24MX Hixpania Hard Enduro

The 2026 race runs from Friday 23 to Sunday 25 October. It is the 10th edition, and the last round of the 2026 FIM Hard Enduro World Championship. These times are from the organiser's race schedule.

Day	Time	Event	Riders
Fri 23 Oct	11:00–13:30	Technical and admin checks	FIM riders
Fri 23 Oct	13:30–14:30	Technical and admin checks	Caballeros and Hixpanos
Fri 23 Oct	17:00–19:30	SuperEncierro, then podium and rider presentation at 19:30	FIM riders
Sat 24 Oct	08:00–10:00	Technical and admin checks. Paddocks open at 08:00, riders' briefing at 09:00. Checks are for Caballeros and Hixpanos
Sat 24 Oct	11:30–12:30	Timed lap. It sets the start order for the Sprint
Sat 24 Oct	13:30	Press conference and rider presentation, Plaza España. The organiser's spectator page gives Friday 13:30 instead
Sat 24 Oct	15:00–16:30	Enduro Sprint	Hixpanos
Sat 24 Oct	17:30–19:00	Enduro Sprint, podium at 19:30	FIM riders and Caballeros
Sun 25 Oct	08:30–10:30	El Camino Perdido (The Lost Road), podium at 11:00	Hixpanos
Sun 25 Oct	12:00–14:30	El Camino Perdido. Switch to the Hixpania Hill lap at 14:00	FIM riders and Caballeros
Sun 25 Oct	14:45	Caballeros podium and world championship podium (Senior, Junior, Women)

The main race. El Camino Perdido is the deciding race: a multi-lap race of 2 hours plus a final lap. In 2025 the lap was about 4.5 km, with two checkpoints. The top 10 started inside a cave, and after two hours the final Hixpania Hill section opened in the stadium.

Points. The 2026 championship rules score three competitions at each round. The prologue pays 3, 2 and 1 points to the top three. The sprint pays 10 down to 1 to the top ten. The main event pays 20, 17, 15 and down to 1 to the top 15. The most a rider can score at one round is 33 points.

The title. Going into Hixpania, Manuel Lettenbichler leads Mitch Brightmore by 32 points, 197 to 165. Teodor Kabakchiev is third on 133, too far back to win. A tie on points goes to the rider with more of the best placings, and Lettenbichler has won five rounds to Brightmore's one. So one point makes Lettenbichler champion. Brightmore needs all 33 points, with Lettenbichler scoring none.

There are three entries:

• FIM Rider, 300 €. Needs an FIM licence. FIM riders also pick the Caballero or Hixpano class.
• Caballero, 260 €. Pro and high level. Needs an RFME licence, or a foreign licence with a start permission.
• Hixpano, 260 €. Expert and amateur level. It replaced the old Arqueros and Escuderos classes. Needs an RFME licence, a regional licence from Castilla y León, Aragón, Asturias, Cantabria, País Vasco, Extremadura, Madrid or Navarra, or a foreign licence with a start permission.

Licence. You can buy a Spanish 2-day licence with your entry for 170 €. It only covers medical costs in Spain. Riders with another country's national licence email registro@hixpania.es with their order number, passport or ID, licence and start permission.

What the entry includes. Paddock and parc fermé access, a rider wristband and one helper wristband, a 2026 event T-shirt, and access for one van to the paddock. Rider parking costs 30 € per vehicle, with limited spaces.

Rules to know. An environmental mat is mandatory. Riding the courses outside the race and the official course check is not allowed. Drones are not allowed.

The 2026 entry list is published on the organiser's site. A notice on the site says entries are now closed.

Aguilar de Campoo is a town of about 7,000 people in the north of Palencia province. It is the gateway to the Montaña Palentina. The nearest airports named in the race regulations are Santander, Bilbao and Madrid.

