Triumph Clinches First Enduro1 Victory in Inaugural Endurogp Season
Triumph and its all-new TF 250-E enduro bike have secured an outstanding first Enduro1 victory and EnduroGP podium with Morgan Lesiardo and the Triumph Italia Racing team at the penultimate round of the FIM EnduroGP World Championship in Darfo Boario Terme, Italy. This landmark result is a remarkable achievement for the British manufacturer in its first season of enduro competition.
Lesiardo, who recently formed part of the winning Team Italy at the International Six Days Enduro, put on a superb performance all weekend to take a 2-1 result over the two days, including an emphatic victory in E1 and second place on the podium in EnduroGP.
The teams faced a highly technical 44km figure of eight loop, with heavy rain falling on Saturday increasing the difficulty around the Italian course. Lesiardo took an impressive second place on day one, while finishing fifth overall in EnduroGP. However, the best was yet to come, with Lesiardo stepping up a gear on Sunday in front of his home crowd. With six fastest overall times over the 15 special tests, the 26-year-old took Triumph’s first E1 victory, and an incredible first EnduroGP podium with second overall. The Triumph Italia Racing team has added another accolade to their ISDE success and Italian Championship Enduro1 victory earlier in the year.
Triumph is celebrating a spectacular first season in enduro. With multiple podium finishes in E1 from Triumph Factory Racing Enduro Team’s Mikkel Persson combined with Lesiardo’s strong results and victory, adding to the duo’s ISDE success for Team Sweden and Italy, the results for the new enduro bike are unprecedented on the world stage. Triumph is currently occupying third, fourth and fifth in the Enduro1 standings with one round to go and Triumph riders have visited the podium 15 times this season.
In addition, Lesiardo celebrated domestic success by winning the Enduro1 class in the Italian Championship earlier in the year, while Jamie McCanney and Persson took an outstanding 1-2 in the overall British Enduro Championship last weekend.
Morgan Lesiardo
“This podium is the result of the hard work of myself and the team. Since the beginning of the season, we have been giving 100% to achieve results like this. Now I’m enjoying the first place in E1 and second in EnduroGP. It really is a dream come true and an incredible result in the first year on the TF 250-E.”
Ian Kimber – Head of Global Racing Programmes
“We’d like to say a huge congratulations to Morgan and the Triumph Italia Racing team on this very special achievement. To take a maiden victory in our first year both competing and launching the TF 250-E is just incredible. It’s easy to forget that Triumph is completely new to the off-road segment, and while we knew we had a strong platform, putting the bike into race conditions against the world’s best riders with the most established competitors on GP-level tracks is completely different than a test bench or test track. It’s testament to the hard work done in developing the product, including everyone at the factory, our test riders, engineers, production staff, and we also must say a big thank you to everyone involved. The enduro base racing in the world championship is almost identical to what we have in the dealers, bar some race-specific parts, and even more so for the non-factory teams. Again, I’d like to say a huge congratulations to Morgan and the Triumph Italia Racing team on delivering this landmark result.”
