2026 EnduroGP: Full Results and Final Standings
Josep Garcia didn’t just win the 2026 FIM EnduroGP World Championship. He turned it into a formality by July, stood on the overall podium at all fourteen race days, went unbeaten in Enduro1, and then rocked up to Wales and helped himself to career win number fifty. Behind him, the season saved its best for last: a one-point Enduro2 showdown, a tenth world title for Steve Holcombe on home soil, and news that EnduroGP is going to the Isle of Man.
Seven rounds, fourteen race days, Sicily to mid-Wales. Here’s how the 2026 Paulo Duarte FIM EnduroGP World Championship played out, plus every final standing that matters.
Garcia’s season doesn’t really have a comparison
Numbers first, because they do the arguing for you. Garcia finished the year with ten outright EnduroGP day wins, three seconds and a third. That’s a podium at every single race day of the season. In Enduro1 he won all fourteen days. Not most of them. All of them.
He wrapped both the EnduroGP and Enduro1 titles up at round six in France with a round still to run, took his personal tally to nine FIM Enduro world championships, and collected the Akrapovic Super Test Series on the Friday night in Rhayader for good measure. Final points: 266 in EnduroGP, 280 in Enduro1.
“Ten overall EnduroGP victories in a single year,” he said afterwards, reckoning it’ll be a hard one for anyone to beat. Hard to argue.
Sicily set the tone, then immediately broke it
Round one at Custonaci in north-west Sicily was rocky, dusty and brutally tight. A hundred and twenty-three riders, and the top ten covered by under nine seconds on the opening special test. Garcia took Friday’s Super Test and Saturday’s overall, holding off a fired-up Steve Holcombe on his Sherco debut by a couple of seconds at one point on lap two.
Sunday belonged to Brad Freeman, who took his first outright win since 2024. That’s the bit worth pausing on. Freeman and Holcombe had both come off lengthy injury lay-offs, and here they were running one-two at the front of a world championship. Garcia twisted an ankle in a cross test crash and salvaged third and the E1 win. Andrea Verona swept Enduro2 on home soil.
It was the last time anyone else led the overall standings.
Finland, Fafe and the grind
By Vierumäki in May, the Red Bull KTM pair of Garcia and Verona were locking out the top two on both days, and Garcia was already unbeaten in E1 with a 29-point cushion in class. The back-to-back Portuguese rounds at Fafe in June were where the title race quietly ended. Garcia doubled up at round five, and the first world champion of the season was crowned there too: Rieju’s Rachel Gutish took the Women’s title with rounds to spare.
Zach Pichon was the one making life awkward. The TM Moto rider outscored Verona across the last three rounds and turned the fight for EnduroGP runner-up into a genuine scrap.
France: Pichon’s day, Garcia’s title
Saint-Agrève, 17 to 19 July, and the Frenchman finally got his moment. Pichon topped the Super Test, then won eight of nine special tests on Saturday to take his first EnduroGP win on home soil by 33 seconds.
Sunday was tighter than anyone expected. Pichon closed to within 1.31 seconds of Garcia with a single test left, and Garcia only needed second to be champion. He went for the win anyway, set fastest time on the final Extreme Test, and took the title by 1.86 seconds. That’s the difference between wanting a championship and wanting to win.
Wales: three titles, one point, and a fiftieth win
Rhayader hosted the finale on 7 to 9 August with 121 riders entered and, remarkably for Wales in August, hard dry dusty ground. Billy Bolt turned up as a Husqvarna wildcard and went third in the Super Test. Jonny Walker rode a Triumph TF 450-E straight off the back of Romaniacs and took seventh and eighth in Enduro2. World Supersport rider Tom Booth-Amos swapped his Street Triple for a TF 250-E and did his first timecard enduro, finishing 18th and 17th in the National class.
Garcia won Saturday by 34.19 seconds for career win 49, then Sunday by 13.93 seconds for number 50.
The real drama was Enduro2. Verona crashed in the opening test on Saturday, recovered to fifth overall and third in class, and watched his six-point championship lead shrink to one. Winner takes all on Sunday. Verona built roughly sixteen seconds over the opening two laps, Pichon threw everything at the final test, and Verona held on by 6.12 seconds. Third straight E2 crown, ninth world title.
“This title means a lot to me,” Verona said. Fair enough after that.
That second place also nicked EnduroGP runner-up off Pichon by a single point, 208 to 207. Cruel.
Holcombe’s tenth, in front of his own crowd
Steve Holcombe went into Wales six points up on Brad Freeman in Enduro3, won Saturday’s class by 41 seconds, then had a scrappy start to Sunday and had to nurse it home. He did, and became a ten-time FIM Enduro World Champion at his home GP. It also gave Sherco back-to-back E3 titles following Hamish Macdonald’s win in 2025.
Holcombe was clear about what it meant given the injury problems of the previous two seasons. Doing it in Wales, in front of British fans, is about as good as scripting gets.
The British contingent had a proper season
Beyond Holcombe, Nathan Watson had his best weekend of the year in Wales with third and fourth overall and a pair of E2 podiums. Rosie Rowett won Saturday’s Women’s class by over a minute at her home round and finished the season as vice-world champion, with Nieve Holmes third. Freeman was runner-up in E3. Jed Etchells, Charlie Chater, Alex Walton, Jack Edmondson and Aaron Gordon all flew the flag across the classes.
Triumph closed out only its second season in EnduroGP with vice-championship results in both Enduro1 and Junior. Morgan Lesiardo took second in E1, Leo Joyon second in Junior and Junior1. Across factory and supported teams, Triumph logged 62 podiums and 15 wins in 2026. Not bad for a manufacturer two years in.
