2025 EnduroGP of Wales Results: Super-fast Josep Garcia rules Rhayader Super Test

2025 EnduroGP World Championship round four in Wales Super Test results – Josep Garcia sets a blistering time for the overall ahead of Zach Pichon and Andrea Verona with a maiden class win for Nieve Holmes in the Women’s category.

EnduroGP of Wales 2025 Super Test in a nutshell:

The EnduroGP Women got the show underway at the GP of Wales. First on track for the Friday Super Test on the edge of the paddock on Cwmythig Hill, EnduroGP Women Junior points leader Libby Tett set a fast time and was hoisted up high in front of the crowd as the rider with the time to beat.
With the entire female entry going fast, but not quite fast enough, it took the penultimate duel between two home heroines, Nieve Holmes and Rosie Rowett, before Tett’s time was beaten. KBS Sherco rider Holmes it was who took her maiden class win on a Super Test and we didn’t see a bigger smile all night.
Frasier Lampkin was first up in the fizzing Youth class and he set an impressive, aggressive tone in his class to take the hot seat having set the benchmark time.
A faster time was a long time arriving before Sherco rider Aleix Samuell clocked in quicker and was the first rider coming close to going under two minutes for the two lap test.
Narrowly faster still, Frenchman Romain Dagna would top the Youth class by the end in a time of 2:00.05.
Last year’s EGP of Wales Super Test winner, Australian Angus Riordan, was again a benchmark for the Juniors in his only EnduroGP of the year. Attacking the track like no-one had so far on the night, the KTM USA rider set the first sub-two minute time which proved fast enough to claim the class top time.
First on track in the senior ranks, and the first of the US imports (tariff-free, we think), Dante Oliveira is one of a handful of riders checking out enduro tests over here ahead of the ISDE in two weeks. The KTM USA rider also went under two minutes, a fraction slower than Riordan.
Jack Edmondson and Danny McCanney followed soon after and put on a good show for the home crowd to both go under two mins on a deteriorating track.
Coming out of retirement for this race, McCanney claimed fifth overall for one of his best-ever Super Test results.
Riordan’s time was finally beaten however by a flying Kawasaki of Davide Soreca, uncharacteristic you could say for the Italian who was rewarded with fourth fastest overall on the tight and technical Super Test course.
Mikael Persson was another one of few riders dropping under two minutes on the Triumph as we approached the sharp end and the championship leaders lined up in the holding area.
Zach Pichon was first of the 2025 GP winners, scorching to a 1:56.64 which was a healthy jump in the timings that didn’t seem possible.
Last of all were the points leaders Andrea Verona and Josep Garcia who honestly didn’t look the fastest but proved the eye is easily fooled. The Red Bull KTM rider topped the night overall with a 1:55.4, ahead of Pichon second fastest and Verona third by a fraction.
1.5 seconds covered the top three riders in the test ahead of the real challenge tomorrow, starting at 9am.
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