GARCIA CLAIMS ENDURO1 WORLD TITLE 

Red Bull KTM Factory Racing’s Josep Garcia has secured the 2025 FIM Enduro1 World Championship with a round to spare, after a commanding performance at the EnduroGP of Italy. Despite a challenging Sunday, where Garcia battled through the pain from a late crash on Saturday, he took the class title and now shifts his focus to defending his EnduroGP crown. He currently leads by a 15-point margin over GASGAS’s Andrea Verona, with just one round remaining.

Relentless rain and rugged terrain pushed every rider to the limit in Italy, but Garcia rose to the challenge and opened the weekend with a second-place finish in Friday’s Super Test before charging through Saturday’s slick, rock-strewn course to dominate the E1 category. Clocking the fastest time on 11 of 12 tests, Garcia clinched the class victory by over one minute and 50 seconds, while also taking the win in EnduroGP overall.

Going into Sunday, Garcia needed only a conservative ride and one single championship point to wrap up E1. However, a heavy crash on the final test of day one had left him with several injuries, making it difficult for the Spaniard to match his rivals pace. Despite his circumstances, Garcia delivered remarkable test times to ultimately finish fourth in class and 15th overall in EnduroGP.

With enough points banked from Day 1, the Spaniard did exactly what was needed of him to wrap up the Enduro1 crown. Now with the Enduro1 title safely secured, Garcia turns his focus to claiming another consecutive EnduroGP championship at the Round 7 season finale in Zschopau, Germany, on October 17-19.

Josep Garcia: 
“I’m really happy about the weekend, to be honest. Yesterday was an incredible day for me and I was riding super-good. Unfortunately, in the last enduro test, I had a crash, which meant I needed to get some stitches in my elbow and I injured my hip and the muscle in the leg. But I was still able to win the day. I knew today would be hard, and I still tried to give 100 percent, but another crash in the same place gave me a lot more pain for the whole day. It really was one the hardest days of racing in my life. I have really mixed emotions – obviously, I would have liked to take a better result today, but then I was able to win the Enduro1 title. We have time now to recover and then start training for the final round in Germany.”