2026 Hixpania Results: Lettenbichler Seals His Fifth Straight Title as Román Wins at Home

Manuel Lettenbichler had the 2026 FIM Hard Enduro World Championship wrapped up before most fans had found a parking spot in Aguilar de Campoo. The rest of the weekend still delivered: Billy Bolt won Friday and Saturday, and on Sunday the home crowd got the result it came for. Mario Román won El Camino Perdido, the main race, by just over a minute from Lettenbichler, with Bolt third, per Dirt Bike Finder UK's results table.

The 24MX Hixpania Hard Enduro in northern Spain was round 8 of 8, raced over three days: the SuperEncierro on Friday night, the Campoo Xtreme sprint on Saturday and El Camino Perdido, or The Lost Road, on Sunday, per the official race schedule. It was the 10th edition of the event. New to the sport? Our guide to what hard enduro is covers the basics. Newest day first below. The FIM hadn't posted its final Lost Road sheet when we published, so Sunday's times below are the provisional ones reported by KTM, MCNews and Dirt Bike Finder UK.

Day 3 - Sunday, October 25: El Camino Perdido

The Lost Road is Hixpania's signature race. Riders lap a roughly 4.5-kilometer loop on the Caracol peninsula, the top ten from Saturday start from inside a cave, and the slowest ten are knocked out at the end of each of the first three laps. After two hours, Hixpania Hill opens in the stadium, and only the top ten on the lead lap get a shot at it, per the FIM's event guide.

Román made it count. The Spaniard came into Sunday with a seventh in the sprint and an eighth on Friday night, and nothing about that suggested a win. Lettenbichler led early, but Román was in front by the third lap, about half an hour in, and pulled away on the fourth, according to MCNews. He finished the nine laps in 2:11:18.43 and beat Lettenbichler by 1:00.82, with Bolt third at 5:26.83, per Dirt Bike Finder UK. KTM's race release has the same top three.

Lettenbichler, champion since Friday, still raced it like the title was on the line. "We finished second today after an awesome battle with Mario Román. He was riding unbelievably well, so congratulations to him," he said in KTM's release. The hill told a different story from the race. Bolt was the quickest of the top three up Hixpania Hill at 7:38.07, ahead of Lettenbichler's 7:39.39 and Román's 8:00.32, per MCNews, but by then the race was already settled. Bolt admitted to MCNews that the physical demands nearly got the better of him early on, before he found "a bit of a second wind" and made the pass for third on the last lap. His 15 points made him the top scorer of the weekend with 28 from three races, two more than Lettenbichler.

Mitch Brightmore was fourth on Sunday, 9:15.35 back, a solid way to close a season that ends with him as runner-up. James Moore was fifth and Ashton Brightmore sixth, which was enough for Moore to keep his Junior world title, as MCNews reported. Teodor Kabakchiev was seventh, which was enough for the Bulgarian to hold on to third overall.

El Camino Perdido top 10 (provisional times as reported):

1. Mario Román (ESP), Husqvarna, 2:11:18.43
2. Manuel Lettenbichler (GER), KTM, +1:00.82
3. Billy Bolt (GBR), Husqvarna, +5:26.83
4. Mitch Brightmore (GBR), GASGAS, +9:15.35
5. James Moore (RSA), Beta, +10:41.27
6. Ashton Brightmore (GBR), GASGAS, +12:44.49
7. Teodor Kabakchiev (BUL), Sherco, +21:51.70
8. Wade Young (RSA), KTM, +26:51.19
9. Francesc Moret Clota (ESP), Rieju, +40:01.77
10. Lorenzo Gandola, -1 lap

Day 2 - Saturday, October 24: Campoo Xtreme sprint

With the title gone, Saturday turned into a straight fight for pride, and it was the best race of the weekend so far. The Campoo Xtreme runs for an hour plus a lap on a 6-kilometer loop beside the reservoir, with a single timed lap in the morning setting the grid, per the FIM. Bolt covered eight laps in 1:14:21.8 and beat Lettenbichler by 3.5 seconds, with Ashton Brightmore third at 9.7 seconds, per the official classification.

Lettenbichler did not ride like a man who had already won. He set the only sub-nine-minute lap of the race, 8:59.38, on his last lap, but Bolt answered with his own best lap of the day, 9:01.01, on the same final run and held on, per Dirt Bike Finder UK. That makes two from two in Spain for Bolt in a season that had him sitting out the Roof of Africa and Sea to Sky injured.

Behind the top three the gaps were huge. James Moore was fourth, almost two minutes back, and Kabakchiev fifth. Mitch Brightmore's day came apart with one lap of 14:53 against his usual pace of just over nine minutes. SPEEDWEEK puts it down to a technical problem on the seventh lap, while Dirt Bike Finder UK reads the lap chart as lap six and says the official results do not give a cause. Either way he lost close to six minutes and finished sixth.

