The Coenen brothers, Lucas and Sacha, starred at Agueda for the Grand Prix of Portugal as 2026 MXGP tipped into the second half of the calendar. The Belgians took their Red Bull KTM machinery to podium results around the rapid layout and large jump sections of the clay-like terrain for round ten of the season.

“Consistency was key," Lucas said after his weekend. "I knew I’d won the Quali race and the first moto so the weekend was already good. I have to say that I’m a clean rider but I will also take any opportunities that are there. Overall, not bad. We’ll take the positives today and look on to South Africa next week. I know he wanted to win, and he took the risk and played it a bit dirty on me, but if I get the chance, I will run it into him also. I mean, it was hard (moto one), I took the lead and made a decent gap, but then tucked the front. I thought I need to go for it, but I lost my flow and made some mistakes and Jeffrey was coming. Happy for the win (in moto one)"

MXGP moved from central Italy to the far west of the Europe for the annual trip to Agueda and the Grand Prix of Portugal. The dark red soil was fast and bumpy thanks to the bright and hot weather conditions in the country. Red Bull KTM came to the Iberian Peninsula for the second time in 2026 with the red plates in both categories and with podium results in the last four rounds of MXGP and the last five of MX2.

On Saturday Lucas Coenen took a confident victory in the MXGP Qualification Heat (also winning 10 championship points) for his fourth Pole of the year and second from the last three Grands Prix. Andrea Adamo picked up points for P6. Sacha Coenen was P2 in the MX2 outing as world champion Simon Laengenfelder scored an encouraging P3.

Lucas shot into the lead of the first moto on Sunday. He then controlled a gap over his pursuer to win by nearly four seconds. The success was his eleventh of the campaign (from the 19 held to that point). He briefly held the same position in the second moto but had to accept 2nd place which meant the same standing for the day. As a consequence of the motos, Coenen nudges his red plate margin up a point to 57 over Jeffrey Herlings.

In MX2 Sacha suffered a crash through the waves section early in the first moto that meant he had to ride harder to recover from 18th to 6th. In the second moto he resumed ‘normal service’ and flew to a positive 2nd to ensure a seventh visit to the podium this year and conserve a 32-point gap at the top of the division. Simon went 3-6 in Agueda to miss the top three by just one point. The German is 3rd in the table.

“A mistake in the first moto that messed up my weekend but…I took some good points. I know what happened: I went double-double and came up short. A stupid mistake and we’ll try to avoid another in South Africa.”

It’s been 18 years since the FIM World Championship raced on South African soil and now the Terra Topia circuit will entertain MXGP for the first time, taking the series to the north of the capital for the third Grand Prix in three weeks.