When news came out late last week about the new Triumph team racing in the British championships, with veteran Tommy Searle and two young British guns, Joel Rizzi and Billy Askew, the World media were excited, but due to the release coming out on Friday afternoon, the exciting part of the press release was somewhat lost.

That being, that with this British team backed by the British Triumph company, it is in fact, a “full factory” team, with support from Dirt Store in the UK. With Rizzi doing some rounds of the MX2 World championship and Askew doing some EMX250 rounds, it makes the 2024 season all that more exciting and, in many ways, brings another factory team to the MXGP paddock. The more Triumphs in the GP paddock, the better and with this team having full factory support, it just makes it a really exciting venture.

Jon Giffard the Dirt Store Triumph Racing Team Manager is very much looking at 2025 with huge excitment and knows that the British and World scene will have something that blows their minds.

“We are really excited for GRT to take this next chapter and join the Triumph Racing brand aboard the new TF 250-X and TF 450-RC models. First impressions and rider feedback on the new bikes has been very positive and we look forward to starting the season. We aim to bring success for the British brand at a UK level, as well as the international stage.”

Of course, there is already the official Triumph factory team in the MXGP paddock, with Monster Energy Triumph Racing managed by the highly respected, experienced, and accomplished duo of Thierry Chizat-Suzzoni and Vincent Bereni. In the future, we will see also a 450 effort to match the MX2 team of 2024 and 2025 and who knows, maybe we see Rizzi and Askew full-time factory Triumph riders in GP in the near future.

With around 20 factory riders in the paddock, in MXGP alone, for KTM, Husqvarna, HRC, Yamaha, Kawasaki, Ducati, Fantic, Beta and of course, Triumph all supporting these riders, the sport continues to grow and despite negative media or keyboard warriors saying otherwise, the proof in the pudding is what the Japanese, Austrian, British and Italian brands think, and for now, their support is a big thumbs up.

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