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Nestaan Husqvarna Factory Racing is excited to announce that Liam Everts, one of motocross’ brightest young talents, will join the team for the 2025 MX2 season. Everts will race alongside reigning MX2 World Champion Kay de Wolf, forming a duo that promises to take the FIM MX2 Motocross World Championship by storm. Liam Everts, aged 20, hailing from Hasselt in Belgium, carries a prestigious motocross pedigree as the son of ten-time world champion Stefan Everts and the grandson of four-time world champion Harry Everts. While his family’s legacy has undoubtedly shaped his early career, Liam’s own accomplishments are now speaking for themselves. In 2021, Liam made his MX2 debut at the Grand Prix of Sardinia, where he quickly began to establish himself as a force to be reckoned with. The next season, in 2022, Everts’ determination saw him secure a top-10 finish in the MX2 World Championship. Building on this momentum in 2023, Liam fiercely challenged Andrea Adamo for the world title until a major crash at the penultimate round interrupted his campaign. Despite this setback, 2023 was a breakout year for Everts. He captured Grand Prix victories in Germany, the Netherlands, and Turkey, firmly establishing himself on the world stage. By season’s end, he had secured fourth place overall in the MX2 World Championship - proving he’s ready to step out from his family’s shadow and make his own mark. The 2024 season saw Everts demonstrate his incredible raw speed once more, securing back-to-back Grand Prix victories in Trentino and Portugal before an unfortunate injury prematurely ended his season. Now, on his way to full fitness, Everts is ready to enter a new chapter with Husqvarna in 2025, where he will be racing on the Husqvarna FC250. #26 - Liam Everts: "I'm super happy to join Nestaan Husqvarna Factory Racing - they’re a great group of people, and it’s an exciting new challenge. I’ve spent a lot of time with them in the past, so I feel really good about this move. My motivation to take on a fresh challenge is really high; I definitely needed a change. We both want to win - that’s the ultimate goal. We want to become world champions. We’ll see how everything goes with me coming back from injury, but we’ll take it step by step and see what the speed is like once I’m back on the bike. This opportunity also felt like the perfect time to change my race number – new team, new colors, new number! After the accident, a lot changed, and now it felt like the right time to start something of my own. My family has been super supportive. It feels like an exciting, fresh chapter in my career!" Rasmus Jorgensen - Nestaan Husqvarna Factory Team Manager: “We’re super excited to have Liam join the Nestaan Husqvarna Factory Racing team. His talent, dedication, and strong work ethic make him a perfect fit for our program. With the unfortunate injury he sustained in China, the first and only priority right now is to get him back on the bike without any limitations whatsoever. With Kay [de Wolf], the reigning MX2 World Champion, as his teammate, we’re confident that this duo will continue to push themselves, each other, and our team forward, ultimately creating an exciting dynamic that will bring us great highlights in 2025! Let’s go TEAM!”

Nestaan Husqvarna Factory Racing's Kay de Wolf fulfilled a lifelong dream in 2024 by becoming a motocross world champion. From his humble beginnings through to the moment he crossed the finish line in Spain to capture his first world title, watch the full, raw, and emotional story of how a young racer from the Netherlands made his aspirations become a reality. Watch Kay de Wolf - The Journey to World Champion on the Husqvarna Mobility YouTube channel HERE. Featuring Kay’s family, friends, trainers, and team personnel, Kay de Wolf - The Journey to World Champion includes insights from some of the people closest to him who all played vital roles in his racing achievements. Since signing with Husqvarna for the 2019 season, Kay’s 2024 title marks the rewarding culmination of an exceptional six years with the brand. By guiding the Dutchman from his EMX125 debut through to claiming his first MX2 World Championship title, Nestaan Husqvarna Factory Racing is the first team in history to record such a feat. For the upcoming season, Kay will defend his MX2 title aboard his world championship winning FC 250, starting with the MXGP of Argentina on March 2, 2025. Head to the Husqvarna Mobility YouTube channel to watch Kay‘s Journey to World Champion HERE.

