The 2025 FIM Sand Races World Championship was the 1st FIM Sand Races World Championship season. The series marked the first season that there has been an FIM World Championship for the Beach racing discipline.
The FIM ran an FIM Sand Races World Cup in the 2023 and 2024 seasons, with British rider Todd Kellett winning both World Cup titles in the motorcycle category. After winning five of the six rounds, Kellett was able to be crowned as the first FIM World Champion of the discipline.
The series included six rounds and was bookended by the 2025 and 2026 editions of the Enduropale du Touquet event.
Race calendar and results A provisional calendar was released on 16 January 2025. The championship was contested over six rounds in Western Europe and Argentina.
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 85%;" |- ! Round ! Date ! Location ! Motorcycle Winner ! Quad Winner ! Report |- ! 1 | 8–9 February | Enduropale du Touquet | Todd Kellett | Manfred Zienecker
! 2 | 29–31 August | Enduro del Invierno | Todd Kellett | Pablo Violet
! 3 | 24–26 October | Bibione Sand Storm | Todd Kellett | Dirk Schelfhout
! 4 | 21-23 November | Ronde des Sables Hossegor-Capbreton | Todd Kellett | Pablo Violet
! 5 | 29–30 November | Monte Gordo Sand Race | Cyril Genot | Harry Walker
! 6 | 13–15 February 2026 | Enduropale du Touquet | Todd Kellett | Pablo Violet|
Names in Italics'' were the highest placed FIM-eligible rider in the event when the event was won by a non-eligible rider.
Moto Entry list Sand Races World Championship Constructor Team Rider Rounds Beta Equipe Police Nationale/Elite Moto Lannion David Abgrall 1 Fantic Team MS Motorsport Fantic Maxime Sot 1, 3, 5 Lars van Berkel 3–5 Paul Arnout 1, 3–6 Fantic Factory Racing Team Matteo Pavoni 3 Timothée Hillairet-Collet 3–5 Gas Gas Twenty Racing Suspension Gas Gas Jeremy Knuiman 1 Damien Knuiman 1 Wesley Tanfin 1 Maximilien Poul 3, 5 Honda Team Honda Motoblouz SR Motul Lars van Berkel 1 Håkon Fredriksen 3–5 Julien Lieber 5 Cyril Genot 1, 3–5 Avant Pro Honda 2 Team Dafy Dunlop Wonderbike Paolo Maschio 1, 3–5 Alexis Collignon 1 Honda YPF MX Racing 2 Timothée Hillairet-Collet 1 Jean Collignon 1 S Briggs Commercial Ashley Greedy 1 Damien Champolivier 1, 3–5 SMQ Competicion Ramiro Marquez 1–3 Freytes Motorsport Anthony Rodríguez 2 Cabarcos Motos Sion Talbot 2 Husqvarna Kaeser Racing Team Daniel Wagenpfeil All GI Cross Racing Team Matteo del Coco 3 Osellini Moto Lorenzo Macoritto 3 Ernest Lescaillet 3–5 Jean Collignon 5 VitamineH Lille Marshall Meplon 6 Arthur Mioque 3–5 KTM 1, 6 Darjen Sion Talbot 1, 3–6 Suzuki Suzuki Moto France Camille Chapeliere 1, 3 Big Trail Argentina/Marelli Sports 2 Triumph Maximilien Poul 1 Yamaha Monster Energy Yamaha France Drag'On Tek Todd Kellett All Milko Potisek All Damien Knuiman 3–6 Yamaha Motor France/Drag'On Jérémy Hauquier 1, 3–6 Race Machines 2 Paul Arnout 2 Ernest Lescaillet 2 Mathéo Miot 2 Yam Sand Racing 1, 4 Florian Miot 1 Team 33 Accessoires/IPONE/Groland Racing Team Joey Nuques 1, 3, 6 Big Trail Argentina/Marelli Sports 2 Drag'On Tek Tias Callens 1, 3–6 Damien Prevot 1, 3, 5 Autos Motos Saint Dizier/Yamaha France Victor Brossier 1, 3–5 Eddy Mollon 1 Thomas Penel 1 Wesley Tanfin 3–6 Maxime Berteau 3–4 Yamaha France/Drag'On Tek/Evolution7 Limoges Valentin Madoulaud 3–4 Motos VR Yamaha Luís Outeiro 5 Women's World Cup Constructor Team Rider Rounds Fantic Drag'On Tek/Yamaha France Mathilde Denis 3–5 Gas Gas MX Fonta Racing Syneco Kiara Fontanesi 3 KTM Sara Jugla All Yamaha Team New Bike Yamaha Amandine Verstappen All Yam Sand Racing Camille Viaud 1, 3–6 Big Trail Argentina/Marelli Sports 2 Drag'On Tek/Yamaha France Mathilde Denis 1–2, 6 Veteran's World Cup Constructor Team Rider Rounds Ducati Antoine Méo 3 Fantic Bernard Perard 1, 3–6 Gas Gas Alexis van de Woestyne 3–6 Honda Dominique Mieuzet All SMQ Competicion Fernando Rubio All Timothée Vacherand 3 Rodrigue