Ruben Fernandez charged through the MXGP field, from last place all the way up to seventh, but it wasn’t quite enough as he finished fourth overall at the MXGP of the Czech Republic – the debut round for the new prototype Honda CRF450R.

The Spaniard rode excellently in race one, waiting patiently in fourth place for the majority of the race, before pouncing as the riders in front struggled to keep their momentum. He crossed the line in second place, following on from the third in yesterday’s qualification moto and showing evidence that the new bike can handle a dry Loket circuit, as well as wet one.

Hopes were high he could continue this string of results in moto two, but just as he looked to round the first bend, he got caught up with a bunch of other riders and had nowhere to go. He managed to just about stay upright, but by the time he got pointing in the right direction, he was right at the back of the field and facing an uphill battle to even score points, let alone think about overall standings. However, despite the hard-pack Loket being as difficult to pass on as ever, the #70 scythed through the field and was amazingly in 13^th by the time they completed the first full lap. After six more laps he was inside the top 10 and he kept pushing until the last lap, moving into seventh by the time he received the chequered flag. It was a valiant effort, and definitely one he can be proud of despite missing out on the podium by two points. Now, he has the deep sand of Lommel to prepare for, which will provide another tough testing ground for the prototype to negotiate.

In the MX2 class, Valerio Lata showed that his Honda CRF250R is up to speed off the line, almost grabbing a second moto holeshot as he slotted in with the lead pack. Unfortunately in both races, he wasn’t able to match their speed and had to drop back, eventually finishing up with eight-ten results for 10^th overall. The Italian was definitely hoping for more, especially after his second place yesterday, but it is still a learning year for the youngster and he knows that he has to keep fighting and try and prepare himself for each challenge as best he can.

Round 6 of the National Motocross Championship took place this weekend at the BORC track in Bloemfontein. While the early morning air was crisp and the wind icy, the Red Bull KTM team brought the heat with an action-packed day of racing that kept fans on their feet.

Cameron Durow delivered a masterclass performance, dominating both MX2 motos to take the overall victory and backing it up with a hard-fought 1st overall in MX1 after a 2-1 moto finish.
“Had a really great day,” Durow said. “Went fastest in both qualifying laps. The boys behind were keeping a really good pace and keeping me honest the whole moto. Looking forward to the penultimate round in Richards Bay.”

Trey Cox continued to impress as he extended his MX High School Championship lead with a double moto win and also stepped onto the MX2 podium with 3rd overall.
“Pretty much a perfect day on my 125,” Cox shared. “But these first motos in MX2 are killing me. Other than that, we’ve found a really good setup on my 250 and I feel so much more comfortable on it. Moto 2 I managed to go from P4 to P2 with two laps to go.”

Luke Grundy pushed through a challenging day in MX2 to secure 4th overall, keeping his title fight on track. “Wasn't my best day,” he admitted. “Two really good starts gave me very good track position but I just couldn’t bring it all to the table this round, purely from my behalf. Still a win for me though — number one, I got humbled really good, but also number two, I didn’t lose any points. I hate not winning, and I’m more hungry than ever!”

Heading into Round 7, the Red Bull KTM team continues to lead the way, with Cameron on top of MX1, Luke leading MX2, and Trey keeping control of the MX High School class.

Team Manager Kerim Fitz-Gerald concluded, “I’m super proud of the entire team. This round had a mix of highs and lessons, but everyone walked away with solid points and showed incredible grit. Cameron is riding with great maturity, Trey is growing stronger every round, and Luke showed great sportsmanship in owning a tough day. We’re in a good place heading into the next round.”

Honda HRC Progressive eclipsed the three-quarters mark of the 2025 AMA Pro Motocross Championship in strong form at the scenic Washougal MX Park in southern Washington State. For the second time this season (and also in the last three races), Jo Shimoda captured the overall win in the 250 ranks, this time via consistent 2-1 finishes. The Lawrence brothers also enjoyed commendable results in the 450 class, with Jett logging a 3-1 performance for second overall, while Hunter took fourth overall via a 5-4 tally. With the series now entering a two-weekend break, the Red Riders carry strong momentum into what will be the final part of the season.

Jett started the first 450 moto well and ran second over the holeshot line, with Hunter eighth. Jett lost a spot early but took back second at the end of the first lap, with Hunter seventh. Jett pressured the leader for seven laps before a tip-over dropped him to third, by which point Hunter had advanced to fifth—the same positions the brothers held at the finish.

