The FIM and WESS GmbH have announce a provisional eight round calendar for the 2025 FIM Hard Enduro World Championship (HEWC) – Abestone, Outliers and Getzen return.

Featuring a strong line-up of longstanding Hard Enduro big hitters, plus the return of Red Bull Outliers in Canada, Abestone in Italy and one of the best, the GetzenRodeo in Germany as the finale, 2025 HEWC is looking good.

Season mixes sprint races with GPS rallies

The United Kingdom’s Valleys Hard Enduro plays host to the season opener on May 10-11. The Welsh venue was a welcome new addition to the calendar in 2024 and will go again with more experience next year.

That is followed by the iconic Red Bull Erzbergrodeo as round two in late May followed by the popular rally-style event in Serbia and the Xross Hard Enduro Rally which utilises GPS navigation much like round four, Romania’s Red Bull Romaniacs in July.

The series then heads to North America and Canada’s Red Bull Outliers for round five with a contrast to the previous rounds, much like TKO, it is a short, multi-lap cross-country race, it’s one to favour the sprinters.

Abestone is a very welcome return to the calendar for round six. The Italian race in the picturesque Tuscany mountains is a natural favourite for riders with the event location and scenary.

October sees rounds seven and eight with a return, like this week, to Turkey’s Sea to Sky with its finish line on the summit of Mount Olympos, 2,365m above sea level.

As soemthing of a model of the Hard Enduro race format, the 24MX GetzenRodeo concludes the season with the famously fantastic atmosphere on the steep, rootinfested climbs and technical forest in Drebach, near Zschopau in Germany.

For 2025, the FIM Hard Enduro Junior World Championship supported by KLIM will take in five rounds - Valleys Hard Enduro, Red Bull Erzbergrodeo, Xross Hard Enduro Rally, Red Bull Romaniacs and Abestone.

Winfried Kerschhaggl - FIM Hard Enduro World Championship Manager: “We are proud of the schedule we have assembled for the 2025 FIM HEWC season. It is a very established group of races that will please Hard Enduro competitors and fans from all over. With the mixture of formats present, there is a race to play to everyone’s strengths. Expanding to eight rounds is something we’re also very pleased with. We’re now looking forward to closing out 2024 strong in Turkey and Spain, before working hard towards 2025.”

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