Official: Gregory Aranda heading to race in Brazil for 2025

Reigning French SX1 champion, 3rd in this year’s Elite MX1, and the best French representative in the premier class of the World Supercross Championship – in both 2023 and 2024 – Grégory Aranda is preparing to open a new chapter in his career in 2025, a chapter that will be exotic to say the least.

At the age of 35, Grégory Aranda has signed a new contract with a Brazilian team for the coming season, namely 595 Racing. Grégory Aranda will compete in the Brazilian championships – Motocross, Supercross and Arenacross – on behalf of 595 Racing next season, under the management of Hugo Basaula.

After celebrating his French SX1 championship title in Grenoble, Grégory Aranda hopped on a plane to Brazil – where he is still at the time of writing – to get his bearings with his new team; the colour of the machine he’ll be riding in South America next season has yet to be revealed.

It’s been said: don’t look for Grégory Aranda in the French Elite MX1 championship next season, a championship he had already entered 15 years earlier. Tired of competing in the French Motocross season, Grégory is taking on a new challenge next year. It’s a chance to combine business with pleasure, to get a breath of fresh air and open up new horizons. An attractive offer, a good handlebar in his pocket, Grégory Aranda goes into exile in 2025.

I don’t think I’ve ever felt so good on the bike and physically, even if there’s still room for improvement on the physical side”, Aranda told Dailymotocross.fr. “In fact, I’ve been doing the Elite for years, and we’ve been asking them to change things for years, but nothing changes. Financially, it’s really not that great. You start the season at Lacapelle in February at -40° and end it in June, just to do six races. I barely got off the podium the whole MX season, I finished third in the Elite and if I take my expenses out of it, honestly, if I pocketed €5,000 on the Elite, that’s already the end of the world. It sucks […]”

No worries for loyal French fans: you’ll still have the opportunity to see the boy on track on a few occasions. Indeed, Grégory will be back with Serge Guidetty’s GSM Yamaha team after his Brazilian season, with a view to contesting a few SX Tour (indoor) events; a championship that is pulling out all the stops for the future with revitalized Junior and Espoirs championships; an initiative largely encouraged by Grégory. Last but not least, Aranda will also be competing in the World Supercross Championship, a series in which the French rider has excelled over the past two years.

Already this year, Stephen Rubini left French soil – and, more broadly, the world – to compete in the Brazilian championship with the official Honda Brazil team. Runner-up to Fabio Santos in the MX1 Motocross Championship, Stephen will now face – once again – Gregory Aranda in 2025, but on a new continent. Add to this the fact that Dean Wilson also has a contract in his pocket to compete in South America against our two Frenchmen next season, and the list of riders competing in Brazil is set to grow by a few names in the meantime.

The Brazilian Motocross Championship is scheduled to run over 7 events in 2025, from April to September. The (new) Brazilian Supercross Championship is scheduled over 4 events, in October and November.

Like Jordi Tixier (Germany), Stephen Rubini (Brazil), Cédric Soubeyras (Italy), Anthony Bourdon (USA) and Romain Pape (USA), Grégory Aranda has chosen to concoct a program that will see him compete outside our borders in 2025. So many boys who can’t be blamed for seizing – or creating for themselves – opportunities.