Something that went a little missed in the last month or so, is that while Nestaan Husqvarna factory rider, Liam Everts holds the red plate in the 2025 MX2 World Championship, it has been 19 years that we got the see the red plate on the bike of an Everts machine, when Stefan Everts led the MX1 championship in 2006, and it was more than 40 years after his grandfather Harry held the red plate (lead) in the 125cc (MX2) championship in 1981.

Just to make it even more unbelievable, Stefan also held the red plate in the 125cc (MX2) class all the way back in 1991. So, all three Everts have had that red plate (or series lead) in the MX2 class, over a span of 44 years. What a trilogy this family have given our sport.

The third generation Everts, who is on 135 points and holds a very slight three-point lead over Simon Langenfelder and five-point lead over the defending MX2 champion, Kay De Wolf. The victory in the mud of Corza in Spain at the start of March was the first sign that Everts was more than capable of pushing to the red plate.

Both his rivals, Langenfelder and de Wolf have had horrible Saturdays, Langenfelder failing to score in the MX2 qualification race in Spain, when he finished 11th and De Wolf in France, when he was running second and had a mechanical issue and DNFed. It is those Saturday disappointments that have seen Everts take control of the red plate.

Of course, the last Everts to hold the red plate was a bloke called Stefan, who won the 2006 MX1 World championship and before Stefan, was another fella called Harry (Everts), who held the red plate, or led in the championships way back in 1981, when he took out the World 125cc championship on a Suzuki machine, his fourth and final World title.

The gap between Harry’s red plate and Stefans was rather amazingly, just a decade with “The King” winning his first World title in 1991, also on a Suzuki and also in the 125cc class. It was of course 10 years after his father won his final title, which is just sensational.

I even remember covering the Motocross des Nations at Vimmerby in Sweden in 1991 and when I saw the name Everts in the program, I figured it was Harry and not Stefan (it was Stefan’s first ever MXdNations). We were a little clueless who the World champions were in Australia back then, as the Aussie magazines hardly covered the GP scene.

Of course, both Stefan and Harry held the red plate, time and time again, and for now, lets just enjoy the fact Liam, the son and grandson has again joined his more famous father and grandfather in yet another legendary moment in our sports history.

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