The longtime KTM rider has switched to Honda for the 2026 Motocross World Championship, and is off to a fast start.

Well over a decade removed from calling time on his AMA Pro Racing career, Ryan Villopoto is still making things happen in the racing world.

Having won the 1983 AMA 125cc National Motocross Championship as well as the 1984 AMA Supercross Championship and serving as coach and mentor to Jett and Hunter Lawrence, Johnny O’Mara has seen a few things along the way during his extraordinary career in the sport. But perhaps one of the...

I first met Ryan Villopoto in August 2002 when he was a 13-year-old kid competing in the 85cc Modified (9-13) class at the AMA Amateur National Motocross Championship in Tennessee. Nobody on the fence watching Villopoto take on then factory Honda Minicycle pilot Mike Alessi that afternoon knew who the...

Shortly after the running of the MXGP of Lombok at the Selaparang Circuit, Antti Pyrhonen, team manager of the Kawasaki Racing Team MXGP program, was reflecting on the back-to-back Grands Prix team rider Romain Febvre won while competing in Indonesia.“I believe the two wins in Indonesia will allow Romain to...

Jeremy Seewer was a long way from home. The evening before, the 2022 Swiss-born MXGP vice-champion was holding station at K1 Speed in downtown San Diego, California, and in tandem with Yamaha Motor Corporation teammates Eli Tomac and Dylan Ferrandis (Monster Energy AMA Supercross and AMA Pro Motocross) and Fabio...

Even though racers from France are consistently among the frontrunners in any given edition of the MXGP Motocross World Championship, a member of the French Republic has not won the MXGP World Championship since Romain Febvre snagged the FIM Gold Medal in 2015.Maxime Renaux of the Monster Energy Yamaha Factory...

The FIM first started handing out gold medals for World Championships way back in 1949. First it was the FIM Road Racing Championship Grand Prix (now called MotoGP), and then in 1957, the Motocross World Championship was launched. Beginning with the great Jeff Smith and his futuristic BSA in 1964,...

MXGP world championship contender Thomas Covington has announced his retirement from professional motocross both in Europe and the United States of America."Hey guys, so I’ve decided that it was time to move on to something new,” said the 24-year-old Alabama native from his current home in England. “To stop racing...

‘Latvia. 3.5 for fourth overall. I was a bit off all day today, I didn’t have a great feeling, but hey, I won’t complain. My first ever holeshot and we just missed the podium. Thanks to everyone for getting behind me.’So read the Twitter post Ben Watson wrote a few...