Lescaillet 3–6 Andrea Bergamo 3 Stéphane Dufay 3 Kawasaki Danilo Goes 2 Race Machines Rodrigue Lescaillet 1–2 Bernard Perard 2 Guillaume Renaux 5 KTM Jean-François Mioque 1, 3–6 Paul Barbara 1, 3–6 Christophe Brucker 1 Yamaha Nicolas Lavenant All Andre Vossius All Fino Motor Racing António Maio 5 Damien Prevot 5 Junior's World Cup Constructor Team Rider Rounds Fantic Clement Vanderstraeten 1 Noe Dehen 1, 3–6 Gas Gas Twenty Racing Suspension Gas Gas Damien Knuiman 1 Ema Satabin 1, 3–4 Dafy Moto St Quentin Evan Demeester 1 Honda Dafy Moto St Quentin/Wonderbike 3–6 Husqvarna Dean Gregoire 4 Kawasaki Bud Racing/Kawasaki France Lea Chaput 4, 6 Kawasaki France/FSR Suspension Maxime Miet 3–6 KTM Team ANS Racing 1 Motovation Motosport Dean Gregoire 1 Grizzly Racing Service Ben Almagor 4, 6 Yamaha CC Motorsports Matheo Gerat 1, 3–6 Vintage World Cup Constructor Team Rider Rounds Honda Freddy Seguin 3–5 Florian Miot 4 Jean Collignon 4 Kawasaki Danilo Goes 2 KTM Sébastien Antony 3–5 Yamaha Max Bianucci 4 Nicolas Lavenant 4
Sand Races World Championship Only riders who are registered for the FIM Sand Races World Championship were eligible to score championship points.
Points for final positions are awarded as follows:
Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th+ Points 25 20 16 13 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1Rounds 1, 4 & 6 finishing positions are shown relative to where the rider finished in the event overall. Round 2, 3 & 5 results shown as finishing positions among FIM-registered riders only. The FIM World Championship points accrued from the finish are shown next to the position.RiderLTOEDIBSSHOSMGSLTOPoints 1 Todd Kellett 125 125 125 125 181 125 126 2 Milko Potisek 220 220 511 220 316 320 107 3 Jeremy Hauquier 99 413 316 413 220 1013 84 4 Tias Callens 117 79 127 610 916 49 5 Lars van Berkel 316 291 316 413 46 6 Cyril Genot Ret 316 191 Ret 125 42 7 Damien Knuiman 311 413 89 79 4621 33 8 Sion Talbot 581 88 151 425 124 3810 29 9 Paolo Maschio 156 610 511 361 28 10 Joey Nuques 184 511 231 1311 27 11 Mathéo Miot 513 133 710 26 12 Håkon Fredriksen 220 Ret 142 22 13 Alexis Collignon 711 610 21 14 Victor Brossier 175 97 186 241 19 15 Daniel Wagenpfeil 2141 106 161 1114 201 1585 18 16 Paul Arnout 3231 115 181 Ret 151 888 16 17 Amandine Verstappen 951 97 133 Ret 133 Ret 14 18 Julien Lieber 511 11 19 Florian Miot 810 10 20 Camille Viaud 1811 181 201 Ret 191 1486 10 21 Nicolas Lavenant 4991 124 371 2131 291 2882 10 22 Marshall Meplon 739 9 23 Anthony Rodríguez 79 9 24 Valentin Madoulaud 281 118 9 25 Arthur Mioque Ret 171 Ret 171 937 9 26 Luís Outeiro 88 8 27 Matteo del Coco 88 8 28 Jeremy Knuiman 108 8 29 Damien Prevot Ret 261 97 8 30 Alexis van de Woestyne 221 1902 321 2793 7 31 Maxime Sot Ret 271 106 7 32 Timothée Hillairet-Collet 302 124 Ret 261 7 33 Matteo Pavoni 106 6 34 Wesley Tanfin 7561 211 1513 221 Ret 6 35 Rodrigue Lescaillet 5521 191 381 2861 341 5641 6 36 Andre Vossius 7711 211 411 3091 311 7041 6 37 Jean Collignon 1161 115 6 38 Lorenzo Macoritto 115 5 39 Ernest Lescaillet 142 301 2291 231 5 40 Dominique Mieuzet 8001 161 351 Ret 281 5071 5 41 Mathilde Denis 1814 4 42 Bernard Perard 6911 201 DSQ Ret 331 6821 4 43 Paul Barbara 5761 341 2111 271 4 44 Damien Champolivier 4211 311 2031 251 4 45 David Abgrall 223 3 46 Jean-François Mioque Ret 391 Ret 351 4951 3 47 Kiara Fontanesi 142 2 48 Maximilien Poul Ret Ret1 211 2 49 Maxime Berteau 331 2661 2 50 Ramiro Marquez Ret 151 361 2 51 Fernando Rubio 3001 1 52 António Maio 301 1 53 Guillaume Renaux 161 1 54 Andrea Bergamo 421 1 55 Camille Chapeliere Ret Ret 251 1 56 Stéphane Dufay 401 1 57 Timothée Vacherand 241 1 58 Antoine Méo 321 1 59 Danilo Goes 171 1 60 Eddy Mollon 361 1 Ashley Greedy Ret 0 Thomas Penel Ret 0RiderLTOEDIBSSHOSMGSLTOPoints
Women's World Cup Rider's finishing positions are shown relative to where they finished amongst FIM-eligible riders.
