The 2025 Hertz FIM Trial World Championship passes the halfway mark this coming weekend (30 May-1 June) when round four – the TrialGP of France – is staged at the coastal town of Calvi on the Mediterranean island of Corsica where riders in the TrialGP, Trial2 and Trial3 classes will be in action.

  • 2025 Hertz FIM Trial World Championship heads to Corsica for round four
  • Defending champion Toni Bou leads the field in premier TrialGP class
  • Harry Hemingway and Ryon Land set the pace in Trial2 and Trial3

Currently standing tall at the top of the premier TrialGP class, defending champion Toni Bou (Montesa) has shown fantastic form this season and already has a commanding thirty-seven-point lead as he bids to win an unparalleled nineteenth consecutive crown.

For 2025 each ‘lap’ has been rebranded as a separate points-scoring ‘race’ – in effect doubling riders’ chances to score points on every day of competition – and the thirty-eight-year-old Spaniard has so far accumulated eleven victories from twelve starts with his sole defeat coming in the final race on day two at the opening round in Spain. That loss was at the hands of Bou’s twenty-seven-year-old compatriot Jaime Busto (GASGAS) who sits second in the standings with a twenty-eight-point buffer back to Gabriel Marcelli (Montesa) who holds third.

The battle between Busto and twenty-five-year-old Marcelli has been ongoing since the younger rider moved into the TrialGP division in 2020 after winning the previous year’s Trial2 crown. Busto – who was Trial2 champion in 2014 – slipped to third behind his fellow countryman last year, but his strong start to the season has allowed him to reestablish his advantage and of the twelve races completed this year, Busto has beaten Marcelli on nine occasions.

Veteran Matteo Grattarola (Beta), at thirty-seven the second oldest rider in the class, is twenty-five points adrift of Marcelli and will want to add to the two race podiums he achieved at round two in Portugal while Spain’s Aniol Gelabert (TRRS) – currently fourteen points behind the Italian in fifth – has also climbed onto a post-race podium twice this season.

Holding sixth in his debut season in the class, Britain’s Jack Peace (Sherco) has shown consistent improvement since the championship got under way in Spain at the beginning of April with the twenty-five-year-old’s best finish of fourth coming last time out in the second race of day two at the TrialGP of Japan.

The new against-the-clock Power Section for TrialGP competitors at the end of each day’s action has seen Bou win twice and Busto once.

Every bit as close and competitive as expected, the battle for supremacy is raging in Trial2 where over the twelve races staged there have been five different winners with no single rider able to so far fully assert themselves at the top.

Leading the way is 2022 Trial3 champion Harry Hemingway (Beta) from Britain who currently holds a twelve-point lead over his compatriot and 2023 class champion Billy Green (Scorpa). Green started his campaign by sweeping both races on day one in Spain, but after a slower start – including a season low of eighth in the very first race of 2025 – Hemingway has regrouped and the nineteen-year-old seized the championship lead in Portugal.

The British pairing’s main challenger is Miquel Gelabert (Honda) who dropped down from TrialGP when he signed a deal to give Honda’s all-new RTL Electric its FIM Trial World Championship debut in Trial2. After a stuttering start at home in Spain he has emerged as a genuine title threat with seven podium finishes from the last eight races placing him eighteen points behind Green.

Holding fourth twenty-four points further back, Benoit Bincaz (EM) also agreed to drop down to Trial2 this season after signing for French manufacturer Electric Motion and he will be hoping to use home advantage to full effect this weekend as he attempts to close the gap to Gelabert while increasing his advantage over fifth-placed George Hemingway (Beta), the current class leader’s younger brother.

With the talent-packed category also featuring 2022 Trial2 champion Sondre Haga (GASGAS) from Norway and Czech rider David Fabian (Beta) who has taken a race win this season, this class is simply too close to call.
Having sat out the TrialGP of Japan earlier this month, the series’ youngest competitors return to action in Trial3 with American Ryon Land (Sherco) leading the way on one-hundred-and-thirty-five points, eleven clear of Jin Kuroyama (Sherco) from Japan with Norway’s Jonas Jorgensen (Beta) a further five adrift in third.

Jorgensen set the early pace with a strong performance in Spain before Land, in his debut season in the championship, found his form in Portugal while Kuroyama – the nephew of former top-flight rider Kenichi – has been consistent throughout and do not rule out British rider Harison Skelton (Scorpa) who won the final race of the weekend in Portugal and currently lies just two points behind Jorgensen.

The points-scoring action gets under way at 10:00 (local time) on Saturday (31 May) and Sunday (1 June).

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