![]() Over the weekend, and with the help of Yamaha Motor Europe Off-Road Racing Manager Alexandre Kowalski, RACER spoke with the racer who certainly left his mark on what was the 66th edition of the FIM Motocross World Championship season. ![]() where he will race for team France in the 2022 Motocross of Nations. With his rookie MXGP season done and dusted, the 22 year-old now has his sights set of the RedBud circuit and the U.S. A Grand Prix winner in 2022 (Renaux won the MXGP of Spain on May 29), the fifth year racer consistently ran inside and around the top five all season long, to where he placed a highly respective fourth in the final 2022 MXGP World Championship point standings. The 2021 MX2 World Champion was promoted to the premier class for the 2022 race season by longtime employer Yamaha. Maxime Renaux of the Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MXGP Team is out to fix that. It hasn’t been an easy year but no one has stopped working for a second, and it shows in the results.Even though racers from France are consistently among the frontrunners in any given edition of the MXGP Motocross World Championship, a member of the French Republic has not won the MXGP World Championship since Romain Febvre snagged the FIM Gold Medal in 2015. The whole of Team HRC also deserve a lot of credit, for working hard and helping him get everything right, week in, week out. He works so hard and thoroughly deserves all the success he gets and to win five world titles is an unbelievable achievement. Marcus Pereira de Freitas, HRC General Manager – MXGP: “I am so happy for Tim, winning the championship with a couple of rounds to spare. It is a special moment for me and I am just so happy to have got my fifth title!” It has been great to see so many of you cheering me on around the track and I can’t thank you enough. Also thank you my girlfriend and all the support I receive from my fans around the world. A big thank you to the whole of Team HRC, the people at the races and all the support from Japan. ![]() ![]() Five world titles, and I can’t believe it. I definitely didn’t ride my best, but I got the job done and that’s what I set out to achieve at the beginning of the day. This is his fourth MXGP championship of his career (2016, 2019, 2020, 2022) and puts him fourth all-time in premier class championships, and fourth all-time in total championships after also winning the MX2 crown in 2015. His #243 machine is the only bike to have worn the red plate after his victory at the opening round in Great Britain, which has led him to compete with it in every future round of the season. Back-to-back wins in Germany and Indonesia then increased his points gap to over 100-points and from then on, it was just a matter of which round he would seal this historic championship win, with that moment coming at the second moto at the MXGP of Finland, with two full rounds still to ride.īefore this weekend’s round – number 16 of 18 – the Honda CRF450R rider has won more qualification races (4), lead more laps (184), had over triple the number of race wins than any other rider (13), two times as many GP overalls (8) and stood on the podium more than anyone else (10). Taking hold of the red plate from the very beginning, Gajser put in an early run of results that saw him win six of the first seven rounds including three double-moto wins as made sure his competitors knew he was the rider to beat. Joining the very elite of the sport, Team HRC’s Tim Gajser has won his fifth FIM Motocross World Championship – his fourth in the premier MXGP class – after a commanding season of performances in 2022.
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