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A closer look at Triumph’s Enduro programme notes that its riders will compete in three different types of disciplines throughout the 24/25/26 season. British racer Jonny Walker will contest the FIM SuperEnduro World Championship, select rounds of AMA EnduroCross, as well as a select number of events throughout the summer, and perhaps a number of Hard Enduro races. Teammates Mikael Persson and Jamie McCanney will focus on the more traditional FIM EnduroGP World Championship.

The FIM SuperEnduro World Championship is an indoor series that has been running for nearly 20 years. It is held in packed-out arenas where racers compete over extreme obstacles such as rocks and logs in this hugely popular winter series. It features a gate-drop start and short, but very intense races. Jonny Walker has enjoyed much success in the seven-round series, concluding Triumph’s first season with the TF 250 with seven podiums from seven races, including a victory at the fifth round in Hungary. In the US, a series with a similar format takes place called EnduroCross; Walker enjoyed a number of strong results in that series, before returning to Europe to focus on the World Championship. The Cumbrian racer, who has won some of the biggest hard enduro events on the planet such as the Red Bull ErzbergRodeo Hare Scramble and Red Bull Romaniacs, joined the Triumph Factory Racing team at the end of 2024 and has competed in the SuperEnduro series, with plans to contest select events throughout the summer.

The FIM EnduroGP World Championship is the more ‘traditional’ of Enduro disciplines featuring a number of tests across the race weekends. The enduro test, motocross test, and extreme tests feature in all race events, with a crowd-pleasing super test taking place, usually on the Friday night. The Enduro series dates back to 1968, and today has three categories – Enduro1 (up-to 250cc 2-stroke and 4-stroke), Enduro2 (255cc – 450cc 4-stroke) and Enduro3 (255cc 2-stroke and 450cc 4-stroke) as well as the overall EnduroGP standings, which is awarded to the highest point scorer of all three categories. Triumph’s riders, Jamie McCanney and Mikael Persson have both previously battled for Championship victories, and bring a wealth of experience to the Triumph Factory Racing squad, with which they will race in the E1 & EnduroGP class for 2025.

The team is led by Paul Edmondson, a former British racer who has four Enduro World Championships to his name as a rider including a record breaking 18 gold medals at the ISDE, at which he represented Great Britain multiple times. Edmondson is a well-known figure in off-road, having achieved vast success with his former EnduroGP race team Fast Eddy Racing, which he set-up and managed, as well as his running of a number of hugely popular Enduro events in the UK. 

Paul has been involved in the off-road project with Triumph since the beginning, providing essential input to the development of the platform of the TF 250-X and TF 250-E machines. The likable and very motivated enduro expert also rode Triumph Motorcycles as 007’s stunt double  in the James Bond Film, No Time To Die and is now Team Manager of the Triumph Factory Racing Enduro Team, partnering the British Manufacturer as it embarks on a new journey in enduro racing.