It all comes down to this! Round 20 of the FIM Motocross World Championships, the final round of the season, takes place this weekend to decide the fate of all three world titles at the brand-new Hidden Valley Motorsports Complex not far from the centre of the Northern Territory’s capital city of Darwin. The 2025 MXGP, MX2, and WMX World Champions will all be crowned at the MXGP of Australia Presented by Sitzler!
The Championship battle is between French veteran Romain Febvre, red plate holder for Kawasaki Racing Team MXGP, and the teenage Belgian tearaway Lucas Coenen for Red Bull KTM Factory Racing. For the second year running, Coenen heads to the final round with a mountain to climb if he is to come away with gold, but he also knows that nothing is over until the final chequered flag flies!
As per usual, things are much closer in MX2, with Red Bull KTM Factory Racing’s red plate holder Simon Längenfelder holding a slim margin over reigning World Champion and Nestaan Husqvarna Factory Racing rider Kay de Wolf. The German is looking to end a run of three years of bronze medals by striking gold this weekend, and top three positions in all three races will do the job, even if his Dutch rival takes all three race wins. In the wild and unpredictable MX2 class, however, anything is possible with a hatful of contenders able to get amongst the title combatants!
In the Women’s World Motocross Championships, there’s another teenager versus veteran battle as reigning World Champion Lotte van Drunen leads the series for De Baets Yamaha by just 16 points from six-time WMX Champ Kiara Fontanesi on her MX FontaRacing GASGAS. Just a point behind Fontanesi is the RFME Spain National Team rider Daniela Guillen, also in with a chance of depriving Van Drunen of her second straight world title.
TIMETABLE
SATURDAY: 08:25: Blåkläder Start Practice MX2, 08:55 Blåkläder Start Practice MXGP, 09:45 WMX Free practice, 10:15 MX2 Free practice, 10:45 MXGP Free practice, 12:10 WMX Qualifying practice, 12:50 MX2 Time practice, 13:30 MXGP Time practice, 14:40 WMX Race 1, 15:25 MX2 Qualifying Race, 16:10 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.
