WORLD NEWS
2023 FIM ENDUROGP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP CALENDAR
courtesy of FIM ENDUROGP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
PRIME STADIUM , promoters of the FIM EnduroGP World Championship , together with the FIM , are pleased to confirm the dates and locations of the 2023 FIM EnduroGP World Championship . Bringing together several races that featured in the 2022 series with well-established events that have previously hosted EnduroGP competitions , the sevenround series will start in Italy for the first time ever .
Beginning in Italy in early April and finishing in Portugal in early October , the championship will kick off with two stand-alone races – round one in Italy and round two in Spain . Then , the series will feature back-to-back rounds three and four in Finland and Sweden , followed by another stand-alone event in Slovakia . The championship will conclude with back-to-back rounds seven and eight in Portugal .
Italy and the rugged mountains of the San Remo / Arma di Taggia region will host the opening round of the 2023 FIM EnduroGP World Championship . Round two of the 2023 series will take place in Lalin in northwest Spain , the venue of the opening round of the 2022 championship .
For 2023 the FIM EnduroGP World Championship will feature a Scandinavian tour as the series returns to Finland and Sweden on consecutive weekends at the end of May and the beginning of June . Visiting the enduro heartlands of Heinola in Finland and Skovde in Sweden , the series ’ most northerly events will take the championship past its mid-way point .
Following a three-week break , the EnduroGP series will return to action on the first weekend in July as it makes a return visit to Gelnica in Slovakia , home to the fifth round of the 2022 series and an event that unquestionably proved its worth in 2022 with its spectacular forestbased special tests . The event originally scheduled to be held on July 7-9 will not take place .
Bringing the championship to a close with back-to-back competitions in Portugal , Valpacos and St Andre / Santiago do Cacem will play hosts to rounds seven and eight .
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