Josep Garcia lays down the shots with Friday Super Test victory on the Red Bull KTM ahead of TM Moto’s Zach Pichon at the 2025 EnduroGP World Championship round two in Oliana, Spain.

EnduroGP Rnd 2, Friday Super Test in a nutshell:

• Located right on the edge of the paddock in Oliana, the opening test of the second GP weekend of the season in Spain could not have been more convenient.
• On a time schedule much more realistic than the opening round in Portugal (it’s like they don’t have clocks in Portugal sometimes), the Super Test track held up very well indeed with none of the usual digging out of dirt in front of the logs and rocks, making for an even playing field across National classes, Youth, Junior and finally EnduroGP classes.
• With the Spanish Enduro Championship class (this weekend doubles-up as a national race), which Sergio Navarro topped, the world championship classes set about the course. 
• Fantic’s Pietro Scardina was a full second faster than Romain Dagna and SuperEnduro Youth World Champion Ramon Godino in the Youth category.
• Frenchman Leo Joyon put his Beta on top in the super-competitive Junior category with home rider Albert Fontova bettering Axel Semb in third. 
• Round one Super test winner Dominik Olszowy faced a few more flat corners and less SuperEnduro-style obstacles in Oliana in a very close contest – just check the number of riders on a 1:33 time...
• Reigning Junior champ Max Ahiln went quicker as light rain began to fall on the course and light levels began to drop for the later riders – reminder that the Super Test runs in reverse order of championship position which means the best riders have it hardest.
• As ever, and despitr the light levels, the times dropped dramatically as the top riders rolled out with Andrea Verona and Hamish Macdonald looking good ahead of the final showdown between points leaders Zach Pichon and Josep Garcia. 
• You’d have to be a bit of a clown to bet against Josep putting on a show tonight. Back from injury, number one on his back, his home GP race a stone’s throw from his home town of Suria…the odds are certainly stacked against every other rider this weekend. 
• True to the billing, Garcia took the Super Test win, the only rider with a 1:29 and over 1.5 seconds ahead of championship points leader Zachary Pichon who clocked a similar margin ahead of Verona in third.
• Completling the top five, remarkably, Samuele Bernadini and Hamish Macdonald finished with exactly the same 1:33.08 time on the clock.
• Tomorrow is where the real hard graft begins with two long days in the Catalan hills which features a potentially pivotal 6.5km Enduro Test which will surely sort out the wheat from the chaff. 

Super Test result overall:

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