{"id":863683,"date":"2026-08-21T22:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T22:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/863683\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T22:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T22:44:11","slug":"are-the-coenen-brothers-coming-back-to-the-usa-to-race-the-ironman-national-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/863683\/","title":{"rendered":"Are the Coenen Brothers Coming Back to the USA to Race the Ironman National Finale?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Initially, the plan for the twin Belgian brothers Sacha and Lucas Coenen<\/a> was for them to race three rounds<\/a> of the AMA Pro Motocross Championship this summer, when the FIM Motocross World Championship. Then, the Southwick National happened.<\/p>\n

Sacha Coenen<\/a> went 1-1 but broke his collarbone in a crash during the second moto, somehow getting up and not only finishing the second moto in the race lead but also pulling back away from Cole Davies<\/a>. Lucas Coenen<\/a> crashed out of the second 450 moto that day, although he appeared okay and uninjured. However, since then, things have gone south for the two then-championship leaders once they returned back home.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sacha raced the following round less than a handful of days after his collarbone injury and surgery, and Lucas lined up for the qualifying race…but crashed and suffered a leg injury in the process. Now, the initial plan of racing the Thunder Valley, Southwick, and Ironman Nationals have changed, at least for one of the brothers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In Racerhead #34 today, Davey Coombs hinted towards the plan for next weekend at Ironman, and we actually might still see one of the Coenen brothers competing in Indiana!<\/p>\n

Here is what Davey said about the Coenen brothers:<\/p>\n

Oh, and I got some news on the return of the Coenen brothers to Pro Motocross, which was planned for next weekend at Ironman. Sacha, who stunned everyone with a moto runaway at Thunder Valley and then a dominant 1-1 at Southwick, is not coming back next weekend. He’s suddenly back in the thick of the MX2 FIM Motocross World Championship picture after winning last weekend in Sweden, while points leader Guillem Farres<\/a> crashed hard on Saturday and struggled on Sunday. As for Lucas, he’s still dealing with that back issue, but according to a friend at Red Bull KTM, he feels that he still has “unfinished business” here\u2014he went 2-2 at Thunder Valley but crashed out of Southwick. If he feels like he can go, Lucas is still hoping to be at Ironman.<\/p>\n

Here is a look at the MX2 championship standings, as 24 points separate Guillem Farres<\/a> (who just had a big crash last weekend in Sweden and got banged up himself) and Sacha Coenen<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Initially, the plan for the twin Belgian brothers Sacha and Lucas Coenen was for them to race three…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":863684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-863683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863683","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=863683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}