Press Release | November 19, 2022
Prime Stadium, promoters of the FIM EnduroGP World Championship, together with the FIM, have confirmed the dates and locations of the 2023 FIM EnduroGP World Championship. The seven-round series will start in Italy for the first time ever.
Beginning in Italy in early April and finishing in Portugal in early October, the championship will kick off with two stand-alone races—round one in Italy and round two in Spain. Then, the series will feature back-to-back rounds three and four in Finland and Sweden, followed by another stand-alone event in Slovakia. The championship will conclude with back-to-back rounds seven and eight in Portugal.
Italy and the rugged mountains of the San Remo/Arma di Taggia region will host the opening round of the 2023 FIM EnduroGP World Championship. Round two of the 2023 series will take place in Lalin in northwest Spain, the venue of the opening round of the 2022 championship.
For 2023 the FIM EnduroGP World Championship will feature a Scandinavian tour as the series returns to Finland and Sweden on consecutive weekends at the end of May and the beginning of June. Visiting the enduro heartlands of Heinola in Finland and Skovde in Sweden, the series’ most northerly events will take the championship past its mid-way point.
Following a three-week break, the EnduroGP series will return to action on the first weekend in July as it makes a return visit to Gelnica in Slovakia, home to the fifth round of the 2022 series and an event that unquestionably proved its worth in 2022 with its spectacular forest-based special tests. The event originally scheduled to be held on July 7-9 will not take place.
Bringing the championship to a close with back-to-back competitions in Portugal, Valpacos and St Andre/Santiago do Cacem will play hosts to rounds seven and eight.
2023 FIM EnduroGP World Championship Calendar (Updated)
3/31-4/2 |
(Rnd 1) San Remo, Italy |
5/5-7 |
(Rnd 2) Lalin, Spain |
5/26-28 |
(Rnd 3) Heinola, Finland |
6/1-3 |
(Rnd 4) Skovde, Sweden |
6/30-7/2 |
(Rnd 5) Gelnica, Slovakia |
9/29-10/1 |
(Rnd 6) Valpacos, Portugal |
10/6-8 |
(Rnd 7) St Andrew, Portugal |
The FIM and series promoter Prime Stadium have announced the provisional calendar for the 2023 Enduro World Championship and World Cup classes.
The following is a press release from FIM/EnduroGP…
Ahead of the ’22 EnduroGP series finale in Germany on October 15-16, we can already start planning for the next season of enduro world championship racing with the provisional dates for both the GP and Cup classes revealed.
Eight rounds, back-to-back weekends including a return to Finland
The calendar again features eight rounds, all of which spread across a weekend with two points scoring days. The series begins in Italy and San Remo at the end of March and start of April. Normally we’d see many of the championship teams and riders sharpening their tools in the Italian domestic series at that time but a month earlier start than recent years will see everyone arriving a little blunter than usual.
A month later in Early May the championship moves to the well-used GP location of Lalin in Spain. Early June see the circus move north in Europe for back-to-back weekends in first Sweden (Skovde) and then a welcome return to Heinola in Finland – both very popular locations with fans and riders.
Round five is marked as TBA at present and although Enduro21 has heard a number of possible candidates being batted around – including Great Britain – nothing is yet finalised. The theory is the back-to-back weekends racing shouldn’t be too far apart for logistical and financial reasons which should mean five is “close” to the round six location in Slovakia.
The series wraps up with a double-header pair of GPs in Portugal, the home country of the series promoters Prime Stadium. September 29-October 1 takes us to Valpacos and the following week to Santo Andre which is actually the same local area as Santiago do Cacem which we visited last year, although likely they will use new tests.
The Enduro Women’s World Championship has four rounds scheduled once again: the first, third and fourth, plus eighth GPs of the season respectively in Italy, Sweden, Finland and the final visit to Portugal.
All other classes, including the Open World Cup will feature at each of the eight rounds although the Open classes can choose which four GPs to claim their points at.
2023 FIM EnduroGP World Championship Calendar
3/31-4/2 |
(Rnd 1) San Remo, Italy |
5/5-7 |
(Rnd 2) Lalin, Spain |
6/1-3 |
(Rnd 3) Skovde, Sweden |
6/9-11 |
(Rnd 4) Heinola, Finland |
6/30-7/2 |
(Rnd 5) TBA |
7/7-9 |
(Rnd 6) Gelnica, Slovakia |
9/29-10/1 |
(Rnd 7) Valpacos, Portugal |
10/6-8 |
(Rnd 8) St Andrew, Portugal |