RiderLTOEDIBSSHOSMGSLTOPoints 1 Mathilde Denis 3 2 3 1 3 2 113 2 Amandine Verstappen 1 1 1 Ret 1 Ret 100 3 Camille Viaud 2 3 4 Ret 2 1 94 4 Sara Jugla 4 4 5 2 4 3 86 5 Kiara Fontanesi 2 20RiderLTOEDIBSSHOSMGSLTOPoints
Veteran's World Cup Rider's finishing positions are shown relative to where they finished amongst FIM-eligible riders.
RiderLTOEDIBSSHOSMGSLTOPoints 1 Fernando Rubio 2 1 1 2 3 3 122 2 Nicolas Lavenant 3 2 6 4 6 2 89 3 Alexis van de Woestyne 2 1 8 1 78 4 Paul Barbara 5 4 3 4 6 63 5 Dominique Mieuzet 8 3 5 Ret 5 5 57 6 Rodrigue Lescaillet 4 5 8 5 11 7 57 7 Andre Vossius 7 7 11 6 9 9 47 8 Bernard Perard 6 6 DSQ Ret 10 8 34 9 Damien Prevot 1 25 10 Christophe Brucker 1 25 11 Jean-François Mioque Ret 9 Ret 12 4 24 12 Guillaume Renaux 2 20 13 Timothée Vacherand 3 16 14 Danilo Goes 4 13 15 António Maio 7 9 16 Antoine Méo 7 9 17 Stéphane Dufay 10 6 18 Andrea Bergamo 12 4RiderLTOEDIBSSHOSMGSLTOPoints
Junior's World Cup Rounds 1, 4 & 6 finishing positions are shown relative to where the rider finished in the event overall. Rounds 3 & 5 results shown as finishing positions among FIM-registered riders only. The FIM World Championship points accrued from the finish are shown next to the position.RiderLTOEDIBSSHOSMGSLTOPoints 1 Matheo Gerat 1613 220 816 220 1225 94 2 Evan Demeester 716 125 620 125 Ret 86 3 Maxime Miet 1811 316 1411 316 2920 74 4 Noe Dehen 1069 413 4010 413 6816 60 5 Dean Gregoire 520 325 45 6 Lea Chaput 679 529 9813 31 7 Ema Satabin 1818 511 549 27 8 Damien Knuiman 125 25 9 Ben Almagor 913 Ret 13 10 Clement Vanderstraeten 3910 10RiderLTOEDIBSSHOSMGSLTOPoints
Vintage World Cup Rider's finishing positions are shown relative to where they finished amongst FIM-eligible riders.
RiderLTOEDIBSSHOSMGSLTOPoints 1 Freddy Seguin 1 4 1 63 2 Sebastien Antony 2 3 2 56 3 Florian Miot 1 25 4 Danilo Goes 1 25 5 Jean Collignon 2 20 6 Max Bianucci 5 11 7 Nicolas Lavenant 6 10RiderLTOEDIBSSHOSMGSLTOPoints
Quad Entry list Quad World Cup Constructor Team Rider Rounds Honda Oliver Vandendijck 1, 3–6 Glenn De Swarte 1, 3–6 Manfred Zienecker 1 Emmanuel Sarran 1 Rodolfo Codazzi 3 Quadyland Paul Waterlot 4–5 Husqvarna Lukas Prochazka 3 Laeger's Drag'on ATV/Laeger's Harry Walker 5 Yamaha Drag'On ATV Pablo Violet All Karl Robin Rillo 6 Quadyland Paul Waterlot 1 Maxime Lopes da Fonseca 1, 3–6 Fabien Michel 1, 3–6 Aloïs Waloszek 6 Solbas Motorsport Gaston Saos 6 Quad Veteran's World Cup Constructor Team Rider Rounds Can-Am Graham Guy 3–6 Honda Dirk Schelfhout 1, 3–6 Yamaha Drag'On ATV Axel Dutrie 1, 3–6 Nuno Gonçalves 1, 3–6 Guillaume Waloszek 1, 3–5 Paulo Fernandes 1, 3–6 Laurent Delcourt 1, 3–6 Cedric Girard 1 Benoît Sebert All Graham Guy 1 Knull Racing Jorge Sampaio 5
Quad Standings Only riders who are registered for the FIM Sand Races World Championship are eligible to score championship points.
Points for final positions are awarded as follows: