Young German rider, Max Spies has spent the past few years with the Kosak KTM team and has had some good results in MXGP as well as the ADAC MX Masters. However, things are changing for the 2025 season with a switch of teams.
Spies has agreed a deal with the Becker Racing team which will see him remain on KTM machinery. The focus will be on the ADAC MX Masters series as well as selected MXGP World Championship events – the plan is to do 10-12 rounds so he’ll still have a busy calendar.
Spies told us the following regarding the move and his debut with the team at the weekend…
I decided to come together with Becker Racing now for the upcoming season. Together we plan to ride the full ADAC championship and also MXGP. We will do around 10-12 rounds of MXGP. It’s quite cool and the team is nice.
I’m very, very happy with them. They supported me through the Supercross season and they are really good and cool guys. It’s good to work with them and it feels great
At the weekend, I had the first race with the team at the International Winter Cup in Dolle and it was okay. I was second in the first moto, I had some flow problems because it’s quite cold and I was not really awake. I just rode qualifying before, no free practice and yeah, was still sleeping, let’s say this. The second moto, I had quite a good start and applied the pressure. I was much more awake and was able to win the race. The third moto was also good because I started in fourth. I pushed into first in the next couple of laps and was very strong, feels very good on the bike, confident and very fast. After ten minutes, I already had a gap of like four or five seconds and then something happened that should not happen. The foot peg broke, so I had a huge get-off on a tabletop, was flying like five, six meters through the air, landed backwards on my back, on my head or on the feet and then on the head, the helmet broke and everything. The reason for this was that my footpeg broke on a take-off, so I couldn’t do anything about it. I was able to get up and walk away from this, quite happy about that.
I just need to get some check-ups done this weekend and be sure that everything is fine, but yeah, that’s racing. Things like that can happen, it shouldn’t happen, but it happened. Anyway, it is good to be back racing!
You can see the huge crash below:
