KTM's financial foolery, which is the nicest way I can say it, put the FIM World Hard Enduro Championship into a free fall, as the Austrian manufacturer was the main sponsor and had to pull out. Thankfully, after a lot of reorganizing and hard work by the promoters, the Championship is back on, although it'll look a little different than before.
A large part of the reason we'll have an FIM Hard Enduro World Championship in 2025 is down to a new promoter. ProTouchGlobal GmbH (a Swiss-based sports management company) recently inked a deal that names it as the new FIM Hard Enduro World Championship (HEWC). But with a new promotor comes some changes to the calendar.
The calendar contains a few of the events historically associated with the HEWC, but it won't include Erzbergrodeo. This is the biggest change to the calendar, but should come as no surprise, considering Erzbergrodeo and Romaniacs joined together to create a new Extreme “World Championship” in 2025. Since then, Romaniacs has backed out of that agreement, which is probably why it's back on the HEWC calendar with no date changes.
