
It’s only five hours from my home in Madrid and in the past many close family and friends came to support me. “Yes! Extreme XL Lagares is a special race for me. Hopefully with a world championship behind it now it will bring opportunities and investment to young riders in these countries so they can come race with us too.” You must be looking forward to getting back and defending your trophy?
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They want to know how to climb, ride boulders, to push and how to ride the Hard Enduro way. “In the beginning we mostly did Classic Enduro techniques, but now it’s changed. Getting to spend 1-on-1 time with amateur riders and pass on my experience is cool. It helps me to travel to so many places around the world, like South America, Israel, and when travel restrictions ease, Australia. “I love the training and coaching schools I do. At a grassroots level, is the sport of Hard Enduro growing and will a world championship help it further?

You travel the world with your training schools.

I won the 125 Enduro world title in 2010, so if I could do it in Hard Enduro after so many years, that would be incredible!” Bringing it in line with the FIM puts us on the same level as MotoGP and MXGP with a world title to race for. I’ve been racing Hard Enduro since 2014 and have missed having a series like we do in classic enduro. Mario Roman: “It’s great news to have a world championship this year. What are your thoughts on the championship and year ahead?
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Now those major extreme races – plus two new events – form the entire HEWC series and Mario heads to the 2021 edition of Lagares fully signed up and aiming for a new world crown… Mario, you’ve been waiting a long time for a FIM Hard Enduro World Championship. It is a skill set that never quite got fully realised in the former WESS series because the Sherco rider, along with his teammate Wade Young, never contested the whole championship – the team focused instead on the major extreme races in the calendar. The former 125 Enduro World Championship winner can claim to have among the most developed skill sets of all top Hard Enduro racers with an impressive level in Motocross, Enduro and Trials.

Mario Roman is facing the defence of his Extreme XL Lagares title on May 7-9 with a whole new ambition, to become the first-ever FIM Hard Enduro World Champion.