Official Campoo Xtreme top 10:

1. Billy Bolt (GBR), Husqvarna, 1:14:21.8
2. Manuel Lettenbichler (GER), KTM, +3.5
3. Ashton Brightmore (GBR), GASGAS, +9.7
4. James Moore (RSA), Beta, +1:58.6
5. Teodor Kabakchiev (BUL), Sherco, +4:04.0
6. Mitch Brightmore (GBR), GASGAS, +6:11.9
7. Mario Román (ESP), Husqvarna, +7:32.5
8. Wade Young (RSA), KTM, +7:38.0
9. Francesc Moret Clota (ESP), Rieju, +8:01.2
10. Toby Shaw (GBR), GASGAS, +10:06.2

With sprint points paying 10 down to 1, SPEEDWEEK had the top five at 206 for Lettenbichler, 170 for Mitch Brightmore, 140 for Kabakchiev, 133 for Ashton Brightmore and 127 for Moore going into Sunday. That left third overall as the one open fight in the senior standings, with up to 20 points on offer in the main race.

Day 1 - Friday, October 23: SuperEncierro and the title

The weekend opened under the lights in Hixpania Village with the SuperEncierro, a short, SuperEnduro-style race for championship riders only: timed practice, two semi-finals of six minutes plus a lap, then a 14-rider final, per the FIM's event guide. Mitch Brightmore was quickest in timed practice, and Bolt and Lettenbichler won the two semis, according to Enduro21.

The final belonged to Bolt. Back on his Husqvarna after the knee injury that kept him out of the Roof of Africa, he set the fastest lap of the race at 34.64 seconds and won in 7:15.10 over nine laps, 5.56 seconds clear of Ashton Brightmore, with Teodor Kabakchiev third, per the official final classification. Mitch Brightmore crossed the line fourth and Lettenbichler fifth.

That fourth place is what settled the season. Only the top three score on Friday, with 3, 2 and 1 points, so neither title contender added anything. Lettenbichler's lead stayed at 32 points with only 30 left on the table, 10 in Saturday's sprint and 20 in Sunday's main race, and he became champion with two races still to run, as both the FIM and SPEEDWEEK reported. Local paper Tribuna de Palencia noted it was the 10th edition of the event.

"We got the results we needed. We actually didn't get any points," Lettenbichler told the FIM. "But yeah, it was enough to basically clinch the title today." He was held back at the finish for an impromptu celebration. "I was confused at first, but yeah, pretty stoked, man. What a year," he said.

It is his fifth straight FIM Hard Enduro world title, after 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, won on the KTM 300 EXC. Before Spain he had won five of the seven rounds (Alestrem, Lagares, Forza Orza, Abestone and Sea to Sky) and was on the podium at all seven, per the FIM. Friday also locked up second overall for Mitch Brightmore: on 165 points to Kabakchiev's 134, his 31-point margin could not be closed with 30 left, as Enduro21 pointed out.

Official SuperEncierro final top 10:

1. Billy Bolt (GBR), Husqvarna, 7:15.10
2. Ashton Brightmore (GBR), GASGAS, +5.56
3. Teodor Kabakchiev (BUL), Sherco, +7.58
4. Mitch Brightmore (GBR), GASGAS, +10.73
5. Manuel Lettenbichler (GER), KTM, +21.03
6. Alfredo Gómez (ESP), +37.40
7. James Moore (RSA), Beta, +45.15
8. Mario Román (ESP), Husqvarna, +51.71
9. Marc Fernandez Serra, +55.75
10. Toby Shaw (GBR), GASGAS, -1 lap

Final 2026 championship standings

Lettenbichler finishes on 223 points, 40 clear of Mitch Brightmore, per FIM points: SPEEDWEEK's pre-Sunday totals plus the main-race points in FIM's Hixpania results. The FIM standings page shows lower totals for now, with Forza Orza and Sea to Sky not yet listed. It's his fifth straight FIM Hard Enduro world title, and the FIM credits him with five wins from the seven rounds before Spain: Alestrem, Lagares, Forza Orza, Abestone and Sea to Sky. KTM counts it a little differently. Its title release calls this his sixth world championship title and his fifth consecutive Hard Enduro crown, all of the recent ones on the KTM 300 EXC.

Mitch Brightmore is runner-up on 183. Behind him, third overall was still up for grabs on Sunday morning, and Kabakchiev kept it on 149 to Ashton Brightmore's 143. Román's home win leaves him sixth.

1. Manuel Lettenbichler (GER), KTM, 223 pts
2. Mitch Brightmore (GBR), GASGAS, 183
3. Teodor Kabakchiev (BUL), Sherco, 149
4. Ashton Brightmore (GBR), GASGAS, 143
5. James Moore (RSA), Beta, 138
6. Mario Román (ESP), Husqvarna, 120
7. Billy Bolt (GBR), Husqvarna, 104
8. Wade Young (RSA), KTM, 64

Rider takeaway

Lettenbichler's season was about consistency, and he rode Hixpania like a champion with nothing to prove: second in the sprint and second on Sunday, a minute off a flying Román. Bolt's weekend is the one to file away. Back from the knee injury that kept him out of the Roof of Africa, he won twice and was on the podium three times, which makes him a name to watch for 2027. And Román gave Spain a home win at the 10th Hixpania.

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