The tenth round of the 2023 FIM Motocross World Championship marked the first round of the double header in Indonesia in the stunning venue of Sumbawa – Samota for the MNC MXGP of Sumbawa – Indonesia. In MXGP it was Kawasaki Racing Team’s Romain Febvre who came out victorious for the first time of the season in front of Red Plate Red Bull GASGAS Factory Racing’s Jorge Prado and Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MXGP Team’s Jeremy Seewer.  

In MX2 it was another first as Nestaan Husqvarna Factory Racing’s Lucas Coenen got his first career victory in style with a perfect hat-trick ahead of his countrymen Red Bull KTM Factory Racing’s Liam Everts and Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MX2 Team’s Jago Geerts for the first full Belgium podium since 2014 in Talavera where Clement Desalle won in front of Jeremy Van Horebeek and Kevin Strijbos.

The racing day was launched by the Opening Press Conference attended by David Luongo, Infront Moto Racing CEO, Antonio Alia Portela, FIM/CMS Director, MXGP Sumbawa-Lombok Coordinator Ir. H. Ridwan Syah, M.Sc, M.M, M.TP and the Vice Regent of Sumbawa Dewi Noviany, S.Pd.,M.Pd. The all took the time to greet and welcome everyone to Sumbawa and highlighted the joy to comeback to Indonesia for another year of motocross Grand Prix.