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Liam scored his first MX2 podium of his career at Arco di Trento (Italy) last weekend. 32 years after his dad's (Stefan Everts) first podium...

Past weekend, Liam Everts made his debut in the MX2 class of the World Championship Motocross. This he did at the MXGP of Sardegna in Riola Sardo, where a brutal sand track throughout the dunes was waiting on the riders.Because of the Fesh-Fesh type of sand, this track has an extra level of difficulty. Finding a good rhythm or the fastest lines isn’t always as easy because lines where always changing and ruts just disappear in this very thin beach sand. Liam was figuring out the track and qualified in twenty-third.In the first heat, Liam’ start wasn’t that great, coming through in fourteenth. In the first part of the race he fought to stay in this fourteenth place, but in...

Upcoming weekend Liam Everts will make a next step in his, still very young, career. The 17 year old Belgian will make his debut in the MX2 World Championship. This 50 years after his grand-dad Harry who made his debut in 1971 (October 3). and 15 years and 2 days after dad Stefan’ last World Championship race of his career (September 17; 2006). For grand-dad Harry the mythical place to start his successful world championship career back in the day was Launsdorf in Austria. Liam will start his at the MXGP of Sardegna in Italy where he will face a brutal sand track, build in the sand dunes of Riola Sardo.In the past month, with no European Championship races on...