FUN IN THE SUN FOR GAJSER & VALIN AS THEY WIN THE QUALIFYING RACES AT THE MXGP OF ITALY!

MONTEVARCHI (Italy) twentieth June 2026 – The temperatures climbed to the excessive thirties within the Tuscan hills above town of Montevarchi because the Crossdromo Miravalle venue offered an old-school, hardpack circuit that challenged riders’ throttle management and abilities of discovering traction, making the Qualifying Races for the MXGP of Italy a tense and due to this fact thrilling spectacle!

A mix of poor begins and first nook crashes hindered the progress of main title contenders in each courses, and we noticed some uncommon names on the entrance of the sector, which led to some nice racing because the quickest males fought to recuperate and rating probably the most factors attainable!

In MXGP, Tim Gajser took his first Qualifying Race win for over a 12 months, and the primary one together with his new Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MXGP staff!  Incredibly, he led a Slovenian 1-2 as TEM JP253 KTM Racing privateer Jan Pancar claimed a profession greatest second place, forward of former MX2 World Champion Andrea Adamo, who was third for Red Bull KTM Factory Racing!

The MX2 class was dominated by Mathis Valin, because the second-year French teenager took his third profession Qualifying Race win for Kawasaki Racing Team MX2.  After preventing by way of from first lap adversity, Triumph Racing Factory Team duo Guillem Farres and Camden McLellan took second and third, a consequence which put the Spaniard as much as second within the Championship heading into tomorrow’s Grand Prix races!

Sunday ought to see the fightback from a few of the prime Championship contenders, nevertheless it gained’t be simple in opposition to those that have already discovered their tempo on the slick floor of Montevarchi!

MXGP Start Montevarchi 2026

In Free Practice, it was a Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MXGP 1-2 as five-time World Champion Tim Gajser led his French teammate Maxime Renaux, with Kawasaki Racing Team MXGP’s Romain Febvre in third.

In an action-packed Time Practice session, Febvre got here in with an awesome late cost to seize the primary gate decide for the Qualifying Race, because the Honda HRC Petronas machine of Jeffrey Herlings got here as much as second place forward of Gajser, Renaux, and shock bundle Jan Pancar!  There was a bit of concern for the Championship chief, as Lucas Coenen was down in thirteenth for Red Bull KTM Factory Racing. 

At the beginning of the Qualifying Race itself, it was Tom Vialle, coming back from harm with Honda HRC Petronas, that appeared to have gotten the lead, however the Frenchman ran extensive and allowed Pancar to sneak into the lead from an unshakeable inside line! He was adopted by Fantic Factory Racing MXGP’s Alberto Forato, sending his dwelling crowd into raptures!  Vialle was capable of recuperate for third, nevertheless it wasn’t lengthy earlier than Gajser was capable of dive into that place with an aggressive transfer in entrance of Pit Lane! 

The Slovenian then made brief work of Forato to take second, and Adamo additionally moved ahead previous his countryman into third place!  Behind them, Renaux had pressured previous Vialle, whereas Calvin Vlaanderen gave chase for the Red Bull Ducati Factory MXGP Team.

You might have observed that we nonetheless haven’t talked about any of the collection prime three! Coenen, Febvre, and Herlings completed the primary lap collectively from eleventh to thirteenth, and on the busy, slick floor weren’t even capable of advance from there for at the very least one other lap!

Nestaan Husqvarna Factory Racing’s MXGP rookie Kay de Wolf and Honda HRC Petronas’ Ruben Fernandez had been concerned in a giant incident in Time Practice, because the Spaniard crashed closely, and the Dutchman then hit his fallen machine.  Both tried to race and began within the prime ten, however would each succumb to the ache from their accidents and are uncertain for tomorrow’s races.

It took till lap 4 for Gajser to get previous Pancar, which he did with a slick inside transfer on the prime of the circuit above the grandstands, however Adamo was not capable of catch the 2 Slovenians out in entrance!  Meanwhile, Forato was holding station in fourth, and got here below relentless assault from Renaux!  As Coenen, Febvre, and Herlings all moved ahead, they have been capable of get previous Vialle, and profit from a small crash for Vlaanderen, placing them in sixth to eighth positions by the tip of lap 9.  In a five-rider freight practice, they stayed that method for an extra two laps earlier than Renaux lastly put an inside transfer on Forato to take fourth!

Then it was Coenen’s flip to make his try, however as he was pinched to the within of a downhill proper hander, the opportunistic Febvre blasted spherical the skin of the Belgian to take sixth!  The Champ adopted this up with a intelligent outside-to-inside transfer previous Forato on the penultimate lap, then the Italian lastly gave method, dropping to eighth on the flag.  It was nonetheless the Fantic rider’s equal-best of the 12 months up to now, and he completed forward of Vialle and the second Kawasaki Racing Team MXGP bike of Pauls Jonass in tenth.

