The 2026 EnduroGP World Championship has reached its penultimate round of the season and, over the weekend of July 17-19, made a stop in Saint-Agrève for the GP of France, a crucial race in the run for the world titles.
The race weekend kicked off with the traditional Super Test on Friday evening, held in front of a massive crowd that, in true French tradition, responded with great enthusiasm, packing every special test. The race course on French soil featured a long, fast, and demanding Cross Test on hard terrain, followed by an Enduro Test inside a forest among roots and rocks. Concluding each lap was a spectacular Extreme Test characterized by hard pack and numerous artificial obstacles, including logs and boulders.
Great performance for Morgan Lesiardo in Saint-Agrève: the rider captured two podium finishes in the E1 class, narrowingly missing out on the overall EnduroGP Top Ten on both days. On Saturday, after a bit of an uphill start, the rider from Lecco bounced back with a great comeback in the final stages, snatching an excellent third place in E1 and eleventh place in EnduroGP. On Sunday, however, he hit the ground running right from the opening tests, putting down record times that allowed him, at the end of a long battle, to claim another well-deserved third step of the podium in E1.
An uphill weekend for Luca Colorio. The Veneto-based rider finished with a sixth and a fifth place in Junior 1, penalized by a spectacular crash during Friday evening’s Super Test that inevitably conditioned the rest of his race.
Special mention for supported rider Roland Liszka, who captured third place in the Junior 1 class on Sunday.
With the penultimate round of the season in the books, the EnduroGP World Championship now looks ahead to the final event of the year, scheduled for August 7-9 in Rhayader, where the GP of Wales will definitively crown the 2026 world champions.
“Honestly, I was aiming for something more, but I’m still happy to have made it to the podium twice and to have consolidated my provisional second place in the E1 standings.” – Morgan Lesiardo
