With the August break complete, the FIM Motocross World Championship (MXGP) will run its last two rounds, in Brazil and Mexico.
After a break for the entire month of August, the FIM Motocross World Championship (MXGP) resumes in Goias Brazil this weekend for the final duo of back-to-back overseas Grands Prix.
Brazil was also the host country for round three, but this venue, located in the State of Goias near the federal capital of Brazil, has never hosted an MXGP before, so it will be new for all riders. The Goiania circuit is hard pack surface, and the riders will have to contend with 100-degree (Farenheit) temperatures.
Team HRC will go into Brasil a man down, as Evgeny Bobryshev continues to recover from from the broken left tibia and fibula that he suffered in the GP of Italy on June 15, and the Russian and Team HRC have decided that he will unfortunately not be able to race at the Motocross of Nations at the end of September. Team HRC will once again be represented solely by Germany’s Max Nagl on the factory HRC Honda CRF450RW. Honda Brazil are title-sponsors of the event, and the South American market is an important one for Honda, so the spotlight will be on Team HRC this weekend.
“I didn’t get to race in either Brazil or Mexico last year,” Nagl said. “I’m going to watch on YouTube races from past years to see what the track looks like, and then when I’m there I just have to walk the track. There’s not much you can do in advance to learn. Since Belgium I had two races and then just training and resting. I think I trained too hard to come back after Finland, and that was what happened in Lommel, so I’ve tried to have more balance.”
Despite the break in the MXGP schedule, Nagl has stayed busy by competing in Belgium and Germany, and he was recently confirmed as a member of the German Motocross of Nations team.
HRC General Manager Roger Harvey added that the team has been working hard to prepare for the final two MXGP rounds
“It is a totally new venue for this round in Brazil, and with Honda Brazil supporting the event it is a big one for us,” Harvey said. “We have been testing a number of different things with Max in preparation for Goiania and the final round in Mexico. Bobby (Bobryshev) is not ready yet, so will sit out the rest of the season. Our chief mechanic, Marcus De Freitas, comes from the Goiania area, so he knows the terrain and he knows the area so we have a good idea as to what it’s going to be like and what we’re going to need.”
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