{"id":581468,"date":"2026-08-11T14:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T14:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/581468\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T14:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T14:12:09","slug":"team-belgium-set-to-return-trio-of-coenen-brothers-and-liam-everts-at-2026-motocross-of-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/581468\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Belgium Set to Return Trio of Coenen Brothers and Liam Everts at 2026 Motocross of Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For the third consecutive year, the plan is to have both Lucas and Sacha Coenen<\/a> alongside Liam Everts<\/a> for Team Belgium at the Monster Energy FIM Motocross of Nations in early October. I say the plan because the initial attempt to do so in 2024 saw injuries to both Sacha Coenen<\/a> (leg injury) and Everts (back injury) was changed to include Jago Geerts<\/a> and Brent Van Doninck<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The double Coenen and Everts team was able to race together last year for the first time and the young team landed fourth overall at the event in 2025 at Ironman Raceway. Lucas Coenen<\/a> finished 2-10 in MXGP (fifth overall in the class), Sacha Coenen<\/a> finished 20-21 in MX2 (ninth overall in the class), and Everts finished 4-7 for third overall in Open. The team got good starts but an injury to Sacha ruined their chances at the overall podium. But the young team showed speed and fight, and Everts was damn impressive in his 450 debut, finishing only behind Australia’s Hunter Lawrence<\/a> and Japan’s Jo Shimoda<\/a> (also in his 450 debut).<\/p>\n

With the Lawrence brothers already announcing the will NOT be participating in this year’s MXoN event<\/a>, could this open up a spot for this re-run of the young Belgian team?\u00a0<\/p>\n

The following press release is from Team Belgium:\u00a0<\/p>\n

Team Belgium\u00a0has officially announced its rider selection for the\u00a02026 FIM Motocross of Nations, and once again national team manager\u00a0Jo\u00ebl Roelants\u00a0can count on an\u00a0exceptional pool of Belgian talent.<\/p>\n

The line-up features three of Belgium’s most talented riders.\u00a0Sacha Coenen<\/a>\u00a0will represent the team in the MX2 class, while his brother\u00a0Lucas Coenen<\/a>\u00a0takes on\u00a0the MXGP category.\u00a0Liam Everts<\/a>\u00a0completes the squad in the MX Open class.\u00a0With this talented trio, Team Belgium heads into the prestigious event with clear\u00a0ambitions. After a strong performance last year (finished in 4th place), the goal for 2026\u00a0is to get on the top step of the podium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the third consecutive year, the plan is to have both Lucas and Sacha Coenen alongside Liam Everts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[263080,85,46,105],"class_list":["post-581468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-2026-mxon-motocross-of-nations-nations-racer-x-motocross-magazine-supercross-dirt-bike-mx-racerx-illustrated-dirtbike-motorcycle-racing-freestyle-video-news","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}