

Langenfelder had been showing great promise in his rookie MX2 season until a torn knee ligament put him on the sidelines. Yamaha Factory MXGP and MX2 Teams primed for MXGP opener in Russia The 21-year-old has been a bit of an enigma through his career so far and physically has the tools to get the job done but how bad does he want it? For almost a year Conrad has been working with four-time British Champion and former GP winner Stephen Sword and it seems to be paying off as the ’21 version of Conrad is faster, sharper and seems to be smiling more. If Ben Watson is our great hope in MXGP, all the attention is on Conrad Mewse (Hitachi KTM Fuelled by Milwaukee) in MX2. As an MXGP-class rookie with little bike time, Josh is likely to struggle a little early on but should score points when he hits his stride. Josh had a strong run in MX2 in 2020 and spent the tail end of the year battling it out for a top-20 ranking which he missed by a whisker. His team-mate Evgeny Bobryshev has been taken off the entry list after hurting his shoulder just before Lyng. Josh Gilbert hasn’t been seen yet in 2021 after undergoing knee surgery in the off-season and he tells us he’s on track for a return soon (see the MXGP of Russia pre-race injury report for more).

He’s one hell of a talent and has a good work ethic too so we should expect to see him scoring points regularly. Nathan Watson meanwhile is settling back into race mode after concentrating on dodging trees and winning beach races for the last few years. Adam was knocking on the door of the top-10 at the season-enders in Trentino so there’s hope for a decent points haul from him in 2021.

Simpson, who missed the majority of 2020 with injuries, seems to be struggling to find a set-up that he’s happy with at the moment – although he made huge improvements at the recent MX Nationals round – and Sterry seems steady away from what we’ve seen of him in the British championship so far.
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How to watch the MXGP of Russia – Orlyonok Live Streaming and TV Guide 2021 Maybe they are but maybes don’t win world championships – points do and Gajser is adept at collecting more than anyone else. You could say that he’s on a roll but you could also say that those last two wins have come because of injuries to others. The 24-year-old Slovenian is a four-time world champion with half of those victories coming in the last two seasons. If there were a #1 plate it’d be stuck on the HRC Honda of Tim Gajser. The depth of talent is higher than ever and choosing a winner from this lot is next to impossible. Throw in those with near misses and the guys with the potential to be a world champion and even breaking into the top 15 will be quite the achievement. The MXGP class is stacked this year with no fewer than seven world champions in the lineup who between them have an incredible 22 world titles. EMX competition will take place on Saturdays with MXGP/MX2 racing focused on the Sunday. The riders actually seem to prefer that format though rather than the drawn out two-day format of old. That means limited track time and timed qualifying before the points-payers blast off the line. The championship will run a one-day format in 2021 much like it did post-Covid in 2020. Of course, as Europe and the wider world emerges from lockdown at varying speeds there is still the potential that things may yet change before the championship wraps up in Bali on the first weekend of December. The rest of the calendar is equally as enticing (nasal probes aside) with trips to classics like Maggiora, Loket, Lommel, Agueda, Teustchenthal and Arco di Trento mixed in with old-school venue Oss and some potential new classics too.

And those of us that live on this island won’t even have to endure an overpriced nasal probing to enjoy it.
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Perhaps the best part about round one being over there is that when the circus comes over here to Matterley Basin for round two, it’ll be the first time that the majority of the series supporters get to see all the magical MXGP newness for the very first time. Updated MXGP of Russia Entry List – Pre-Race Injury Report
