Gajser looks to continue win-streak at majestic Maggiora

After winning the last five motos, Team HRC’s Tim Gajser is looking to extend that winning streak at the seventh round of the 2022 MXGP World Championship, held at the prestigious Maggiora track in northern Italy.

Having hosted some of the most memorable moments in motocross history, the hillside venue is hoping to become a regular on the MXGP calendar once again, after last year’s return from a five-year hiatus.

So far in 2022, Gajser has stood on the top step of the podium five times out of six, narrowly missing out on a full-house by a couple of seconds. He has won eight of the 12 motos and sits 66 points clear after just six rounds. It has been a season of controlled-speed and impressive passes from the Honda CRF450R rider and he’ll be hoping to continue this form at a track that he actually won at back in 2015 on his way to the MX2 World Championship. Last year’s storm-hit event didn’t quite to plan so he’s fully-focused on making sure that doesn’t happen again and is instead looking to try to increase that five-moto win-streak even higher.

For teammate Mitch Evans, his race experience at Maggiora consists of just the 2016 Motocross of Nations, when the young Australian made his professional European debut. It was a massive step-up, but sowed the seed that eventually saw him make the transition to the MXGP series a few years later. And while 2022 hasn’t gone entirely to plan, he has made positive strides this year and will return to this majestic circuit with the belief that things will get better as he gets more and more track time.

As has been the case this year, the event will be run over two days, with free practice (11:20), timed practice (14:00) and the qualifying race taking place on Saturday 7^th May. The two points-scoring motos will then have their gate-drops at 14:15 and 17:10 on Sunday 8^th.