Getting to the paddock (Hixpania Village):

• By car: from Aguilar de Campoo, take the road towards Cervera de Pisuerga and turn off at Restaurante El Chili.
• On foot: signed paths run from Aguilar to the reservoir, about 2.5 km.
• By bus: one bus an hour from the Aguilar bus station to Hixpania Village, Thursday and Friday 10:00 to midnight and Saturday 08:00 to midnight.
• Park only in the marked areas. Do not park on road verges or access tracks, which emergency vehicles need.

Tickets:

• Hixpania Fan wristband, 25 €. Access to Hixpania Village (paddocks and trade area), the fan zones for the SuperEncierro and the FIM rider presentation in Plaza de España, the Sunday fan zone, and day parking at Hixpania Village. On sale from Friday 09:00 to Saturday 21:00 at the Hixpania Village ticket office.
• The Lost Road wristband, 15 €. Sunday only: the stadium area at the start and finish. On sale from 08:00 on Sunday at two ticket offices, one below and one above the quarry.
• Under-12s go free with an adult.

Best times to watch:

• Friday 17:00–19:30: the SuperEncierro, with the FIM riders.
• Saturday 17:30–19:00: the Enduro Sprint for the FIM riders and Caballeros. It is worth up to 10 world championship points.
• Sunday 08:30–10:30: the Hixpanos race El Camino Perdido.
• Sunday 12:00–14:30: the FIM riders and Caballeros race El Camino Perdido. Podiums at 14:45.

For Sunday, the organiser suggests walking the 2 km from Aguilar. You can also leave your car free at the Hixpania Village paddock and walk.

Rules for spectators. Do not help riders. Outside help is not allowed. Fire risk is high: do not drop cigarette ends or carry anything flammable. Drones are banned for everyone except the organiser.

Online: the organiser's site links the 2025 live stream on YouTube and the official 2025 results on raceresult.

The first Hixpania ran in 2016. It had a street race on Friday, the Súper Encierro, which Graham Jarvis won by 8 seconds from Alfredo Gómez. On Saturday, the Campoo X-treme ran 60 km around the Aguilar reservoir in the rain. Mario Román won it. Gómez won Sunday's Camino Perdido by more than 3 minutes from Jarvis, who lost about 8 minutes fixing his exhaust.

In 2017 the overall came from points across the three days. Jarvis was 7th in the prologue and 4th on Saturday. He was last away from Sunday's start, then won the race. In his words, he and Jonny Walker "tied on points but my win was enough for victory". Billy Bolt was fourth.

In 2018, the third edition, Román won the prologue in the town square. On Saturday, three laps of a 40 km loop around the reservoir, Jarvis crossed the line first but was penalised for missing a checkpoint. That gave the day to Román. Only three Caballeros finished all three laps. Jarvis won Sunday, and Román's second place was enough for the overall win.

In June 2019, Hixpania was round 4 of the World Enduro Super Series. Gómez won Friday and Saturday. Román won Sunday's 2 hour 30 minute race by 1 minute 27 seconds from Jarvis. Jarvis and Gómez both finished on 44 points, and Jarvis took the overall win.

The 2020 race, planned for 9–11 October, was cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic.

In 2021 Hixpania was round 7 of the FIM Hard Enduro World Championship. Bolt won Friday and Saturday, but Gómez won the deciding Sunday race and the event. In 2022 Gómez won Friday's SuperEncierro. Trystan Hart was given Saturday's race after a speeding penalty cost Manuel Lettenbichler the win. Lettenbichler then led Sunday's 2.5-hour race from the start and won his first world title.

In 2023 poor weather cancelled the Friday prologue, so Saturday's Campoo X-treme paid the prologue points. Bolt won it. Lettenbichler won Sunday with a seven-minute lead into the final climbs, and took his second world title with a round to spare. Román was second and Bolt third.

In 2024 Hixpania was the final round. Bolt was fastest in Saturday's 7 km time trial by 25 seconds, won the evening straight-rhythm race in Aguilar, then won Sunday's two-hour race in the rain by almost seven minutes.

In 2025 Jarvis won for a third time, after the leaders stopped before the final hill. The winner of Hixpania gets a shield and a sword.