The second moto saw a Honda 1-2 out of the gate, with Hunter grabbing a huge holeshot aboard his CRF450RWE, and Jett close behind. Jett took the lead on lap 3, though Hunter and Chase Sexton both continued to challenge him. An early red flag led to the series’ first-ever staggered restart, with Jett maintaining the lead and Hunter soon settling into fourth. The teammates held those positions to the finish, with Jett taking the checkers 8.7 seconds ahead of second place for second overall, and Hunter fourth in the moto and overall rankings.

After a seventh-place 250-class start in moto 1, Shimoda quickly moved forward, taking over third by lap 2 and then advancing to second a lap later. He maintained that position to the finish, setting himself up well for a strong overall result. The Japanese native started moto 2 in second and made a pass for the lead on lap 2. From there, he rode flawlessly to the checkers, reaching the finish with a massive margin of over 18 seconds, earning his second overall win of the season and the fifth of his career.

Brilliant Brno. Red Bull KTM had cause to plant another MotoGP milestone at the Grand Prix of Czechia with Pedro Acosta racing to 3rd place in front of 95,700 fans wedged into the famous Automotodrom. The result marks the first GP podium for the KTM RC16 in 2025. The Spaniard followed up his P2 in the Saturday Sprint at the twelfth meeting of the season with a strong blast to P3 on Sunday. Meanwhile, the KTM GP Academy made it to the top of the Moto3 rostrum once more thanks to Jose Antonio Rueda’s seventh win of the year with the Red Bull KTM Ajo KTM RC4.

The sun shone on a resurrected Automotodrom Brno as both MotoGP and the crowds returned for the first time in five years. In 2020 the world championship rounded the 5.4km layout and Brad Binder flew to KTM’s very first premier class victory. Expectations were lofty after a bright Saturday in 2025 where Pedro Acosta led the Sprint and classified P2 by less than a second and Enea Bastianini surged to P3: Red Bull KTM’s maiden Prosecco bottles this term.

Sunday’s Grand Prix lasted for 21 laps. Acosta started from P7 on the grid, Bastianini in P11 and Pol Espargaro and Brad Binder had work to do from P14 and P19 respectively. Acosta and Bastianini swung into action near the front of the field. Pedro hunted the rear wheel of Marco Bezzecchi for P2 for long stages and then had to defend 3rd place in the final two laps with tire wear increasing. Enea’s charge to P4 was short-lived as he lost control entering Turn 3 on lap seven and went into the gravel. Despite the DNF, the Italian emerged unharmed and encouraged by his most competitive weekend of the season to-date.

Further back Binder and Espargaro both rode brightly and proactively to log 8th and 9th positions.

In the wake of two double headers in five weeks, MotoGP will now break for a summer hiatus. Round 13 will take place at the Red Bull Ring for the Grand Prix of Austria and home turf for the Red Bull KTM crews on August 15-17.

Pedro Acosta, 3rd and 7th in the championship standings:“The last time I was on the podium was in Thailand last year and it’s been a long journey to come back here. I want to thank all my orange crew: it was not easy for them, also to handle me when we had tough moments! We’ll keep going. We’ll have a break now and try for more at Red Bull Ring.”

Brad Binder, 9th and 12th in the championship standings: “I managed to get from 19th to 8th in the end so, yeah, I still never had the pace I was looking for but somehow we were a little better today. I found a way to be better in mid-corner and exit but I was losing a lot of time in braking and entry. This is something we have to work on and find the combination, if we can do that then it can be very positive. We tried something completely different with the bike, a little bit with the engine character and it helped a bit with the edge grip and the drive. It just seemed to be a more controllable in my hand, so I was really happy about that and by no means am I happy with 8th position but – even though it doesn’t look like it – we are slowly starting to figure it out. The really good thing is that both Pedro and Enea were super-fast this weekend so I have some good things to check and figure out how they are doing it.”

Honda HRC duo Ruben Fernandez and Valerio Lata both had difficult weekends at the sandy KymiRing circuit in Finland, costing points in their championship battles, but providing them with plenty of motivation when the series resumes in two weeks in the Czech Republic.

After a fourth in the qualification race yesterday, Fernandez had hopes for a podium heading into today and he was looking good early on in race one. He utilised his gate-pick well, powering out the gate on his Honda CRF450R inside the top five. He kept that position for the majority of the moto, only relinquishing it as the circuit got rough at the end of the moto. Race two started off in a similar vein, with the #70 even closer the pack round the first bend. Unfortunately a couple of corners later, he suffered a big impact from a rider behind him and was forced to remount at the back of the field. Showing his determination, he was scything his way through the field and had made it inside the top 10 in only a few laps, however unbeknownst to him initially, the earlier collision had caused severe damage to his bike, and he was forced to pull off the track. It was a big shame for the Spaniard as another top five result was within his grasp, along with a closing of the gap to third place in the championship standings.

