With five World motocross championships to his name, there is no doubt, Tim Gajser is not only the most experienced rider in the MXGP class, but he is also the best. Having lost two World titles by just a handful of points, he could so very easily be a seven-time World champion.

His crushing defeat in 2024 in Spain, to Jorge Prado didn’t slow him down too long and his 3-3 in Argentina last weekend just goes to show, he isn’t going to take an major risks just yet.

While he did tell MXlarge a month or so ago, that it was not taking risk that has cost him in the past, 100%, Gajser is going for the marathon, rather than the sprint and its a smart move.

The Slovenian looked very comfortable last weekend, didn’t take any risk, which is what has made him so strong throughout his career. No surprise, the HRC man has very consistent performances in the opening round in his World Championship winning seasons.

In his first ever championship winning season, in 2015, he finished fourth in the opener in Qatar, behind Jeffrey Herlings, Julien Lieber and Dylan Ferrandis. A year later in his second title winning season, he won Qatar with 1-1 scores, in 2019 he finished second to Antonio Cairoli with 2-2. A year later he was second to Jeffrey Herlings at Matterley Basin with a rollercoaster 8-1 score and finally, he won the opening in Matterley Basin in 2022, his last championship winning season with 1-2 results. So, his 3-3 this year is pretty much keeping up to form for the opener.

What will be interesting when we arrive in Spain in 10 days time is what we get from the two Frenchmen, Maxime Renaux and Romain Febvre, because they often looked much faster than Gajser in Argentina.

Coming into Argentina, after Saturday in Argentina and after Sunday in Argentina, Gajser gave his opinion and we have it all below.

Sunday in Argentina

Solid day, and we leave Argentina healthy which is the main goal. I felt I had the speed of the top two, but I couldn’t get the starts and battle up front with them. By the time I got into the podium spots in both races, the leader had gone so it hard to try and catch them. Still, I’m happy with the weekend and they did a very good job with the track here and even with all the rain, it was still a fun circuit.

Saturday in Argentina

I felt good early on in the day, but when the racing started, I just couldn’t find a good rhythm and decided it was safer to let the two guys fight it out ahead. I had a big gap to fourth so I didn’t want to push too much on the very first day, especially on a track that could easily catch you out if you weren’t concentrating. Tomorrow we’ll try a few things and hopefully battle for the win and start this season off right.

Entering Argentina

The first race is always a tricky one because you want to come in a show everyone the speed you have, but you also have had to balance yourself and know that it is a long season, and you don’t want to peak too early. It is nice that we are going to a new venue, even if I really liked Villa La Angostura, so I’m excited to see what the circuit looks like and start this 2025 MXGP season off strongly.

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