australian rider Jett Lawrence continues to perform under pressure and he’s now poised to wrap up the title in the United States.
A former champion who loves the motorcycle he’s currently riding can only add up to one thing … an unbeaten run thus far in the 2024 New Zealand Enduro Championships.
The cream is supposed to rise to the top and that’s exactly what’s happening in this season’s Yamaha New Zealand Enduro Championships.
The MotoGP racers lit up the track at Jerez in Spain at the weekend, with Italian defending champion Francesco ‘Pecco’ Bagnaia best of the bunch.
Australian Jett Lawrence grabbed the holeshot and was never challenged for the lead to win round 15 of the 2024 US supercross season at the weekend.
The HRC Honda factory team has parted company with Roan van de Moosdijk after it was determined the young Dutch rider’s injury makes it impossible for him to continue.
The gloves came off at the 2024 New Zealand Junior Motocross Championships in the Manawatu/Horowhenua region at the weekend, with Honda star Phoenix Van Dusschoten landing most of the big punches.
Taupo’s Brad Groombridge knows a thing or two about winning enduro events and actually he’s quite good at motocross and cross-country racing too.
Former Southland rider Seth Morrow was always going to be a frontrunner in the 15-16 years’ 125cc class at this year’s New Zealand Junior Motocross Championships at Himatangi.
It would be no stretch of the imagination to say that Raetihi teenager Karaitiana Horne is on top of the world, the New Zealand motocross world at least.
The cream of New Zealand’s junior motocross talent was on show in the Manawatu/Horowhenua region at the weekend and what a show they all produced.
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When Spain’s Sergio Garcia won round three of the 2024 Moto2 season in Austin, Texas, last weekend, he became the 25th different winner in the Triumph Moto2 era.
Just last weekend the adult elite of New Zealand motocross wrapped up their annual championship series and now it’s the turn of the sport’s rising young stars to reveal who’s ready to step up.
The 2024 New Zealand Enduro Championships series will again kick off in the South Island this coming weekend and once more it’s expected to be a torrid affair.
Motocross in New Zealand must be in a healthy state if a young man, on debut in the premier grade, can put himself on the podium at the New Zealand motocross championships, particularly in a series so packed with incredible talent.