GP Bits: 2022 MXGP of Trentino 5

Round 5 of the FIM World Motocross Championship from Italy.

Klinger

4/12/2022 12:24pm

Photos by JP Acevedo

One - one moto scores at his 'home' GP, Tim Gajser is continuing his great 2022 season.

As this is the closest race to his home country of Slovenia, there a ton of TG243 fans in Trentino.

They even call this Gajser's corner.

Prado's lid celebrating his Spanish heritage.

Even though he is not sponsored by them, it looks like he's wearing the A-4 Max Chest Protector from Alpinestars.

If you haven't seen it there is a feature story on our homepage dedicated to this bike. It is a Husqvarna TC 125 and it confirms the rumors about an all new two-stroke platform from KTM/Husqvarna/GG. This side shows the electronic powervalve.

Totally different engine layout, estart, no kick backup, new frame, new bodywork, new suspension, new everything.

All the same bodywork as the 22.5 Rockstar Editions.

Liam Everts, son of legendary MXGP racer Stefan Everts was racing in the MX2 class.

This was his first race this year. He's got big shoes to fill in the Everts family.

Not sure if the tape on Coldenhoff's helmet was to plug up the holes on the visor or to hold the visor on. At first I thought it was blocking the vents to make it a little warmer but the vents are cut out.

Kay De Wolf has some serious swag for young gun. And Fox keeps him looking fresh, too.

Kay de Wolf: "I am pretty happy to be back on the podium! I am still not back to one hundred percent, after Argentina and those tough few weeks, but this is a great step forward. I actually struggled with the track on Saturday, but we made some great changes and I felt so strong today. We will be back to battle again in Latvia."

Easier said than done.

Tom Vialle, 1st and 1st for 1st overall in MX2: “A great day for me. I felt good today, especially in the second moto. Kay was behind me for a long time but I focused and pushed when I needed to. The bike was working amazing today and for that I want to thank the team. We did a great job and now have the red plate; it’s always nice to have it on the front of the bike!”

The KTM crew swapping out some internals on the booties of a pair of Tech 10s.

Fox has stepped it up a few notches lately with the custom gear. Without any factory riders representing the brand in this Supercross season (KR and AC are out) looks like Fox can devote their time and energy to the MXGP and MX2 racers.

Brian Bogers stoking out his sponsor with a custom painted helmet.

Dragging bar? How about dragging body!!! Jago Gerts lays it down like a savage on his way to a first moto win.

Mikkel Haarup races for the Dixon Racing Kawasaki team and got his third podium of the year. We are going to look at his machine.

For an MX2 team there sure is a bunch of cool stuff on here. DVR pipe, custom engine hangers, cnc'd brake clevis, carbon fiber subframe, airbox, and skid plate.

They are looking to get more air with the long cutouts on top of the numberplate.

Better look at the cutouts and carbon beneath. Also an obviously unique feature of this machine is the WP suspension.

All the gold accents look really good with the green, including the hubs.

Got the frame sticker through inspection. Those triple clamps are pretty big and the hardware looks to be ti.

The other side of the carbon air box. They are also goin with cutout graphics to save weight.

Carbon tank, pretty ubiquitous at the MXGPs.

The team does their own machining in house for certain parts like this ignition cover.

The hubs are from factory Kawasaki, which is rad.

Looks like a new LitPro or Crossbox like device.

DRT makes their own triple clamps for the team. Plus like other Euro teams, they've taken to the FB36 bar more than the US race teams.

Stock suspension as plan B?

Check out Prado's left hand!

Eeesh!

And he stayed up.

Thibault Benistant's helmet has the visor extension, not for mud but for rocks.

Pauls Jonass's FC 450 is much cleaner than it has been in the past.

While we've seen the pill-shaped holes in the airbox of the FC 250s, we haven't seen it on the 450.

And that engine hanger is super thin.

We are not sure why the graphics are cut that way and that middle bolt access hole isn't there on the FC 450 Rockstar Edition in our garage.

Factory WP lugs are super minimal.

Factory 'non-split' split clamps and solid bar mounts for Pauls.

Contrasting with last week, Just1 has BW in all black with gold.

Here's a closer look at Calvin Vlaandern's Gebben Van Venrooy YZ450F

Nothing too crazy in the motor deprtment, but cool to see the extra star button on the frame spar. Plus, looks like he wants a lot of grip with the grip tape on the plastics.

Not many Yamaha's running the HGS.

The header has the newest HGS resonator and almost every racing team on a blue bike uses the GYTR ignition cover. Plus you can see some radiator gusseting.

The silver Xtrigs look sweet on a blue machine.

The race bike gets the carbon fork and clamp guards.

The other bike was his backup, most likely. Here he gets even more grip with with the carbon brake guard. Cool to see them using Moose hardparts. They are the gear supplier for the team.