Three weeks before the MXGP of Sardegna, Brian Bogers was ready to retire from racing Grand Prix motocross. Having originally organized a team for 2024 and then finding out the team was closing shop due to a major sponsor pulling out of the team, Bogers was left with no team for this year and desperate to find one.
Bogers started working for a friend’s building business and just as he had done in his racing career, the sand specialist was ready to work hard and get on with his life, rather than sulk over his terrible situation.
The veteran Dutchman did find a local Dutch team to support him racing part time in the Netherlands, but poor results for that team cost Bogers a lot of stress and he thought seriously about retirement. A change of luck though as fellow Dutchman, Louis Vosters from the Fantic factory team went looking for a rider for this season, after having trouble with his original rider.
Now, Fantic Factory Racing MXGP is delighted to confirm that Brian Bogers will continue to race the Fantic XXF 450 in the premier class of the FIM Motocross World Championship in the 2025 season.
The one-year contract extension will see Brian Bogers enter his second season with Fantic Factory Racing MXGP alongside his current teammate Glenn Coldenhoff, who is on a two-year deal through 2025.
Bogers joined the squad at round 3 of the 2024 FIM Motocross World Championship and immediately impressed with a top-10 finish in the deep sands of Riola Sardo. In only his third GP with Fantic, he came close to the podium with a hard-fought fourth overall in Portugal. The former Lommel GP winner went on to score two more top-5 results in Latvia and at the Italian brand’s home round in Maggiora.
“I am really happy to be part of the team for another year! And again, I will take this opportunity with both hands. I have already shown some good speed and results but I think I can do even better with a proper winter preparation together with the team.”
Despite sitting out the two Indonesian rounds due to a shoulder injury and missing the chance to score points last Sunday in Sweden after an incident in race 1, the 27-year-old Dutchman still sits eleventh in the championship standings, as he heads into his highly anticipated home race in Arnhem this upcoming weekend.
