Courtesy of Red Bull Motorsports
Watch The WESS Diaries on Red Bull TV: https://win.gs/wessdiaries
Even when they know the terrain and the crowd is on their side, there are no guarantees when riders are competing on their home turf. Hixpania Hard Enduro is still one of the toughest races to contend with. Follow Spanish riders Mario Roman and Sandra Gomez as they take on the biggest hard enduro event in Spain.
Courtesy of KTM Racing
KTM Motorsport / KTM Factory Racing are pleased to announce a further extension of their sponsorship agreement with world-leading logistics company DHL and DHL Express Austria GmbH. Officially signing a new three-year contract at the KTM Motorsport headquarters in Munderfing, Austria, DHL will support the Red Bull KTM Factory Racing enduro team throughout the 2020, 2021 and 2022 racing seasons.
Signing the original agreement back in 2008, DHL Express have worked closely with KTM to support their racing efforts, providing innovative and timely courier and express solutions to the KTM Factory Racing enduro team.
Since the inception of their working partnership, the DHL Express supported Red Bull KTM Factory Racing enduro team has enjoyed much in the way of sporting success. With no fewer than 21 world championship titles won across both the FIM EnduroGP and SuperEnduro series, they have also earned wins at all major extreme enduro events including eight ErzbergRodeo and two Red Bull Romaniacs victories.
Formed 50 years ago in 1969, DHL specialise in worldwide logistics. Now present in over 220 countries and territories, the company has a workforce of over 380,000 employees.
The DHL Express supported Red Bull KTM Factory Racing enduro team will next be in action on December 7 where they will compete in the opening round of the FIM SuperEnduro World Championship, in Krakow, Poland.
Pit Beirer, KTM Motorsport Director:“We are extremely proud that the world’s leading logistics provider continues to believe in KTM, our riders and our enduro racing programme. Following what has already been a hugely successful partnership that spans more than 10 years, we’re fully focused on starting our second decade together with DHL with continued and ongoing racing success.”
Ralf Schweighöfer, Managing Director, DHL Express Austria GmbH:“We at DHL Express are proud to be able to extend our many years of success with the current KTM AG sponsorship collaboration, for a further three years. KTM and DHL are two global brands with a great customer focus and the very highest quality standards. What unites us is our passion to be better every day and the desire to connect people. In assisting KTM with their race team logistics, we help ensure they remain number one on the racetracks, which brings a smile to the face of motorsport fans around the globe.”
Courtesy of Sharon Cox
Maria Franke has won 2019 ISDE Women’s Enduro Championship as best individual Women rider in the 94th edition FIM International Six Day Enduro at Portimao, Portugal and silver with Team Germany trio of Women riders: Anne Borchers and Selina Schittenhelm.
In what was unexpected result for the crowned 2017 Women Enduro World Champion, Maria stove off pressure from winning Team USA riders: Becca Sheets, Brandy Richards and Tarah Geiger taking early lead in the first 3 tests before America’s riders made their presence known to eventually take ISDE Women’s Enduro Team honours on Final Day 6.
More remarkable for Maria, having given birth to first-born baby boy in 2018, was fact of sustaining physical endurance over the tough 6 day event. Competing against seasoned world class Enduro riders in field of 14 Women’s Teams with total of 50 starters, Franke paved formidable pathway for Women to race at highest level- given time-training restrictions.
Maria: ‘I did not expect the win at all. Neither the Women’s Enduro Trophy as the best driver nor the silver medal for the team, because I did not train so much recently’.
‘This year I raced in the German Championship and the ISDE and I won both. It has been really great. Also, really great to race with Anne who competed in her first Enduro at the six days’.
With the first two days of the ISDE Enduro Motocross-heavy, days 3-4 were tough enduro tests which Maria put experience to the test, boosting Team rider Anne Borchers to rise to the challenge.
Maria: ‘Partly it was with the sandy sections and rocky passages around Zschopau which proved tough racing. Greatest respect to Anne that she has done it. From a technical point of view, she was not used to it and racing took alot of power from the rider. It was important for me and for the Team, to keep going and to finish’.
