2024 EnduroGP World Championship day two results at the final GP of the season in Brioude, France where Brad Freeman finally nailed his first GP win of the season after a day-long battle with Steve Holcombe and Josep Garcia.

EnduroGP Rnd 7, France Day 2 in a nutshell:

• Three different leaders in the first three tests this morning showed this 2024 season wasn’t about to end lightly on the final day’s competition.
• Brad Freeman has not won a GP day all year, and the Beta rider has been honest in not having quite enough. But at this last opportunity Brad was clearly giving it everything to correct that fact before the season was over.
• Unlike day one, Josep Garcia did make a mistake today, on the long and beaten-up Enduro test at first visit. Losing 16 seconds to his rivals on that second test put him on the back foot but by the end of lap two, the new world champion had clawed it all back to sit on the leader Freeman’s shoulder.
• Steve Holcombe was the same consistent fast he has been all year and, as yesterday, was chasing the test wins along with Freeman and Garcia in a three-way fight.
• At the start of lap three all three had taken top spot overall and they sat less than four seconds apart heading into the all-important, nine-minute Enduro test.
• It proved crucial as Brad ticked through with the fastest time ahead of Holcombe, while Josep make another error to effectively rule himself out of the win.
• That left the short, final Extreme test to settle things between Freeman and Holcombe and when Steve took his turn to make an error, Brad was finally able to take the win, remarkably his first in 2024.
• “I’ve been searching for the overall win all year so I’m really happy to get it here in France”, says Freeman. “It was a tough day, I had a couple of crashes but we were all on it. Going into the final lap we were all just a couple of seconds apart so I just thought, it’s time to go and I’m really happy it worked out.”
• Holcombe was again close for the overall and took the top step ahead of Garcia in E1 class but although that wasn’t enough to get the better of the Spaniard in class, he does overtake Andrea Verona in the overall championship for second place: “It would’ve been great to win E1 overall but to get second overall was the main goal this weekend. I was pushing for it. It was great to be in the fight with these guys, especially with new bike, new team, we’ve all worked extremely hard this season.”
• With third place on the day Garcia makes it two world titles in two days with the 2024 E1 crown: “It feels amazing to seal off the season with two world titles. I think I have won a day at every GP and for me it has been a perfect season. Let’s enjoy the party and celebrate.”
• By his own high standards Andrea Verona had an average day finishing 30 seconds off the leaders. As mentioned already, fourth place means the 2024 E2 world champ lost P2 overall to Holcombe.
• This “nutshell” could go on for 10,000 words talking about how immensely close it is in the battle to be top 10 and world championship podium places…Zach Pichon completes the top five scratch and E1 podium, Cavallo and Macdonald fighting for the E3 podium, Samuele Bernadini runner-up in E2 after Nathan Watson crashed out yesterday...the list goes on.
• Making up for a nervous second place on day one in France, the new Junior World Champion Max Ahlin had a blistering ride to win by half a minute today. Italians Kevin Cristino and Manolo Morettini fought tooth and nail for the podium with the outgoing Youth, and new J1 champ Cristino eventually taking P2 from his compatriot on the Honda in P3.
• No rider had a bigger winning margin than Pietro Scardini in the Youth 125 class. The Italian put Fantic on top with a minute to the good of French rider Romain Dagna and Luca Colorio third.
• The Women’s category had a right, old fight today with KBS Sherco rider Rachel Gutish Marie Holt pushing hard all the way for the win.
• The new EW champion Mireia Badia must have been on the sherry last night because she was slow out the blocks and ran adrift of the battle for the lead, eventually finishing in sixth place.
• Gutish it was though who took the win, book-ending her debut season of EnduroGP with a double win to steal second place in the championship by two points from Rosie Rowett who was third today. That also makes Rachel the American with the most wins in EnduroGP (Taylor Robert has just one, Gutish has three now).

2024 GP of France Day 2 results, scratch EnduroGP overall:

E1 class:

E2 class:

E3 class:

Junior overall:

Youth 125 class:

Enduro Women:

Open class scratch (top 15):

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