Red Bull KTM factory rider, Sasha Coenen has had a rollercoaster start to the 2025 MX2 World Championship as he continues to show amazing speed, connected with some on track incidents.

Eight rounds into the championship the 18-year-old sits in sixth place in the championship points, on 264pts, and while he has lost ground on the top four riders, he is just seven points off fifth placed Thibault Benistant and 23 ahead of seventh placed Camden McLellan.

A month ago, in Switzerland Coenen scored 6-16 for 11th overall and as expected, he wasn’t excited about his performance. A typical Sasha Coenen start saw him leading, but he dropped back to finish sixth after some issues. The second moto was a disaster, as he had a problem in the start and then made a mistake mid-race.

“I wasn’t feeling so good on the track on the Saturday but had a really good warm-up on Sunday morning. I made a great start and was leading the race for a while, but I was also managing the race and trying to do my best. In the second race my front wheel was blocked in the start, and I lost a lot of positions. I came back to 9th but then hit neutral and lost a lot again! Not a great weekend.”

Two weeks ago, in the mud of Agueda, Portugal it was 19-2 and seventh overall. While his starts remain a consistent, unfortunately, so too do his on course accidents. With some bike changes his first race was special.

“Better than the last GP. We made quite a lot of changes to the set-up of the bike in the last two weeks, and I was feeling good on Saturday. I had a comfortable lead in the first race but just jumped a little off track and got stuck in a mud pile. Anyway, we had good speed. The second race was OK; Andrea was a bit faster today but P2 is more of what we need.”

And last weekend in Lugo, Spain, more mud, but 6-2 was his best finish and overall, so far this season. The consistency is coming and at 18 years of age, mistakes are expected. Despite a poor start in the first race, he worked his way through the field. Then in race, two, it was a flying start and a brilliant second in the race.

“I felt pretty good this weekend on the bike and the track, and we showed good speed. I had a bad start in the first race but did well to come through to sixth. Holeshot and leading for most of the second race but then I just lost the front! 2nd…it’s better than in Portugal and we are improving.”

With a small break before the Grand Prix series heads to Ernee in France, you can be sure that Coenen continues to work on his mental game and once he adds some consistency to his blinding starts and good speed, he will be hard to beat.