Having finished Vice Women’s Enduro World Title holders 2019, Maria now rests, recovers, and looks onwards to 2020 season- albeit with baby first and foremost by her side.
Courtesy of X-TRIAL Live
Courtesy of Repsol Honda Team Trial
The second round of the X-Trial World Championship got underway this afternoon at the brand new Glaz Arena in Rennes, France, with Repsol Honda Team ace Toni Bou dominating throughout to claim a second 2020 indoor season victory.
Toni Bou did not disappoint the French crowd, turning out a fine display of riding prowess in front of the Rennes spectators in Brittany. The Repsol Honda Team rider made it through the first five sections of the heats as the superior rider, picking up just four marks. In the second round, with the top rider from each group qualifying directly for the final, Bou has once again gave a masterful showing, collecting 7 marks in the process.
The grand finale saw Toni Bou overcome the six sections with a total of 15 points ahead of the 27 accrued by arch-rival Adam Raga, to seal a second season victory.
Repsol Honda Team will now enjoy a almost two-month break ahead of the third X-Trial World Championship season date which will not be held until January 19, 2020 in Budapest. Bou will arrive as clear leader in the contest on 40 points, 10 more than the nearest second-place rival.
We have to congratulate Toni first of all for this great and hard-fought victory. It seems a cliché, but it is not: he really performed extremely well today, and although things didn’t turn out just right for Adam [Raga], that doesn’t detract from Toni’s win. Congratulations as always for the great work done by the whole team. For our part, we will take it trial by trial. The next one is Budapest so we will try to get back to the highest possible level.
Today I did not start the first round very well; the points were fine, but I didn’t feel right with the riding sensations. I didn’t feel comfortable and it took me a while to get into the sections. We will have to work so that in the coming trials we won’t experience these feelings, since it is very easy to get knocked out in the eliminations. In the end, I was able to enjoy myself more in the second round and the final to take the victory. I want to congratulate the organizer of the event, who set up a very tough trial, where I think the spectators really enjoyed it. Now there will be a break before the third trial in Budapest so it is very important to take the leadership here.
Courtesy of Red Bull Motorsports
Watch the replay of the Getzenrodeo on Red Bull TV: http://redbull.com/getzenrodeo
It’s the last round of the 2019 World Enduro Super Series and Paul Bolton and Manuel Lettenbichler bring you closer to the hard enduro action than ever before! Mani is trying to seal the WESS title and Paul is on commentator duties for Red Bull TV. Watch what happens at one of the best hard enduro races of the season as thousands of fans are on hand to create a mega atmosphere for all the riders. #hardenduro #iridewess #getzenrodeo
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Watch The WESS Diaries on Red Bull TV: https://win.gs/wessdiaries
Go behind the scenes at the Erzbergrodeo Red Bull Hare Scramble with Dakar veteran Laia Sanz and German privateer Kevin Gallas. Can these riders tame the Iron Giant, and finish the Erzbergrodeo Red Bull Hare Scramble? #iridewess #hardenduro #wessdiaries
Courtesy of JCR / Honda
Congratulations
to JCR/Honda’s Tarah Gieger who continues to impress aboard her
CRF250RX. This time in Portugal as a member of the 2019 Team USA Gold
Medal – Winning ISDE World Championship team.
ISDE is a
grueling 6 – day international enduro, known as the Olympics of Off-Road
motorcycle racing. Testing the racers in varying forms of terrain
including enduro, cross, and sprint all mixed in a reliability theme as
the racers have to perform their own mechanical work at the end of each
day without outside assistance. ISDE is the oldest form of enduro racing
this 106 – year-old racing event was started 1913.
Next Race:
AMA D37 Sprint Enduro Round #7
Cahuilla Creek, Anza, CA
December 8th
NGPC Final Round Lake Havasu, AZ
December 14th – 15th
PC: Mark Kariya
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