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Red Bull KTM announced today that Jeffrey Herlings will miss the opening round of the 2025 FIM World Motocross Championship in Argentina March 2.
Per the release, Herlings is “working towards a competitive return to motocross action and through the final stages of rehabilitation after surgery to repair a torn right ACL.”
The five-time World Champion underwent an operation to fix the right knee injury, which he sustained at Valkenswaard in October 2024. The release stated that Herlings ” is now just a few weeks away from being able to ride his 2025 KTM 450 SX-F.”
“We’re looking good. I can do everything aside from ride the bike,” Herlings said. “I can cycle, swim, cross train – and it should only be a few weeks until we are back to the normal plan. 2024 wasn’t a great season but it was decent; we’d made a lot of races, came close to the MXGP championship, won a few GPs and had something like 15 podiums at the end. I wanted to be strong coming into this year so having this setback was not good but what I can hope for now is a successful second part of the championship. It was a weird injury because there was not much pain after surgery but it takes time to recover. I want to ride as soon as possible and join the rest of my Red Bull KTM Factory Racing team… but we just need to wait a little longer. I really want to race again.”
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