Team HRC prepare for Portugal in first of triple-header

The 2024 MXGP World Championship begins the first of it’s triple-headers this weekend as the series heads to Agueda, Portugal for the fifth round in this exciting battle. The following weekend the series heads north to Lugo in Spain for the inaugural race at that circuit before the third race in a row at the beautiful St Jean D’Angely track in France.

Tim Gajser will be the sole representative for Team HRC in Agueda, as Ruben Fernandez (MXGP) and Ferruccio Zanchi (MX2) recover from their injuries that have seen them miss the past few rounds. Fernandez’ injury is a bit more longer-term, but his initial recovery from the surgery has been good and he’s been diligently doing all his physio to try and get back on his Honda CRF450R as quickly as possible. For Zanchi, it was decided that another weekend on the sidelines was the best course of action, just to give his shoulder the best possible chance of being 100% as we start to approach the busy part of the calendar.

As for Gajser, the Slovenian closed up the gap in the championship to just 13 points after the last round in Trentino and while he is still looking for his first GP overall, he knows that he is riding extremely well and it is surely just a matter of time before he steps onto the top step of the podium. Agueda is a track he has done well at before, having won the GP back in 2019 and scored highly at in other years, and he’ll be hoping that he can make it another victory come Sunday evening after the completion of the two GP-scoring motos.