MXGP Back in Belgium

This weekend Monster Energy Yamaha Factory Racing’s Romain Febvre and Jeremy Van Horebeek will take on the hostile sand of Lommel – for the MXGP of Belgium – in what will be fourteenth round of nineteen in the 2017 FIM Motocross World Championship. Lommel is widely recognized as one of the most physically, mentally and technically demanding tracks in the world and it is bound to be a testing round of racing, especially for Wilvo Yamaha Official MXGP’s Arnaud Tonus who will be putting the all-new 2018 YZ450F through its paces in the treacherous sand.

After recovering from a broken finger and despite facing a severe amount of pain during the last two rounds of the MXGP series, where using his front-brake was difficult, Belgium’s own Jeremy van Horebeek is hoping to place his works YZ450FM inside the top three for his home fans this weekend. Teammate to the local hero, Romain Febvre has been creeping up the championship classification and is also on a mission to uncork a bottle of champagne, while Arnaud Tonus will be lining up with the goal of further testing and developing the 2018 YZ450F.

The world renowned circuit of Lommel, situated in the Limburg province of Belgium not far from the Dutch border of Luyksgestel and Valkenswaard, hosted its first round of the FIM Motocross World Championship back in 1990 where Finland’s Pekka Vehkonen won onboard a Yamaha YZ250.

This weekend will be the twelfth time that the venue will host a round of the FIM Motocross World Championship, where the weather forecast looks fair, 26 degrees Celsius with cloud-cover.