{"id":385396,"date":"2026-01-01T20:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T20:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/385396\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T20:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T20:32:08","slug":"jeffrey-herlings-moves-from-ktm-to-honda-hrc-mxgp-team-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/385396\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Herlings Moves from KTM to Honda HRC MXGP team in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jeffrey Herlings<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Obviously this is a big change for me, but honestly, I am so excited to join Honda HRC and ride a CRF450R. Having been around the paddock for a long time, you get to see how different teams and people operate, so once I found out that they were interested in signing me, it wasn\u2019t a hard decision to make because I knew that I\u2019d be joining an extremely professional and organised operation, that does everything it can to help a rider succeed. From today, to the MXGP of Argentina is just over two months so I don\u2019t have a lot of time to adapt to this brand-new machine, but we are going riding right now and I\u2019m like a kid at Christmas, just waiting to unwrap a new toy. I wasn\u2019t sure I\u2019d ever be in this position, but now that I am, I can\u2019t wait to get started as a factory HRC rider.”<\/p>\n

Marcus Preira de Freitas\u00a0
HRC General Manager – MXGP<\/p>\n

“The chance to sign a five-time world champion and leading GP winning doesn\u2019t come about often, so we knew that when the opportunity arose, we had to make it happen. Immediately we could tell that Jeffrey was thrilled for the challenge and highly motivated to try and add to his list of accolades, so I think this is going to be a very exciting season for everyone on the team. It\u2019s a new environment for Jeffrey and he won\u2019t have as long as we all would have liked before the start of the season, but the #84 will be riding straight away and we can\u2019t wait to see how he looks on a Honda CRF450R.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Herlings\u00a0 “Obviously this is a big change for me, but honestly, I am so excited to join…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,52492,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-385396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-racer-x-motocross-magazine-supercross-dirt-bike-mx-racerx-illustrated-dirtbike-motorcycle-racing-freestyle-video-news","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}