2025 SuperEnduro World Championship Rnd 1 Poland Preview
Previewing the 2025 SuperEnduro World Championship season where Billy Bolt starts as defending champion against a barrage of new riders, bikes and teams.
2025 promises to be a huge year for the SuperEnduro World Championship with Billy Bolt faces a barrage of riders on new bikes and fresh-look teams: Jonny Walker on a Triumph, the Stark boys Blazusiak and Karlsson, Brightmore brothers on fresh X-Grip tyres, Cooper Abbott from the US for Sherco, a TrialGP star Toby Martyn incoming, there's even an Aussie in the new Youth World Cup class…this could be the best indoor season in years.
New classes, improved tracks, better live coverage (details below), electric bikes all ramp up anticipation for the start of the 2025 SuperEnduro season, beginning this Saturday in Gliwice, Poland where new promoters are at the helm.
Bill’s championship to lose?
Let’s start from the top with Billy Bolt. Having signed a new two-year deal this summer to continue racing for the Husqvarna Factory Racing team, Billy is one of the few to makes no change for the new indoor season. Why would he?
Is it Bill’s championship to lose? Some would certainly say so given the utter domination of the previous four seasons and the one thing which is different seems to be the pre-season. With the big man fit and prepared this year, well, we ain’t betting against him that’s for sure.
Challenge accepted
The challenge for everyone listed below is to match the lightning Bolt speed and skills on the obstacles. That’s the reality and they know it only too well.
Having said all that, various factors make this year intriguing though and not least for Billy’s chief rival the last few seasons, Jonny Walker. Back on a factory bike with Triumph Racing, Walker had immediate success first time out at the Indoor Enduro of Champions.
With a heap more time on the bike and his set-up dialled, Walker took an EnduroCross win away from Trystan Hart and Colton Haaker which should not be sniffed at.
As in previous years that hot bed of racing prep in the AMA series stands Jonny well heading to Gliwice this weekend.
The same goes for Sherco USA’s Cooper Abbott who jumps across the Atlantic pond for another shot at the world championship for Sherco. As the sole US import this season, the Endurocross podium man will carry momentum the European riders won’t have at this round one.
Dominik Olszowy is the third proven podium contender who went over to America for the EX series and showed his indoor skills with race wins and some fast starting on the factory Rieju.
He has a new Rieju teammate, a new rider to SuperEnduro and enduro full stop in fact as TrialGP convert Toby Martyn joins the show. This will be in at the deep end for Martyn but he does have massive indoor experience and is one of a very select few who can say they have beaten Toni Bou.
Harry Edmondson adds another British rider to the Prestige starting line-up and will race the Triumph 250 alongside Walker.
Everyman and his dog training in Spain
It is traditional for the top riders to head to Northern Spain at this time of year to prep for the SuperEnduro season. But we don’t think we’ve ever seen quite so many training together as this year with half the entry list it seems on the l’Ametlla enduro training facility.
Natural talent graces the three of those, three British riders with proven records indoors, each of whom are on new bikes and teams. Podium man Will Hoare has taken over the TTR Squadre Corse ride from the Brightmore brothers and is joined in the Juniors by Roland Liska and Marc Fernandez at the Italian team.
It’s new whips also for Mitchell and Ashton Brightmore on the X-Grip team bikes. A year in the Prestige will help Mitch as his younger brother joins the big boys having won the Junior World Cup last season.
Speak of which…hello Stark, finally
After a lot of noise, confusion and ultimately a year off, Taddy Blazusiak and Eddie Karlsson will contest this season for Stark Future Racing.
After impressive showing at the Indoor of Champions event in October, where Taddy took a podium and Karlsson looked completely at one with the Varg, both are podium contenders.
Weight and power limitations however, placed by the FIM Technical direction, will inhibit the performance for the Vargs. Technical regulations say 41kw which is equivalent to around 55hp, and a 123kg minimum weight will both affect the Stark boys the most. That’s a heavy bike and seems unfair particularly when the production enduro bike now exists.
First look: Stark Varg EX – street legal enduro model breaks cover
Beta’s new boys
Alfredo Gomez drops in here as the rider replacement for Jonny Walker in the Italian Beta stable. The hugely experienced Spanish rider is no slouch on the man-made obstacles, even if he switched only last month and admits 16 years of SuperEnduro racing is more than enough.
Gomez’s new deal with Beta sees him bringing a team of riders to the Super Enduro world championship with two Spanish kids, Eneko Martínez and Ramón Godino, and Australian Michael Blake.
All three are entered in the exciting new Youth World Cup class which sees another Beta-supported rider, a youngster by the name of Fraiser Lampkin – watch this fella.
Missing in action for this first round at least is Mani Lettenbichler was on the cards to race the full season, we think, but an injury at the final round of the Hard Enduro World Championship, where he claimed consecutive titles, puts him in out.
If we’re honest we wish Josep Garcia had been handed to place on the starting line-up instead. The Spaniard has earned a winter break for sure but it would be awesome to see him indoors.
Same too for Steve Holcombe, Brad Freeman and any of the other top EnduroGP riders who still choose not to race indoors, despite the rest of us crying out for it.
Juniors and new Youth World Cups adding to the show
Last year’s champion Ashton Brightmore moves up which means we will have a new champion and the likely contenders are the riders who’ve been there or there abouts in previous years including Roland Liska and Milan Schmuser. Honestly it is impossible to predict this one but, along with the new Youth World Cup class, the stadium show on Saturday night will be stacked.
Watch the action live
You can view all of the SuperEnduro World Championship season live with the very well-priced season pass. You can pay per view for €7.99 a round or €44.99 for a season pass.
Paul Bolton joins the commentary team this year adding punditry to the mix to help Dave Moore on the comms for the full night’s show. More information here.
