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2018 FIM Motocross World Championship

Motocross championship season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ41536273 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2018 FIM Motocross World Championship was the 62nd FIM Motocross World Championship season. It included 20 events, started at Neuquen in Argentina on 4 March, and ended at Imola in Italy on 30 September.

Jeffrey Herlings dominated the main championship by winning 33 races out of 40, getting on the podium in every race he started.

Race Calendar and Results

A 20-round calendar for the 2018 season was announced on 25 October 2017.

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“2018 FIM Motocross World Championship” enters the record as motocross championship season. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Motocross, World and Championship can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018, 2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Motocross, World and Championship.
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This entry incorporates text from “2018 FIM Motocross World Championship” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.