With MXGP continuing some brilliant progress over the last decade, we enter the 2025 season with a lot to look forward to. The first obvious thing is, with Jorge Prado gone to USA, you would have to think, the remaining big three, Tim Gajser, Jeffrey Herlings and Romain Febvre will fight for the title.

The two favourites of course are the two five time World motocross champions, Gajser and Herlings, but don’t discount the Frenchman and while he has just one World title to his name, we all know if he can remain fit for the whole season, he is capable of beating both these guys and battle with them until the very end, just as he did in 2021.

Of course, we are all excited to see Lucas Coenen (who turned 18 today) join the big boys and if he can get a healthy off-season done and dusted, he is very much a talent that can do a bit of a Prado and enter the lions den against those three men I have already mentioned.

You the also have Jeremy Seewer on the Ducati, and that will be worth watching. Hard to see him up front straight away, but he can easily put together some solid results and as he told us this week, a GP win is very much one of his goals for 2025. Ducati will announce another rider soon and that is something we all look forward to reading in the near future.

The whole KTM situation, with two factory teams is also an interesting one, but I sure wish that the Dutch side of the orange army, also have another leading rider lining up under the big tent with Herlings and it wouldn’t be bad to see somebody else under the De Carli 450 set-up too. Mikkel Haarup who has aged out of MX2, still doesn’t have a ride and he would be nice on either of the orange bikes.

It is crazy to think that in 2025 we have at the least, 15 factory riders and if everyone can stay fit, the MXGP class is going to be as deep as it’s ever been. With Triumph also looking at joining MXGP sooner, rather than later, the factory bikes in Grand Prix will be at an all-time high, which shows how far MXGP has come in the last 20 years.

Huge television coverage of the series around the World has attracted the Japanese, Austrian, British and Italian manufacturer and a reason countries like China, Indonesia, Australia and Argentina want to be partners to the biggest and most exciting motocross series in the World.

Things to look out for, for me, are Coenen on the 450, Seewer on the Ducati, or even his team-mate on the Ducati, but for me, Herlings vs Gajser again, a rivalry that started a decade ago and has seen them win nearly all the MXGP titles since. Only Cairoli in 2017, and Prado in 2023 and 2024 have stopped them, as the won the MXGP championship in 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022.

Can either of these men reach six World titles and become the third most successful GP rider of all time (they will equal Joel Roberts six titles), Herlings with 107 GP wins and Gajser sure to pass the 50 wins by Robert in 2025 (he is currently on 49), you would expect one or the other to move to number three in the all-time GP winners list for titles and GP wins.

MXGP Factory Teams

HRC

Tim Gajser

Ruben Fernandez

Monster Energy Yamaha

Jago Geerts

Maxime Renaux

Calvin Vlaanderen

Red Bull KTM Factory

Jeffrey Herlings

Red Bull KTM Factory (De Carli)

Lucas Coenen

Ducati Factory Team

Jeremy Seewer

Mattio Guadagnini?

Kawasaki Factory Team

Romain Febvre

Pauls Jonass

Husqvarna Factory Team

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Beta Factory Team

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Fantic

Glenn Coldenhoff

Brian Bogers

Andrea Bonacorsi