Getzenrodeo 2025: Lettenbichler leads charge at Hard Enduro World Championship this weekend in Germany

The FIM Hard Enduro World Championship follows the EnduroGP series in heading to Germany  for the melting pot of a race, the 24MX Getzenrodeo — entry list (below) for penultimate round this weekend sees Mani Lettenbichler aiming for the 2025 HEWC crown on home soil.

The wooded hills at Getzenwald, just up the road from where the EnduroGP paddock was camped out last weekend, have been a traditional scene of drama for 11 years now and for long before the Hard Enduro World Championship came along.

From the infamous starting canon, Graham Jarvis’s dominant years pre-HEWC, to the epic showdowns between Mani Lettenbichler and Billy Bolt in recent visits, we’re banking on a repeat this weekend.

Lettenbichler favourite on home soil

Manuel Lettenbichler heads to his home race in Saxony with a 35-point advantage and fresh off a dominant win at Sea to Sky in Turkey. Mario Roman and Mitch Brightmore joined him on that podium, taking advantage of Billy Bolt’s poor result but it is the German who clearly holds the upper hand here.

Second in the championship, Bolt arrives in Germany with a point to prove after food poisoning and wrong tyre choice ruined his weekend in Turkey, despite a prologue victory. The Brit could only salvage 11th last time out and now sits just a point ahead of Mitch Brightmore in the championship with two rounds to go.

The Saxony event’s theme of warfare has seen some awesome races in Getzenwald and Bolt certainly arrives as joint favourite at this race which is famous for the intensity and the crowd. Billy and Mani waged here previously but Brightmore’s consistency on the podiums has been impressive this year (plus, fact fans, the prologue in 2023 was the first time Mitch put one over on Billy in any race).

Along with Brightmore, the podium finisher at Sea to Sky, Romaniacs and not to mention Getzen last time we visited in 2023, it’d also be madness to count out Mario Roman.

Weekend programme:

To be clear, this weekend’s points scoring is different to other races and classified as a one day event in the HEWC. The Prologue is essentially for the fans and to establish start position (2x timed laps of a short arena course), plus there’s some prize money for the top three.

Saturday morning’s 2hr GetzenRace will have a 3, 2, 1 points system for HEWC riders. The top 20 riders from that go through to the main, 80-minute plus one lap GetzenChamp race with top 15 scoring a normal points result (20, 17, 15, 13, etc).

Friday, October 24

– 15:00 Prologue

– 18:00 Rider Presentation in the festival tent

Saturday, October 25 (race day)

– 10:00 GetzenRace (qualification)

– 14:00 GetzenChamp – top 20 riders, 90-minute final

– Podium immediately afterwards

– GetzenNight party to close

Starter list:

Getzenrodeo is famous for how close fans get to the action which is all based around the Griessbach sports ground — tickets and info at www.getzenrodeo.net

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