There is no doubt, if you want to visit the best pre-season race of the 2025 pre-season, its at the Mantua City Circuit, which will be kicking off the new year of races. It will be raced on Sunday, February 9, 2025 for the 37th time, it will be the opening race of the Internazionali d’Italia Eicma, the classic one where the best riders, motorcycle houses and teams compete to verify the values on the field.

Five time World motocross champion, Tim Gajser and his team-mate, Ruben Fernandez, not to mention the debut by Ducati Corse riders, Mattia Guadagnini and Jeremy Seewer, who have tested the Desmo 450 MX right at the Circuit of Viale Learco Guerra, while the other Italian factory team Beta, with Ben Watson and newcomer Tom Koch. Red Bull De Carli KTM factory rider Lucas Coenen making his 450 along with his MX2 team-mates, Sacha Coenen and Simon Längenfelder.

Former World MX2 champion, Andrea Adamo of the Red Bull KTM factory team will also line up, as will Andrea Rossi, Cas Valk, Ferruccio Zanchi, Tanel Leok, Jan Pancar, Ivo Monticelli, Cole McCullough, Isak Gifting and many more.

You can find the entries here.

The prestigious sandy track of Tazio Nuvolari will host the first round that will be held on the 8th and 9th of February.

The races will be broadcast live on Federmoto.TV, with the voice of Marco Gualdani and his guests in the commentary booth and the news from the Pitlane by Lorenzo Resta. Just 10euro to watch the action, which is great value for a full days worth of motocross action at Mantova.

Find out more here: INTERNAZIONALI_MOTOCROSS

Of course this weekend, not only the stunning Mantova line-up, but also in England, at the famous Hawkstone Park circuit, we will see current MX2 World champion, Kay De Wolf, former MXGP World champion, Romain Febvre, former MX2 World champion, Pauls Jonass and a long list of talented GP and domestic riders.

Calvin Vlaanderen, Cornelius Tondel, Brent van Doninck, Roan van de Moosdijk, Jake Nicholls, Martin Barr, Jago Geerts, Petar Petrov, Brian Bogers, Glenn Coldenhoff, Josh Gilbert, Conrad Mewse, Adam Sterry, Joel Rizzi and Maxime Renaux round out the field of riders.

Unfortunately, no live stream from Hawkstone Park and results are usually hard to come by, but we will try and cover it as best we can. MXGP entries here and MX2 entries here.

Find out more here: Hawkstone International

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