• THE CURRENT LIST OF 2021 MOTOCROSS DES NATIONS TEAMS
Below is a list of the confirmed teams, but no Team USA or Team Australia. Pandemics, travel restrictions, breakouts and lockdowns not withstanding, the Motocross des Nations is only two weeks away. Because the GP series has nine GPs to race on their schedule after the September 26th MXDN, many MXGP stars elected not to race the MXDN so they could focus on winning the World Championship instead. The MXGP schedule stretches into December (this is assuming that they still intend to do the three fly-away races in Argentina and Indonesia, but there is a chance that these races will be canceled and double-headers at more convenient European tracks will replace them). Here are he teams as originally announced.
TEAM AUSTRIA
Lukas Neurauter
Rene Hofer
Michael Sandner
TEAM BELGIUM
Cyril Genot (Replaces Jeremy Van Horebeek)
Liam Everts
Brent Van Doninck
TEAM BRAZIL
Thales Vilardi
Fabinho Santos
Jean Ramos
TEAM BULGARIA
Maykal Ivnov
Nikolay Malinov
Petar Petrov
TEAM CANADA
Dylan Wright
Jacob Piccolo
Tyler Medaglia
TEAM CROATIA
Luka Crnkovic
Marko Tumbri
Matej Jaros
TEAM CZECH REPUBLIC
Dusan Drdaj
Jan Wagenknecht
Petr Polak
TEAM DENMARK
Thomas Kjer Olsen
Mikkel Haarup
Bastian Boegh Damm
TEAM ESTONIA
Harri Kullas
Gert Krestinov
Jorgen-Matthias Talviku
TEAM FINLAND
Emil Weckman
Miro Sihvonen
Jere Haavisto
TEAM FRANCE
Benoît Paturel (replaces Marvin Musquin_
Tom Vialle
Mathys Boisrame
TEAM GREECE
Dimitrios Bakas
Antonis Sagmalis
Panagiotis Papilas
TEAM GREAT BRITAIN
Ben Watson
Conrad Mewse
Shaun Simpson
TEAM ICELAND
Eythor Reynisson
Eidur Allmarsson
Mani Frey Petersson
TEAM IRELAND
Stuart Edmonds
Jason Meara
Jake Sheridan
TEAM ITALY
Antonio Cairoli
Mattia Guadagnini
Alessandro Lupino
TEAM LITHUANIA
Arminas Jasikonis
Dovydas Karka
Erlandas Mackonis
TEAM MOROCCO
Amine Aitballa
Saad Soulimani
Abdelhalim Soulimani
TEAM NETHERLANDS
Jeffrey Herlings
Roan van de Moosdijk
Glenn Coldenhoff
TEAM NORWAY
HakonFredriksen
Kevin Horgmo
Sander Agard-Michelsen
TEAM POLAND
Tomasz Wysocki
Gabriel Chętnicki
Jakub Barczewski
TEAM PORTUGAL
Hugo Basaulla
Luis Outeiro
Marco Silva
TEAM SLOVAKIA
Pavol Repcak
Tomas Koht
Simon Jost
TEAM PUERTO RICO (WITHDRAWN)
Coty Schock
Ty Masterpool
Ryan Sipes
TEAM MSR (RUSSIA)
Vsevolod Brylakov
Timur Petrashin
Evgeny Bobryshev
TEAM SOUTH AFRICA
David Goosen
Triston Purdon
Camden McLellan
TEAM SPAIN
Jose Butron
Yago Martinez
Ander Valentin
TEAM SWEDEN
Isak Gifting
Alvin Östlund
Anton Gole
TEAM SWITZERLAND
Arnaud Tonus
Valentin Guillod
Mike Gwerder
TEAM UKRAINE
Dymtro Asmanov
Maksym Kvenko
Semen Nerush
TEAM VENEZUELA
Carlos Badiali
Lorenzo Locurcio
Raimundo Trasolini
THE RIDERS THAT WON’T BE AT THE MOTOCROSS DES NATION
Riders, teams and nations have lots of reasons not to go to the 2021 MXDN. Team USA pulled out because two of their chosen riders were injured or ill and the European Union put travel restriction on Americans traveling to Italy. Australia is in the middle of a major Covid-19 outbreak and withdrew not only their Motocross des Nations team, but ISDE team also. Marvin Musquin dropped out of Team France after getting Covid-19 and missing the last three AMA Nationals. Tim Gajser doesn’t want to go because he doesn’t think there are two other Slovenian riders capable of helping him win the event. Chase Sexton is suffering from an enlarged spleen and his doctor told him not to race. But the largest single reason for a rider not racing the MXDN is that it is being held in the middle of the 2021 World Motocross Championship series. There are riders who want to focus on the World Championships and don’t feel that it’s in their best interest to race a one-off race when there are still 8 Grands Prix to go in the title chase.