The nineteenth and penultimate Grand Prix of 2024 MotoGP™ took place in the heat and humidity of the Sepang International Circuit and Collin Veijer excelled in the difficult conditions to record 5th place. MotoGP travelled onwards to the familiar climes of Sepang for the third Grand Prix in a row and the last fixture in an overseas streak that has seen the series visit Australia and Thailand in recent weeks. Malaysia entertained the world championship for the 32nd time and Sepang opened its gates for the 24th occasion as a premium venue. The track is a popular testing site for Grand Prix due to the wide range of corners and the high technical challenge. The tropical climate also adds difficulty due to the temperatures and the propensity for showers. The opening session for the Moto3 riders and teams on Friday was wet as the IntactGP pairing of Collin Veijer and Tatsuki Suzuki took their Husqvarna FR 250 GP machinery onto the warm asphalt. As is the norm at Sepang, the surface quickly began to dry and Veijer ended Practice 5th fastest and half a second from 1st place while Suzuki was 10th. The Dutchman and Japanese charged into Q2 on Saturday with their own agendas in mind. Veijer is chasing the ‘silver medal’ in his second world championship season, while Suzuki was eying the possibility of fighting for his first podium finish for the team in 2024. After qualification the pair had made sure of 4th (for Suzuki and a season-best) and with Veijer in 8th on the grid for the 15 laps on Sunday. Sepang’s long 5.5km length and 15 corners, not forgetting the two long straights, placed large emphasis on braking, precision, tyre preservation and slipstreaming. Veijer and Suzuki were quickly into the dispute for the leading positions and through the oppressive temperatures and sunshine. Tatsuki’s race ended with a technical issue and seven laps to go. Collin kept pushing and was 5th and just one second from the winner by the chequered flag. One round remains in 2024. Veijer is joint-second in the Moto3 points table. Suzuki is 14th and still has a chance of pushing up to 12th. The IntactGP team 3rd. The cancelled Grand Prix of Valencia will be replaced by an event that races for Valencia. Collin Veijer, 5th: “The feeling was really good. When I saw that my rival for P2 in the overall standings had crashed, I told myself to stay calm and not risk anything crazy. That's what I did for the whole race, collecting everything but always trying to stay in the group. I had a lot of trouble at corner entry at the hard braking points because we were using the harder front tyre. Overall, we did a good job in terms of the championship by finishing the race in P5. This means that we are equal on points with the second-placed rider. we have to focus on the last race and do our job well there because we really want to take the runner-up position.” Tatsuki Suzuki, DNF: “My start was okay. After that, I stayed pretty calm because we had opted for the harder tyre. My plan was to stay behind the group but when I realized that the riders in front were slowing down the pace, I said to myself: ‘Okay, this is the moment to push’ but at that point we had a technical problem. So, it's a shame, but on the other hand we were able to show our potential very well. We still have one race to go and we're not going to bury our heads in the sand but work hard to make it there.” IntactGP pushed the Moto2 bikes of Darryn Binder and Senna Agius outside of the pitbox eager to see how the vastly improving duo would perform in Malaysia after podium appearances in Australia and more front-running pace in Thailand. Lap-times were very tight and the South African and Australian worked through their settings and options on Friday and across changeable track conditions. On Saturday it was rookie Agius who was 18th fastest for the end of the sixth row while Binder was 22nd on the grid. Moto2 raced around Sepang for 17 laps on Sunday as the mercury climbed to 35 degrees. Agius’ race was over on the first lap after a tangle in traffic put him on the ground. Binder tried his best to fight back from the lower regions of the top twenty but he also crashed out with nine laps remaining while tipping into Turn 15. Darryn Binder, DNF : “A weekend to forget. I struggled a bit on Friday but made steps forwards yesterday and was hoping we could continue that today. The track conditions were really tricky: it was so hot, and the grip was low. I had a bad start and there was a lot going on in front of me. A lot of guys going down. I was trying to see what I could do and was locking the front wheel a lot and unfortunately I came into the last turn and I ended up crashing with no warning at all. Hopefully we can end the season on a high at the final round.” Senna Agius, DNF: “Unfortunately I got caught up in an incident in Turn 9. It’s devasting. The last couple of races have been quite hard to comprehend. Not much more to say. Everyone is putting in a lot of effort and this is not where we should be. We just have to work for the next one.” Results Moto3 Malaysian Grand Prix 1. David Alonso (COL) CFMOTO 33:03.671, 2. Taiyo Furusato (JPN) Honda +0.088, 3. Jose Antonio Rueda (ESP) KTM +0.411, 5. Collin Veijer (NED) Husqvarna +1.091 , 12. Jacob Roulstone (AUS) GASGAS +16.019, 14. Xabi Zurutuza (ESP) KTM +20.793, DNF. Tatsuki Suzuki (JPN) Husqvarna , DNF. Daniel Holgado (ESP) GASGAS, DNF. Joel Esteban (ESP) CFMOTO World Championship standings Moto3 1. David Alonso (COL) CFMOTO, 396 points, 2. Daniel Holgado (ESP) GASGAS, 236, 3. Collin Veijer (NED) Husqvarna, 236 , 7. Jose Antonio Rueda (ESP), KTM, 144, 14. Tatsuki Suzuki (JPN) Husqvarna, 88 , 15. Jacob Roulstone (AUS) GASGAS, 58, 17. Joel Esteban (ESP) CFMOTO, 45, 23. Xabi Zurutuza (ESP) KTM, 13 Results Moto2 Malaysian Grand Prix 1. Celestino Vietti (ITA) KTM 36:06.629, 2. Jorge Navarro (ESP) +1.486, 3. Izan Guevara (ESP) CFMOTO +3.265, 4. Jake Dixon (GBR) CFMOTO +4.502, 7. Deniz Öncü (TUR) KTM +7.720, DNF. Senna Agius (AUS) Husqvarna , DNF. Darryn Binder (RSA) Husqvarna World Championship standings Moto2 1. Ai Ogura (JPN), 261 points, 2. Aron Canet (ESP), 209, 3. Sergio Garcia (ESP), 181, 7. Celestino Vietti (ITA) KTM 165, 8. Jake Dixon (GBR) CFMOTO, 155, 16. Senna Agius (AUS) Husqvarna, 63 , 18. Izan Guevara (ESP) CFMOTO, 60, 19. Darryn Binder (RSA) Husqvarna, 54 , 20. Deniz Öncü (TUR) KTM 49