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Only $10 for all 2026 SX, MX, and SMX series.
That's a pretty good total. Looks like around 13 to 14 full factory rides? Trying to remember if that is a bigger or smaller number than 2025....
Lapucci to Millionaire Racing Team for 7/8 MXGP rounds next year + Italian Championship
Is that the team that Arminas Jesikonis finished his GP career with ?
That is not a strong list for now. Still some months to go.
From the people under missing on your list it looks that Van Erp currently has nothing, just riding on a privateer KTM.
Grau is still riding with WZ decals.
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I believe so but I could be wrong, I’m pretty sure Tropepe raced/races for them too
Weak field for 2026 in MX2 category, I'm afraid!
Thanks to the age limit.
Garcia staying in EMX seems like a waste to me, was going much better than Reisulis & Zanocz at the end of the season. I would have thought Kawasaki would want him as team mate to Valin.
Garcia has already the level to ride the MX2 world championship. But not enough budget by KRT Kawasaki to take him alongside Valin...
and Bud Racing having budget/bike to race competive in EMX but I dont see them matching Factory KTM or KRT Kawasaki in MX2. Garcia sems interesting rider as he can ride Sand also, man handle bike and sure not scared to pass riders or take them out when trying to pass.
Exactly, i think he has real championship potential in MX2. Sad state of affairs when he has to stay in the EMX for another year to be honest! Especially if there will only be 15-20 permanent MX2 entries.
They better make it a european championship......with soon weak field you can't call it a world championship
I’m counting 17 factory rides for 2026.
Stop crying about mx2 weak field and blame age limit. It is class for younger boys, we have strong and competitive mxgp class,will you be happy if we will add mx3 category again and then will have one more world champion? Not everybody should be world champ,that's why mxgp is one real fast category, even this year we left with only Febvre and Coenen as real competing riders world champ.
US 450 and 250 in outdoors is a different story.
Do you work for InFront? Or are you blind?
Ah yes, 14 full time GP riders. But I'll stop crying
I think we're "finally" seeing the true effects of the bad overall economy and especially a bad powersports market. I think this is the reality the coming 3-5 years at least.
Why cant we have 2 strong and competitive classes? EMX250 is supposed to be the class for younger boys (and girls), not MX2.
Age rule in EMX250 - Fine, I get it.
In MX2 world championship - really dumb.
Right now EMX250 and MX2 are way too similar. I cannot understand why someone arent allowed to make a career out of beeing a great MX2 rider.
All this age rule in MX2 does is that it makes the MX2 field weak, and tons and tons of great riders without a ride because MXGP is too crowded with too few rides.
MX3 only disappeared because MXGP and MX3 were essentially on the exact same bikes in the end because of fourstroke evolution.
Did anyone complain when we had 3 competitive, very different and special classes in 125, 250 and 500? NO! It was amazing.
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Start money.
And sometimes, the teams decide which race they will run. And not the riders.
i think pointing at the age rule misses an important issue in MX2: The tuning costs.
Bobby Bruce mentioned it in his interview with gatedrop: he goes privateer MX1 because of the running & tuning costs of the 250. Hakon Osterhagen will also ride MX1 in his homecountry.
Riders like those two would be perfect privateer effort riders in MX2 GP for a bunch of wildcards, but the unfortunate thing is that for tuning a ktm to a lowly tuned GP bike you'll need 4 to 5k euro and you can run 4-5 GP with that. So doing 8 tot 10 GP would set a privateer back 10k, and that is in the situation that you train with at stock bike. That is a lot of money for a privateer for 8 GP, especially when you can ride mx1 with a stock bike.
Yes it is an expensive sport.....those 2 riders you mention simply do not have the talent to be successful in mx2......has little to with tunning.....and with those bikes they ride in the emx 250 you can also just start in the mx2.....and if you are really talented...that is no problem
Its clear @mxxxeR1 why these two do not have one of the 10-12-14 funded MX2 rides, thats not my point.
My point is Bruce choses MX1 over MX2 because of tuning costs, and therefor we wont see him wildcard in MX2. Where he would actually be a decent addition to fill the field.
imo many people forget the costs of the 250 and what impact it has for a privateer. Its not just remove the age limit and we will see guys like Bogh Damm, Polak, Meier, Edberg, weckmann, rizzi, sydow, etc. etc. start showing up.
okay i understand what you are saying.......that age limit is not the only thing that needs to change......there should also be prize money ......the entrance fee is 100euro if you get 10000 visitors then you have 1 million euro in entrance fees alone......then there is money for prize money
I also get the idee that all those motocross sites and journalist are so afraid of infront that they never dare to write antything critical about them.......and as long as they get their money it's fine
Yeah i think the whole system is just not working for the guys over 21. After your parents stop paying and you dont get a factory ride it is basically impossible to continue as a privateer if you have to pay it as a 22 year old. That starts with Infront, then you have the industry brands (where is the contingency etc in GPs?) and for sure the media is just trying to not talk about Infronts issues, or any issue (just look at the Jumbo story that involves a factory team, another gp team and a former gp team).
Another food for thought: we've seen how impressive Pancar and Guillod were this year. Yet they have no offer for 2026. That's gotta be pretty demoralising for similar riders looking for their breakthrough.
I thought going to countries to race that sell 1 bazzillion mopeds a year would of paid off by now
Should there be a 250 stock class instead of age group classes?
Yeah i would imagine that is also a factor. If guys like Guillod or Bogers (who both got top 5's in mxgp this season) cant make a living that should be pretty demolarising.
Those guy will be fill ins somewhere and make some money, they can do national championships also .
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