FINNISH MXGP DOMINATION BY KTM’S COENEN

Red Bull KTM Factory Racing rider Lucas Coenen is honing in on the 2025 MXGP Championship, with the rookie narrowing the gap at the top of the championship to just 15 points after his second total sweep of motos this season at KymiRing for the Grand Prix of Finland. While Round 13 was notable for Coenen as he claimed his third overall victory of the year, his fellow KTM MX2 team mates Andrea Adamo and Sacha Coenen also stood on the podium for the track’s debut round.

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MXGP made its first visit to KymiRing for the Grand Prix of Finland and for the next sequence in the 2025 campaign that involve races in Czech Republic, Belgium, Sweden and the Netherlands during July and August. Round 13 saw Lucas Coenen claim a 1-1-1 shutout and his third overall victory of the year for Red Bull KTM Factory Racing.

In the MX2 class, Andrea Adamo and Sacha Coenen classified 2nd and 3rd respectively behind Kay De Wolf in the sand. The team were without the presence of five-time world champion Jeffrey Herlings, but were able to re-focus on their double title pursuit with Lucas Coenen 32 points from the red plate in MXGP and Simon Laengenfelder heading the MX2 division by 52 points from teammate Adamo.

After years of delays and speculation, the KymiRing was finally ready for MXGP duty and the course was flat, long, sandy and jumpy. The layout presented a fresh challenge for all teams and riders in both categories. The Finnish summer weather played ball on Saturday and Lucas Coenen controlled the warm MXGP Qualification Heat with his KTM 450SX-F for his fifth Pole of the year. In MX2, Sacha Coenen earned the holeshot and secured P2 with his KTM 250SX-F, while Laengenfelder was 4th and Adamo posted 6th.

Sunday saw Coenen grab the lead from the first corners of the opening MXGP moto, and had a ten-second cushion by lap three. He eased to the finish line for his ninth success of the season and first since the German GP. In the second race he almost produced a replica performance, but had a worrying moment with a small crash that forced him to recover his bike, restart and retake P1. Coenen now sits just 15 points behind Romain Febvre in the MXGP standings, and KTM are up to P1 in the Constructors table.

Adamo started excellently in the first MX2 moto and flew to a solid 2nd place, while Sacha Coenen fought back from outside the top ten and a tip-off to earn 4th and Laengenfelder rode to 6th after an off-track excursion. Moto 2 saw Sacha take P2, one position ahead of Adamo and with Laengenfelder in 5th. All three riders slotted into the overall top five. From this season’s so far 13 rounds, there has only been one GP without a Red Bull KTM 250SX-F on the rostrum. Laengenfelder heads the Riders championship by 43 points from Adamo, and Coenen is now up to P4.

MXGP returns to the continental mainland this week and for the journey to the Czech Republic. Loket – a hilly, compact circuit that has staged the Czech GP since the 1990s – takes the series up to Round 14.

Lucas Coenen:
“I was a bit angry after being 2nd so many times in recent GPs, even if I was consistent, but I switched off during the summer break and now I’m on the grind. I made life a bit difficult in the second moto with a tip-off and I also damaged the clutch, but I kept sending-it and was really happy to win. The first moto was great even if the lapped riders were quite hard to deal with and I also had some arm-pump but that’s part of it. We are back on top baby. Today I turned it on, and made some improvements. We’ll keep building.”

Andrea Adamo:
“Good day. A solid one, and what we needed in the sand. It’s hard to beat Kay [De Wolf] in this terrain so it’s a big result when we can stay close. I’m pretty happy and a 2-3 was the best we could do today.”

Sacha Coenen: 
“I’m really happy to have a podium at this GP because I’ve been sick all weekend. Happy to be up here for three podiums now…and let’s keep the ball rolling.”

Simon Laengenfelder:
“Not the easiest weekend here in Finland. It was a new venue, a new track, which I actually enjoyed but somehow I didn’t really perform that well. I had a good start in the first moto but went off-track and into the mud. When I fought back I could only reach 6th and then to 5th in the second moto. It did not really click this weekend but now we’ll look toward Loket and some hard-pack.”