The FIM Motocross World Championships are returning to the hallowed slopes of Foxhills Moto Parc in England for the Monster Energy MXGP of Great Britain this weekend and New Zealand’s star motocross rider is ready to go.

“I’m super excited for Foxhills this weekend for round three of the WMX,” Duncan offers. “It has been a few weeks since we raced in Germany, so I've been able to put in a solid amount of work – a bit of a bootcamp between rounds.”

Duncan, who is racing a Kawasaki for the Dixon Racing Team, said she was feeling much stronger on the bike heading into this weekend.

“My fitness is much better,” she smiles. “It's another opportunity this weekend – I'm excited to see where we stack up and excited to go for it.”

While Duncan is sitting third overall in the WMX standings with a 12-4 finish at the France MXGP and a 3-10 at the MXGP of Germany, she needs to make up 40 points to reel back in current championship leader Daniela Guillen, of Spain. The 30-year-old New Zealander has three more rounds to do that.

Duncan told media it felt like “a victory in itself” just to be back racing in the Motocross World Championship earlier this season. Duncan endured a lengthy illness that forced her to sit out the 2025 season completely after she was diagnosed with pericarditis, an inflammation around the heart.

Then, just days before she was scheduled to race for Team New Zealand at the FIM Oceania Women’s Motocross Cup this past March, she crashed in training and suffered an injury to her ribs. The recovery from her injury ran right into her preparation for the first rounds of the 2026 World Motocross Championship.

Despite this Duncan started strongly in France at the opening round and looked to have the pace of the leaders early on before a crash pushed her back in the pack. She rebounded to finish fourth in the second moto in France and then made the podium in Moto 1 in Germany.

“The first two rounds were I guess to be expected,” Duncan explains. “I had a couple of years away from racing and international racing and it has just been a while since I've been behind the gate at this level of competition.”

Duncan admitted she was “a little rusty” in France and Germany. “I made a few too many errors – a few crashes here and there,” she laughs. “But overall there were still some positives to take away from it. You need to have a start to see where you stack up and, we got that and it's just about building from there on in. There's another opportunity this weekend and I'm excited to get after it.”