EnduroGP big-hitters KTM Pro Racing Team reveals its 2025 line-up for World Enduro Championship and Italian Assoluti enduro seasons: Sweden’s Max Ahlin, Italian Valentino Corsi and Frenchman Romain Dagna.

Two world championship titles and an ISDE gold medal were not a bad trophy haul for the KTM Pro Racing team. The Italian team, which runs with support from KTM Italy and the Farioli factory team, achieved Junior and Youth class world championship titles in 2024 with Max Ahlin and Manuel Verzeroli respectively.  

Verzeroli has moved on to a new team, TM Racing we understand, but the two-time world champion, young Swede Max Ahlin, will move up to the hugely competitive E2 senior class on the KTM 350 EXC-F.

He will be joined in the squad by two young promising riders: the Italian Valentino Corsi and the Frenchman Romain Dagna, both of whom will race the special KTM 125 EXC in the Youth class.

The KTM Pro Racing team story began thanks to KTM Italia in 2022 and which unofficially a Junior rider team, under the wing of the official KTM Farioli team (who run the factory teams with riders Josep Garcia, Andrea Verona, Manuel Lettenbichler and Billy Bolt). Their successes in the Junior overall and J2 class with Ahlin, and Youth class with Manuel Verzeroli showed their class.

The focus is on the future with team boss Alex Belometti and the technical staff coordinated by Stefano Baldussi who count on ‘The Don’, Fabio Farioli, alongside them in the role of Racing Consultant.

In his third season with the team Max Ahlin steps up to the seniors and E2 class, traditionally one of the toughest in recent seasons. However, his test times in the season just past show he is more than ready to take on the big boys.

Alongside him are two new entries, both not yet 20 years old: Italian Valentino Corsi from San Severino Marche and French youngster Romain Dagna from Gap, near the Mercantour National Park.

Alex Belometti Team Manager: “This is a new starting point for us after the victories of 2024. For 2025 it was not easy to find the best solution but in the end thanks to the support of KTM Italia, KTM Farioli and my historic sponsor friends, we were able to realize some important points in the spirit of my team with new young people as it has been in the last two years also with Verzeroli to grow.

“Despite having had other interesting alternatives Ahlin has chosen to stay with us and we are only honored by his choice. Second point is the arrival of a young Italian rider for the Youth class strongly desired by those who support us. Third point, also this very important, the choice of Romain Dagna who did not hesitate to want to be part of our project after having already won some days of racing in the 2024 Youth World Championship.

“Now a new challenge has opened up, truly very stimulating for rejuvenation that gives us so much enthusiasm despite the possible unknowns. I am sure that 2025 will be a season full of emotions and satisfactions also because other important brands will arrive to support us and who wanted to share our project by targeting young people with enthusiasm.

“Ahlin will face the comparison with the best EnduroGP riders in the very competitive E2 class but has already shown that he can hold no one back in terms of speed, preparation, and consistency. The goal is to confirm the growth achieved in 2023 and 2024.

“On the KTM 125 EXC, Corsi and Dagna have chosen to aim high in the Youth together with our team and this is a source of great pride and satisfaction for us. At the Assoluti d’Italia we will also have Giulio Nava who in 2024, on his debut in enduro, finished in third place in the 300 2T class. A big good luck to everyone for this 2025 season!”

The KTM Pro Racing programme starts with winter preparation and the first tests with the new bikes in the first week of December. Subsequently, after the Christmas holidays, from January, the team will move to Sardinia and Sicily to continue the preparation on tracks in northern Italy, Lombardy.

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