Final 2026 championship standings
EnduroGP
| Pos | Rider | Bike | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Josep Garcia (ESP) | KTM | 266 |
| 2 | Andrea Verona (ITA) | KTM | 208 |
| 3 | Zach Pichon (FRA) | TM Moto | 207 |
Enduro1
| Pos | Rider | Bike | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Josep Garcia (ESP) | KTM | 280 |
| 2 | Morgan Lesiardo (ITA) | Triumph | 221 |
| 3 | Antoine Magain (BEL) | Sherco | 173 |
Jeremy Sydow finished fourth after missing the opening round with injury, and was on the E1 podium every weekend from Finland onwards.
Enduro2
| Pos | Rider | Bike | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andrea Verona (ITA) | KTM | 253 |
| 2 | Zach Pichon (FRA) | TM Moto | 249 |
| 3 | Hamish Macdonald (NZL) | Sherco | 207 |
Enduro3
| Pos | Rider | Bike |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Steve Holcombe (GBR) | Sherco |
| 2 | Brad Freeman (GBR) | Beta |
| 3 | Albin Norrbin (SWE) | Husqvarna |
Junior
| Pos | Rider | Bike | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alberto Elgari (ITA) | TM Moto | 229 |
| 2 | Leo Joyon (FRA) | Triumph | 220 |
| 3 | Romain Dagna (FRA) | KTM | 186 |
Junior1
| Pos | Rider | Bike | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alberto Elgari (ITA) | TM Moto | 262 |
| 2 | Leo Joyon (FRA) | Triumph | 258 |
| 3 | Clement Clauzier (FRA) | Beta | 186 |
Women
| Pos | Rider | Bike |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rachel Gutish (USA) | Rieju |
| 2 | Rosie Rowett (GBR) | Rieju |
| 3 | Nieve Holmes (GBR) | Sherco |
Every 2026 world champion
| Category | Champion | Machine |
|---|---|---|
| EnduroGP | Josep Garcia | KTM |
| Enduro1 | Josep Garcia | KTM |
| Enduro2 | Andrea Verona | KTM |
| Enduro3 | Steve Holcombe | Sherco |
| Junior | Alberto Elgari | TM Moto |
| Junior1 | Alberto Elgari | TM Moto |
| Junior2 | Romain Dagna | KTM |
| Youth | Pietro Scardina | TM Moto |
| Women | Rachel Gutish | Rieju |
| Junior Women | Lorna Lafont | Husqvarna |
GP of Wales results in full
EnduroGP, Day One
| Pos | Rider | Bike / Class | Time / Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Josep Garcia (ESP) | KTM E1 | 1:13:16.70 |
| 2 | Zach Pichon (FRA) | TM Moto E2 | +34.19 |
| 3 | Nathan Watson (GBR) | Beta E2 | +56.85 |
| 4 | Steve Holcombe (GBR) | Sherco E3 | +57.14 |
| 5 | Andrea Verona (ITA) | KTM E2 | +1:10.86 |
EnduroGP, Day Two
| Pos | Rider | Bike / Class | Time / Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Josep Garcia (ESP) | KTM E1 | 1:11:45.67 |
| 2 | Andrea Verona (ITA) | KTM E2 | +13.93 |
| 3 | Zach Pichon (FRA) | TM Moto E2 | +20.05 |
| 4 | Nathan Watson (GBR) | Beta E2 | +47.41 |
| 5 | Morgan Lesiardo (ITA) | Triumph E1 | +51.09 |
2026 calendar, for the record
| Rnd | Event | Venue | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GP of Italy | Custonaci, Sicily | 10-12 April |
| 2 | GP of Spain | Oliana | 1-3 May |
| 3 | GP of Finland | Vierumäki | 22-24 May |
| 4 | GP of Portugal | Fafe | 12-14 June |
| 5 | GP of Portugal II | Fafe | 19-21 June |
| 6 | GP of France | Saint-Agrève | 17-19 July |
| 7 | GP of Wales | Rhayader | 7-9 August |
2027: EnduroGP is coming to the Isle of Man
The provisional 2027 calendar landed during the Welsh weekend and it’s got a headline that should interest every British rider. Round six, 30 July to 1 August, is the GP of Isle of Man, based at Douglas. Facilitated by Ramsey Motor Cycle Club, with the Women’s championship running the same weekend out of the TT Grandstand.
The last time the island hosted a major international enduro was the ISDE in 1975. Fifty-two years is a long wait.
Eight rounds in total, across Spain, Portugal, Italy, the Isle of Man and Greece, with Greece returning for the first time since 2019 and hosting back-to-back finales in October where the titles will be settled.
| Rnd | Event | Venue | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GP of Spain | Valverde del Camino | 2-4 April |
| 2 | GP of Spain II | Oliana | 23-25 April |
| 3 | GP of Portugal | Fafe | 11-13 June |
| 4 | GP of Portugal II | Fafe | 18-20 June |
| 5 | GP of Italy | Carpinetti | 2-4 July |
| 6 | GP of Isle of Man | Douglas | 30 July – 1 August |
| 7 | GP of Greece | TBA | 15-17 October |
| 8 | GP of Greece II | TBA | 22-24 October |
Before then: the 100th ISDE
The Six Days hits its 100th edition in Grândola, Portugal, from 12 to 17 October 2026, and Britain is sending its strongest World Trophy squad since the 2022 win. Steve Holcombe, Brad Freeman, Nathan Watson and Jed Etchells make up the team, with Jack Keenan called up for the Junior side on his debut.
Two world champions and two GP regulars, an hour south of Lisbon, at the hundredth running. Worth keeping an eye on.
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