Febvre caught as much as Renaux however couldn’t go his countryman, as they completed fourth and fifth, then got here Coenen in sixth, making one other one-point achieve over Herlings within the Championship standings. 

After a tricky few GPs, Gajser coasted to a preferred win, and Pancar didn’t appear to be getting caught for second spot, bettering his earlier profession excessive of fourth from Germany final 12 months. Adamo’s third place equalled his greatest within the class up to now, matching his scores from Argentina and Trentino, and it moved him up within the Championship previous the unlucky Fernandez for seventh.  Renaux is now inside placing distance of De Wolf, simply 5 factors behind the Husqvarna man in fifth.

Will the Coenen versus Herlings battle for supremacy from earlier rounds be again in play tomorrow, or will we see this uncommon circuit ship extra shocks and surprises on Grand Prix Sunday?!

Tim Gajser: “I’m so happy. The first qualifying win with Yamaha is special, and to do it here in Italy. I was feeling good all day long. The track was not the easiest, so the start was really important. I got a solid start from the inside and then made a pass quite quickly at the beginning. Jan was riding really good, but once I made the pass I pushed for a couple of laps to make the gap, and that’s what I did, then just controlled the race. Tomorrow is going to be a hot one, but I’m really looking forward to it.”

Jan Pancar: “You could nearly say it was a Slovenian national championship out there. But yeah, I’m really happy to be in front. I got the holeshot. I was always saying I needed that start to be up front, and today I got it. The riding was good.”

Andrea Adamo: “First of all, congrats to Jan, who’s a privateer, txo finish P2 so close to the Tim. That’s amazing, so congrats to him. My race didn’t have the best start. I had a good jump, but in the first corner I didn’t make the right choices and had to fight my way back from P6 to P3. After that I had a solid race. Looking forward to tomorrow.”

    

1. Jan Pancar; 2. Andrea Adamo

MXGP – Qualifying Race Classification: 1. Tim Gajser (SLO, Yamaha), 25:07.852; 2. Jan Pancar (SLO, KTM), +0:04.855; 3. Andrea Adamo (ITA, KTM), +0:07.065; 4. Maxime Renaux (FRA, Yamaha), +0:10.800; 5. Romain Febvre (FRA, Kawasaki), +0:11.947; 6. Lucas Coenen (BEL, KTM), +0:14.911; 7. Jeffrey Herlings (NED, Honda), +0:17.335; 8. Alberto Forato (ITA, Fantic), +0:18.302; 9. Tom Vialle (FRA, Honda), +0:18.623; 10. Pauls Jonass (LAT, Kawasaki), +0:23.083;

MXGP – World Championship Classification: 1. Lucas Coenen (BEL, KTM), 409 factors; 2. Jeffrey Herlings (NED, HON), 346 p.; 3. Romain Febvre (FRA, KAW), 316 p.; 4. Tim Gajser (SLO, YAM), 304 p.; 5. Kay de Wolf (NED, HUS), 273 p.; 6. Maxime Renaux (FRA, YAM), 268 p.; 7. Andrea Adamo (ITA, KTM), 249 p.; 8. Ruben Fernandez (ESP, HON), 247 p.; 9. Tom Vialle (FRA, HON), 221 p.; 10. Pauls Jonass (LAT, KAW), 176 p.

Mathis Valin

Guillem Farres topped Free Practice within the morning, by over half a second from Red Bull KTM Factory Racing’s Championship chief Sacha Coenen, whereas very native ace Ferruccio Zanchi appeared good in third for Beddini Racing Ducati Factory MX2 Team.  Sadly, the rider from close by Florence had a painful crash in Time Practice that hampered his efforts for the remainder of the day, made worse by a technical downside on the beginning line that prevented him from even competing within the Qualifying Race.

Coenen restored regular order to seize first gate decide from Time Practice, though a late cost from Nestaan Husqvarna Factory Racing ‘s Liam Everts bought shut, making it a Belgian 1-2 in entrance of Farres, the Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MX2 rookie Janis Reisulis, and Camden McLellan in fifth.

Red Bull KTM Factory Racing’s reigning World Champion, Simon Längenfelder, appeared to have began nicely, however slid to the bottom in flip one, beginning a sequence response that claimed Coenen, Farres, Everts, and Janis Reisulis, to place many main contenders on the ground instantly!

Briefly within the lead was a 16-year-old Italian, EMX125 graduate Andrea Uccellini, a shock stand-in rider for TM Moto CRD Motosport, doing their lovely particular dwelling livery proud!  From his eleventh gate decide, nonetheless, Mathis Valin tucked into the lead by way of flip two, and proceeded to march away from the competitors.  Behind Uccellini, Jens Walvoort of the SB Racing KTM Team led Hungarian Noel Zanocz from Venrooy KTM Racing, and one other shock early runner was Italian Morgan Bennati on the Fly Over Competition Triumph!

