Five-time World Champion Jeffrey Herlings missed the start of the 2025 MXGP season after undergoing surgery on his knee, but is set to return for round four.
UPDATE March 31, 2025:
Jeffrey Herlings is set to make his 2025 MXGP debut for the MXGP of Sardegna at the Riola Sardo Circuit in Sardinia, Italy, April 5-6.
Herlings has already missed the first three rounds of the 2025 MXGP campaign due to right knee reconstruction, which was operated on in October of 2024. The Factory Red Bull KTM pilot has been on the bike for the past three weeks and is ready to return to the international stage. This year marks his 15th season in the World Championship and his eighth in the premier MXGP division. CN
The following update is from February 11, 2025
The Red Bull KTM Team rider suffered a torn ACL in his right knee in Valkenswaard last October. The 30-year-old still has several weeks to go before he can get on the bike again. The MXGP Championship gets underway in Argentina on March 2.
Here is the press release from KTM…
Jeffrey Herlings is in the final stages of his rehabilitation after surgery to repair a torn right ACL and is closer to his goal of being able to ride, test and get back into MXGP shape for 2025.
Red Bull KTM Factory Racing icon Jeffrey Herlings is working towards a competitive return to motocross action and through the final stages of rehabilitation after surgery to repair a torn right ACL.
The five-times world champion and most successful Grand Prix winner in FIM Motocross World Championship history is coming closer to his goal of being able to ride, test and get back into MXGP shape for 2025. 30-year-old Herlings underwent an operation to fix the right knee injury, which he sustained in the sand of Valkenswaard in October 2024 and after a strong campaign in which he completed the 20-round season with 3rd in the standings and with 4 GP wins and 15 podium finishes.
Since the medical procedure the Dutchman (Red Bull KTM’s longest serving racer after joining the factory MXGP team in 2010) has been following the rehab steps and is now just a few weeks away from being able to ride his 2025 KTM 450 SX-F.
Herlings will not be able to join the rest of his team for the season-opening Grand Prix of Argentina on March 2-3, but will then assess his pace and progress until he is ready to enter the MXGP start gate once more for his eighth attempt at the class and his sixteenth year as a world championship athlete.
Jeffrey Herlings: “We’re looking good. I can do everything aside from ride the bike. I can cycle, swim, cross train – and it should only be a few weeks until we are back to the normal plan. 2024 wasn’t a great season but it was decent; we’d made a lot of races, came close to the MXGP championship, won a few GPs and had something like 15 podiums at the end. I wanted to be strong coming into this year so having this setback was not good but what I can hope for now is a successful second part of the championship. It was a weird injury because there was not much pain after surgery but it takes time to recover. I want to ride as soon as possible and join the rest of my Red Bull KTM Factory Racing team… but we just need to wait a little longer. I really want to race again.”
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