It didn’t go much better for Lata in the MX2 class, as he couldn’t find any rhythm in the sand, on a track that was running a GP for the very first time. Throughout the weekend, he seemed to be fighting the track, rather than flowing with it and as a result, he wasn’t able to break into the top 10 in either race. His 13^th overall is not the level he expects from himself and he knows he has to work hard to get better when we head to Loket, Czech Republic on July 26-27.

Bitter Sunday for Fabio Di Giannantonio, who crashed in the German GP while he was fighting for the podium. Franco Morbidelli didn’t take part to the race following yesterday’s crash. 

Unlucky German GP for the Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Team, which competed in Sunday’s race with only Fabio Di Giannantonio, who crashed while he was in second place. Franco Morbidelli went back to Italy to further assessments on his left shoulder following Saturday’s heavy crash in the Sprint. 

Di Giannantonio started from the seventh place on the grid and made an excellent start from the third row in the Sachsenring race, immediately putting himself in the fight for the lead. Fabio showed a strong pace in dry conditions until he crashed at Turn 1 on lap thirteen, while running in second place. The Roman rider keeps the fourth place in the World Standings with 142 points. 

Morbidelli didn’t take part to Sunday’s race following a heavy left shoulder contusion he had in Saturday’s crash. The X-ray examinations carried out so far have not been sufficient to complete the diagnosis: no bone fractures have been detected, but it is necessary to assess the condition of the soft tissues. A further check-up is scheduled tomorrow in Italy.

The Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Team is back on track in few days for the second back-to-back race weekend. MotoGP will race in Czech Republic for the twelfth round of 2025, the last one before the summer break.  

The Honda HRC Team has concluded the seventh round of the Superbike World Championship at Donington Park with a hard-fought top ten result for Iker Lecuona in Race 2, while Xavi Vierge also scored points. Despite the challenges, both riders climb one position in the overall standings and are now tied on points, with Vierge seventh and Lecuona eighth.

After a brief morning warm-up, factory rider Xavi Vierge and Iker Lecuona were ready for the Superpole race.

Lining up for the ten-lap sprint on the fourth and sixth row of the grid respectively, Iker and Xavi were unable to fully exploit the start, finding themselves fifteenth and sixteenth through lap one. Lecuona appeared to find a little more pace in the second half of the race, but his efforts were unfortunately thwarted when a small technical issue emerged on lap seven and put a premature end to his fight. Having gained one position in the early stages, Xavi moved up into thirteenth place towards the end of the sprint, a position he was able to hold to the line.

The second and final 23-lap SBK race ran in the early afternoon in sunny conditions. Fifteenth through the first turns, Lecuona was soon up into twelfth. Although a gap had begun to open up in front of him, the Spaniard was undeterred, steadily closing in and breaking into the top ten in the later stages. Teammate Vierge was tasked with making up ground from seventeenth, the Spaniard immediately getting to work and making up positions right from the early stages. Inside the points zone, Xavi held fifteenth for a good part of the race before progressing to thirteenth in the final stages but was ultimately handed a one-position penalty for exceeding track limits on the final lap.

Competing as a wildcard this weekend, Honda test rider Tommy Bridewell placed eighteenth in the Superpole race but unfortunately crashed out of race 2.

Next up for the Honda HRC team is round eight, to take place at the Balaton Circuit in Hungary on 25-27 July.

Red Bull KTM Factory Racing ended the 2025 German Grand Prix with a top seven result thanks to Brad Binder’s push at a crowded Sachsenring and a 98,573 attendance. The first of another double-header of fixtures took the series to the short and curving layout in Saxony and the eleventh round of the season played out in sunny conditions. The KTM GP Academy left the venue with more silverware with the KTM RC4 in Moto3™ and Red Bull KTM Ajo’s Deniz Öncü earned his second Moto2™ victory.

The distinctive and technical challenges of Sachsenring and a historic site for Grand Prix motorcycling were complicated further thanks to the changing climate covering the sold-out circuit west of Chemnitz. After a wet and chilly Saturday for qualification and the Sprint, the 30-lap Grand Prix took place under brighter and drier skies but with the continued threat of showers.

The Red Bull KTM contingent dropped to two-rider representation after the bad luck for both Maverick Viñales and Enea Bastianini but Pedro Acosta and Brad Binder were determined to demonstrate the potential and competitiveness of the KTM RC16 race package at the midway point of the season.

Acosta bustled into podium contention after throttling away from the middle of the second row and Binder was also active to figure in top ten running from the first lap. However, Pedro couldn’t settle into a rhythm after losing control into Turn 2 early on. The onus for Red Bull KTM fell to Binder who moved up to scrap with three other rivals for P6. The South African endured tire pressure problems for the duration but stayed on two wheels when a series of other riders fell into the gravel. He came home with 7th and nine points and was less than a tenth of a second from 6th.

