Lachlan Turner Ready to Launch a Three-Peat Title Run in WMX
Altus Motorsports BLU CRU Yamaha’s Lachlan Turner talks 2026 season with a full slate of racing here in the U.S. and overseas / Jun 9, 2026 /
Coming off of back-to-back WMX titles and a successful amateur career, Lachlan Turner is not resting on her laurels in 2026. Known as “La La” by her family, friends, and a growing fan base, the 19-year-old from Gardnerville, Nevada, has moved to the professional ranks full-time and has a two-year deal with Yamaha to race a YZ250F in the U.S. and Australia.
Here in the U.S., Turner returns with the Altus Motorsports BLU CRU Yamaha team, where she enjoyed a stellar 2025 season aboard the YZ250F – defending her title in dominant fashion and closing out her amateur career with her first Women’s title at the Monster Energy AMA Amateur National Motocross Championship at Loretta Lynn’s Ranch.
“It’s great,” she said about returning with the team. “I'm not doing any amateur races this season, so I'm really thankful to have them take the rig to all the rounds to support me. It’s very helpful to have them here at the races, and I’m really looking forward to the season.”
The season kicks off this weekend at the Hangtown Classic in Rancho Cordova, California, and marks a significant step forward for the WMX Championship. Not only does the series welcome Synchrony as a title sponsor, but the championship will also become more integrated into the Monster Energy SuperMotocross World Championship program.
It will be two days of racing for the WMX Championship in 2026, with Moto 1 on Friday and Moto 2 on Saturday. Also new for this year is the WMX Invitational, which for the first time ever, will see the women’s category race at the Monster Energy SMX World Championship Finals.
“The sport's come a long way overall, and now on the women’s side too,” said Turner. “We’re racing at SMX this year, so that says something. We’re at six rounds of Pro Motocross, with one moto on Friday and one moto on Saturday. So that's a big step in the right direction. We randomly had a moto last year on Saturday, and the amount of views that we received was amazing and helped elevate us in the program. So that was cool, and now we have a moto on Friday and Saturday. So yeah, it's definitely getting bigger. Our top seven girls are pretty freaking fast.”
As the level of the competition continues to rise, so does Turner. In the past two seasons, she’s increased her commitment to training at the highest level. At the beginning of last year, Turner and her family toured various facilities across the U.S., and ClubMX felt like the right fit. So she and her family moved east, and now call the training facility in Chesterfield, South Carolina, home.
“I had never trained in my life,” said Turner. “Last year, we went to ClubMX to look at it and just tested the waters with all the other training facilities around the U.S., visiting them as well, and this place felt the most at home. I did one month of training here before the WMX last year, and it helped a lot. So we stayed for a year, and now we're here again because I wouldn't want to be anywhere else to train. I get a ride with all of the pros that are up there racing Pro Motocross, and it's cool to see how far I've come just since I've moved up to the A class.”
Part of that upward momentum for Turner has also been racing overseas. In addition to making a run for a three-peat in WMX, Turner will also make a title run in the Australian ProMX MXW Championship, which she has already gotten off to a flying start in the series. The season kicked off at the end of March in Wonthaggi, Australia, where Turner scored a pair of victories in MXW and helped lead Team USA to gold in the FIM Oceania Women's Motocross Cup with 1-2-1 finishes.
“It was amazing,” she said about racing over in Australia with the Monster Energy Yamalube Yamaha Team. “It was like a dream come true. Literally anything I could ask for, they had it there, and they were ready to do it. I’m looking forward to going back over there and winning the fight for that championship after fighting for my third title here in the U.S.”
So La La will be racking up air miles and seat time aboard the YZ250F in 2026, going back and forth between the U.S. and Australia. She will also make her debut in the WMX World Championship at the MXGP of Australia in Darwin.
“Definitely after Australia, I came back a different rider,” said Turner. “They (ClubMX) moved me to group one, so now I’m riding with Coty Shock and with all the pro guys. It’s been crazy to see how different that is – to chase faster riders instead of having other riders with you trying to be faster. It’s crazy to see how different of a rider I’ve become right now. I definitely want to prove to everyone that girls are better than they think they are.”
With championship campaigns on two continents, a WMX World Championship debut on the horizon, and a third consecutive WMX title in her sights, Turner enters 2026 poised for her biggest season yet.