https://gatedrop.com Get the jump on Motocross news Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:53:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://gatedrop.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/cropped-Simple-Professional-Name-Introduction-LinkedIn-Profile-Picture-32x32.png https://gatedrop.com 32 32 https://gatedrop.com/interview-kay-karssemakers-he-steve-dixon-just-lets-me-do-my-own-thing/ Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:58:10 +0000 https://gatedrop.com/?p=200692 After steadily building momentum in both the Dutch Masters and the MX2 World Championship, Kay Karssemakers is beginning to show the kind of form that hints at a real breakthrough season. The young Dutchman delivered an assured and mature performance on a brutally rough circuit in Heerde, backing up his growing confidence with strong results...]]> https://gatedrop.com/official-kay-karssemakers-remains-with-drt-kawasaki-for-2026/ Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:35:25 +0000 https://gatedrop.com/?p=194994 After starting the 2025 season without a team after Riley Racing closed their doors, young Dutch talent Kay Karssemakers found his footing with the DRT Kawasaki squad later in the year. Following a strong end to the season, it has now been confirmed that Karssemakers will remain with DRT Kawasaki for 2026, competing in the...]]> https://gatedrop.com/rumour-kay-karssemakers-to-remain-at-drt-kawasaki-for-2026/ Wed, 17 Sep 2025 08:58:21 +0000 https://gatedrop.com/?p=190933 The 2025 season has been far from straightforward for Dutch talent Kay Karssemakers. After signing with the Riley Racing team, his plans quickly fell apart when the squad folded before even making it to the opening round of the MX2 World Championship. Left without a ride so close to the season start, Karssemakers faced a...]]> https://gatedrop.com/excl-kay-karssemakers-to-make-his-mx2-world-championship-return-in-germany/ Wed, 28 May 2025 17:58:37 +0000 https://gatedrop.com/?p=184523 Kay Karssemakers hasn’t had the start to 2025 that he would have hoped for. After signing with the Haaz/Riley Kawasaki team during the off-season, the Dutch rider was left without a ride when the team folded before the season even began. Left in a difficult situation, Karssemakers intended to race the Dutch Masters series as...]]> https://gatedrop.com/interview-kay-karssemakers-talks-split-with-haaz-racing-his-future-and-more/ Fri, 14 Feb 2025 12:18:47 +0000 https://gatedrop.com/?p=177020 The news dropped this week that Kay Karssemakers split ways with the Haaz/Riley Racing team ahead of the 2025 season. With Argentina just a few weekends away it is far from ideal and the Dutch talent now faces an uncertain future. One thing that is sure is that at 20 years old he still has...]]> https://gatedrop.com/official-kay-karssemakers-parts-ways-with-haaz-racing/ Tue, 11 Feb 2025 20:13:30 +0000 https://gatedrop.com/?p=177009 The Riley Racing team had plans to return to the MXGP paddock this year with a two rider line up. The team had planned on running under the name of Haaz Racing with Tom Guyon and Kay Karssemakers under the awning to take on the MX2 World Championship. Guyon recently announced he was leaving the...]]> https://gatedrop.com/official-riley-kawasaki-to-enter-the-mx2-world-championship/ Fri, 27 Sep 2024 15:03:53 +0000 https://gatedrop.com/?p=165598 Next season a new team will enter the 2025 FIM Motocross World Championship; Riley Kawasaki will line up two young riders in the MX2 class with the support of Kawasaki Motor Europe and Kawasaki Benelux. KME has always supported promising young riders in MX2, and next year the engagement will be intensified. Alongside Mathis Valin,...]]> https://gatedrop.com/rumour-kay-karssemakers-to-ink-a-deal-with-riley-racing-for-2025/ Mon, 09 Sep 2024 08:58:33 +0000 https://gatedrop.com/?p=163908 Kay Karssemakers is currently contesting his second season racing the MX2 World Championship. In 2022, the Dutch talent signed with Hitachi KTM fuelled by Milwaukee in what was his rookie season in the class. However, after that the team unexpectedly closed their doors ahead of the 2023 season. It meant that Karssemakers then had to...]]> https://gatedrop.com/video-kay-karssemakers-race-action-at-maggiora/ https://gatedrop.com/video-kay-karssemakers-race-action-at-maggiora/#respond Fri, 13 May 2022 07:38:07 +0000 https://gatedrop.com/?p=113814 https://gatedrop.com/video-kay-karssemakers-race-action-at-maggiora/feed/ 0 https://gatedrop.com/video-kay-karssemakers-dutch-masters-race-action/ https://gatedrop.com/video-kay-karssemakers-dutch-masters-race-action/#respond Wed, 04 May 2022 07:47:15 +0000 https://gatedrop.com/?p=113305 https://gatedrop.com/video-kay-karssemakers-dutch-masters-race-action/feed/ 0