Benoit Paturel and the De Baets MX team have reached an agreement to continue their collaboration next year. In its first year as a team in the MXGP class, the team is going through a positive season. Paturel is eleventh in the standings of the world championship and has managed to complete ten top ten […]
Category Archives: MXGP
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Sep
Sep
The penultimate round of the MXGP World Championship took place back in Italy at the old school and historic track of Maggiora. The Italian fans came out in full force for the event which saw an electric atmosphere. After lots of rain coming into the weekend and early Saturday morning the track was wet for […]
19
Sep
Sep
Benoit Paturel of the De Baets MX team has scored another top ten moto finish at the penultimate round of the World Championship MXGP in Maggiora, Italy. Paturel was riding a really strong opening moto and managed to finish in eighth position. In the second moto he was struggling to find his rhythm and finished […]
05
Sep
Sep
The Gebben van Venrooy Yamaha squad made the long journey to Turkey for the seventeenth round of the MXGP World Championship as the season comes to a conclusion. On Saturday, after a storm hit the track and with heavy winds making it dangerous for the riders, it was sensibly decided to cancel the MXGP qualifying […]
05
Sep
Sep
Benoit Paturel of the De Baets MX team has scored a top ten moto finish at round seventeen of the world championship MXGP in Afyonkarahisar in Turkiye. Paturel scored this position in the opening moto by finishing in tenth place. In the second moto he came home in twelfth place and this gave him eleventh […]
04
Sep
Sep
The Motocross World Championship arrived in Turkey at the technical and fast track of Afyonkarahisar for the penultimate round of the EMX250 and the final round of the Women’s World Championship. EMX250 In the EMX250, Cas Valk proved his talent and improvement thanks to an excellent performance on the hard-packed ground of the Turkish track. […]
21
Aug
Aug
Last weekend, the Arnhem circuit, characterised by a very sandy surface, hosted the Dutch Grand Prix, the 16th round of the 2023 FIM Motocross World Championship. The climate was mostly warm, quite unusual for these latitudes. Ben Watson (Beta 450RX) started the weekend with the fifteenth time in the time trials. In qualifying, after starting […]
14
Aug
Aug
Benoit Paturel of the De Baets MX team has scored eight world championship points at the Grand Prix of Sweden. Due to a crash in the opening moto his front brake got damaged which forced him to retire from the race. In the second moto he was struggling to find his rhythm in the muddy […]
31
Jul
Jul
The MXGP World Championship headed to Finland for the fourteenth round of the series and a new track for the GP riders with the sandy Vantaa circuit. The track was rough but tight and twisty making overtaking very difficult. On Saturday, a storm hit the circuit making things very wet and tricky, muddy conditions in […]
25
Jul
Jul
The Gebben van Venrooy Yamaha team made the short trip to Belgium for the toughest GP of the season in the deep sand of Lommel. The track had a complete revamp and despite the layout being unrecognisable it was still a very tough and bumpy track for the best riders in the world. The qualifying […]