Frauenfeld-Gachnang welcomes the motocross world elite on April 19 and 21
Five rounds of the 20-round Motocross World Championship 2025 are history. The next stop will be Frauenfeld-Gachnang on the upcoming long Easter weekend with the two action days on April 19 and 21. As a result, it has already become clear in the two world championship classes MXGP and MX2 who to watch out for at the MXGP of Switzerland, apart from the local heroes of course.
The top class of the Motocross World Championship is the MXGP. After the previous races in Argentina, Spain, France and twice in Italy, five-time world champion (2015 MX2; 2016, 2019, 2020, 2022 MXGP) Tim Gajser from (Honda) Team HRC leads the table with an already small points cushion. The Slovenian three-time Grand Prix winner in 2025 has 274 points to his name, 39 more than second-placed Romain Febvre. The Frenchman from Team Kawasaki Racing is decorated with at least one world championship title (2015 MXGP) and, almost as expected, has emerged as Tim Gajser's toughest opponent this year with one win so far this season.
The other places are currently occupied by Dutch rider Glenn Coldenhoff from the Fantic Factory Racing MXGP team, Lucas Coenen from Belgium from the Red Bull KTM Factory Racing team, who switched to the top category as runner-up in the 2024 MX2 World Championship, and French rider Maxime Renaux from the Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MXGP team, who was the 2021 MX2 World Champion.
After an injury layoff that lasted into the 2025 season, Dutch rider Jeffrey Herlings, the actual number 1 in the Red Bull KTM Factory Racing team, only very gradually got back into his stride at the last two Grand Prix. Nevertheless, the five-time world champion (2012, 2013 and 2016 MX2; 2018 and 2021 MXGP) should be kept in mind, especially as the record GP winner celebrated two of his 107 triumphs in Frauenfeld.
After a tough start to the season on the still fairly new Ducati Desmo450 MX of the Aruba.it Ducati Factory MX Team, local hero Jeremy Seewer has now at least returned to the top 10 places in the standings.
Yamaha privateer Valentin Guillod, who had to miss a Grand Prix, is 18th in the World Championship and Kevin Brumann (MX-Handel Husqvarna Racing) is currently 22nd.
Last year's champion Kay de Wolf from Team Nestaan Husqvarna Factory Racing is naturally once again the top favorite in the "small" MX2 World Championship class for riders up to 23 years of age on 250cc machines. With two wins this season and two further podium finishes, the Dutchman has already put himself back in position.
However, the German Simon Längenfelder and the Italian Andrea Adamo, also a two-time GP winner in 2025, both from the Red Bull KTM Factory Racing team, follow him quite closely in the rankings.
Fourth overall is Kay de Wolf's teammate, the world champion's son and grandson Liam Everts from Belgium.
Mike Gwerder from Stadel and the HTS KTM Racing Team will make his second World Championship appearance in Frauenfeld-Gachnang.
The races on the traditional Schollenholz racetrack will be complemented by the two European championship classes EMX250 and EMX125.
Practice starts on Saturday (April 19) at 7:05 a.m. with Group 1 of the EMX125, followed by the MXGP and MX2 riders at 10:30 a.m. and the first European Championship races and then the qualifying races of the World Championship classes at 3:00 p.m.
On Monday (21.4.) the program starts at 9:45 am with another European Championship race and after the warm-up training sessions of the two categories with World Championship status, they will enter the arena at 1:15 pm to compete in two races over 30 minutes plus 2 laps in regular rotation to determine the 2025 Frauenfeld Grand Prix winners.
