Red Bull KTM’s Jorge Prado dominated the Grand Prix of Latvia in the MX2 class and the latest round of the FIM Motocross World Championship to increase his lead in the standings to 30 points over Thomas Kjer Olsen. The eighteen year old Spaniard started from first place and set the pace in every session. His 1-1 represented his seventh ‘double’ of the year. From eight rounds of MX2 prior to Latvia, Jorge Prado has claimed seven wins (all seven he has contested in 2019). Prado was understandably upbeat despite a hard weekend for his teammates in the MXGP class. “This weekend was a bit down for the team. There were some ‘ups’ like my victory and the good ride by Tom but then Jeffrey and Tony getting injured is upsetting,” said Prado. “I wish a speed recovery for both of them. From my side it was a perfect weekend.…

Dean Harrison has won the Dunlop Senior TT, the most prestigious race of the Isle of Man TT. Michael Dunlop took the top step in the Lightweight TT. Both riders were running Metzler tyres. The success at the Dunlop Senior TT represents an historic victory for both the tyre brand and the rider from Bradford, who took the Senior TT for the very first time. Furthermore, at 30, Dean Harrison is one of the youngest riders ever to win this race. After getting three second places in the Superbike and Supersport races on Monday 3rd June and in the Superstock race on Thursday 6th June, Harrison finally got a 2019 win under his belt in the blue ribbon Senior race. Harrison was riding the Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10RR of the Silicone Engineering Racing Kawasaki team fitted with Metzler Racetec RR Slick tyres and won by 53 seconds over second place Peter…

With just a week to go before the official FIM Enel MotoE test at Valencia, electric bike builder Energica has released video and pictures of a crash that occurred in testing at the Cremona Circuit. Official Test Rider Alessandro Brannetti crashed one of the Ego Corsas whilst braking into a corner. The bike tumbled and rolled on the gravel trap a few times. The images released by the company show how little damage the bike suffered in the incident, which goes some way to proving how solid and safe the bike is in a real world scenario. Energica has now completed the rebuild of all the Ego Corsa machines which will be used at the Ricardo Tormo Circuit for three days, from June 17th, before taking on the opening round of the series at the Sachsenring in early July. The company also completed eight days of testing with 80 laps…

Red Bull KTM Factory Racing’s Taddy Blazusiak and Jonny Walker finished in sixth and eighth places respectively at the 2019 Erzbergrodeo Red Bull Hare Scramble in Austria. KTM supported Manuel Lettenbichler finished as runner-up following a two-and-a-half-hour battle for victory. The 25th Erzbergrodeo Red Bull Hare Scramble once again lived up to its fearsome reputation as being the world’s toughest one-day hard endure, with huge puddles and extremely slippery conditions in the forest sections adding to the level of difficulty faced by the 500 qualified riders. Five-time winner of the event, Taddy Blazusiak put in an excellent performance to bring his KTM 300 EXC TPI home in sixth place. “I feel this is one of those results that doesn’t show how well I rode,” said Blazusiak. “I got together with Billy off the start then got stuck with the riders who fell on the first hill, so it was a…

Red Bull KTM Factory Racing’s Jonny Walker, Taddy Blazusiak, Josep Garcia and Nathan Watson are fully prepared and ready to race round three of the World Enduro Super Series – the iconic Erzbergrodeo. The four-rider team will be joined in Austria by Laia Sanz as she attempts to become the first female rider to complete the world’s toughest one-day enduro and Cody Webb who is aiming to be the first American to top the Erzberg podium. Now celebrating its 25th year, Erzbergrodeo is one of the best known, and toughest, extreme enduro events in the world. 500 riders will take on the daunting ‘Iron Giant’ on Sunday June 2, and with only four hours to complete the course just a handful will make the finish. The terrain of Erzberg is legendary. Held in one of Europe’s largest open-cast mines, riders will face near-vertical climbs right from the start, followed by…

Round 2 of the 2019 AMA Pro Motocross Championship, which took place at California’s Fox Raceway on Saturday, threw up a strong result for the Red Bull KTM Factory Racing Team, with Marvin Musquin putting on a great show for the crowd as he raced his way to a podium finish with 3-2 moto scores on the day. His teammate, Cooper Webb, finished just outside the top five with a consistent performance in sixth overall. Musquin put himself into fourth off the start of 450MX Moto 1, powering his way up to second by lap three. He put on a charge late in the race to bring himself up to the rear wheel of the leader, where he soon found himself in a three-way battle for the top spot. With only three laps to go, Musquin got passed for second and while he battled to the end, he ultimately finished…