If ever a rider put together a championship winning performance, it was 2015 world MXGP champion Romain Febvre last weekend in Sweden. We all know that Febvre has something special, we have seen his battles with names like Gajser, Herlings, Prado and Cairoli. We have seen his MXoN performances for Team France, where he has battled the likes of Lawrence, Roczen, Tomac, Dungey and so many others.

There is no question, he deserves more than one world title to his name and that 1-1-1 domination around the tough and tricky Uddevalla circuit last weekend probably handed him that second title.

Picking up his 26th Grand Prix victory, he joins three-time World 125cc champion Alessio Chiodi on the all-time list and has more legends in reach (Georges Jobe 28, Andre Malherbe 28, Paul Friedrichs 28 and Dave Strijbos 27). He is 18th in the all-time list, a list full of multi-time World champions. That is how good this fantastic Frenchman is.

Coming into Sweden, Lucas Coenen had not only won the last three Grand Prix’s, but he has pulled back a 50 something points lead by Febvre and had ALL the momentum. He had beaten Febvre at Lommel, in another classic championship battle and he was in complete command. Rather than look at the very disappointing Sweden results of the teenager, you have to look at the perfect weekend for the Frenchman.

Febvre stamped his authority on the FIM World MXGP Motocross Championship at Uddevalla in Sweden as he raced to three commanding victories, extending his series lead to forty-one points with four GPs remaining.

The Kawasaki leader and his KX450-SR pulled the first of two massive holeshots in race one. He momentarily surrendered the lead as lines converged at turn three but was back in control and pulling a gap even before turn four.

Within a couple of laps, he had established a six-second cushion and was content to defend that gap to claim a clear but narrow victory as the gnarly rutted track claimed several victims in his wake. With his title rival restricted to seventh the Frenchman also extended his series lead to twenty-five points heading into race two.

Another clear holeshot - his seventh of the season - laid the foundations for the perfect weekend, but the Frenchman sensibly took care to defend a relatively small advantage of a couple of seconds rather than risk pushing beyond the limits as late afternoon shadows demanded caution.

He remained cool after stalling the engine on lap eight had allowed the chasers onto his rear wheel, calmly withstanding the immediate pressure before edging clear again. With his championship rival again buried in the pack it was imperative to avoid risks and when the local Swedish hero, enjoying the race of his life, threw caution to the wind through the last two laps, the Kawasaki leader sensibly held back from pushing over-the-top and was rewarded with another victory when the over-enthusiastic local hero fell after momentarily taking the lead on the final lap.

Clinching his fifth GP victory and fifteenth podium of the season, the perfect weekend - his first of the season - has brought the Frenchman a thirty-two point turnaround in the championship battle over the weekend and sees him take a forty-one point advantage into the final four GPs of the campaign.

"We have been working even more on the starts, and I took two holeshots today; it always makes life easier to have a clear track at the front. In the first moto Jeffrey was not far behind at the end, but I wasn't worried. The second moto was more stressful. I honestly didn't know where Lucas was in the race, but I think the top five were within a couple of seconds, so I didn't want to risk any mistakes. Jeffrey was on my rear wheel most of the race but then the last couple of laps I noticed it was a Yamaha and, when I heard the crowd, I realised it was Isak. I knew for sure he would go for it on the last lap, and he had a really good line where I didn't expect him. I knew I would still be winning the GP and extending my lead in the championship but then he crashed a couple of turns later and handed it back to me. But I take my hat off to Isak; he was really going for it. I have been looking to make a perfect weekend all season and it all clicked here; it's awesome to do it as the season enters the final stages. This was good for the championship, but it's not done until the last round so I must remain sharp until the end."

Team manager of the Kawasaki factory effort, Antti Pyrhonen knows what it takes to battle for GP points, as a former GP racer himself and he knows what it took to put together the weekend Febvre put together.

"Incredible! Romain did an amazing job this weekend and big respect to him to go 1-1-1. Everything in the team is running like clockwork and we have worked so hard to get everything out of the bike at the starts. I am so proud of Romain and the entire team; now we must stay focused to the very end.”

Now onto Arnhem, a circuit Febvre has won at, and we all know, he loves the sand and might just put together another GP win. Its going to be another sensational round of the already enjoyable 2025 season, and with Herlings, Gajser, Coenen, Coldenhoff waiting for the Frenchman, you know he will be up for the job.

This sport isn't handing championships out until the battle has been run, and with four rounds to go, anything is possible, but leading into The Netherlands, one man is the heavy favourite and he is on a green Kawasaki.

Story Geoff Meyer and Pascal Haudiquert/Image Pascal Haudiquert