The 2026 MXGP FIM Motocross World Championships reaches its final round of the season this weekend, as we return to the massively popular Hidden Valley Raceway facility just outside Darwin in the Northern Territory for the MXGP of Australia Presented by Sitzler!
The MX2 World Championship is still to be decided this weekend, and it could be clinched as early as Saturday’s Qualifying Race, as Spaniard Guillem Farres holds a 48-point lead over his Triumph Racing teammate Camden McLellan, with the British manufacturer assured of taking the World Champion over the line at the end of just their third season of racing!
The land Down Under is the only country that MXGP has visited, since 2010, that has not seen a GP victory for this year’s already-crowned MXGP World Champion Jeffrey Herlings, and the Honda HRC Petronas rider has his eyes set on completing a perfect run of victories that started at round 12 back in July! Outgoing World Champion Romain Febvre will be trying to stop Jeffrey’s run and claim what would be his only GP win with the #1 plate. He is already locked in for second in this year’s series. Tom Vialle and Andrea Adamo are only one point apart in their battle to finish 2026 as the best class rookie, and take 4th in the Championship behind the absent Tim Gajser.
The FIM Women’s Motocross World Championship is also set to be decided at Hidden Valley, and this is the tightest battle of them all, with just six points between leader Daniela Guillen and her legendary chaser Kiara Fonntanesi! Lotte van Drunen will also be looking for victory in her last race with the #1 plate, while American flyer Lachlan Turner makes her World Championship debut to see if she can get amongst the leading regulars!
TIMETABLE
SATURDAY: 10:40 WMX Free Practice, 11:05 MX2 Free Practice, 11:35 MXGP Free Practice, 13:00 WMX Qualifying Practice, 13:40 MX2 Time Practice, 14:20 MXGP Time Practice, 15:30 WMX Race 1, 16:15 MX2 Qualifying Race, 17:00 MXGP Qualifying Race.
SUNDAY: 09:45 WMX Race 2, 10:25 MX2 Warm-up, 10:45 MXGP Warm-up, 12:15 MX2 Race 1, 13:15 MXGP Race 1, 15:10 MX2 Race 2, 16:10 MXGP Race 2.
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