Historical moments should always be remembered and held in high regard and last weekend, the sports five-time World motocross champion, Tim Gajser captured his 50th Grand Prix victory.

Gajser joined just five other men, to win 50 Grand Prix’s, those being Jeffrey Herlings with 107, Stefan Everts with 101, Antonio Cairoli with 94, Joel Smets with 57 and Joel Robert with 50. The 50 by Robert was the record for most Grand Prix victories in the sport, until Everts broke that record more than 20 years ago.

The Slovenian great has been on the Grand Prix scene since 2012 and it took him three years and 34 Grand Prix’s, before he scored his first ever Grand Prix victory, at the Italian held round in Trentino in 2015, but then with that win in the books, he quickly picked up wins number two, three, four and five at the back end of 2015 and his first World title in the MX2 class.

When he moved to the MXGP class a few months later, many thought he might find it tough to continue that run of GP wins, but the HRC factory rider proved everyone wrong, by winning the opening MXGP round in 2016, in Qatar. Another seven Grand Prix wins and he was also added the 2016 MXGP World Championship.

With injury worries in 2017, Gajser won just three rounds and struggled somewhat, and 2018 was an even tougher year, as Herlings won nearly every GP and Gajser failed to win a single round.

With the injury concerns over, Gajser got back on track and won nine rounds in 2019 and took out his third World Motocross Championship and then again in 2020 proved too strong for the opposition, winning five rounds and his fourth World crown. A year later, in 2021, Gajser worked hard in a fierce battle with Herlings and Romain Febvre but could only score four round wins and failed to defend his championship.

Like all greats though, Gajser fought back to win his fifth World title in 2022 and finished the season with 10 GP wins. Despite still being one of the toughest men on the Grand Prix scene, Gajser has failed to add a World title to his name since 2022, but has scored six GP wins from 2023 and 2024 (he missed most of 2023 with injury).

You cannot keep a great champion down for long though and as we all saw last weekend, he claimed his 50th Grand Prix win in his 203rd GP attended and grabbed back the red plate. That is a win rate of roughly 25%, which is pretty impressive.

Only Jeffrey Herlings with a better rate from the current crop of MXGP riders, with 107 GP wins from 194 GP appearances, which is better than 50% win rate and rather incredible. The current MXGP champion, Jorge Prado has 49 GP wins from 147 GP appearances, so around 30% win rate.

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