Team Canada Finishes 14th at the 2026 Motocross of Nations in Ernée
Team Canada completed the 2026 Monster Energy FIM Motocross of Nations in 14th overall at Ernée, France, closing the weekend with a stronger final race after a difficult opening moto.
Canada’s final score was 110 points. Dylan Wright led the Canadian effort with 16th in Race Two and 15th in Race Three. Tanner Ward finished 30th in Race One and improved to 27th in Race Three, while Dylan Rempel recorded 39th in Race One and 22nd in Race Two.
Under the Motocross of Nations scoring format, each nation counts five of its six individual race results and drops its worst finish. For Canada, Rempel’s 39th-place Race One result became the dropped score.
Belgium won the event with 23 points, Spain finished second with 26 and the Netherlands took third with 34.
Canada qualified directly on Saturday
Canada entered Sunday’s main program after qualifying 16th on Saturday.
The final team at Ernée consisted of Ward in MXGP, Rempel in MX2 and Wright in Open.
That lineup had changed before the event from the original Canadian selection, with Ward stepping into the MXGP position. By race day, the three riders had a clear task: turn Saturday’s direct qualification into the strongest combined Sunday score possible.
The Motocross of Nations rewards balance across the full team.
A single standout result helps, but one severe setback can place pressure on every remaining score because only one finish can be discarded.
Race One put Canada under immediate pressure
Race One combined the MXGP and MX2 classes.
Ward finished 30th and Rempel 39th.
That gave Canada a difficult opening score and left little margin for another major problem later in the day.
The value of the drop-score system became obvious immediately.
Rempel’s 39th would eventually be removed from Canada’s final total, but that meant every other Canadian finish effectively had to count.
For the remainder of the afternoon, Wright, Ward and Rempel needed to complete their races and reduce the points total wherever possible.
At the front, Romain Febvre won Race One for France ahead of Jorge Prado and Lucas Coenen.
France’s day was complicated by Mathis Valin’s opening-race retirement, showing that even one of the strongest home teams could be pushed into recovery mode by a single bad score.
Wright and Rempel stabilize Race Two
Race Two paired MX2 and Open.
Wright finished 16th and Rempel improved to 22nd.
Those two results were important for Canada because both ultimately counted toward the final national score.
Wright’s 16th was Canada’s best finish through the first two races and placed the team in a better position before the final Open/MXGP moto.
Jeffrey Herlings won Race Two for the Netherlands, with Andrea Adamo second and Pauls Jonass third.
The race also reshaped the battle for the overall Nations victory as Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands entered the final moto within striking distance.
Canada finishes stronger in Race Three
The final race combined the Open and MXGP classes.
Wright improved again, finishing 15th, while Ward crossed the line 27th.
Those results completed Canada’s five counting scores:
Wright — 15th and 16th.
Rempel — 22nd.
Ward — 27th and 30th.
The combined total was 110 points.
Wright’s 15th in Race Three was Canada’s best individual result of the day.
Herlings won the final moto, followed by Prado and Febvre.
The strong Dutch performance was enough for third overall, while Belgium’s consistency across all three riders gave it the Nations victory.
Belgium wins through depth
Belgium finished with 23 points.
Lucas Coenen posted third and fifth-place finishes, Liam Everts recorded fourth in both of his races, and Sacha Coenen contributed seventh and 12th.
With the worst result dropped, Belgium’s five counting scores were exceptionally strong.
Spain finished three points behind on 26.
Prado delivered second place in both of his races, while Guillem Farres contributed fourth and fifth. Francisco Garcia’s 36th in Race Two became Spain’s dropped score, and his 13th in Race Three completed the counting total.
The Netherlands finished third on 34 points behind two race wins from Herlings.
That final podium illustrates the central challenge of the Motocross of Nations: outright speed matters, but national depth and damage limitation are equally important.
What Canada can take from Ernée
Fourteenth is a meaningful improvement over simply qualifying for the Sunday program, but the individual results also show where the gap remains.
Wright was Canada’s strongest rider on Sunday and produced two top-16 finishes against an international field filled with factory-supported world championship talent.
Ward improved from 30th to 27th between his two motos.
Rempel also made a major improvement, moving from 39th in Race One to 22nd in Race Two.
Those gains matter because the Nations format exposes riders to different classes, mixed-displacement racing and unusually deep fields.
The weekend gives Canadian riders, teams and supporters a direct benchmark against national programs from Europe, the United States, Australia and other major motocross markets.
The final result closes the 2026 Canada story
The useful milestone is now complete.
Canada qualified 16th on Saturday, raced all three Sunday motos and finished 14th overall with 110 points.
Wright’s 15th and 16th were the strongest Canadian results, Ward contributed 27th and 30th, and Rempel’s 22nd counted after his 39th was discarded.
Those are the completed classifications from Ernée after all three Sunday races.
Canada leaves France with a completed result, while Belgium takes the 2026 Chamberlain Trophy ahead of Spain and the Netherlands.
