Lotte van Drunen thrills in American Motocross

Lotte van Drunen’s triumphant 2025 season isn’t over yet. Having clinched the Women’s Motocross World Championship (WMX) title for the second year in a row, the eighteen-year-old Dutch rider flew to the States to take part in a prestigious scheduled event. Needless to say, she managed to win there as well.

The “Queen of the Sand” competed at the Mini’Os, one of the most high-profile amateur Motocross and Supercross events overseas, featuring multiple races across a full week of action. If last year Lotte van Drunen was forced to withdraw due to injury, this time she dominated in two separate disciplines.

The two-time WMX Champion topped the women’s Motocross race, then repeated the feat in the opening showdown on a track purpose-built to Supercross specifications. It was a week of continuous success for Lotte, racing with the Altus BLUCRU Yamaha team, once again supported in this American venture by the House of the Three Tuning Forks.

Next year, Lotte van Drunen will once again contest the Women’s Motocross World Championship (WMX) with the De Baets Yamaha team. Alongside this primary program, further one-off appearances in the MX2 World Championship are not ruled out. Over the past two years she has taken part in three Grands Prix (Lommel 2024 and 2025, plus Riola Sardo 2025) of the Under-23 world series, managing to score points on her debut. These notable results cement van Drunen’s status as the benchmark female rider on knobby tires, now also chasing success in the United States. Alongside AMA Pro Motocross, there is in fact a championship expressly reserved for women, making it possible we’ll see Lotte occasionally on the starting gate in the near future.