Triumph Factory Racing

FIM MX2 World Championship

Heading into the third season of competition, Triumph Factory Racing has established themselves as formidable contenders in the ultra-competitive FIM MX2 Motocross World Championship. In 2024 the team launched with racers Mikkel Haarup and Camden McLellan, with Haarup scoring a podium on the team’s historic first outing with the completely new TF 250-X, and McLellan following this up with a podium later in the season. Last season, with Haarup aging out of MX2, McLellan was joined by Guillem Farres, and the duo clinching Triumph’s first moto victories in the series, which was a highlight for the squad, along with a number of podium finishes.

For 2026 McLellan and Farres are looking to go one step further and will be searching for a first Grand Prix victory for Triumph, while aiming to battle for the championship title in only the British manufacturer’s third year of competition, and third year in the off-road segment.

The FIM MX2 Motocross World Championship will take place over 20 rounds in 2026 beginning in early March in Argentina. With numerous races throughout Europe, as well as events in South Africa – a new venue for this year – Australia, Turkey, China and beyond, the variation in tracks, dirt and climate makes the series a real test for teams, athletes and their motocross machines with some of the world’s best talent competing for the title. The end of the season brings the fan-favourite Motocross of Nations, which this year takes place in Ernee, France, with riders from all over the world competing in the ‘Olympics of Motocross’ for their country.

Triumph Factory Racing Team

FIM MX2 World Championship

Triumph Factory Racing Team

The Triumph Factory Racing team will race in the FIM MX2 Motocross World Championship for a third season in 2026, following its successful debut campaign in 2024, and second season in 2025. In just their first outing, the team took a spectacular podium finish in Argentina with Mikkel Haarup, and this was followed up with a second trip to the rostrum just two rounds later with Camden McLellan – cementing Triumph and the team’s status as serious competitors amongst the world’s best. The riders ultimately finished the season in fifth and ninth overall, with regular top three and top five moto finishes.

Last season saw the team stamp out their status in the championship as a formidable contender, as Guillem Farres joined Camden McLellan to further prove the TF 250-X’s ability. South African racer McLellan took a 2-3 finish in Riola Sardo in April to clinch second overall in the sand of Sardinia, and a race win, Triumph’s first moto win in the series, in Trentino, an Italian hard-pack track. Farres took a moto win and a second overall on the podium in Germany, a career-first for the Spanish racer, and the third rider to podium in the Motocross World Championship aboard Triumph machinery. McLellan finished fifth in the championship, while Farres finished a positive eighth, despite missing three rounds due to injury.

The Triumph Factory Racing team is led by Team Owner Thierry Chizat-Suzzoni alongside Team Manager, Vincent Bereni. This highly respected, experienced and accomplished duo have been pivotal in many riders’ careers over the last decade; together, the pairing has helped guide multiple riders to success, winning no fewer than 80 GPs in the FIM Motocross World Championship.

Deeply involved in the machine development process, both OEM and racing, Chizat-Suzzoni and Bereni are highly motivated to achieve success with Triumph’s motocross bike, the TF 250-X, which was introduced to market in 2024. The duo has worked closely alongside Triumph engineers from Hinckley, UK while bringing in their own team’s expertise, which has been fundamental to development, while also starting an entirely new racing project. In addition, Test Rider and now Rider Coach, Clement Desalle, has been pivotal to the entire process of development, before handing the reins over to the factory riders.

With the MXGP and MX2 series not having the same homologation rules as the US, it is an ideal test and development platform for manufacturers to refine and test their products or ideas. The team continues to work extremely hard behind the scenes with Triumph engineers, and hope to continue to share many further ‘first’ successes with Triumph over the next few seasons.

Camden McLellan

2025 – 5th FIM MX2 Motocross World Championship, first moto win in Trentino, Italy

Birthday: June 7, 2004

Nation: South Africa

Hometown: Germiston

Start Number: 8

Height: 181cm

Weight: 79kg

Guillem Farres

2025 - 8th FIM MX2 Motocross World Championship (missed three rounds with injury), first moto win and first career podium in Teutschenthal, Germany

Birthday: 31 March, 2003

Nation: Spain

Hometown: Bolsareny

Start Number: 99

Height: 171cm

Weight: 68kg

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