WESS Promotion GmbH withdraws as promoter of the FIM Hard Enduro World Championship

As the previous organizer of the FIM Hard Enduro World Championship, we regret to inform you that we will not be able to hold the championship in 2025.

The pull-out of our main sponsor in December 2024, for reasons that are well known, did not leave us enough time to secure alternative funding. Since most of the potential new partners had already finalized their 2025 budgets at the time of the withdrawal, this significantly limited our options for alternative cooperation.

Despite conducting many promising conversations and successfully concluding several negotiations, we have reached the end of February – our self-imposed deadline – without securing the necessary financial backing to ensure a professional execution of the championship. Thus, we have come to the conclusion to cancel our plans for the 2025 season.

This decision was taken with a strong sense of responsibility towards our potential new sponsors and all the partners who have supported us over the past years. Among them, without singling anyone out, were the FIM, all our event partners, Red Bull Media House, and KTM Group.

The FIM (Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme) is now calling for expressions of interest (tenders) to identify candidates interested in becoming involved as a Promoter of the Championship with a view to concluding a multi‐year contract starting in 2025. Ideally, a decision could be announced as early as the end of March 2025.

For further information, please check the FIM website.