In labelling himself as a ‘free-agent’ for 2026 and fresh from making an impact at the Paris Supercross in addition to Stuttgart a week earlier, Luke Clout continues to excel at this time of the year inside the stadiums. In Five Questions, MotoOnline finds out more about Clout’s European exploits, as well as what the future might hold for the ever-competitive 31-year-old come next season.

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Luke, congratulations on what looked like a solid European outing from both the German and Paris supercrosses. Can you run me through each?

Thanks, mate. Yeah, so I had two weekends in a row where it fell into place that I could do both Germany and Paris supercrosses, which was a really good experience for me. Stuttgart was insane – the dirt was something like I have never ridden before – but we got third overall there, and then went over to France and switched to the 250 for BUD Racing. You could say we treated it as a little holiday – my wife and I – we got to run around Paris as tourists, and then I had another really good weekend overall for P2 in my class. Overall, I was actually solid at both races. I feel like my riding was some of my best, and it was good to get some gate drops before the final two AUSX races in Australia.

Jumping between the teams and displacements, was that pretty random and difficult to adjust to?

Yeah, it was definitely a challenge! But I guess it’s part of making the experience what it is, although both bikes were really great across each event. Over the two weekends, I didn’t make too many bike changes, and the 250 that I had in Paris was really impressive – I had about eight laps on it for press day on Friday and then straight into the racing on Saturday, so I definitely improved as the weekend went on. I haven’t ridden a 250 in about two years, which put me in the deep end a little bit, but yeah, luckily the bike was good. We went over with nothing – I just trusted the teams with the suspension and everything, but we only made some minor tweaks, nothing crazy.

Would you say that this venture was relationship-building? Obviously, someone like BUD has a World Supercross team, and then these events happen annually, too, so I feel like this was a good opportunity to put your name in the ring.

100 percent. I’ve had a bit of a relationship with BUD previously – I haven’t ridden for them, but we have crossed paths with supercross around the world, and everything just aligned for me this weekend to be able to compete with them. We got on really well, everything just kind of clicked, and they are a great team – super helpful, very family-oriented, and they made us feel really welcome. So I think there are definitely going to be some opportunities there for the future. What that looks like exactly, we’ll cross that bridge when it arrives. These two weeks really opened some doors for me, I think. We built some relationships, which was an objective of mine, and I think we accomplished that.

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We’re seeing more and more riders putting together these late-season supercross deals, say between WSX, the Indian Supercross Racing League, these standalone events, and AUSX. Do you see a future where you could combine these and maybe extend your racing career that way?

For sure. Doing these two weekends really opened my eyes in just meeting so many new people, and seeing a different side to the sport, I guess you could say. There are a lot of different races now that you can go and do, and I’m at a point in my career where I am really solid at supercross, with motocross in Australia being way more of a grind and wears you down. We race eight times in eight months, pretty much, and it’s just a grind, mate – I feel like we are professional practice riders in my opinion. But yeah, I don’t have a deal in Australia for the future at this stage, so I am going with the flow, seeing what happens, and we’ll go from there.

Lastly, on the point for your future, what can you say about that, now that we’re in November? Is there anything done there?

No, I’ve got nothing set in stone. To be honest, I’m a free-agent at the moment, and everything is open, which is a weird position to be in. I’ve never quite been at this point in my career, but like I said, it’s just going with the flow and seeing what happens. I’m at the point where I don’t want to sign something for the sake of signing something – I want to make sure it makes sense for both myself and my wife, so we’re taking a bit of a step back and seeing what is in front of me. I always have faith in my ability as a rider, and as mentioned, supercross is picking up on the global stage with WSX clearly getting better – this looks like their best season yet, as well as ISRL picking up, the AUSX series is really solid, we just hope there’ll be no more clashes next year. But all in all, it’s an exciting time, but first things first is performing well over the next two weekends, and the rest should take care of itself.