Honda NILS Racing Becomes Final Team On World Supercross Grid

The 10th and final team has been announced for the upcoming World Supercross Championship (WSX). The Honda NILS team fills this spot on the grid, led by former women’s world champion Livia Lancelot. Lancelot has been a staple in the MXGP scene, managing the 114 Honda team for a number of years now. While the Honda NILS team is listed as Italian, this partnership with Lancelot is likely to have connections with her current team and other Honda MXGP brass. Riders for the team (two SX1 and two SX2) have yet to be announced but will come in the following weeks. The official press release can be read below.

Livia Lancelot and the NILS Honda team take the 10th spot on the WSX grid.

SX Global, the Australian sports and entertainment company spearheading the FIM World Supercross Championship (WSX), today announced Italian team, Honda NILS as its 10th and final team competing in the 2022 FIM World Supercross Championship. The team will announce its four riders in the coming weeks as it prepares for the Global WSX Championship kicking off on Saturday, October 8th in Cardiff, Wales at Principality Stadium.

The 34-year-old Lancelot won the first ever women’s motocross World Championship in 2008 and followed it up with another world title run in 2016. After retiring from competition, she has worked as a Team Manager since 2017 in the MX2 class of the MXGP World Championship scoring multiple podium wins. She now becomes the most decorated female Team Manager in major Supercross anywhere in the world.

“We are excited to get to work and believe we will make a strong showing during the pilot FIM World Supercross Championship season,” said Lancelot. “Our ‘offseason’ is only a few weeks, so we are quickly working to get riders and crew members under contract, and bikes ready to race, all while tackling the logistics a global series requires. It’s a great challenge, and we are ready to face it.”

 

Ruben Fernandez currently rides for Lancelot’s 114 Honda team in the MXGP series. No word yet if he will ride WSX. Photo: MXGP