Sacha Coenen’s restoration was fairly good, preventing by way of to tenth on the finish of the primary full lap, and Farres was not far behind in twelfth, whereas Everts and Längenfelder languished in twenty second and twenty seventh positions respectively! 

Uccellini was swiftly shuffled again, and was little question nonetheless delighted together with his 14th place on the flag.  Walvoort and Zanocz stayed in second or third till a rampant Farres, who had pulled an excellent transfer on Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MX2 man Karlis Reisulis, amongst others, fought previous them each in a wonderful seventh lap for the Spaniard.

While Farres had handed teammate McLellan on the way in which by way of, the South African additionally made speedy progress to assert third on the flag, whereas Coenen’s progress was stunted by a rear finish slide-out in entrance of Pit Lane.  He nonetheless picked it up in a short time and was capable of recuperate to fourth place, passing Zanocz and Walvoort with three laps to go, in a trend that disrupted the Dutchman sufficient for him to additionally lose a spot to the Hungarian, who was elated with fifth, his first ever factors on a Saturday to enhance his profession greatest by a substantial margin!

Walvoort was denied the possibility to match his profession greatest Qualifying Race by a final lap go from Janis Reisulis for sixth, whereas Karlis took eighth forward of Everts, and the DRT Kawasaki of Kay Karssemakers. Längenfelder did decide up the tempo however couldn’t get into the factors, winding up eleventh.

Valin held good kind to hardly lose any time to the chasing Farres till the closing laps, and because of this he strikes previous Everts into fifth within the standings.  Ahead of them within the desk, Farres moved previous Längenfelder to rise to second within the factors chase, backing up his claims that he’s a real title risk! He is now 38 factors behind crimson plate holder Coenen, and if these two get out of the gate nicely tomorrow it might give us a titanic tussle between them!

As at all times, MX2 is extensive open and unpredictable for tomorrow’s races, and it’s gotta be mentioned that MXGP appears like that as nicely after in the present day’s outcomes! It’s one you don’t want to be lacking, so tune in on Sunday for the MXGP of Italy from Montevarchi!

Mathis Valin: “Timed practice and free practice were horrible for me today. And just before going into the gate I had a problem, so it was tough. That’s why I was a bit far back, but I managed a good start and took the holeshot, so I’m really proud of that. It was a good, consistent lap. I had to manage the race a bit because the heat is quite crazy and we need to save energy for tomorrow. See you tomorrow.”

    

1. Guillem Farres; 2. Camden Mc Lellan

MX2 – Qualifying Race Classification: 1. Mathis Valin (FRA, Kawasaki), 25:09.572; 2. Guillem Farres (ESP, Triumph), +0:02.887; 3. Camden Mc Lellan (RSA, Triumph), +0:04.002; 4. Sacha Coenen (BEL, KTM), +0:16.035; 5. Noel Zanocz (HUN, KTM), +0:20.380; 6. Janis Martins Reisulis (LAT, Yamaha), +0:21.235; 7. Jens Walvoort (NED, KTM), +0:23.273; 8. Karlis Alberts Reisulis (LAT, Yamaha), +0:30.071; 9. Liam Everts (BEL, Husqvarna), +0:32.516; 10. Kay Karssemakers (NED, Kawasaki), +0:37.917

MX2 – World Championship Classification: 1. Sacha Coenen (BEL, KTM), 387 factors; 2. Guillem Farres (ESP, TRI), 349 p.; 3. Simon Längenfelder (GER, KTM), 343 p.; 4. Camden Mc Lellan (RSA, TRI), 334 p.; 5. Mathis Valin (FRA, KAW), 318 p.; 6. Liam Everts (BEL, HUS), 316 p.; 7. Janis Martins Reisulis (LAT, YAM), 285 p.; 8. Karlis Alberts Reisulis (LAT, YAM), 226 p.; 9. Valerio Lata (ITA, HON), 216 p.; 10. Kay Karssemakers (NED, KAW), 162 p.

All the pictures from the MXGP of Italia shall be out there HERE.

You can discover the whole outcomes HERE.

TIMETABLE

SUNDAY:

08:50 EMX250 Race 2, 10:25 MX2 Warm-up, 10:45 MXGP Warm-up, 13:15 MX2 Race 1, 14:15 MXGP Race 1, 16:10 MX2 Race 2, 17:10 MXGP Race 2.

Catch all of the racing LIVE on MXGP-TV! 

Races from all courses shall be broadcasted LIVE on MXGP’s streaming service www.MXGP-TV.com, whereas outcomes all through the weekend shall be out there  HERE.

LINKS

Infront Moto Racing

FIM

FIM Europe

MXGP ITALY