Pedro holds 8th in the world championship standings. Maverick is 11th, Brad 12th and Enea is now 17th. MotoGP moves immediately east and to the fabled Brno circuit for the Grand Prix of Czechia. The last time Brno entertained the series in 2020 Brad Binder notched a special milestone for Red Bull KTM with the manufacturer’s first MotoGP triumph.

Brad Binder, 7th and 12th in the championship standings: “From a working point of view and the weekend as a whole this was definitely a step. The main race was super-difficult, such a long race and a lot of guys going down. It was chaos out there and very tricky for the front end. I was in a group the entire time and that was hard for the tire pressure and keeping the whole thing up. It was sketchy so, even though I would have liked a much better result, it was an accomplishment to get to the line.”

The opening FIM Supersport World Championship race at Donington Park saw Pata Yamaha Ten Kate Racing rider, Stefano Manzi, claim his fifth victory of the season aboard the Yamaha R9, extending his championship lead to an impressive 61 points. 

Lucas Mahias (GMT94 Yamaha) crossed the line in third, fending off pressure from Can Öncü (Yamaha BLU CRU Evan Bros Racing) throughout the closing stages of the race. 

At the lights, Öncü made the hole shot to take an early lead, pushing pole-sitter, Manzi, into second. As the race progressed, the pair would enter a battle for second, ending with Manzi ahead with 16 laps remaining and Öncü slipping down to fourth. 

Later, Manzi took the lead with 14 laps to go, soon slipping back into second behind home rider, Tom Booth-Amos. 

A battle for the lead sparked with a handful of laps remaining, with Manzi fighting back and forth with the Brit and coming out in front, before a mistake from his rival allowed the R9 rider to pull a gap at the front, crossing the line victorious after 19-laps. 

Further back, an ongoing fight for third place between Öncü and Mahias was decided at the final corner of the final lap, with an unsuccessful attempted overtake from Öncü running the pair wide and causing Mahias to claim the final step on the Donington Park podium. 

The opening race of the weekend for GMT94 Yamaha was a tale of two halves, with a hard-charging Roberto Garcia enduring a disappointing end to the race, crashing out of sixth during an attempt to move forwards through the field at Melbourne Hairpin. He eventually crossed the line in 20th. 

Meanwhile, Aldi Satya Mahendra (Yamaha BLU CRU Evan Bros Racing) mounted a strong effort from 18th on the grid, fighting forwards to cross the line in an impressive tenth place. 

Having set the fastest lap of the race, Manzi will start from pole position yet again for Race 2 tomorrow, joined on the front row with Öncü in third. On row 2, Mahias and Garcia will start from fourth and fifth respectively, with Mahendra in 18th.

MXGP made its first visit to KymiRing for the Grand Prix of Finland and for the next sequence in the 2025 campaign that involve races in Czech Republic, Belgium, Sweden and the Netherlands during July and August. The thirteenth round of the season was notable for Lucas Coenen’s 1-1-1 shutout and his third overall victory of the year for Red Bull KTM Factory Racing. In the MX2 class Andrea Adamo and Sacha Coenen classified 2nd and 3rd respectively behind Kay De Wolf in the sand.

Red Bull KTM were without the presence of five-times world champion Jeffrey Herlings for the Grand Prix of Finland but were able to re-focus on their double title pursuit in 2025 with Lucas Coenen 32 points from the red plate in MXGP and Simon Laengenfelder heading the MX2 division by 52 points from teammate Andrea Adamo.

After years of delays and speculation, the KymiRing was finally ready for MXGP duty and the course was flat, long, sandy and jumpy. The layout presented a fresh challenge for all teams and riders in both categories. The Finnish summer weather played ball on Saturday and Lucas Coenen controlled the warm MXGP Qualification Heat with his KTM 450 SX-F for a fifth Pole of the year; more than double the next nearest rider in the list. In MX2, Sacha Coenen earned the holeshot and secured P2 with his KTM 250 SX-F. Simon Laengenfelder was 4th and Andrea Adamo posted 6th.

Sunday was again hot and sunny. Coenen grabbed the lead from the first corners of the opening MXGP moto and had a ten-second cushion by the third lap. He eased to the finish line for his ninth success of the season and first since the German GP. In the second race the youngster almost produced a replica performance but had a worrying moment with a small crash that forced him to recover his racebike, restart and retake P1. Lucas was able to consolidate a new zone of superiority to end a three-GP streak of runner-up finishes.