While we enjoy the off-season and events like the Paris Supercross, World Supercross in Canada, Australia and Abu Dhabi, and next weekends Aus X Open in Australia, not to mention the Aussie SX title race, we all know what excites us and it's the AMA supercross, AMA motocross and MXGP championships. Those are the big three in our sport.

Having seen two of the best championship battles in MXGP in 2021 and 2024, we all know that Mr Herlings, Mr Gajser, Mr Febvre and probably, Mr Coenen will make the 2025 season another special one. Around 30 factory riders in MXGP and MX2 is just mind boggling and the industry is backing the World title series with everything they have.

The critics said we need a GP in Australia, well, that box has been ticked for 2025, they also said we need the MXoN back in America, box two ticked and they also said we need factory teams to be more involved than ever before, the third box ticked.

Feld, Infront and MXsports are working closely together to make the sport bigger and better and all three promotional groups deserve applause, because big things are coming in the near future.

With the EMX and MX2 championships the best breeding ground for young talent, and the MXGP circuits giving riders more diversity than anywhere in the World, not to mention travelling around the World, with a huge television audience, the MXGP title race of 2025 will be seen by millions and millions around the World.

For now, we concentrate on the indoor racing and while its fun to watch, even A1 doesn’t come close to the grass roots level of Grand Prix motocross or AMA motocross, as any real motocross fan knows. We love the glitz and glamour of indoor racing, but the hard grind of motocross is what made us follow the sport in the first place.

And just as the pyramid system of Infront has created the best riders in the World, it cannot be forgotten who came through those ranks, from probably the two fastest riders in the World in Jett Lawrence and Jorge Prado, but also Hunter Lawrence, Tim Gajser, Jeffrey Herlings, Romain Febvre, Dylan Ferrandis, Tom Vialle, Jeremy Seewer, Kay De Wolf and Lucas Coenen. If you picked a top 15 riders in the sport, most of those names would be in it.

Now, as we wait for the Grand Prix riders to move into full pre-season mode, and the rider line-ups appear for international races in England, Spain, France, Italy and right across Europe, we know that the factory boys will be out in force.

Never in the sports history have we seen so many factory riders on the start gate in both MXGP and MX2 and 2025 will be huge as the Italian legend of Ducati joins the race for a World motocross championship. When you talk prestigious, you talk MXGP and that is why a company like Ducati joins the party.

Led by Jeremy Seewer and Mattio Guadagnini, you just know that we will see the bright red of Ducati at least on a podium in 2025. Despite getting up there in age, Seewer isn’t forgetting why he got into the sport and will be looking for a GP win in 2025 and then, a dream 2026 with a World title chase.

“I mean we are being world champion that's the top of the top,” Seewer told us. “That's what you want to reach. But right now, I am more trying to turn it around. I work as hard as I can this winter to get as far as I can without putting any pressure. Which is nice to have and then I will completely do my absolute best at being to be able to win the World Championship. But I'm not putting myself on the pressure, and say I want to win the world championship, no, I'm just trying to be the best of myself, trying to be as fit as possible trying to help to get myself and get the bike as good as possible and then, see how competitive we are. That's the strategy because if I start thinking now about winning a world title, then I am 10 Steps too far ahead, and I'm going to struggle.”

And the new boy on the block, Lucas Coenen will be heading to MXGP with an open mind, but you just know he wants to bring the De Carli KTM team some type of success in 2025. He isn’t going to be racing for just top ten places, but podiums and like Seewer, maybe even a Grand Prix victory.

“I just want to improve,” Coenen told us. “I showed a lot of things, even though I am just 17, but I want to learn more, like with Tim and Jeffrey, I can learn so much from those guys. If I can take two steps for myself, even if I can battle with them, it is going to help me a lot in the future. I will only be 18 next year. I am on my way and my way is straight, it isn’t left or right. I have one goal, and my goal is my goal.”

For me though, it will be Gajser and Herlings who fight for their sixth World titles and we will again see a historical MXGP season, as we visit some of the toughest and most demanding circuits in World motocross. In conditions from the hot and humid of Asia, to the most demanding circuit in World motocross, Lommel and the picturesque, Arco de Trento in Italy.

Two of the all-time greats of the sport and the two riders with more titles than anyone else in the last 15 years. Both, excited to start 2025 and remain in a series that has been around since 1957. History will again been made next year and I can't wait for the season to begin in Argentina in March.

2025 Provisional calendars

02 March ARGENTINA Córdoba

16 March SPAIN Cózar

23 March FRANCE St. Jean d’Angély

06 April ITALY Riola Sardo

13 April ITALY Trentino

21 April SWITZERLAND Frauenfeld

04 May TBA (possibly Portugal)

11 May SPAIN (Madrid or Lugo)

25 May FRANCE Ernée

01 June GERMANY Teutschenthal

08 June LATVIA Kegums

29 June INDONESIA Sumbawa

06 July INDONESIA Lombok

27 July CZECH REPUBLIC Loket

03 August BELGIUM Lommel, Flanders

17 August SWEDEN Uddevalla

24 August THE NETHERLANDS Arnhem

07 September TÜRKIYE Afyonkarahisar

14 September CHINA Shanghai

21 September AUSTRALIA Darwin

05 October – MXoN USA – Ironman