The MXGP World Championship returns to one of its most classic venues of the calendar this weekend, and the cameras are ready to capture the action as round five of the 2024 series, the MXGP of Portugal, starts a run of three weekends that are sure to be full of drama!
The chasing MXGP pack are now all hoping to deny the defending World Champion Jorge Prado of a fifth straight Grand Prix win. The Spaniard has taken every winner’s trophy back to his Red Bull GASGAS Factory Racing transporter, and despite being overtaken in race one last time out by the two riders directly behind him in the Championship, he will remain the favourite to continue his run of victories.
Team HRC leader Tim Gajser and Kawasaki Racing Team’s Romain Febvre will be champing at the bit to end Prado’s domination, and Jeffrey Herlings will be targeting a repeat of last year’s win here for Red Bull KTM Factory Racing to put himself back in the title hunt!
The MX2 World Championship saw Red Bull KTM Factory Racing star Liam Everts take his first win of the season last time out, but Nestaan Husqvarna Factory Racing’s Kay de Wolf still leads the championship and has lost little momentum! Simon Laengenfelder of Red Bull GASGAS Factory Racing won race two in Trentino and with a trio of hard-pack circuits ahead of them, the German will be going all-out to hack down that 26-point advantage!
With the first four rounds in the record books, the MXGP World Championship really gets into the meaty part of the season now, and these three weekends will be vital to the eventual destination of both Championships!
